Mot Ran Out

[ukanonymous]

My MOT ran out 2 days ago and I am in spain. What can I do? Will I get fined as I won't be able to make it back for a month? What can I do pleasE?

[Togo]

Are you driving it or is it parked up in UK? If parked up you will need to book an MOT when you get back, you are allowed to drive it to the MOT centre. If you have the vehicle with you maybe Spain have a facility to issue a roadworthy certificate which will cover you. Plenty of European vehicles on the road in the UK.

[bookbinder]

If you are in Spain, phone a UK test centre now, and arrange for an MOT test to be done as soon as you land in the UK.

[hc4361]

If the car is in the UK and off road, you should be able to SORN it online.

[Togo]

The Statutory Off Road Notice is for road tax only hc.

[Togo]

And the vehicle has to be off the public highway and parked up on private premises.

[hc4361]

Course it is, if it's off road it doesn't need an MOT, apologies.

[ukanonymous]

Sorry I have the car with me and not due back until October. Will 8 get in trouble?

[jno]

do as others say, I guess, book an MOT and drive there from Spain (you might just be able to stop at home and unload).

I don't suppose the Spaniards will care while you're there.

[EDDIE51]

I do not think that Spain has access to the UK data base that shows the MOT data. You should be ok till you get back to the UK. The problem will be getting from the port to home without being stopped. You are only allowed to dive from home to the MOT station not from Dover or where ever you enter the UK. Only way out I can see is to book an MOT at the nearest MOT station to wherever you will come into the UK and drive straight to it.

[Togo]

EDDIE51

Look at this thread it is almost identical
http://www.theanswerb...uestion1126219-2.html
No MOT is a fixed penalty only offence with a £60 penalty . No MOT DOES NOT invalidate your insurance even though many on AB still think and say otherwise.
When you get off the ferry phone an MOT centre near your home and if you get stopped just say you are on your way to an MOT test. Otherwise IF you get stopped just accept the £60 fixed penalty, it is not a conviction so there are no points and it does not have to be reported to your insurance.

21:27 Sat 21st Apr 2012


This looks like your best answer having looked back at old posts. Dont come back with the car having an empty tank, and you tanked up on sangria. Enjoy your jollie and stop agonising. You will still be insured without an MOT as long as the vehicle is deemed roadworthy, should the events deem that someone needs to inspect it, make sure everything else is bomb proof. (^_*)

[mastercraft]

I would also contact your insurer, your insurance may not be valid.

As you know, you are not allowed to drive around for two months in the UK without an MOT. If you did, and had an accident, your insurer would have grounds not to pay out. Does this apply when you take a vehicle abroad without the said certificate???

[Old_Geezer]

One only gets into trouble if caught.

Assuming that this is mere oversight it harms no one and in your shoes I'd drive home as intended ensuring that I didn't speed or give any other reason to attract attention. Get a good night's sleep and arrange the MOT first thing next morning. Probably not the legal thing to do but the reasonable thing. And I don't believe our excessive surveillance big brother society checks their road cameras against MOTs yet, thank God.

[EDDIE51]

Yes I did know that but I was trying to avoid the fixed penalty. Got a £60 no MOT penalty myself a couple of years back. Problem is that MOT data is on the police car ANPR system now so it will flag up if you pass a police car with the ANPR running.

[ToraToraTora]

Book an MOT in UK for the day you are returning then when in UK you can drive if you are on the way to a booked MOT.

[EDDIE51]

TTT You can only drive from your home address to an MOT station. Otherwise it would be meaningless. You could drive from Lands End to Scotland by booking an MOT in Inverness for example. The MOT station must be within a 'reasonable' distance from your home.

[ToraToraTora]

yes I realise that, I was offering a half way house, that would probably work.