MOT
- Thread starter Phil_GT
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If you have the MOT done early and it fails, your old MOT certificate will still be valid.
However, if your MOT passes, your New MOT will only last 1 year from the Pass Date, so you're going to loose out on 1.5 months worth of MOT... Why not just wait until end of Sept unless you're extremely sceptical about it passing at that time...
Mo.
However, if your MOT passes, your New MOT will only last 1 year from the Pass Date, so you're going to loose out on 1.5 months worth of MOT... Why not just wait until end of Sept unless you're extremely sceptical about it passing at that time...
Mo.
Chris180
Events Moderator
You won't get a 13 month MOT. If it passes it'll be valid from this month for 12 months. If it fails you can still drive it until the end of Sept.
If it fails and you don't get the problems fixed by end of Sept you can't drive it unless you book it in for a MOT and drive straight there, if you get pulled over then you have to prove that it was booked in for MOT and you were going straight there.
If it fails and you don't get the problems fixed by end of Sept you can't drive it unless you book it in for a MOT and drive straight there, if you get pulled over then you have to prove that it was booked in for MOT and you were going straight there.
nope i thought you can get 13months mot.
if your mot is due on the 1st of sept and you take it on the within the 30 days prior and it passes as long as you have your older motcert the new one will be issued a year on from the old one ie 1st sept 2009
well thats always happened in my case as my mot had been due 5th of nov since ive owned the car and i always take it a week or two before incase there is any problems. Thankfully there hasnt been any so it has passed the week or two before but as i always take my current mot cert they just add a year on to that one.
if your mot is due on the 1st of sept and you take it on the within the 30 days prior and it passes as long as you have your older motcert the new one will be issued a year on from the old one ie 1st sept 2009
well thats always happened in my case as my mot had been due 5th of nov since ive owned the car and i always take it a week or two before incase there is any problems. Thankfully there hasnt been any so it has passed the week or two before but as i always take my current mot cert they just add a year on to that one.
I'm with Nismo Billy on this - sure I've had 12.5 months' MoT in the past. And also was under the impression that once it had failed, regardless of how much time was left, it was illegal to drive it unless yer on yer way to a garage to get the problem fixed or get the re-MoT...
I do this all the time because I'm paranoid about cars failing and not being able to drive them.
As people have said, and you pointed out from your test certificate - as long as you don't take it in earlier than 30 days before your MOT expires, the new MOT will be issued as if you had taken it in on the day it expired - i.e. a 13 month MOT. If the car fails (fingers crossed it doesn't) your previous MOT is still valid until it actually runs out...so basically you get a month(ish) to fix whatever is wrong with the car.
However, if the MOT fail is something critical and the police pull you over and spot it - valid MOT or not, they can still impound your car.
As people have said, and you pointed out from your test certificate - as long as you don't take it in earlier than 30 days before your MOT expires, the new MOT will be issued as if you had taken it in on the day it expired - i.e. a 13 month MOT. If the car fails (fingers crossed it doesn't) your previous MOT is still valid until it actually runs out...so basically you get a month(ish) to fix whatever is wrong with the car.
However, if the MOT fail is something critical and the police pull you over and spot it - valid MOT or not, they can still impound your car.
Chris180
Events Moderator
Only if he is driving about as normal without a MOT. If it fails, he gets it repaired and then he books it in for re-test and get's pulled on the way there and proves its booked in for a MOT and he was going straight there he'll be alright.
Unless he has shopping in back seat or is like 50miles in wrong direction from the garage.
Yeah true...it has to be on the system though, and yeah...you have to be on your way there. My mate tried to pull this little trick and it failed badly...ended up paying through the nose to recover it from the pound on a tow truck lol served him right really!