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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Crazycarzowner on 09 April 2014, 19:51:14
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Leading on from a question asked in a previous thread..............
I'm currently on a 3 week training course and VOSA DVSA as they're now known were in today telling us what they are about etc.......
So when he'd finished I asked the question a few of you guys had been asking re. 'If I get an MOT done early and it fails, will it deem the current one null & void?'
His answer was and I quote - 'If the vehicle was taken for an MOT EARLIER than in its 12th month and fails, then the result of THAT MOT WILL NULLIFY its current one, i.e. if it was taken say at month 6. If its in its 12th month of the MOT i.e. within 30 days of expiring then it will not nullify the current one.' ??? ??? ???
However, again, this does not say that if the car has an accident in this time (due to a fault pointed out on the MOT failure sheet) you would not be innocent and not liable for any fines / court.
His talk was actually very interesting especially around HGV's and the powers they have to remove them from the road (Better than ours!!!). He also told a few funny stories about MOT testing stations & the mystery shoppers that they do with a duff car ;D ;D ;D ;D
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How can you 'not be innocent' ie guilty, yet not be liable for fines/court summons at the same time :-\
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My understanding, and quote from my local MOT Man, is only if it fails on something that puts it in an un road worthy condition.
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DOH!!!
Forgive me Al, you WOULD be liable for any fines / court process ::) ::) ::) long day :D :D :D
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DOH!!!
Forgive me Al, you WOULD be liable for any fines / court process ::) ::) ::) long day :D :D :D
Take no notice, Jason, he's a pedant. ;D
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DOH!!!
Forgive me Al, you WOULD be liable for any fines / court process ::) ::) ::) long day :D :D :D
Take no notice, Jason, he's a pedant. ;D
Silly arse ::) twas a sensible question :P
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He also said MOT receipts were going too in roughly 2015-16, so you won't get anything on a pass as it will all be on-line as per the VED is going the same way.
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He also said MOT receipts were going too in roughly 2015-16, so you won't get anything on a pass as it will all be on-line as per the VED is going the same way.
Will they still issue reminders for both? Call me cynical, but that sounds like a plan to swell the coffers... as by definition an untaxed, un moted vehicle is unroadworthy,and therefore liable to seizure :-\
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I don't like it. If I'm buying/selling, I like to see a bit of paper at the time of doing the deal. Old fashioned, I know.
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Will they still issue reminders for both?
I dunno, he didn't say. What he did say though is that the whole computeried system for MOT's is changing (again) which will mean more expense for the testing stations :o :o :o So you know what that means don't ya?
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Yup... my next MOT will cost me £50 instead of the £40 ish I pay currently ::)
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Will they still issue reminders for both?
I dunno, he didn't say. What he did say though is that the whole computeried system for MOT's is changing (again) which will mean more expense for the testing stations :o :o :o So you know what that means don't ya?
MOT's are relatively cheap anyway. Testing stations do it because they hope there'll be work to follow.
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So, as all info re; MOT`s and VED`s is at the click of a mouse why are cars still being used on the road with neither ???
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So, as all info re; MOT`s and VED`s is at the click of a mouse why are cars still being used on the road with neither ???
To make it work properly, Rob, you need ANPR cameras at every junction. Can you see that happening? Even then, there are lots of cars on the road that have no registered keeper.
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So, as all info re; MOT`s and VED`s is at the click of a mouse why are cars still being used on the road with neither ???
Beats me.
Possibly shrinking budgets, no staff, no morale, having to re-apply for your job constantly when the annual cull comes round, focus on "Real" crimes?????
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Basically, with no/hardly any traffic cops on the road, you can stick a false set of plates on anyway. Bang goes ANPR.
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Basically, with no/hardly any traffic cops
We've been culled from 150 to 79, of which 4 retire in 18 months and they ain't being replaced :'( :'( :'(
Thus why I'm being trained to cover motorways now as well as division
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Surely if tax/mot/insurance all on line, then computer can issue the fines for that side of things :-\
Cameras only really pick up SORN offenders beyond the above, as a breach/abuse of SORN has to be witnessed... the rest is online/automatic.
Where Jason etc come into it is if cars are that are non compliant come to their attention ie at accidents/traffic stops/investigation of other illicit activity :y
When a car is sold, it should be the sellers responsibility to go online and submit the purchasers details, if licensed trader include the trade plate numbers. The seller then declares the car SORNed/Sold, gets refunded any remaining tax (to the day) Car is instantly transfered to the buyer and becomes SORNed until the buyer taxes and insures it.
The V5 reference numbers would allow this to be done (relatively) securely. The completed V5 could then be sent off as it is now, according to whether the purchaser is trade or private. If the details submitted online don't tally with the details on the posted/signed V5, then the buyer is the one responsible for the discrepancy...
Simples :y
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Like everything else, we'll have to wait and see. My cars will be legal, I just hope anyone that anyone that hits me/Mo is the same.
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I just hope anyone that anyone that hits me/Mo is the same
Statistics show 1 in 3 aren't :o :o :o
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I just hope anyone that anyone that hits me/Mo is the same
Statistics show 1 in 3 aren't :o :o :o
There are lies, damned lies & statistics or 9 other cars out there that haven't got either ;) ;) :y