Daughter stopped for no mot

londonTiger

suffolkb wrote: »

Thanks. She is convinced that she did take it for a mot. Only done it once in her life so remembers it. Surely it didn`t fail and DD to dumb to realise? She will contact her garage this morning. And, yes, she should look after her own documents. Think new dad a bit of a control freak. I will get her to put a reminder in her phone diary for the next mot. Whenever it is.

my line of thinking, you normally remember your first experience with most things. I'm sure she'll rememebr if she took it for her first MOT especially since it was THIS YEAR.

MOT isn't just a revenue generation scheme. It is invaluable - especially for people who don't have a clue bout cars - they whole underside might be on the brink of collapse before some people realise too late.

Blackpool_Saver

It will have been a fail, and now time has run out, sounds like DD needs to stop relying on these adults and super organised Step Dad (lol) for her paperwork

spacey2012

If she does not even know where the documents are, she would be far better advised parking the car up until they are found, collected together and checked.
If the VOSA site shows no MOT, then the car has no MOT.
Thinking and Thought are not the right approaches to driving.
All documents relating to the car need to be placed in a one folder in sleeves and kept very safe.

The police could have called the insurance and asked them to void it at roadside and seized the car, this is actually illegal (Case Law) but they still do it for some reason.

The chances of he VOSA showing no online MOT, the certificate been "lost" in this huge confusion regarding someone in America and the amnesia over taking it for an MOT are highly unlikely.
Unless the certificate is conjured up very quickly indeed it is time to pay the £60 penalty, call the insurance to inform them she has been driving a car without a valid MOT and see if they will still insure her.
Then if they will, book an MOT test and get the documents in order.

The Online age has lead people in to thinking that hard copies of documentation are not neccasary, some people do not even have hard copies of insurance bond certificates.
A most foolish position to be under.

notanewuser

spacey2012 wrote: »

If call the insurance to inform them she has been driving a car without a valid MOT and see if they will still insure her.
Then if they will, book an MOT test and get the documents in order.

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Not likely to need to do this. The majority of insurers make no demands about cars being MOTed - just roadworthy.

Strider590

Well, unless it was an ANPR trap, they wouldn't even have bothered to run the plates without there being a reason to suspect something was wrong (even if it's just a brake light out)....... Panda cars don't sit there checking the number plates of every car they see, neither to traffic cars, or unmarked cars unless they have ANPR. Which in my experience most around here don't have, certainly not the unmarked Octavia RS that pulled me because he couldn't understand why my brake lights were "weird", the Vectra C uses the tail light if it detects a brake light failure (which you'd expect them to know).
Being the curious sort, I also had a good look at the tech inside their car whilst they were checking my plates over the radio.

Herzlos

I don't think she needs to go as far as to notify the insurance as mentioned above, but you need to check with the garage if it's been MOT'd and somehow messed up, and if they can't find anything book it in for one ASAP.

If it's been done recently everything should pass and it should be pretty cheap, if something is found then it's best fixed sooner rather than later anyway.


Why she was stopped is irrelevant really; the police don't appear to have mentioned anything beyond the MOT. An ANPR trap sounds fairly likely though.

spacey2012

I think you will find the majority of Insurance contracts have been substantially updated since the on-line advice about road worthy was written.

notanewuser

spacey2012 wrote: »

I think you will find the majority of Insurance contracts have been substantially updated since the on-line advice about road worthy was written.

Proof please.

spacey2012

Dis-proof please

notanewuser

spacey2012 wrote: »

Dis-proof please

From Admiral's policy booklet (in which the term "MOT" does not appear).

"3. Care of Your Car
You or any person covered by the policy must:
■■ protect Your Car from loss or damage
■■ make sure Your Car is roadworthy
■■ allow Us to inspect Your Car at any reasonable time We ask
If an accident happens, and the condition of the vehicle caused or contributed to the accident, no cover under the policy will be provided and instead, our responsibility
will be restricted to meeting obligations as required by Road Traffic law. In those circumstances, We will recover from You or the driver or any party responsible for the condition of the vehicle, all sums paid (including all legal costs), whether in settlement or under a judgement, of any claim arising from the accident."