Law on travelling for repairs

As I understand it, the only exception to requiring an MOT is to drive it to a test station for a pre-booked MOT. I've never heard anyone say you can use use it to get to a garage for repairs.

IIRC The legalities just say a place of repair. I vouched for a friend of mine who was bringing me a car and was unlucky enough to get stopped with no tax or MoT. I said that I had always repaired his cars for many years and that even though he now lived 80 miles away he still brought them to me for repair, I wrote all that out in English and printed it on a billhead. (I print my own bill heads and I am not vat registered so anyone could do the same. ) The case went to court, but the police backed out on the day !

It's not legal to drive it to a garage for quotes and repairs....

No, your friends house can't be treated as a garage.

It IS legal to drive it to a place for repair and MoT If in doubt just drive it to a pre booked test, get the failure and drive it to the friends house, there could be no argument with that.

Umm no. It is legal to drive it to a MOT testing station for a PRE BOOKED MOT only. If it fails the MOT, then repairs may be carried out at the MOT testing station if they have the facilities. If they don't then to comply with the law, the vehicle must be trailered to a place of repair...

I may be wrong in that you can drive it back from the MOT station as long as you are going to a place of repair. (Your residence counts as a place of repair apparently)

OK, lots of conflicting answers here! Instinctively I agree with MrC above but did some Googling to find out:

From:

• you are taking it to the testing station for a test which has already been pre-booked. * taking or returning your car from a motor repairers where a previous arrangement has been made. * or taking it home after a test failure.

If that's accurate then I guess it's OK.

For the record, I am the friend in this case, not the driver... he wants my help and to make use of my growing selection of tools.

Thanks,

Peter.

Nice to be vindicated!!

Nope - you can take IT to a place of repair FROM the MOT station only. You can't take it from your home to a place of repair whether pre-booked or not.

That's quite interesting I'd imagine they would have a go at the idea of it being 80 miles, unless it was quite a specialised vehicle.

Care to provide a reference for this?

That's quite frankly daft, if you have a vehicle that doesn't have an MOT and is in need of repair the only sensible thing to do is take it to a place of repair prior to taking it for an MOT you know it will fail.

Here you go:

"where the vehicle has failed the MOT and the driver by prior arrangement is taking it to, or bringing it from a place where work is to be or has been carried out"

cheers, clive

Not at all. See here:

Si

Why didn't you post that one in the first place? It disagrees with the one you first posted. FWIW the yell one is wrong - you're allowed to drive it home after a failed MOT - there's no need to get the repairs done at a garage.

clive

In my previous post - "garage" = "Residence"....