Help, No Mot No Tax, No Tax No Mot

[smorse]

My cars been SORNed over winter & the MOT has lapsed, I now want to get it back on the road so the plan was to go to the post office with a V10 form I downloaded from the DVLA website to allow me drive it to the MOT station a couple of miles away, however I realise the P.O. won’t accept payment without an MOT, catch 22, am I able to drive it to the MOT station without TAX?

[TIG Brother]

Yes

[Andy Banks]

In short, Yes.

You are able to drive to a registered MOT garage/station without Road Tax. Once you pass the MOT you should be able to buy Road Tax online within the hour.

Make sure the place you take it records your booking along with reg number, just in case you get stopped. You can then proove you are driving to a registered place for a pre booked MOT which IIRC is what the law requires on cars with no MOT or TAX.

[Vinny's Westie]

And you are also allowed to bring it back home after failing a MOT, pre-booked is the key.

[stephenh]

Make sure you have insurance however, at least third party cover as required by law.

[smorse]

cheers guys, yep its insured & MOT is booked, can't tax online as i don't have a reminder hence going the P.O. route

[deanoecosse]

cheers guys, yep its insured & MOT is booked, can't tax online as i don't have a reminder hence going the P.O. route

For info, you CAN tax online without a reminder, I did this myself last week when taking my Westy off SORN. However obviously you won't be able to do it until you have a new MOT so that you pass the electronic check online

[Kevin Wood]

Also bear in mind you can only tax it from the first day of the month, so given we're half way through March you might want to wait until 1st April.