MOT certificates - can't have text over written?

[TSM]

Originally Posted by amarko5

Only legal if you have pre booked an MOT and it must also be the most direct route too and from WITHOUT STOPPING.

What about traffic lights? What if you need petrol? What if ....


Just some quotes on stuff.

HOW FAR CAN I DRIVE TO THE TEST STATION
I am aware that a car that does not have a current MOT Certificate is not allowed to be used on the road except when going for repairs for a test, or to a prearranged test. Is there a milage limit as to how far a car can be driven without an MOT if it is going to a test centre - ie can one drive 40miles in the car if it to be to an MOT appointment with a garage?
No there is no mileage limit. - MOTT

SORN
My vehicle is SORN registered, can I drive it to the test centre

Answer: You can drive without tax to a pre booked test but you must have insurance you do not need an MOT to insure your vehicle

No MOT
My MOT has run out what are the penalties

Answer: No MOT is rarely charged as a separate offence and usually appears as part of a long list of other offences with a more substantive offence carrying the major penalty. It is usually dealt with as no separate penalty Where the defendant has been convicted of more than one offence, a magistrates court is entitled to impose a penalty for one offence and make an order of no “separate penalty” for the remaining offences, if it is thought that an adequate sentence has already been imposed. Which means that fines are rarely imposed for not having an mot, on a roadworthy vehicle

Originally Posted by TSM

What about traffic lights? What if you need petrol? What if ....


Just some quotes on stuff.

It Was not a dig at you mate i was quoting from a conversation I had with a rather pleasant young lady of the police kind i said the same as you ie lights etc. the reply was "no no you silly man" I mean don't go shopping or anything on the route. trust a woman to think about shopping.

ohh and BTW you CAN drive with no tax or insurance as long as you have an appointment with a DVLA centre and a covering letter from them stating so. RE my previously mentioned journey.

ohh and BTW you CAN drive with no tax or insurance as long as you have an appointment with a DVLA centre and a covering letter from them stating so. RE my previously mentioned journey.

I rather think that insurance is an absolute requirement, even if the vehicle doesn't have a registration number issued to it. I've read of people taking imported bikes, cars, etc. to SVA tests. The one thing they must have is insurance.

we had a bike mot'd the new way with the new printed certificate and the tester put the wrong year in for the bike, when the cert was printed out and i noticed this he said theres nothing he can do now because the info was logged with DVLA, he said the error was his problem if anything was ever said.

[embee]

Originally Posted by amarko5

ohh and BTW you CAN drive with no tax or insurance as long as you have an appointment with a DVLA centre and a covering letter from them stating so. RE my previously mentioned journey.

I did a personal import car from Belgium. The dealer forgot to put on the receipt that the car was new, so I had to present it for inspection at a DVLA licensing office about 35mls away, and drove it (after double checking with them) without plates there and back. As you say, I passed a couple of police cars without being stopped.

You do need insurance to drive on the road, it is issued against the chassis number (VIN), the insurance company were au-fait with it all and did it no problems.

As for post office operatives, I tend to agree with them, sad as it is, that if the details on the docs aren't correct (even from a mistake) then they shouldn't issue. It's not their fault there's a mistake, they just go through the motions. How wrong would the details have to be before you'd say they were right to reject it? My SV has a "*615 ***" reg, my mate's has "*616 ***" (bought them as a job lot, cheaper in quantity! ), should they accept the MOT for one of them as OK for the other, it's only one number different?

On the other hand what you ride/drive where and when is none of their d@mn business, they are not there to tell you it's illegal. Why not just say you're riding another bike (OK they'll have you for lying too! ).

Originally Posted by embee

You do need insurance to drive on the road, it is issued against the chassis number (VIN), the insurance company were au-fait with it all and did it no problems.

I sincerly apologise I do remember giving the chasis number to ebike before i rode to the centre so yes i was insured even though the bike was not registered to me at that time it was such a balls up of paperwork(by the dvla / sva centre ) to get the damn registration that SMALL detail had slipped my mind took about 5 days fri to tuesday for the buggers to sort the paperwork out, all because the importer had written Trials/enduro down as the vehicle type.