It’sa fairly common misunderstanding that driving without an MOT is’nt that much of an offence.
In reality, having no MOT, yet still driving isnt just one offence.. because driving without an MOT also invalidates your vehicles insurance. this means that should you have an accident, you will have to pay the vechicle and injury expenses for yourself including the third party (if you are responisble for the acciddent).
for the MOT offence alone you will recieve a a fine of up to £1000. So for the the peace and security of your own financial interest it’s worth ensuring you set yourself a yearly reminder, the Direct Goverment website has a service that you can sign up to where it will send you a reminder text message to your mobile up to 5 weeks before your MOT is due to expire.
the only times you are allowed to drive your vehicle without an MOT is when you are:
- taking it to a test station for an MOT test booked in advance
- bringing it away from a test station after it has failed the MOT test, to a place of repair
- taking it to a place, by previous arrangement, where problems that caused the vehicle to fail its MOT test, can be repaired
- bringing it away from a place where the problems with the vehicle have been repaired
