Correct order for getting MOT, road tax and insurance?

jimster · Spanner Monkey Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Karma :

Hello,

I've decided to get my Yamaha Diversion back on the road for spring. Currently it's sitting in my parking lot with the following problems:

SORN'd
MOT-less
road-tax-less
insurance-less.

Can any wise folk on here let me know the correct order for getting it road-legal again? Bureaucratic idiocy means, for instance, that I can't tax it until I have MOT'd it (even though I'm law abiding and would never ride without road tax!). sigh.

I'm guessing the correct order is as follows:

First: Insurance

Second: MOT (I believe I can ride it to a garage for testing, even though I have no road tax or MOT)

Third: Road tax (which presumably cancels the SORN automatically).

Any comments? Have I missed anything?
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sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

Hi
You've got the order right Thumbs Up

Don't forget to pre book your mot first though.That way you should keep any plod happy with what you are doing .If the mot is within pushing distance you might be better of doing that Very Happy

Edit:sorn will cancel when you tax the bike

Jim Mc · Nearly there... Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Karma :

I was told by my insurance company I couldn't ride the bike to a garage to get the MOT renewed as lack of MOT invalidates insurance. Rolling Eyes

sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

Probably best push it or chuck it a van then Very Happy

Mot place may pick it up for a few quid Thumbs Up

J.M. · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Karma :

Going · Nearly there... Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Karma :

Edited:

From the https://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_069671

Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

You MAY ride to the MOT centre; lack of MOt cert does not automatically invalidate insurance.
However; the MOT has to be pre-booked by registration, so if you get stopped it can be verified, and you are supposed to go by the shortest 'reasonable' route....
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Pol Anorl · Banned Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Karma :

Id push or van to mot if i where you, should come for a ride one day i noticed your not far from me.
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Cunnington · Spanner Monkey Joined: 01 Jun 2011 Karma :

There is a tale of a group of football fans from Vattersay (an island off the west coast of Scotland with no MoT facilities), who when travelling to Europe for a tournament, needed to get their bus MoT'd when they reached the mainland. The booked it in in Dover. Very Happy

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