Riding Without Tax And An MOT

[Stu]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

They could #say# that, but you're not required to listen to them. You're allowed to take the bike to and from a pre arranged MOT (fail or pass) and to take it somewhere to have MOT fail defects repaired.

Correct!
That gets you off your charge of riding a vehicle without MOT
But will not get you off a charge of riding with bald tyres/defective brakes or whatever else it failed on

[/pedant]

[Stu]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Garage told me I couldn't drive a vehicle with a failed MOT even though the vehicle hadn't yet reached it's third birthday. I told them in advance what the vehicle would fail on, and asked them to sort it BEFORE they MOT'd it. They ignored me and MOT'ed it first, failed it on those items, then didn't have the parts in stock, hence taking the car off the road for two days. Had they not done the MOT and just told me they didn't have the parts, I could still have driven it.

Hope you billed them for 2 days car hire idiots that don't listen

re my last post - must read to end of thread : fail

Originally Posted by Stu

Hope you billed them for 2 days car hire idiots that don't listen

re my last post - must read to end of thread : fail

Not the end of the world as I have two cars and two bikes. I did delay a trip to Scotland by a couple of days however because I wanted to take that car.

[Swin]

The only problem I had with taxing the bike online was that the tax was due at the end of the month that my MOT occurred, it hadn't got onto the DVLA system in time for it to show that I had a valid MOT.

So, if your tax and MOT fall in the same month, be aware that it can take a couple of weeks for the MOT certificate to get onto the system