Troll....an especially ignorant troll too. You don't know the facts, so don't call me stupid. Infact, I believe that by doing so you are revealing your own stupidity.

Thanks everyone else for your advice. END OF CONVERSATION

Best to put it on a breakdown truck/trailer and have them take it along to the garage for you, no issues then regarding insurance and no MOT.

Edited by MikeTorque on 19/06/2010 at 23:53

What Happens if I Drive my Car Without an MOT? If you do drive a vehicle without a valid MOT it will invalidate your insurance, and if you have an accident or are stopped by the police, you will be liable to face prosecution for MOT non-compliance. The only time you may drive a car without a valid MOT is if you are driving to a pre-arranged test appointment or to a garage that will carry out repairs that are required for your vehicle to pass the MOT test.

From the Governments own web site

Again not.

And this is quoted by numerous ignoramouses but none of which are government sources.

It seems to have originated in this location

http://www.nopenaltypoints.co.uk/NoMOTAndThePenalties.html

which is frequently inaccurate in relation to road traffic law and was copied word for word as fact on to numerous other websites including Pistonheads and Yahoo Answers.

It is wrong.

There are currently two insurers (to my knowledge) who have attempted to include "no MOT, no insurance" in their terms and conditions and I have successfully sued both of them on the issue. I have also reported one of them to the Ombudsman and I understand they are now changing their wording.

In all other policies the vehicle is required to be "roadworthy". An MOT may be an indication as to whether a vehicle is "roadworthy" or not -- and it will certainly not be roadworthy if it has failed one -- but an MOT which has run out does not indicate that a vehicle is not roadworthy, nor indeed does an MOT (which may be up to a year old) ensure that a vehicle is roadworthy.

I always thought the UK had soliciters and barristers and lawyers were from American

Never heard that one before. I live in the UK and always have done, and I've never thought that lawyers were only from the US. Living in Germany I think you are indeed wrong.

I am also aware that in certain types of legal document there is very little punctuation.

I have in the past driven without a valid MOT, reasoning that the issue was the roadworthiness of the vehicle, plus logically extrapolating from the MOT's own statement that possision of an MOT does not make a vehicle roadworthy, the morror image is thus that a vehicle can indeed be roadworthy without an MOT.

This logical conclusion was validated when a representive from a big brand name insurance company absolutly catogorically stated that an MOT was not needed for insurance to be vaild, as part of a work related training course. fact.

Latterly I would have ensured that my vehicle was prepared by a bono fide garage of good repute for the test & I keep the reciepts.Previousley I done the mechanicing.

In my days of DIY mechanicing I never had a MOT test failure ( Government run centres over here btw)

But even more latterly I am a good boy and get her MOT'ed on time

sigh

I always thought the UK had soliciters and barristers and lawyers were from American.Living in Germany I may be wrong but my cousin who is a QC seems to agree with me and why should I not condradict you its the basis of UK law for every solicter does not win its case nor does every barrister .

You need to tell these people then:

http://www.uklawyers.co.uk/cms/section/homepage.html