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Old 20th September 2017, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by ainarssems View Post
This is my understanding

It depends on defect and the state of defect. Vehicle needs to be roadworthy to be used with previous MOT. It can fail MOT if it's acceptable at the moment but likely to become un-roadworthy in very near future or if the failure only affects certain conditions. If you fail because of faulty light you can still drive it in daylight or if you fail because of passenger seat belt you can still drive if you do not carry any passengers Things like suspension bushes and ball joints are often down to testers discretion, with a little movement one tester may pass without advisory, other can issue advisory on MOT and yet another fail the MOT on the same car. If the movement is quite large or if a ball-joint is about to drop out they can add an note that they consider vehicle to be dangerous to drive in which you cannot use it on road until the fault is fixed but once you have repaired it and restore road worthiness you can still drive it until old MOT runs out.

That's the whole point of going to MOT before it runs out of MOT and letting you keep up to extra 1 months MOT if it passes. If it fails you still have the time to use it while it still have old MOT.
Thats correct. The car has to meet the minimum standards of roadworthyness at all times, not just at MOT time, or you can be fined and or banned from driving. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-high...ists-89-to-102
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