Originally Posted by
AndyST
If you're going to drive your car away from the test station with a VT30 failure, there are some regs. It is illegal to drive a car of MOT-testable age that does not have a current MOT test certificate on public roads, with the exception of driving it away to a place of repair, (which may include your home residence). From there you may be allowed to drive to a pre-booked place of repair, and to a pre-booked MOT test station. So a couple of grey areas there.
Free re-test periods are at the discretion of the testing station, any remaining days on the old MOT still stand regardless of duration.
But some insurance company's state that the car must be in a road worthy condition, if the car fails the MOT but still has say 5 days left on the old one could they not argue that the car was shown to be un-road worthy having failed an MOT test, even though it still has cover for 5 days on the old one?