what makes a vehicle mot exempt?

Answer 1

Vehicles exempt from M.O.T. tests are:


ANY vehicle less than 3 years old.

Tractors.

Track-laying vehicles.

Articulated vehicles that are NOT buses or lorries.

Works trucks.

Invalid carriages weighing no more than 306kg unladen.

Vehicles that travel less than 6 miles per week on public roads (and only to access property belonging to the vehicle owner).

Hackney carriages licenced by a Local Authority.

Police vehicles.

Electric vehicles.

Trams.

Trolley buses.

Vehicles covered under the Special Types General Order of 1988.

Any vehicle on an island that has no tunnel, bridge, ford, ferry or other vehicular access to the U.K. mainland.

Answer 2

Rules and regulations for Great Britain

All test Stations are required to display a "VT9A Fees and Appeals" poster on their premises which must be available to the public. It gives information on all test types and information on what to do if a vehicle fails its MOT test.

MOT refers to the inspection itself. The actual designation for the pass certificate is VT20.

It is illegal to drive a non-exempt vehicle that requires a test on public roads without a current MOT, except when driving to or from a pre-booked MOT Test. Possession of an up-to-date VT20 test certificate is a pre-requisite for obtaining a tax disc, and advertisements for used cars frequently say how many months are left to run on the current VT20 certificate. A vehicle could suffer major damage after an MOT has been carried out but the certificate would still be valid and obtaining a new one is not required under the test regulations (some insurance companies may ask for a new test but this is purely their own policy, not national law).

Vehicles used exclusively on certain islands that lack a bridge, tunnel, ford, or other suitable way for motor vehicles to be conveniently driven to a road in any part of Great Britain are exempt from the requirement for an VT20 Certificate to obtain a tax disc. The islands this exemption applies to are listed in The Motor Vehicle Test Regulations 1981.

Answer 3

A car is MOT exempt until it is 3 years old.

Answer 4

there's a clause interior the line site visitors Act that states the pre-booked MOT must be a clever distance, 312 miles isn't clever. because of the fact the vehicle is a Fiesta, truthfully there are a stable sort of them on the industry closer to abode.

Answer 5

I've got a Unimog, registered as a snow plow. That does not require an mot.
Recovery vehicles, [tow trucks] do not require an mot.
There are others, but I can't think of them at the moment.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I think the OP is thinking of things like recovery vehicles and ive also seen large minibuses that carry disabled passengers.I have also wondered this before a few times.

Answer 8

If the car is less than 3 years old.

Answer 9

What's mot?

Answer 10

Go here, download the V112, the details are on that form.

http://www.directgov.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_069671