MOT Expired (1 Viewer)
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clint van damme
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I doubt the police check the MOT status of every car in front of them!
Nuskyblue
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Don't they have an automatic deely that scans the number plate? I think it pings if there is anything amiss (no insurance, tax, MoT, criminal activity etc).
No not all police cars. I think it's probably only a fairly small number that have it. Your standard police car won't I don't think, it'll just be those that are used specifically for tackling driving crimes I'd imagine - the 'traffic cops'.
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Highly likely you would get away with it. I drive for a living and had a van Mot expired by 2 months it was in London 2 days a week and driven everyday nothing happened.
Houchens Head
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What's an MOT? I have a brand new car every 3 years! 
What's an MOT? I have a brand new car every 3 years!
It's a riddle, McNally or Thomas?
duffer
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Fwiw I got pulled a few years ago, driving without a MOT. By a traffic car with ANPR on the M42/A42, unless it's changed since then I don't think regular response cars have ANPR fitted, but I could be wrong.
It was a genuine mistake, and it was a good six months out of date (I genuinely thought I'd sorted the ticket when I'd taxed the car).
Anyway, no huge grief from the copper, fixed penalty notice (£60 then, £100 now, iirc). If you had a bump I suspect the insurers might quibble, but the police didn't even mention it.
It was a genuine mistake, and it was a good six months out of date (I genuinely thought I'd sorted the ticket when I'd taxed the car).
Anyway, no huge grief from the copper, fixed penalty notice (£60 then, £100 now, iirc). If you had a bump I suspect the insurers might quibble, but the police didn't even mention it.
duffer
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They are, but I don't think they're used for driving offences like this, mostly to discourage and prosecute bilking, I suspect. I'd probably done 10,000 miles before I got pulled...
I just went online to try and pay my tax on the vehicle, due beginning of August, and it says I can't because the vehicle doesn't have a valid MOT certificate. So how did you guys who drove without valid MOT manage to tax your vehicle? I'm pretty sure you can't get away with just not paying tax or declaring SORN.
Grendel
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No you can’t tax a car with no MOT but it may already in other peoples cases have a road fund licence before the MOT expired
NorthernWisdom
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Get mot now, tax car end next June, and that allows nearly a year without mot if you forget to do it
Houchens Head
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I thought most phones these days have a calendar? Simple enough to put a reminder in for things like doctors appointments, meetings and yes, even the date for your next MoT. Set the reminder for a week or so before.
ccfc922
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You sir, need a calendar.
Sky Blue Pete
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Sorted now after that
duffer
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You can't, in a nutshell. But you can tax it just before the MOT runs out.
If you sort out an MOT it'll appear within a day on the system I think, and you'll then be able to tax it. You have to pay for the whole month though, so doing it at the start of the month is a better idea financially, but only if you don't need the car for a week or so (apologies if you already know that!).
In the meantime you're really supposed to SORN it. They can issue a fine if the vehicle is neither taxed nor SORN, though I don't know how regularly that happens. I think there's a bit of leeway in that.
Whilst I've definitely been a bit naughty/forgetful in the past, driving without tax *and* MOT might be a bit too risky for me. In theory they could clamp the car where it's parked, if it's on the public road untaxed.
duffer
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Who needs a calendar when you can have a friendly policeman pull you over to make you aware.
In the old days you'd just get a 7-day "producer" to show your MOT and insurance certificate at the station. No computers then!
It felt like I got pulled so many times when riding bikes that I could've kept a filing cabinet full of them. Easier to just cart everything around in your wallet in those times. At least it made you look rich in the pub.
Dions Dong
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Re insurance ,
the lack of MOT wouldn’t invalidate insurance necessarily.
Once the insurers were made aware by the police of the lack of MOT (should they bother to call) the insurers must inform the policy holder by post of their intention to cancel the policy.
This is presuming that having no MOT would invalidate the policy (assuming such a condition is present within the policy).
It cannot be invalidated retrospectively at the scene by an officer and form the basis of another traffic offence.
the lack of MOT wouldn’t invalidate insurance necessarily.
Once the insurers were made aware by the police of the lack of MOT (should they bother to call) the insurers must inform the policy holder by post of their intention to cancel the policy.
This is presuming that having no MOT would invalidate the policy (assuming such a condition is present within the policy).
It cannot be invalidated retrospectively at the scene by an officer and form the basis of another traffic offence.
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Next time take a break. Tiredness kills!
LastGarrison
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Robinshio
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the mix of decimals and fractions is not great there
in fact as there were only 80 vehicles, why didnt they just state the numbers
LastGarrison
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I think it’s part of Sunak’s commitment to making maths a central objective of the education system.
