Parking on road taxed and insured but no MOT

scrappy_returns

hubb said:

Ebe_Scrooge said:

hubb said:

Well as it's taxed and Insured I am stunned that it has to be MOT'd on the road when NOT being driven. Why would a potentially unroadworthy car be a danger to anyone stationary outside my house ? 

Well, it could be argued that the car is capable of being driven I suppose.  But that's irrelevant - the law is that a car that's on a public road must be taxed, insured and MOT'd, end of.  The ONLY concession to the MOT is if it's being driven straight to a pre-booked MOT test.  It may seem daft, if may seem irrelevant, but that's the law.  I think that a 70mph limit on motorways is daft, what with modern cars being so much more capable of safely driving at high speed than they were 50 years ago.  But what I think doesn't matter, 70 mph is the limit, if I got done for breaking the limit then it'd be my fault, no-one else's.

So I could get done for parking outside while waiting for my MOT date, and yet these idiots speed unchallenged around the village everyday without fail, posing a far greater threat to society than a stationary car. Or young idiots with backfiring and raspingly loud exhausts also drive around getting away with it.

Fortunately as I am in the process of selling my mother's house I will park it on it's driveway.

They don't get done you might not done but with a place to park why bother? Old bill only have your word that you aren't driving it, I bet they hear that quite often too. If I was determined to park in the road Id use a vehicle cover.

Hi_Fidelity

Is PC Plod allowed to move the cover to reveal the VRM plate? (I know parking wardens - whether Council or private - are not allowed to do so; I don't know if the same rule applies to the Fuzz).

Car_54

Hi_Fidelity said:

Is PC Plod allowed to move the cover to reveal the VRM plate? (I know parking wardens - whether Council or private - are not allowed to do so; I don't know if the same rule applies to the Fuzz).

I don't know, but I do know it's an offence to cover or obscure the plate. [Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, section 43(1(a))]

scrappy_returns

Dunno but it defeats ANPR for certain. And keeps prying eyes awway in the first instance.

TooManyPoints

Because it is an offence to have an unroadworthy car on the road.  A valid MOT does not make a car roadworthy, it just means it is probably roadworthy at the point of the test. 

Couldn't agree more. But I suggest you read the post @1:56 again.

hubb

Apparently you can leave it on the road if your car is booked in for an MOT and you can prove it. Mine is. With covid causing backlogs they have to be lenient. 

Gsaver1

I would drive the car to the garage before the MOT runs out.

hubb

Not sure they would appreciate tthat.

Car_54

hubb said:

Apparently you can leave it on the road if your car is booked in for an MOT and you can prove it. Mine is. With covid causing backlogs they have to be lenient. 

AFAIK the exemption allows you only to drive to the test centre. It doesn't cover parking prior to that.

hubb

Car_54 said:

hubb said:

Apparently you can leave it on the road if your car is booked in for an MOT and you can prove it. Mine is. With covid causing backlogs they have to be lenient. 

AFAIK the exemption allows you only to drive to the test centre. It doesn't cover parking prior to that.

I have nowhere else to park it.