MOT Checker Nightmare

MikeWhite

sweetsand said:

facade said:

Just take it for an MOT ASAP, and don't worry about it.

As you have found, it goes perfectly well without one, and it is only a fine if you get caught no points. I've never heard of anyone being done for no MOT by a camera, and there isn't much chance of meeting one of those "Police" on the road unless you live in The Only Place That Matters (London)

All posters please note as this is important = Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find the insurance is invalid.

Aha, this old chestnut.

Jumblebumble

MikeWhite said:

sweetsand said:

facade said:

Just take it for an MOT ASAP, and don't worry about it.

As you have found, it goes perfectly well without one, and it is only a fine if you get caught no points. I've never heard of anyone being done for no MOT by a camera, and there isn't much chance of meeting one of those "Police" on the road unless you live in The Only Place That Matters (London)

All posters please note as this is important = Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find the insurance is invalid.

Aha, this old chestnut.

Sweetsands statement is completely relevant as he/she has qualified it with the word may as you can bet your life plenty of people have had their claims turned down on unMOTed cars that were deemed unroadworthy
I believe you are thinking about the fools who use the word will

AdrianC

Jumblebumble said:

MikeWhite said:

sweetsand said:

facade said:

Just take it for an MOT ASAP, and don't worry about it.

As you have found, it goes perfectly well without one, and it is only a fine if you get caught no points. I've never heard of anyone being done for no MOT by a camera, and there isn't much chance of meeting one of those "Police" on the road unless you live in The Only Place That Matters (London)

All posters please note as this is important = Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find the insurance is invalid.

Aha, this old chestnut.

Sweetsands statement is completely relevant as he/she has qualified it with the word may as you can bet your life plenty of people have had their claims turned down on unMOTed cars that were deemed unroadworthy

As we all know, roadworthiness and MOT status are completely and utterly separate and different things.

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For more accuracy it should read

"Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find their insurance company try to wheedle out of paying, and will have to be taken to the Ombudsman, who has always, up to now , ruled in favour of the policy holder where the lack of MOT has no bearing on the loss."

Agreed, it is more trouble than simply having a valid MOT when you crash, but driving around without one last week, when there wasn't an accident, and AFAIK there is no retrospective enforcement of MOT offences isn't anything to worry about now.

Valid point about properly booking the MOT with the reg number to avoid embarrassment if you actually do meet the only Policecar outside London on the way to the MOT though.

marlot

sweetsand said:

facade said:

Just take it for an MOT ASAP, and don't worry about it.

As you have found, it goes perfectly well without one, and it is only a fine if you get caught no points. I've never heard of anyone being done for no MOT by a camera, and there isn't much chance of meeting one of those "Police" on the road unless you live in The Only Place That Matters (London)

All posters please note as this is important = Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find the insurance is invalid.

Not true.  I wish this falsehood would die.

facade

Bettiboppa said:

I'm 99% sure I checked mine in May/June and it showed due 30/01/21.

It probably did if you checked in August, these things are run by Professionals*, and there is every chance no-one thought to cancel the extension on "the system" and it auto-updated towards the end of August.

Unlikely you'd make up 30/1/21, you'd have to add 6 months onto your old one (I'd be counting on my fingers) so more likely you did see it somewhere.

*Like the ones who didn't notice 16,000 positive tests getting rejected by "the system".....

AdrianC

facade said:

Bettiboppa said:

I'm 99% sure I checked mine in May/June and it showed due 30/01/21.

It probably did if you checked in August, these things are run by Professionals*, and there is every chance no-one thought to cancel the extension on "the system" and it auto-updated towards the end of August.

Unlikely you'd make up 30/1/21, you'd have to add 6 months onto your old one (I'd be counting on my fingers) so more likely you did see it somewhere.

An extension to 30/1 would be for a test originally expiring 30/7 - the penultimate day of the extension. So, yes, it is feasible. However, that extension wouldn't have been applied until the week before the expiry - the last week in July - so wouldn't have been seen in May/June.

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AdrianC said:

facade said:

Bettiboppa said:

I'm 99% sure I checked mine in May/June and it showed due 30/01/21.

It probably did if you checked in August, these things are run by Professionals*, and there is every chance no-one thought to cancel the extension on "the system" and it auto-updated towards the end of August.

Unlikely you'd make up 30/1/21, you'd have to add 6 months onto your old one (I'd be counting on my fingers) so more likely you did see it somewhere.

An extension to 30/1 would be for a test originally expiring 30/7 - the penultimate day of the extension. So, yes, it is feasible. However, that extension wouldn't have been applied until the week before the expiry - the last week in July - so wouldn't have been seen in May/June.

Oops! that should have been July, not August as Adrian says- Just proves you wouldn't have made it up, I can't count properly on my fingers

sweetsand

marlot said:

sweetsand said:

facade said:

Just take it for an MOT ASAP, and don't worry about it.

As you have found, it goes perfectly well without one, and it is only a fine if you get caught no points. I've never heard of anyone being done for no MOT by a camera, and there isn't much chance of meeting one of those "Police" on the road unless you live in The Only Place That Matters (London)

All posters please note as this is important = Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find the insurance is invalid.

Not true.  I wish this falsehood would die.

Why do the car insurance T&C's state very clearly that  "no mot will invalidate your car insurance"?

Hi_Fidelity

sweetsand said:

marlot said:

sweetsand said:

facade said:

Just take it for an MOT ASAP, and don't worry about it.

As you have found, it goes perfectly well without one, and it is only a fine if you get caught no points. I've never heard of anyone being done for no MOT by a camera, and there isn't much chance of meeting one of those "Police" on the road unless you live in The Only Place That Matters (London)

All posters please note as this is important = Should a driver with a car with no mot have an accident they may find the insurance is invalid.

Not true.  I wish this falsehood would die.

Why do the car insurance T&C's state very clearly that  "no mot will invalidate your car insurance"?

Show us examples please? (Links to insurer online T&Cs, with a note of the term numbers,  will suffice). And just because they may say it does not make it enforceable (see earlier comment about the Ombudsman).