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Driving my father in laws car
DIR By: Korting
Date: June 28, 2024, 3:41 pm
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Quick question.
In January my Father in Law who is 92 moved into a care home and
stopped driving. We have SORNED his car
We now need to sell the car.
The car’s MOT has expired.
Obviously we would get insurance but my question is can I drive
it to my home and then get the MOT tester to collect it, or do
we have to take it straight to a (pre booked) MOT testing
station?
#Post#: 27893--------------------------------------------------
Re: Driving my father in laws car
DIR By: slapdash
Date: June 29, 2024, 12:21 am
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You may only drive a SORNed vehicle to (or back from) a
pre-booked MOT.
You may have DOV cover and that may be appropriate.
Ensure any insurance doesn't contain an MOT clause, some do.
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Re: Driving my father in laws car
DIR By: ivanleo
Date: June 29, 2024, 10:08 am
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Be very careful with insurance, while some companies have a very
wide DOV clause, most companies require that the vehicle must
have a substantive policy of its own for your DOV cover to be
valid. If in doubt, you can get a daily policy for as little as
£15 for a day's cover.
You must drive the vehicle straight from wherever it is now on
private property to the MOT centre and back (and the test must
be pre-booked). If required you're allowed to stop en-route at a
petrol station (if you don't have enough fuel to get there), but
that's pretty much it, there is no scope for any other sort of
deviation.
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Re: Driving my father in laws car
DIR By: andy_foster
Date: June 29, 2024, 10:44 am
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Unless the law (case law) has changed, driving to the pre-booked
MoT must be the predominant purpose of the journey. Stopping off
en-route to do some shopping (for example) would generally be
considered incidental, although it would be a matter of fact and
degree - driving to the South of France to buy an icecream would
not.
However, on the face of it, minor diversions to a journey to the
MoT station would appear to be irrelevant if you are not
actually driving it to the MoT station.
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Re: Driving my father in laws car
DIR By: Korting
Date: June 29, 2024, 11:52 am
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Thank you all for your replies.
After the MOT, does the vehicle have to go back to the address
from where it came or can it be driven to another address and
kept there?
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Re: Driving my father in laws car
DIR By: ivanleo
Date: June 29, 2024, 1:33 pm
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--- Quote from: Korting link ---
>
> Thank you all for your replies.
>
> After the MOT, does the vehicle have to go back to the address
from where it came or can it be driven to another address and
kept there?
>
--- End Quote ---
If the car has passed then it can be driven wherever as it would
have an MOT certificate. If VED is purchased immediately, it
could even be parked on the road.
If it's failed it can only be driven back to where it came from,
or to a place of repair. Your home might be a place of repair if
you're going to fix it yourself once it's there (which would be
applicable if it's something trivial like changing a light bulb
or fitting a new windscreen wiper).
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