is it legal.....?

[magpie]

get someone with trade plates,jobbed.

[fuzzy]

and were do you find these people with trade plates? apart from in the trade obviously.

[blackcountrybimmerman]

you can drive it to the MOT station and as long as it passes you can drive it away..

I think you can drive it away to get the work required to pass the MOT done too.

It seems a simple rule to me, you can drive a car to a pre-booked MOT, unless it passes you no longer have a valid MOT thus voiding your insurance = you in bother with our bezzie mates innit.

As long as the MOT is pre-arranged by an appointment with the MOT testing station, you can drive there and and drive back to a fixed address or another garage to get remedial repairs carried out. The car only has to have valid insurance for this.


Not everyone wants to pay the particular garage (or MOT station) to carry out the work. Most of us are DIY "mechanics" and will carry out the remedial work on our own drives.

[Bewdley320T]

The need for an MOT certificate
It is generally an offence to use on a public road, a vehicle of testable age that doesn’t have a current test certificate, except when:

taking it to a test station for a test booked in advance
bringing it away from a test station after it has failed the test, to a place of repair
taking it to or bringing it away from a place where, by previous arrangement, repairs are to be made or have been made to fix the problems that caused the vehicle to fail its test
Even in the above circumstances you may still be prosecuted for driving an unroadworthy vehicle if it doesn’t comply with various regulations affecting its construction and use. Also, the insurance may not be valid.

It is your responsibility as the vehicle owner to ensure that the due MOT test is carried out in time. Please use the peel off reminder sticker on the front of the MOT certificate and put it in a place where you’ll be reminded of the expiry date, like the sun visor or the back of the tax disc holder facing inside the vehicle.

You should take your MOT certificate with you when you apply for a new tax disc at a Post Office®. This is unless the vehicle is not subject to MOT testing because of its age or type. If you have a new style MOT certificate you can choose to relicence your vehicle online.

This is off the DVLA site, hope it clarifies it.

[blackcountrybimmerman]

Can an MOT tester put a prohibition order on a dangerously unroadworthy vehicle?

[gooner1]

and were do you find these people with trade plates? apart from in the trade obviously.

Don,t know why, but there is usually one standing at every
Motorway junction. Strange.

[hennabm]

Can an MOT tester put a prohibition order on a dangerously unroadworthy vehicle?

No only the police and VOSA can issue prohibitions.
The best an MOT tester can do is warn the owner/driver through using Box C o the VT30. This basically says that in the opinion of the tester the car is dangerous to drive.