Driving a lamborghini huracan with no MOT!

AhhBisto · 10 May 2019 at 21:46

So this girl has been driving around our small town like an idiot for about 6 hours with a very nice Huracan. Just popped to the shops and shes been lit up by the police and crying in the back of the police car. Wondered why they could've been so interested, checked the reg online and the car hasn't been mot'd since January?!?

Who drives such a high profile car without MOT for 5 months around a small town with a police station for 6 hours and no MOT?!

peterwalkley · 10 May 2019 at 22:05

She borrowed a garage queen without asking would be my guess.

Gilbert89 · 10 May 2019 at 22:20

Perhaps spent all of her money on the Huracan and didn't have any budget left over for the MOT?

Joe T · 11 May 2019 at 07:57

It's not all gravy, is it!

Scania · 11 May 2019 at 07:58

I’ve checked a few interesting cars on my travels and found no MOT, it’s relatively common.

The guy who bought my old e38 rocked up in an 11 plate 730d - that had no MOT for months, the e38 itself still has no MOT although is on SORN.

He was Eastern European and I know a few of them who seem to think an MOT is optional!

Not sure if it flags up automatically on ANPR like no insurance or tax does....

crinkleshoes · 11 May 2019 at 08:57

I forgot to tax my Exige for a bit.

Can be easy to forget when the dealers usually do everything for you... all other cars I’d bought in the last year, the dealers did it for me... so I simply forgot.

All good now, but I needed the reminder letter to tell me I was a numpty.

Nasher · 11 May 2019 at 08:59

If they got it done recently it can take a while to show up on that site.

Most likely it's because she was speeding. My old boss once rented a Lambo, went bombing it around like that, locals reported it to the police. It didn't take them long to track down a bright orange Lambo

[TW]Fox · 11 May 2019 at 09:07

Nasher said:
If they got it done recently it can take a while to show up on that site.

No it can't, it's instant. It shows up quicker than it takes for the MOT tester to walk over and tell you it's done.

Nasher · 11 May 2019 at 09:07

[TW]Fox said:
No it can't, it's instant. It shows up quicker than it takes for the MOT tester to walk over and tell you it's done.

Well, I checked mine after it was done and it definitely was not instant. Nor was the tax. It took a few days to update.

[TW]Fox · 11 May 2019 at 09:17

Nasher said:
Well, I checked mine after it was done and it definitely was not instant. Nor was the tax. It took a few days to update.

It updates as soon as the tester submits the test result as the final part of the test. It's all computerised.

Jamauk · 11 May 2019 at 09:18

Perhaps she thought the car was old enough to not need an MoT.

Maccapacca · 11 May 2019 at 09:22

What's more weird is people checking other people's cars for mot

Nasher · 11 May 2019 at 09:25

[TW]Fox said:
It updates as soon as the tester submits the test result as the final part of the test. It's all computerised.

Their database will update instantly, but it doesn't mean the website will. To have it in real time would be quite demanding on their internal systems.

Orionaut · 11 May 2019 at 10:40

There is no reminder system for MOT's and even the tax thing is a lot easier to forget than it used to be.

Incidence of "Untaxed" vehicles rocketed in the aftermath of going paperless, and this cannot possibly be simply because, overnight, hundreds of thousands of people suddenly decided to evade their tax liabilities.

Government delights in creating systems that simply do not work for ordinary people out in the real world! And then blaming the "Victims" of unworkable bureaucracies for the governments own stupidity and lack of imagination.

:mad:

Freakbro · 11 May 2019 at 10:44

I've always thought it a bit odd not to have an MOT reminder and have unintentionally driven around in un-MOT'd cars before.

Now I just put the dates on my wall planner in the office.

phrases · 11 May 2019 at 10:45

I recently had setup text alerts for when my MOT was due. They wrongfully sent me an incorrrect date meaning my MOT lapsed as a result by 3 weeks! I didn't get a fine or anything thank goodness. Glad nobody was nosey enough to check if i had MOT.

tom_e · 11 May 2019 at 11:01

Nasher said:
Their database will update instantly, but it doesn't mean the website will. To have it in real time would be quite demanding on their internal systems.

The mot history website has been instant every time my car and bike have been done for the last couple of years, I've seen it's passed on there before the guy has made it through to tell me.

It'll be a centralised database with a web front end there's no reason for it to be massively system intensive to be realtime.

vanpeebles · 11 May 2019 at 11:21

MOT website been instant for me, I knew my Dads car had passed before he got home from the garage.

Joe T · 11 May 2019 at 11:22

Once when one of my cars was in for MOT I was able to see online that it had passed long before they rang to tell me it was ready.

The lack of a system to remind drivers that they're car is due an MOT is a bit of a problem really. I've fallen foul of this myself, especially with having cars that are not driven every day.

Bear · 11 May 2019 at 11:31

Orionaut said:
There is no reminder system for MOT's and even the tax thing is a lot easier to forget than it used to be.

https://www.gov.uk/mot-reminder How is tax easier to forget, they still send you out a reminder :confused:

Driving a lamborghini huracan with no MOT!

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