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Post by bryan on Mar 23, 2017 12:41:37 GMT
I have been a naughty boy and the 911's MOT expired on the 14th March.....I can book it in for a MOT and understand I am covered to drive it to a pre booked appointment - does anyone know what the level of latitude is with this ie the car is in Derby and I would like it MOT'd in Worcester in a few weeks time.
I assume driving directly to this appointment would be OK - but should I be OK if I travelled down to Worcester the night before the appointment? (Just thinking if it was an early morning MOT etc)
Alternative is dropping it into a local place up here but I prefer using a garage which applies the correct MOT standards to the age of the vehicle rather than a box tick merchant (I still chuckle at the advisory for slight corrosion to the coolant header tank....)
So how strict is the driving to the MOT station rule?
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Post by johnc on Mar 23, 2017 13:07:31 GMT
It is quite strict. You are only allowed to drive directly to the MOT station for a booked appointment. I believe the term directly has been tested in Court and means just that - straight there at the time by the shortest/most appropriate direct route.
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 23, 2017 13:43:12 GMT
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Has there ever been a challenge to the "distance" rule though? I recall reading a long, long time ago about the possibility of someone buying a car with no MOT, say in Aberdeen when they lived, say in Brighton. The issue at that time was if caught, so long as the car was roadworthy there was nothing in place to prevent such a long drive from collecting it to a pre-booked MoT hundreds of miles away
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Post by johnc on Mar 23, 2017 13:50:02 GMT
^ Has there ever been a challenge to the "distance" rule though? I recall reading a long, long time ago about the possibility of someone buying a car with no MOT, say in Aberdeen when they lived, say in Brighton. The issue at that time was if caught, so long as the car was roadworthy there was nothing in place to prevent such a long drive from collecting it to a pre-booked MoT hundreds of miles away I think you're right but purely from a practical point of view I wouldn't want to be driving miles with ANPR and an electronic database which shows no MOT. |
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Post by bryan on Mar 23, 2017 15:51:21 GMT
Hmm - that's what I thought, not sure I want to test the ANPR for the length of the M42 - bugger!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 24, 2017 9:29:09 GMT
Try a local place with a decent reputation as a safer option. It woud be a harsh cop who did you for no MOT if you were going directly there even over that distance with proof of the booking, for example, provided everything else was in order but you might just get that one. The ones who would be in the firing line are those driving obvious heaps of shit, rather than a tidy classic. You might not even see a police car on the whole journey but I'd go local this time just to be safe.
And straight there and/or straight back after a fail is OK.
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Post by LandieMark on Mar 24, 2017 10:45:12 GMT
A quick Google suggests that it must be to the nearest garage that does MOT tests, but how enshrined in law this, I don't know.
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