MOT for UK registered car in Northern Ireland?

eamon

Suspect you have 2 options

Your leased vehicle is not registered in NI hence your issue. I suggest.

Phone up a test centre and explain your issue. Whoever that you speak to needs to have access to the GB MOT area. Note that the NIDirect website doesn't have the contact numbers but helpfully links to google maps and it does.

2nd and expensive option is to take the car to Stranraer, google is showing at least 3 places there.

Flight3287462

Surely this problem must have cropped up before?

pablopablo

Grey_Critic said:

I've never had to get an MOT on any previous lease deals form UK companies at year 3.
Has anyone some knowledge on this they can share please?

Probably because the vehicles were supplied by a NI Dealer and registered in MI - Little surprised a mainland lease company did not use an NI Dealer

Think you are right - they still had GB plates though? This firm used a Scottish dealership. 

pablopablo

eamon said:

Suspect you have 2 options

Your leased vehicle is not registered in NI hence your issue. I suggest.

Phone up a test centre and explain your issue. Whoever that you speak to needs to have access to the GB MOT area. Note that the NIDirect website doesn't have the contact numbers but helpfully links to google maps and it does.

2nd and expensive option is to take the car to Stranraer, google is showing at least 3 places there.

Waiting on response from DVLNI - hopefully they can get around the systems issue. Otherwise, it's a trip on the ferry i think.

pablopablo

Flight3287462 said:

Surely this problem must have cropped up before?

You would think wouldn't you?
Fact is, it is considerably cheaper to lease from an online UK mainland company than use a local dealer in NI. There's no way i'm the only person in NI doing this.

pablopablo

So I finally received a reply from DVLNI a day after i took the car to Scotland to sort it's MOT (it expired yesterday).

If you live in NI and have a lease car that is registered in England/Scotland/Wales, you cannot get a year 3 MOT done in NI and you need to go to the mainland. They legally cannot MOT a car in NI until year 4 regardless of where it is registered..

You can get year a 4 MOT done in NI if you manually submit the cars details to the DVLNI in advance.

Mystery solved. :-)

Money_Grabber13579

pablopablo said:

So I finally received a reply from DVLNI a day after i took the car to Scotland to sort it's MOT (it expired yesterday).

If you live in NI and have a lease car that is registered in England/Scotland/Wales, you cannot get a year 3 MOT done in NI and you need to go to the mainland. They legally cannot MOT a car in NI until year 4 regardless of where it is registered..

You can get year a 4 MOT done in NI if you manually submit the cars details to the DVLNI in advance.

Mystery solved. :-)

What a farce. I suspect there are a lot of 3 year old cars driving around in NI with no MOT in that case…