Originally Posted by
Tony S Mannock TSM
if you were pulled at 1 am what you should have done is get your car mot'd that day.You would then have had a valid mot for the day you were pulled

I can confirm from personal experience that definitely doesn't work. They check the time it's done, if it's dated the same day.
I tried that in 1982 before all this computer checking for Tax, Insurance and MOT came out.
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