Daughter stopped for no mot

spacey2012

smashingyour... wrote: »

Is this dis-proof?

Not at all, call your insurance and ask them to define road worthy, mention you are considering not renewing your MOT as it is not a requirement.
However why are you posting from two accounts on the same thread?

Herzlos

spacey2012 wrote: »

Not at all, call your insurance and ask them to define road worthy, mention you are considering not renewing your MOT as it is not a requirement.
However why are you posting from two accounts on the same thread?

Of course they won't be happy with that and will suggest you renew the MOT, but that's not what we're saying.

What people are saying is that if you miss the MOT for some reason (I did the same as OP and was convinced it was MOT'd) that the car doesn't become automatically unroadworthy. It may not be road worthy due to something the MOT would pick up, or something that happened after the MOT, but it doesn't stop being road worthy the second the MOT expires.

I doubt anyone will recommend not getting a car MOT'd.

GAZ237

A car having an MOT has no bearing as to it being roadworthy.

It only means it was roadworthy at the time/day the test was done.

The same as not having an MOT dos'nt make a car unroadworthy.

smashingyour...

spacey2012 wrote: »

Not at all, call your insurance and ask them to define road worthy, mention you are considering not renewing your MOT as it is not a requirement.
However why are you posting from two accounts on the same thread?

It's not a requirement for my car to have a ccurrent mot.

As for two account I don't know what you mean.

Jamie_Carter

Strider590 wrote: »

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.

It would really depend on which area you live in. Only panda cars in my area don't have ANPR.

It is unlikely that police officers will know about any quirks of individual models of cars, unless they have previous experience with them.

Jamie_Carter

suffolkb wrote: »

Well, daughter has booked her car for a mot tomorrow at the place she reckons she went to in Jan. I`ll go with her to help sort it out. And take her home if it fails.
She says the cop stopped her as the car was flagged as no mot.

That probably means that it was flagged up on the ANPR system then.

Jamie_Carter

Herzlos wrote: »

Of course they won't be happy with that and will suggest you renew the MOT, but that's not what we're saying.

What people are saying is that if you miss the MOT for some reason (I did the same as OP and was convinced it was MOT'd) that the car doesn't become automatically unroadworthy. It may not be road worthy due to something the MOT would pick up, or something that happened after the MOT, but it doesn't stop being road worthy the second the MOT expires.

I doubt anyone will recommend not getting a car MOT'd.

I think what is causing confusion is that some insurance policies used to state that a vehicle must be "road legal". From what I can remember, I'm pretty sure that mine did many years ago, in the days when I actually too the time to read all the terms and conditions. But please don't ask me to tell you the insurance company, or the date, because I really can't remember.
I presume the wording may have changed when they changed the law to say that you don't need an MOT until your vehicle is three years old.

smashingyour...

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

It would really depend on which area you live in. Only panda cars in my area don't have ANPR.

It is unlikely that police officers will know about any quirks of individual models of cars, unless they have previous experience with them.

How do you know that then PC Carter, you were a mechanic yesterday?

Jamie_Carter

smashingyour... wrote: »

How do you know that then PC Carter, you were a mechanic yesterday?

Stop trolling to cause trouble (as usual).

You know nothing at all about my current (or previous) profession.

shaun_from_Africa

bod1467 wrote: »

Dis-proof is not possible. You cannot prove something doesn't exist - you can only prove something DOES exist.

I had a disagreement with an axe a few years ago which lead to me having one of my toes amputated so it's extremely easy to prove that this toe doesn't exist any more!