MOT Exemptions

look on the back of the form (to claim mot exemption. )

vehicles pre 1960 (when that goes through)

Cheers Mr C, so the answer is no, as I thought. They are not exempt.

Pity the vehicle is a 1962 car really, though I'm not concerned that it won't pass the MOT. It would have just made it easier to get it mobile again..

a little more info: "Class 1 - Motorcycles - With or without sidecars up to 200cc. Class 2 - All motorcycles, including class l with or without sidecars. Class 3 - 3 wheeled vehicles, not exceeding more than 450kg unladen weight. Class 4 - Cars, including motorcaravans, dual purpose vehicles, and goods vehicles not exceeding 3000kg.

If you're wondering why I've included this table, then look again at class

1. Say for example, you've got a trike of between 450kg and 550kg (B1 licence maximum), it will need to be tested at a class 4 MOT centre. So, your trike could be classed as a motorcar, yet you're riding it under a quadracycle licence, but you need to get it tested at a car MOT centre. Got it? Good!" (copied from:
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Here's the thing, we don't know how much it weighs! I'm going to have to get it checked somewhere. If it's a class 4, it will make my life a lot easier than a class 3, as my favoured MOT place can test 4 but not

3..

same with me and my 3 wheeler !! It is either get it to a weighbridge or stick some scales under each wheel. But whether they need a certificate to prove it, I don't know.

I think - one of the requirements when Reliant 3 wheelers were new (to meet the relevant licence conditions) was that it had to weigh less than

450kg.

Wasn't it 8 cwt? I think you had to remove the spare wheel to achieve that.

A weighbridge ticket from your local scrapyard should do, it did for me with a truck conversion for change of taxation class etc.

Provided of course that the weighbridge has the necessary authentication or whatever it is that allows them to call it a public weighbridge.

Steve

I'll weigh it myself, if it is borderline I'll get a certificate.

I've finally been sent the list of old documentation. It's down as a class III, which is a bit of a sod. Well, it's exempt from many things because of it's age, it's just finding a class III testing station within a reasonable distance of my house in RG10..

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Just in case you haven't found it, this:

might help.

Chris

Brilliant, thanks Chris. Looks like there's a few within 10 miles of me. Drift Road can't do them :-(

regards

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OOI, what is the vehicle?

(I was at Drift Road last week; even they are suffering from a down-turn in business. They think that the effects of the scrappage scheme, together with the high value of scrapped cars, has taken a lot of the oldest cars out of use.)

Chris

It's a DRK , produced in Merseyside ...

It's living out in Greece at the moment, belongs to my dad. He's had to give up driving though, so he's passed it on to me - I drove it out to Greece 6 years ago for his 60th birthday (19 hours from Calais to Ancona, stopping only for fuel, food and toilets). It is currently awaiting shipping back. It's fully roadworthy, I just need to get it MOT'd so I can use it again.

That is really bizarre, the three wheeler I have is a total one off built by an engineer locally to me, and it looks very,very similar at a casual glance. As soon as I can find or take a piccy I'll post it.

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OK, I managed it:

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I'll try again:

Sadly I cannot open either of the links Mr C. The first one opens, but there is no pic there, and the second says that the page could not be found...

sorry, I have not used picasa before today, try this link: