No different to a 'standard' MOT then.Be aware that an MOT extension is no excuse for driving a car which is considered unroadworthy/dangerous if involved in an accident.
MOT extension due to Covid
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Thank you for posting this. It prompted me to check mine and in doing so I discovered that my Road Tax expired 5 days ago. I'd got the reminder several weeks ago and put it on the 'non-urgent deal with when I have a bit of time' pile. Mea culpa. Now rectified.
You must be one of the unlucky ones who are still working! Most of us have got too much bloody time on our hands.
My MOT expires 7th August and won't be able to get it done before going to the in laws.
Can I leave it on the road without MOT but with tax and insurance?
I won't be moving it until September
Can I leave it on the road without MOT but with tax and insurance?
I won't be moving it until September
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I believe your tax and insurance is invalid without an MOT, best get it off road.
No mot will not invalidate either of those. Also, unlike expired tax and insurance, an expired mot certificate is not a compulsory reason to SORN a vehicle. There is an exemption for driving a car with no tax or mot to a testing station for a test as long as it is pre-booked and insured. If your insurance was invalid because of no mot, how would you legally drive it to the mot station?
Ok, I asked google and returned that if the car is not used, but parked there, it's ok.
Then as mottie said, it can be driven to z pre-booked mot.
This is the section 47 of road traffic act that applies.
Note the word "uses" and not "keep":
A person who uses on a road at any time, or causes or permits to be so used, a motor vehicle to which this section applies, and as respects which no test certificate has been issued within the appropriate period before that time, is guilty of an offence.
Then as mottie said, it can be driven to z pre-booked mot.
This is the section 47 of road traffic act that applies.
Note the word "uses" and not "keep":
A person who uses on a road at any time, or causes or permits to be so used, a motor vehicle to which this section applies, and as respects which no test certificate has been issued within the appropriate period before that time, is guilty of an offence.
Mottie, this thread is right up your street!
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Driving to a test center is fine, after remedial work. Parking up for over 2 months is not legal on a public highway.
https://www.stoneacre.co.uk/car-ser...ou are not planning,not on the public highway.
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You must be one of the unlucky ones who are still working! Most of us have got too much bloody time on our hands.
Unpaid carer.
That’s a commercial garage touting for work. Ignore that. If it’s not being USED on the road, it can sit there until the tax or insurance expire then it must be sorned.
This:
Which is different from this:
FWIW, I’ve forgotten to mot one of my own cars for 5 months once and a mate of mine went nearly a whole year with no mot - only found them both out when we went to tax them!
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It seems to be that two weeks-ish before it is due, it will have the extra six months added to it. Mine was due 29th May and two weeks before that date, it changed on the MOT site to -due November.
This just says car being used not parked
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/47
If I had the problem I'd phone the police and ask for advice.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/47
If I had the problem I'd phone the police and ask for advice.
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If their interpretation of the law during lockdown is anything to go by, you'd be better off asking the fat bloke down the pub.
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