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    Can you Drive????

    Just wondered as the other 5 will be in for an MOT in a couple of weeks, can you drive a SORN car to the MOT station????? I know a NON MOT'd car is ok (or used to be,law may of changed) but what about no tax?

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    As far as I can remember, yes. SO LONG as its booked in.

    Just phone your local nick, they'll tell you.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    ai, am about to do it this weekend

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Sweet. Good Idea Timmy.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    As long as you deem the car road legal... ie: 4 decent tyre's, head lights etc...
    & that the car is insured not just you insured to drive any other car 3rd party...

    Oh and you must be booked into a Mot Garage for an apointment... but afterwards you can drive the car home and to and from any garage/place to work on your car...

    So technically you could drive your car anywhere to get "work" done on your car... but only after it has failed an MOT.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Well it's not insured so thats buggered that

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by Sy5GTT View Post
    Well it's not insured so thats buggered that

    You plonker. What do you think would happen if you hit someone? "Sorry mate, dont have insurance, but its okay - im booked in for an MOT"

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Why would I insure a car thats been in the garage for over a year? To drive it on the road...... But surley the fact a car has no MOT and is not road legal invalidates any insurance anyway. The MOT station is about 1 minute from my house. Thats it, I'm calling the police
    Last edited by Sy5GTT; 22-01-2009 at 16:06.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by Sy5GTT View Post
    Why would I insure a car thats been in the garage for over a year? But surley the fact a car has no MOT and is not road legal invalidates any insurance anyway. The MOT station is about 1 minute from my house. Thats it, I'm calling the police
    tow it

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Just got off the phone. I cannot drive the car to the MOT station
    Due to the MOT running out over a year ago I will not be able to get insurance (as my last post) so the nice police lady said not in so many words "you drive it and we'll have ya". It has to be trailered or on a flat bed.. "not even towed". Hmmm. Is it worth doing??? Gives me something to think about. And something to remember in the future..

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by soapymech View Post
    tow it
    Then you might as well drive it as its the same legal issues. Only way is to trailor it then

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by soapymech View Post
    tow it

    Push it

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    so ya cant tow a non tax/mot'd car then....

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    She told me if it touches the road it is classed as on the road and is a no no. Any car that is on the road for any amount of time must be insured. No MOT for a year.No Insurance. Just No...You may be ok to insure a car that has only just expired on the MOT. I wouldn't like to say mate.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by clee View Post
    Push it
    somebody's got to b able to help being that the mot gaff is only a minute away

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Have a read through this..

    http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk...tre/index.aspx

    May help ya.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by soapymech View Post
    somebody's got to b able to help being that the mot gaff is only a minute away

    I know a guy with a flat bed but its a lot of hassle for a 1 minute journey. I suppose I'll have to do it. There isn't any other way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sy5GTT View Post
    I know a guy with a flat bed but its a lot of hassle for a 1 minute journey. I suppose I'll have to do it. There isn't any other way.
    its gotta b less agro than getting nicked for no insurance u know it makes sence

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by Sy5GTT View Post
    She told me if it touches the road it is classed as on the road and is a no no. Any car that is on the road for any amount of time must be insured. No MOT for a year.No Insurance. Just No...You may be ok to insure a car that has only just expired on the MOT. I wouldn't like to say mate.

    nice bit of ball ache for this sunday then

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    I thought thats what you ment mate. I guess it's better to know. How far away is the car?

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by soapymech View Post
    its gotta b less agro than getting nicked for no insurance u know it makes sence

    Yeah it does mate.

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by Sy5GTT View Post
    No MOT for a year.No Insurance. Just No...
    Why is it bad if it hasn't been MOT'd for over a year? My car was rotting in a barn for 2 years but I still drove it to and from the MOT shop and welders in another town, even with coppers following!
    The garage said it was fine to do so

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    Re: Can you Drive????

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    The thing with nowadays is everything is computerised, police know whether your car has mot insurance tax, when it expired and everything about you at the touch of a few buttons.

    I know if you were driving it round my way and you was stopped and showing you had no insurance, immediately recovery would be arranged for your car for having no insurance, then you'd get a bill for the recovery and have to pay the storage fees until you went down there with a flat bed and your docs to get it back, you'd also be charged for driving a car with no insurance and risk a ban on your license.

    So the bottom line is its not worth the risk nowadays, get it trailered to the mot station................

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    Re: Can you Drive????

    Quote Originally Posted by Rach View Post
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    The thing with nowadays is everything is computerised, police know whether your car has mot insurance tax, when it expired and everything about you at the touch of a few buttons.

    I know if you were driving it round my way and you was stopped and showing you had no insurance, immediately recovery would be arranged for your car for having no insurance, then you'd get a bill for the recovery and have to pay the storage fees until you went down there with a flat bed and your docs to get it back, you'd also be charged for driving a car with no insurance and risk a ban on your license.

    So the bottom line is its not worth the risk nowadays, get it trailered to the mot station................
    cor u should b a pc thats more info than iv ever got from any pcso round here

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    Quote Originally Posted by soapymech View Post
    cor u should b a pc thats more info than iv ever got from any pcso round here
    Funny that, thats what my sargeant keeps telling me too !! I'd never work traffic though, would be a bit hypocritical i think lol !!

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