Driving a car with no MOT

[M.C]

Just how stupid an idea is this? The fine's £1000 and no points right(?), but I'm guessing if you were stopped you couldn't carry on your journey? Also what's the situation with insurance?

Background: watching a car with a recently expired MOT, looks decent but it has (at least) one fault it would fail on, too far away to realistically book in for an MOT anyway.

[chris-red]

What is the fault can you not take it to a local garage for an MOt and to get it fixed?
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[Lord Percy]

Probably depends on where you live - transport police presence, ANPR prevalence, etc.

In North Yorkshire I could probably get away with it eternally, without tax either if I really felt like testing the system.

When I moved out of my old house I had to go 30 miles on my recent MOT failure motorbike, starting from the centre of Leeds.

[grr666]

Masking tape over numberplates and tow it home.
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[stinkwheel]

I found I'd been riding my bike all over the shop with no MOT for about 6 months 18 months back. I'd been all the way down the M6, M40 and halfway round the M25. Up and down the M74 umpteen times and most of the A9.

I think chances of being stopped are very slim as long as it doesn't flag up as not tax or insurance.

How you going to tax it with no MOT? That's the rub. They'll confiscate it on the spot for no tax.
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[M.C]

Here's the thing... I'm not lucky £2000+ in fines apparently for no MOT/tax, that cheap car could end up costing a fortune.

[MarJay]

Book it in for an MOT at a local garage and drive it. It's cheeky but it might just work.

Driving without MOT is a non endorsable offence, and I don't think it carries a very high fine.
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[B5234FT]

Packet of resistors, short the pins, mot and drive home.

Not worth the alternatives as you'll almost certainly get pulled for no tax and you cant get tax without MOT.

Also worth noting that many insurance companies quietly started adding wording about not covering vehicles without MOT. I took insurance last year and happened to say to the guy on the phone that I was glad to have got it sorted as I had an MOT booked the next day and he goes " that policy wont cover you to drive it to the text if it doesnt have a current MOT".

[M.C]

I had a quick search regarding the airbag warning, it's a bit more complicated than I thought, and there's the possibility it could fail on something else.

How are you meant to get vehicles back on the road if you can't tax them or have valid insurance?

[Rogerborg]

I wouldn't jump at a car if it's got the SRS light on. It could be anything from a loose connector under the seat, or it could mean stripping half the bollocksing electrics and replacing random parts. Warning brought to you by the SRS light in my Zafirea which has now exhausted all of the "Yeah, easy, you just need to..." suggested fixes.

As always, if it was an easy fix, the current owner would have done it and put a year's MOT on it.
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[M.C]

Could well be, the car's a part exchange (no warranty mate) dealer bargain. Its not been taxed since November, and hasn't failed an MOT. Could be the dealer knows the extent of the problem.

[SBDJ]

Drive it back directly to a prebooked MOT at garage local to you. No MOT or tax required for the journey, and no restriction on the distance or incidental stops either.

Insure it obviously.

Whether you actually take it to the MOT or not is of course your call

Edit: No MOT is usually a FPN (£100 or £60 can't remember which) - the maximum £1000 was only if it went to court I think.
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[angryjonny]

SRS light on my last car required a new passenger seat to extinguish.

£1000 part from Toyota, plus labour. Good job it was under warranty.

Be sure what you're getting into before you part with the munnies. Diagnostic reader may tell you what it's not happy about in general terms.

Why is this dealer not dealing with it?

[M.C]

I thought you had book in for an MOT within a reasonable distance?

[Rogerborg]

There's not one word in the legislation about distance. Case law goes both ways. You're not lucky.

[SBDJ]

[M.C]

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[stevo as b4]

You don't want that car whatever it is anyway. You want one with no air bag fitted and probably alot less complication too.

If my garage was empty, I'd quite fancy an early TVR Cerbera with a non rotten chassis, for the above reason.

[Polarbear]

Most dealers just shunt out part exes unless they are something special.

The amount that come through our local auctions with 'Dealer name' Part Exchange stickers on them (as though that makes them more desirable ) is ridiculous. Probably more dealer part exes than private.
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[Pete.]

Airbag light on is a fail but airbag light not working is not. Remove/cover/disconnect the bulb/led and it'll sail through.
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