Intergalactic Ow Ow
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That will be a no driving home scenario then.
I can't see OP original post but I'd just pay the few quid to have it collected amd taken elsewhere personally.
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I can't see OP original post but I'd just pay the few quid to have it collected amd taken elsewhere personally.
OOPS, sorry, senior moment, missed that!
My garage had no issues with me taking the van home but they did say that it was dangerous to drive it.
I think the main issue is if the police spot you and do a check then you're done basically.
My van was perfectly drivable as long as I kept filling up the power steering fluid reservoir but I was aware that power steering could have failed at any time but in reality the leak wasn't too bad I went through a litre and a half of fluid in about a week.
The vast majority of my journeys are about two miles from home.
If the MOT has failed due to "Major defects" and you still have time left on your old MOT you can drive it, your insurance is valid and you are legal.
If the MOT has failed due to "Major defects" and you have no time left on your old MOT you can drive it, but your insurance is invalid and you are illegal.
If the MOT fail is "Do not drive", you can still drive it, but your insurance is invalid and driving it is illegal irrespective of whether you have time left on your old MOT, so get it towed.
If the MOT has failed due to "Major defects" and you have no time left on your old MOT you can drive it, but your insurance is invalid and you are illegal.
If the MOT fail is "Do not drive", you can still drive it, but your insurance is invalid and driving it is illegal irrespective of whether you have time left on your old MOT, so get it towed.
At any one time around 8% of all vehicles in the UK are being driven with no MOT.
At any one time around 5% of vehicles in the UK are being driven with no Insurance.
At any one time around 5% of vehicles in the UK are being driven with no Insurance.
I'm actually surprised these figures are this low?
This is what an AI overview gave, i wouldn't say AI is 100% accurate but it looks a reasonable ball park figure to me anyways.
I don't think you can legally drive a Vechicle on a public road with a dangerous defect notice on a failed MOT although I did drive it.
In East London the uninsured hotspot in the UK, 13% of vehicles have no insurance. So it varies, region by region, city by city.
Scotland has the lowest rate of uninsured drivers at 1.4%.
Scotland has the lowest rate of uninsured drivers at 1.4%.
The probability of getting stopped by the police is low. I'd personally want to tow a vehicle that was classed dangerous, getting points on my licence would cost a lot of money.
I'm not trying to be a "clever dick" but I don't think towing would get you out of it? Possibly a garage would get away with using trade plates? but maybe not? I think it would need to be on a suspended tow or up on a recovery vehicle.
As I understand it you can drive from the Mot station home or to the place it is going to be repaired if it fails.
After all it is no more dangerous than when before the test, unless of course pressing the brake pedal hard broke a brake pipe etc.
When I had trade plates the rules were tightened so the vehicle had to be road legal, all the trade plates covered was the lack of Road Tax.
Of course you couldn't get trade plates without trade insurance which you had to log the trade plate numbers with.
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Thanks for that Mike. Our plates lived in the breakdown Land Rover and we just used them if it was a better solution than towing - never really thought too deeply about the legalities.
Well my new van didn't appear this morning apparently there's been a 'miscommunication' coming tomorrow morning apparently.
You really have to love the motor trade.
You really have to love the motor trade.
Well it gets better or worse they don't have my van now or they say there's something 'not quite right with it' so they're sending another van, same make same model, same colour, same year a 74 plate registered last month, but with three front seats rather than two.
Confused? Me too.
They've clearly sold the van that I bought and paid for from them last week.
Confused? Me too.
They've clearly sold the van that I bought and paid for from them last week.
It would be nice to know the true reason.
However truth and car salesmen tend to make strange bed fellows in my experience after over half a Century in the trade.
A few years ago looked at a almost new Hyundai from Bristol Street Motors, the female sales person very efficient, we looked over the vehicle and nothing major wrong, she was waiting for log book, she said as it was registered with one of our Directors at a different branch. Fine we said as long as it wasn't a Hire vehicle. "Oh No! " she said. Several days later she contacted my friend/ex customer to say the V5c had arrived so he could proceed with the deal, fortunately he is astute and asked for the previous owner details. It was a well known Hire Company , so she was a lying piece of sh*t. What a waste of our time.
It would be nice to know the true reason.
However truth and car salesmen tend to make strange bed fellows in my experience after over half a Century in the trade.
A few years ago looked at a almost new Hyundai from Bristol Street Motors, the female sales person very efficient, we looked over the vehicle and nothing major wrong, she was waiting for log book, she said as it was registered with one of our Directors at a different branch. Fine we said as long as it wasn't a Hire vehicle. "Oh No! " she said. Several days later she contacted my friend/ex customer to say the V5c had arrived so he could proceed with the deal, fortunately he is astute and asked for the previous owner details. It was a well known Hire Company , so she was a lying piece of sh*t. What a waste of our time.
Thanks.
I've just received an email from them with the delivery details and the new registration number.
The van's being delivered tomorrow, hopefully fingers crossed and all that.
I could have bought the same van from a dealer in Stirling but they've the older variant released 2022 (DAB radio) and £250 plus vat cheaper this one I've bought has an 8" touchscreen and is the newer variant released 2024.
I was going to buy a van from Arnold Clark's van centre about five miles away but their vans are all pre-registered (with less than 100 miles) March 2024 so you lose a year's warranty and the MOT needs done in two years.
I've bought a Nissan Townstar L1 petrol registered Jan 31st 2025 comes with five years Nissan warranty but it's basically a Renault Kangoo, Peugeot, Citroen etc etc. Same van more or less than the old Nemo except that was diesel and obviously 10 year old.
Towing a dangerous vehicle with a rope would certainly be illegal.
I meant towing with the vehicle on the back of a truck. Is there another word other than "towing" used to describe this? Is it suspended tow?
