Putting a car back on the road?

Tee Hee Johnson

Tee Hee Johnson

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Finding it difficult to find the answers I need, so ill ask here :)

You buy a car sorn, no mot or tax.

What happens next? I know that it would no longer be sorn, unless applied for again.

But that's as far as I can find out. Insurance would be the easy one, but tax and how then mot, or vice versa!

Thanks :D
 
Firstly you must get insurance. This is the first thing you should do.

Next, you get the MOT. You can drive a car declared SORN with no tax to a booked MOT test, so thats fine.

Then with the MOT test and the Insurance done, you can buy tax.
 
Insure the car, drive it to a pre-booked MOT and get it tested, then take the MOT and Insurance certificates to the post office and tax the car.

Simple!
 
[TW]Fox;17186008 said:
Firstly you must get insurance. This is the first thing you should do.

Next, you get the MOT. You can drive a car declared SORN with no tax to a booked MOT test, so thats fine.

Then with the MOT test and the Insurance done, you can buy tax.
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Perfect, everything I needed to know in 1 post!

Cheers too drz :)
 
What Fox said basically, though I'm not sure on the legality of driving a SORNed car to the MOT station. I've always taken the risk and 'heard' that you can but I don't know if you're technically allowed to do it, ie I've never seen it in writing.

Be cool if anyone has a reliable link to the actual law :)
 
How else can a normal person get their vehicle to an MOT station?

For example, I'll be taking my car for an MOT later, it's currently SORNed and has no MOT. I can't tax it until it passes an MOT, I have to drive it as there is no way it can get there otherwise.
 
Without looking it up to check I'm pretty damn sure you are ok to drive to and from a pre-booked mot with the from part still being ok even if it fails. Although without insurance would be a no-no.
 
I'm pretty sure if it fails you can get ****ed for driving it back from the testing station in the event of an incident, but otherwise its a bit of a grey area.

If someone knows for certain, I'd be interested in the specifics.
 
I was always under the impression you're allowed to drive it to an approved repair station (ie another garage) but not home/to the shops/etc.
 
I'm pretty sure you're also allowed to drive the car to a place of repair (as long as it's scheduled in obviously).

Some silly bint in the post office told a friend of mine that you don't need insurance to drive to an MOT. I had to ask her again to make sure I heard correctly.
 
InvaderGIR said:
How else can a normal person get their vehicle to an MOT station?

For example, I'll be taking my car for an MOT later, it's currently SORNed and has no MOT. I can't tax it until it passes an MOT, I have to drive it as there is no way it can get there otherwise.
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Some garages come and pick the car up with a tilt and slide or you can privately arrange a trailer or tow truck :)
 
MikeHiow said:
I'm pretty sure if it fails you can get ****ed for driving it back from the testing station in the event of an incident, but otherwise its a bit of a grey area.

If someone knows for certain, I'd be interested in the specifics.
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I know for certain, this is why I posted it in the first reply.

Here we go:

You can drive your vehicle to and from a pre-arranged test at an MOT test station provided you have adequate insurance cover in place for that vehicle.
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http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/UntaxedVehicle/DG_069727

I do love the way everyone on here has to question everything, even when the information posted is correct.
 
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Jonny69 said:
Some garages come and pick the car up with a tilt and slide or you can privately arrange a trailer or tow truck :)
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People in Kent are nice.

Round here in Devon you don't get that sort of service and it'd cost a couple hundred to take it 10 miles down the road to the MOT station. Cheaper to 'risk it' as it were and drive it really as insurance covers accidents and the fines are less than the trailering/two truck...quite why you'd get fines etc. though I don't know. As Fox has said, it's all fine.
 
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i have recently done this myself.
rang mot station got booked in, day insurance (print and take docs with you just in case,) failed mot due to uneven braking on front brakes, drove back home via local spares shop for discs and pads, fitted brakes, rang mot place to say i was on my way back for retest, passed mot, drove to post office on way back home and stuck tax disc in the window then drove home smiling.
 
Instead of putting up a new thread, i thought id add to this one! :P

If it gets no answers... ill put up a new one!

So whats next, been mot'd but how can it be taxed?

Dont you need either a tax reminder for post office use... and for online use?
 
You can tax it by going to the post office with your MOT certificate, insurance certificate and the vehicle registration document.

If the vehicle is already properly in your name, you can tax it online using the document reference number from the V5 instead of the reminder if you dont have it.
 
[TW]Fox;17277535 said:
You can tax it by going to the post office with your MOT certificate, insurance certificate and the vehicle registration document.

If the vehicle is already properly in your name, you can tax it online using the document reference number from the V5 instead of the reminder if you dont have it.
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The man speaks the truth.
:)
 
[TW]Fox;17277535 said:
You can tax it by going to the post office with your MOT certificate, insurance certificate and the vehicle registration document.

If the vehicle is already properly in your name, you can tax it online using the document reference number from the V5 instead of the reminder if you dont have it.
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Yet again a perfect answer :D

Sadly I dont have the v5 yet, i only have the new keepers thingy!
 
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