What if the MOT has run out?

Why are you asking?
To clarify - for the final time - a vehicle that is NOT MOT tested cannot be driven anywhere other than:
a) To a garage for a "booked" MOT test
b) To return from that test
c) To go to a garage (booked) to have the failures rectified
d) To return to the original MOT station for retest (or a booked MOT test at another garage if they chose to)

No other time AT all, so posing pointless questions is just that - "pointless"!

In reply to a post by lelboy:

Why are you asking?
To clarify - for the final time - a vehicle that is NOT MOT tested cannot be driven anywhere other than:
a) To a garage for a "booked" MOT test

So a SORNed vehicle that has not failed an MOT test can legally be driven to a pre-arranged MOT testing station

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

So a SORNed vehicle that has not failed an MOT test can legally be driven to a pre-arranged MOT testing station

Yes - but if you think it will need some work to make it fit to pass the test, you can't legally drive it to a repairer until you have booked a test, (legally) driven to and from the test station where it has failed the test then made an appointment with the repairer to do the work.

Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, Schedule 2, Paragraph 22.

Edited by GonePostal (Tue 11-Jul-17 15:05:41)

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

So a SORNed vehicle that has not failed an MOT test can legally be driven to a pre-arranged MOT testing station

Yes,
But any vehicle is also subject to other regulations on road safety. So if the police deemed it unsafe. They could impound it.

Yikes, this thread has been rather busy since I last visited!

Anyway, to update, after a few weeks Virgin took care of moving it out of the way.

The council wouldn't touch it as it had a SORN in place, and the piece of land that it occupied wasn't public.

So it delayed things by a couple of months but the installation went ahead in the end. It was a right pain of a situation but it was worth it to upgrade from my horrible 10Mbps downstream / 0.75 Mbps upstream ADSL.

Edited by derby13 (Tue 11-Jul-17 19:01:18)

Glad you got sorted....

Hope the owner gets a nice big bill for dumping their car where it should not h.ave been

Oh dear, BatBoy - why are you keeping on?
To clarify for the absolute last time... YES, you could take a vehicle to a garage, if it had, say 2 months MOT test left on it and you wanted to get a fresh one because, perhaps, you wished to sell it on.
The pivotal point is that you must be on your way to a booked MOT test - irrespective of the status of your vehicle - whether it be SORNed or not/taxed or not/tested or not/or still has a little of a current test valid on it.
I can't believe you don't understand - so I can only conclude that you're being your normal truculent self, just as I've seen you over the years that I've been a TBB member!

Think you could do with following your own advice before your blood pressure gets the better of you.

"You have to let this go.....IF IT IS UNTESTED, IT HAS TO HAVE FAILED AN MOT TEST - BEFORE IT CAN BE DRIVEN TO A GARAGE! This has little to do with the OPs question - which I answered clearly. You however are going on and on, and I don't have a clue why. What are you getting out of it? Andrew has already deleted one of you comments AND one of mine. Please grow up and let the matter rest."

My blood pressure's fine - despite my age. As you've been on TBB for a while, I assume you'd have experience of the people I've responded to - particularly BatBoy? It's difficult to "fail to respond" to people like these - especially when they contribute so little. I daresay you're right, inasmuch as there is no NEED to reply, but even if it rankles to have to deal with these "people" I do so - lest I kick the cat, or slit my throat out of frustration at their lack of grasp. Thank you, anyway, for your concern regarding my health... Cheers, Les.