Help! I need £300 by Monday!!

Burlesque_Babe

apologies headinthesand, I thought it was, I was told that by a mechanic friend

I found this on the BBC website, which seems to blur it further!

"A Refusal of an MOT Test Certificate means one or more items have failed to meet the minimum legal requirements for a pass. The item(s) will be listed on the form. If you intend to use your car on the roads, the item(s) will need to be replaced/repaired urgently. It may be possible to arrange replacement/repair of failed item(s) at the test station premises, to enable your car to achieve an MOT test pass Certificate before you drive the car away.

However, if you intend to drive your car away from the test station with a Refusal of an MOT Test Certificate, there are some stipulations. It is illegal to drive a car of MOT-testable age that does not have a current MOT test certificate on public roads, with the exception of driving it away to a place of repair, which may include your home residence. From there you may be permitted to drive to a pre-booked place of repair, and to a pre-booked MOT test station."

Unless they mean that the MOT certificate had run out bfore it was taken in.......


oh well, still hope you get the problem sorted

simongregson

I assume that the £300 worth of work is rather more than a new set of windscreen wipers! Most of the time the garage would ask if you wanted the new wipers fitted straight away rather than doing a retest.

Spendaholic_Chick

It did need new windscreen wipers but I had bought them in advance and the garage fitted them for me. What it actually needs is new brake discs and brake pipes (all severely worn). That's why I left it at the garage, althou they said I could take it away and bring it back on MOnday, I thought i best not too (especially as the previous MOT had expired on Friday)

Have listed stuff of play.com today, gonna get the house tidied then staart on ebay!

ZTD

Spendaholic_Chick wrote: »

It did need new windscreen wipers but I had bought them in advance and the garage fitted them for me. What it actually needs is new brake discs and brake pipes (all severely worn). That's why I left it at the garage, althou they said I could take it away and bring it back on MOnday, I thought i best not too (especially as the previous MOT had expired on Friday)

Taking it home and then taking it back would have been legal, you just couldn't have run around in it over the weekend.

Though given that brake pipes usually fail under heavy load, (i.e. slamming the anchors on) just when you don't want them to be failing - you probably made the right decision.

What I think is confusing, is would a MOT failure override an existing MOT certificate (assuming you took it in early)?

Burlesque_Babe

ZTD wrote: »

What I think is confusing, is would a MOT failure override an existing MOT certificate (assuming you took it in early)?

According to the friend I have who runs his own garage - yes. But headinthesand seems to think not so not sure now.

Adrasteia01

Can you just get a taxi until you can afford to get the car fixed? Or a lift with a colleague?

If you did get a taxi, would work pay for it if it meant one of their staff members turning up? Or would they give you an advance on your wage, knowing the situation?

ZTD

keren29 wrote: »

According to the friend I have who runs his own garage - yes. But headinthesand seems to think not so not sure now.

Well I think the confusion arises because there's two offences.

One is driving without a valid MOT - which can happen even with the best maintained car in the world.

The other is driving an unroadworthy car. How you define an unroadworthy car is "one of those things". Is a car that can't pass an MOT? Depends on why it failed. A car with a defective passenger seatbelt won't pass an MOT, but is not unroadworthy, if you're not carrying a passenger.

It's one of the reasons why the police if they stop you for some sort of fault, will usually give you a few days to get the problem sorted, unless your fault is blatently bad news.

Though Spendaholics may have been in that category depending on the wear.

Lemon_Tree

wouldn't the lack of an MOT certificate also invalidate the insurance on the car? Which would create another offence - driving without insurance.
Hope you managed to get the money to get the car back for when you need it. Can you cadge a lift to work until you get the money together?

In_Search_Of_Me

how you doing with the dosh raising sC?! All this talk of legalities etc doesent make a huge dfference in the grand scheme of things - its not worth risking life & limb for a mere £300 is it eh! Hope you sort it me lovely!

Spendaholic_Chick

I'm not! NO hope - just extending the overdraft and sticking everything not nailed down on ebay. Ho hum