As title states, can you drive your car home to fix things like say a blow in the exhaust? or other minor fails without invalidating your insurance. I thought that was the whole point of having a window to fix any minor fails.

This would be days before the current M.O.T runs out.

How does this work, I thought as long as you are insured you can drive to and from an m.o.t?

Or is the garage trying to force me to get them to fix any issues so they can make money off me?

There is no way I'm paying a garage for anything other than something like tracking with being in club broke status. I'm sure it will pass mind just don't want potential stress.

I'm totally naive with this shit, so can someone enlighten me?

cheers Dunc

normaly its insured to and from an mot station or to some where for repair needs to be

booked in

you have 10 working days to repair and return but they can charge upto 1/2 the mot price any

longer they do a full retest and can charge full price and as for legality your motor is in a grey

area as it has failed its mot its not road worthy even if it still has some mot left so the old bill

could pull you hope this helps a bit

Edited 4 December, 200817 yr by debsgt

but really by law u still have a full m.o.t which is valid, whether it failed or not?? and anyway how would the old bill know u booked you are car in for an m.o.t when you are old one is still valid???

Thanks, It's just annoying when you've got the woman in the office saying "if you drive it away with any kind of fail your being irresponsible because your insurance would be invalid" is she right?

You can drive to and from the test, is that right? can you drive to the re-test?

The whole point of me owning my old mk2 is to be able to fix anything under my own steam. Don't get me wrong if the brake pipes were critical then fair enough.

Any more clarity would be appreciated?

Our local garage (which I'm not using now) totally resents me fixing my own car, always had bad vibes off them, loads of patronizing comments about "why would you want to keep that car on the road" It just makes me want to drive even older cars, fuck them.

tax-wise you are allowed to drive to an mot atation for a test then either home or to another garage for repair work if it fails. If it passes you arent allowed to drive it anywhere till you tax it, not that that matters, just an interesting point!

Insurance is a grey area.....probably depends on your companies own policy. Most state that the insurance is only valid if the car is road worthy which implies that it needs to be in a state to pass an mot (since the mot test is really a test of road worthyness). To be honest, I'd just do it (and I have done it before).

If your garage is being arsey about you not paying them lots and lots of money to do the repairs themselves, vote with your feet and go elsewhere...

Also, there is NO legal obligation for any discount on a retest anymore, our wonderful government scrapped that idea a year or so ago. Now it's totally up to the garage whether they offer a free or discounted retest in any amount of time. Technically they could charge for a full test the day after it fails. As I understand it anyway, MOT rules are open to interpretation.

^Thanks

I don't have a good choice of garages where I live and this particular garage has been really good for bits and pieces. The actual owner is an old skool vw geezer. Back in the day he would travel to Germany to learn about carbs and maintenance on 80's dubs. I'll just need to make sure it passes without any issues.

You can leave it at the garage and have them fix it and you are entitled to a free re-test which will pass as they have carried out the work.

However, you are allowed by law to drive to and from the garage which an MOT is booked at only on the day of MOT test if the car MOT has ran out/failed.

If brought back within I think it's 7 days, the garage will usually offer a half price re-test.