Moving a car without MOT or Tax - Advice Please

[marinabrian]

Insure the car, book an MOT test close to home taking into account journey time, and drive it to the MOT station from where it is at the moment.

It will clean up the brake discs if nothing else

A car need not be MOT tested, nor taxed or declared SORN if being driven to a pre arranged MOT test, and there is no stipulation as to where the test station is in relation to the car.

The furthest I've done this is booking a car in for test in Newcastle and drove it from Nottingham, incidentally the car passed with no advisories, and that car had not been on the road for two years

Have fun, it will be a mini adventure

Brian

[SD1too]

Originally Posted by Seanalf

Says you can only take the car to a repair centre to have the defects fixed ..

Does it? Here's the actual wording:

Driving a vehicle that’s failed
You can take your vehicle away if your MOT certificate is still valid.
If your MOT has run out you can take your vehicle to:
have the failed defects fixed

I don't see any stipulation that it has to go "to a repair centre". What that wording means is that the only journey you can undertake after receiving an MOT failure is to a destination where the specified defects will be rectified. That could be your own home, but perhaps that's what you meant Sean!

Simon

[Sonic ZS]

Originally Posted by Ozjensen

Clear answer - trailer it - and Dominic22 great tip to get competitive quotes.

Thanks again everyone!

Tony

Worth remembering that there are very few 3.5T 'beavertail' type transporters that can legally carry any of our 75 or ZT's. Even a base spec 1.8 manual saloon with an empty fuel tank will take virtually all Transits, Sprinters, Movanos, Ducatos, etc. over their payload limit.

Although they may be classed as 3.5T (3500kg) vans, the actually chassis cabs weigh around 1750kg, the transporter body with ramps, winch, toolbox, straps, etc. will be about 400kg and a driver at maybe 100kg. This totals approx. 2250kg, so leaving a useable legal payload of only 1250kg.

Equally, most of these vans have a maximum towing weight of 2000kg, so by the time you deduct 800kg for a suitably strong trailer, again they are not suitable for the carriage of any of our cars. Plus, to pull a trailer commercially, the towing vehicle must be fitted with an operational tachograph and the owner will need an operator licence if they wish to stay within the law (and hence for your vehicle to be insured).

So please remember that the cheapest price from an on-line auction site, won't necessarily be the best or safest option. Properly rated equipment costs money - you get what you pay for...

Good luck with the transport

[Seanalf]

Originally Posted by SD1too

Does it? Here's the actual wording:

Driving a vehicle that’s failed
You can take your vehicle away if your MOT certificate is still valid.
If your MOT has run out you can take your vehicle to:
have the failed defects fixed

I don't see any stipulation that it has to go "to a repair centre". What that wording means is that the only journey you can undertake after receiving an MOT failure is to a destination where the specified defects will be rectified. That could be your own home, but perhaps that's what you meant Sean!

Simon

I get what you're saying Simon, but proving you are going to fix it may be the problem? I only used that term as it was in keeping with the discussion. To be fair, it's all a very large grey area

[berkshirelad]

Originally Posted by SD1too

Does it? Here's the actual wording:

Driving a vehicle that’s failed
You can take your vehicle away if your MOT certificate is still valid.
If your MOT has run out you can take your vehicle to:
have the failed defects fixed

I don't see any stipulation that it has to go "to a repair centre". What that wording means is that the only journey you can undertake after receiving an MOT failure is to a destination where the specified defects will be rectified. That could be your own home, but perhaps that's what you meant Sean!

Simon

This is the actual wording from Schedule 2 of VERA rather than the DVAL website.

22(1)A vehicle is an exempt vehicle when it is being used solely for the purpose of—
(a)submitting it (by previous arrangement for a specified time on a specified date) for a compulsory test [F45, a vehicle identity check][F46, a vehicle weight test or a reduced pollution test], or

(b)bringing it away from [F47any such test][F48or check].

[F49(1A)A vehicle is an exempt vehicle when it is being used solely for the purpose of—

(a)taking it (by previous arrangement for a specified time on a specified date) for a relevant re-examination, or

(b)bringing it away from such a re-examination.]

(2)A vehicle is an exempt vehicle when it is being used by an authorised person in the course of a compulsory test [F50, a vehicle weight test [F51or a vehicle identity check or][F52, a reduced pollution test] or a relevant re-examination and is being so used]solely for the purpose of—

(a)taking it to, or bringing it away from, a place where a part of the test [F53, check][F54or re-examination] is to be, or has been, carried out, or

(b)carrying out a part of the test [F53, check][F54or re-examination].

[F55(2A)A vehicle is an exempt vehicle when it is being used by an authorised person solely for the purpose of warming up its engine in preparation for the carrying out of—

(a)a compulsory test [F56or a reduced pollution test], or

(b)a relevant re-examination that is to be carried out for the purposes of an appeal relating to a determination made on a compulsory test [F56or a reduced pollution test].]

(3)Where the relevant certificate is refused on a compulsory test [F57, or a reduced pollution test,]of a vehicle [F58or as a result of a relevant re-examination,] the vehicle is an exempt vehicle when it is being used solely for the purpose of—

(a)delivering it (by previous arrangement for a specified time on a specified date) at a place where relevant work is to be done on it, or

(b)bringing it away from a place where relevant work has been done on it.



So in short order.

1) to/from a test;
2) to/from a re-test
3) to/from a place were relevant work is to be done

No stipulation that it is a repair centre

[Ozjensen]

Again - thank you all - and will make sure the transporter is fully insured/licenced.

Thanks again

Tony