Whats the score?? I've seen a car/shell I'd like to buy its drives fine etc but has now tax or mot. If I buy can I drive it home? Would I be able to sort insurance for it?

Thanks Paul

 

not legally m8

 

As far as the law goes, the answer is NO.

Up to you... cross fingers touch wood that you meet a nice copper if you do.

 

if ya get a tug and they do give ya a producer its a fine for not tax and a fine for no MOT, not a endorsable offence though aslong as ya insured and ya wont get done for no insurance, just if ya have a crash thats a different matter

 

Well I recon you'd have to be pretty unlucky to get caught, I'll never ever been pulled over (apart from speeding once) I would obviously drive carefully and we are talking about a b-reg Escort 1.6 automatic hardly a hardened criminal's car.... but knowing my luck

 

so never ever eh

As others have said....... legally NO is the only answer. Thats what trailers were invented for

 

someone said to me the other day, they the police can take the car off of you if it has no road tax

personally I think this is aload of bull.. but?

and to answer your question.. you'd be extremely unlucky to get a tug.

 

I wouldn't do it, imagine if u went into some one

 

With all the auto roadside checks about these days they don't even need to "tug" you any more.

Iin our area the police will tow away any car seen on the road without tax. I have personally seen 3 being removed last month

 

Hi....get insurance cover...then book into for an MOT localy,then cancel once home...legal

 

b19bal, I'm pretty sure your insurance policy is only valid if the car is MOTd and possibly taxed as well (they put in all the clauses they can these days), if this is the case and the judge is in a bad mood you will get done for driving without insurance. They do it to people found guilty of street racing, as your policy will state not valid for racing or something similar, so you get done for racing and for no insurance!

 

at your own risk, or get your least favorit m8 to drive it

 

Is it a long journey, what if it breaks down on the motor way and the police come to see you??

If its a local pick up then do as the above says with the MOT and insurance (just swap the policy for a day), that would be legal so long as you are heading in the direction of the MOT station it is booked in at.

Was going to do this myself with a car at the weekend but from 100 miles away, insure it and risk it but the morning I was going to do it a bus hit me in Birmingham, luckily i was in the daily driver but made me think what if

Another trick is to have a mate follow you in a car and stay behind you, harder for you to be tugged as they usually notice you when they follow you. Still a risk

 

well i was have been tugged with no mot before and got told to sort it as i just bought it, not all coppers are that bad BUT it is not a endosable offence and when ya get done for no tax its a letter off dvla local office asking for money and when ya get done for no mot ya can plead guilty by letter then too

a mate of mine got done for driving with no licence but was insured and even though he wa summond for no insurance he proved he had it and they only done him for the licence

 

Hadn't thought of that!

For the sake of a thirty quid traylor for a day.. its just the hassle thou!

 

Indeed, someone I know got caught on the m-way driving at the speed limit and there really was no reason for him to be pulled over (I was in the car).

The cops were driving at 60 odd on the inside lane, checking number plates on their computer or something, and guess what, the car wasn't taxed, so pulled over.

His trade plate at the back had fallen off

Didn't ever get prosecuted though

 

bought a cab turbo down in Birmingham and had to tow it back to Scotland, stopped at a service station 100 miles from Birmingham and the cops are sitting and they wave me and a mate in as car has no tax or mot. told them I thought it was ok for towing but they said that as long as all 4 wheels are on the ground then it nexts to be legal unless it is a dolly that is towing it. Explain that what I was doing to them and they say to park it up and try and get a trailer orginised. guys were brand new , probably thought I was stupid towing a car back up the road