URGENT HELP - Stopped with No Insurance or MOT??

Keith

Call the local MOT center, ask for an appointment and drive it there.

As the car is it should not be on the road, however, your insurance probably does cover you it's in the T&C.

Drive the car to a pre-booked MOT And you are legal, pass the test and drive home knowing you have covered yourself.

You may be fined but if you show that you got it moted asap then you may be ok, it's less than a month expired so the police may take that into account along with your illness.

Quentin

Take no notice of the scaremongers.

As previously posted, it is legal to drive a car without its MOT to a garage (by appointment) to have a test. So go and get it tested now (by appointment).

Don't use it for anything else if you want to stay legal until you have the certificate. (as you know, it shows up on a Big Brother computer that it has no MOT.)

annedenton423

Dear Quentin and Keith - thanks very much for your help. I have an MOT booked for 3.40 pm this afternoon. So, I'm actually on my way there shortly, once it passes? it should, it's regularly serviced and I've just had new tyres, then I'll take the Certificate to the Police Station and produce it as requested and hope that they will take my circumstances into consideration. Many thanks again. Anne

PasturesNew

It is perfectly and 100% legal to drive your car to the MoT testing station IF your car has been booked into their diary first.

If you book your MoT at the garage, then drive to "pick up/drop off the kids at/from school ... then drive and drop it off at the garage" this is still illegal.

The car has to be booked in at the garage, then driven directly to that garage without deviation. Also, if it then fails it has to be driven directly home. So again, no picking up/dropping off of anybody/anything on that route too.

bandraoi

As I understand it, it's legal to drive your car without an MOT so long as it passes the MOT with no work needing doing. Obviously that's not a risk you want to take in the normal course of affairs, but if it passes without any remedial work then you have (retrospectively) proved it was road worthy.

raskazz

amandada wrote: »

Unfortunately your lack of MOT means your insurance is null and void, despite what was said today.

NO IT DOES NOT!

I know people who respond to threads have the best intentions in giving 'advice' but this is simply 100% INCORRECT, please check your information before posting assumption as fact!

Quentin

annedenton423 wrote: »

I'll take the Certificate to the Police Station and produce it as requested and hope that they will take my circumstances into consideration. Many thanks again. Anne

There should be no circumstances to take into consideration if you don't give them any.

Just present the documents as requested, without making any statements at all.

You are complying with the request, the civilian on the desk will check over the documents and return them to you. End of story unless you start telling them your "circumstances".

Quentin

annedenton423 wrote: »

I have an MOT booked for 3.40 pm this afternoon. So, I'm actually on my way there shortly, once it passes? it should..............

If it fails and you want to stay legal, then don't drive it home. You are only legally allowed to drive it from the MOT station to the garage which will do the remedial work.

cheeks

As i type this you will be at the garage, so i hope it all goes well, let us know what happened x

amandada

raskazz wrote: »

NO IT DOES NOT!

I know people who respond to threads have the best intentions in giving 'advice' but this is simply 100% INCORRECT, please check your information before posting assumption as fact!

As part of my job, I arrange for the siezure of uninsured vehicles for police, I assume nothing.