Taxing and MOT test for car - Insurance certificate

warwicktiger

Do you still need the paper insurance certificate to tax and MOT a car? My friend has lost hers and is struggling to get a copy.

TadleyBaggie

Insurance is no longer checked. Just tax it online, MOT status is checked in real time.

colino

Insurance is 100% not checked when taxing your car. Shortly after CIE was introduced the government withdrew the crosscheck of having insurance to get VED. If appropriate, your MOT will be checked, insurance not.
With the saving in money on not producing tax discs, removal of insurance "proof" (they fine you automatically under CIE if not SORN'd), no doubt our government will be returning this cash to the hard pressed motorists.

AdrianC

colino wrote: »

Insurance is 100% not checked when taxing your car.

Indeed. Since Dec 2013, a year before the removal of the disc.
http://stayinsured.askmid.com/documents/DVLA_insurance_and_SORN_press_notice_December_2013.pdf

warwicktiger

Thanks for the replies re taxing the car. How about an MOT?

AdrianC

warwicktiger wrote: »

Thanks for the replies re taxing the car. How about an MOT?

Checked online if you buy online.
Take it with you if you buy from a PO.

TadleyBaggie

A MOT test does not require insurance to be in place.

AdrianC

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

A MOT test does not require insurance to be in place.

...assuming you trailer the car there, and it's not left anywhere the public have an expectation of access...

arcon5

Nor tax to go to and from mot station

RS2000.

AdrianC wrote: »

...assuming you trailer the car there, and it's not left anywhere the public have [STRIKE]an expectation of [/STRIKE]access...

Expectation hasn't got anything to do with it.

colino

Strange how my post in reply to a claim, "Insurance is 100% checked" seems odd when that incorrect post has been miraculously deleted.