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[Sir Tigger KC]

I know that legally you can drive to a MOT station for a prebooked MOT test even if you have no current test certificate, but what if your car fails? Can you drive it home legally? 

Thanks!! 

[Andy B]

I know that legally you can drive to a MOT station for a prebooked MOT test even if you have no current test certificate, but what if your car fails? Can you drive it home legally? 

Thanks!! 

Yes. But if it's a danger to other road users, then it wouldn't matter how old the ticket is, the ar would still be dangerous.

I asked this of 'my' MOT tester recently. He answered by saying ...... a car came for test with loads of ticket left ie months & failed miserably. The owner asked how he stood legally, so Mr MOT Man phoned VOSA. Their reply was ...... legally yes, you can drive it, but, you would then be driving the car with KNOWN faults. Your call! 

[Varche]

I would have thought that common sense would apply.

For example. Main beam bulb or aim faulty. If it is daylight and you happened to get stopped by the police, they would have to be hard nosed or short on targets to give you a ticket on your way home.

Do the British MOT stations have the power (out of interest) to declare a vehicle unsafe to go anywhere from the failed MOT? They do in Spain and there have been cases of vehicles slapped with a can't be driven away only grua(via a lorry)

[Dishevelled Den]

This;


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 an MOT test booked in advance
•bringing it away from a test station after it has failed the MOT test, to a place of repair
•taking it to a place, by previous arrangement, where problems that caused the vehicle to fail its MOT test, can be repaired
•bringing it away from a place where the problems with the vehicle have been repaired

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. Your car insurance may also be invalid.

from here;

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Mot/DG_4022108........


will shed some light on the matter - even though there seems room for interpretation; although the following is, to my mind at least, the factor governing whether or not anyone fancies driving a vehicle having no valid certificate or one where a notice of refusal has been issued in the event of a test (even though the existing certificate remains valid to its end date) and, as far as I can see, 'home' is not mentioned


Your car insurance may also be invalid

[bigboykarl]

Only 60 pound fine and no points

[Dishevelled Den]

Only 60 pound fine and no points

And your personal liability should the detection have been made as a result of  an RTC of course BBK.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

This;


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 an MOT test booked in advance
•bringing it away from a test station after it has failed the MOT test, to a place of repair
•taking it to a place, by previous arrangement, where problems that caused the vehicle to fail its MOT test, can be repaired
•bringing it away from a place where the problems with the vehicle have been repaired

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. Your car insurance may also be invalid.

from here;

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Mot/DG_4022108........


will shed some light on the matter - even though there seems room for interpretation; although the following is, to my mind at least, the factor governing whether or not anyone fancies driving a vehicle having no valid certificate or one where a notice of refusal has been issued in the event of a test (even though the existing certificate remains valid to its end date) and, as far as I can see, 'home' is not mentioned


Your car insurance may also be invalid

Ambiguous, at best.

[Sir Tigger KC]

All sorted now... The Mig lives for another 12 months!!!