Yes you can drive straight to your mot test and you don't need tax for it.
Cheers
Awesome, time to get her book
Also if anyone thinks other wise, Shush.
If police stop me I will tell the @RoniN said I could
Thanks
Yes you can drive straight to your mot test and you don't need tax for it.
Cheers
Actually? I have a jeep here with no mot, and I'm getting it ready atm can so can I actually legally drive to mot
Tho it also doesn't have tax which doesn't help but need mot to get that.
Saw that fiesta S0NNY posted on facebook earlier thought the stretch was ridiculous, and im not a stretch hater my self i run stretch on the TT, but there is a limit to what looks good and what looks **** imo.
You can drive to/from a pre-arranged MOT test only.
Nowhere else.
You can drive to/from a pre-arranged MOT test only.
Nowhere else.
@JHXR Just because a tyre holds air straight after being inflated doesn't make it safe.
The fact he had to use a tube to seal the tyre/rim and the distance between the tyre bead and rim wall shows how ridiculous putting the narrow a tyre on that rim is.
A rim has a bead seat, that the tyre bead should neatly fit in, which is between the rim edge wall and a tiny hump on the inside. Shown in the picture below, blue dot is the tiny hump.
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The bead on the tyre on the correct rim size will natural want to go in the seat area, but just needs the air to push it over the hump.
That hump and the air inside the tyre is all the keeps the tyre from caving in while cornering, or at the stress high speed puts on the tyre, with such a severe stretch as that the tyre once inflated will want to pull itself back over the hump to its natural width, with the forces of driving and normal/safe air pressure in the tyre, the air pressure is not enough to hold the tyre out.
Hope that makes some sense, it's late.
Also I'm not against stretched tyres, done right I think it can look good and can also help with tyres rubbing arches etc. just as long as it's within the safe guidelines of the manufacture.
Personally with the odd spirited drive I do I'd rather have a nice strong square, none stretched tyre.
Tho I do have a set of rims with a small stretch on the tyres and will use them until the tyres are worn as I bought them with tyres and they are nearly new. Unless I get told by mot or police that they aren't safe (which they are as it's a tiny stretch)
f your vehicle fails the test
You’ll get a ‘notification of failure’ from the test centre if your vehicle fails the test. The failure will be recorded in the secure central MOT database.
You can still drive your vehicle if it fails the test and its existing MOT certificate is still valid (ie you got it tested before the expiry date). However, you might be stopped by police and prosecuted if your vehicle is unroadworthy.
If the vehicle fails the test and the certificate has expired, you can only drive it to:
Your vehicle should be retested at the same test centre which did the original test.
- a pre-arranged appointment at a garage to have the repairs done
- a pre-arranged MOT test appointment
Taken from ?
Some of that does seem to contradict what the law have posted here before.
This one?
If so, its purely to get the (I hate this word) stance right.
I've had many a stretched tyre and never once had an issue. And anyone else's issues I have seen where stretched tyres have been present are caused by other factors like leaking split wheels, or cracked wheels causing pressure to drop. Never once seen a problem caused by stretch on its own.
You can't expect differing elements of the state to agree on everything now, come on.
I thought you knew that by now
f your vehicle fails the test
You’ll get a ‘notification of failure’ from the test centre if your vehicle fails the test. The failure will be recorded in the secure central MOT database.
You can still drive your vehicle if it fails the test and its existing MOT certificate is still valid (ie you got it tested before the expiry date). However, you might be stopped by police and prosecuted if your vehicle is unroadworthy.
If the vehicle fails the test and the certificate has expired, you can only drive it to:
Your vehicle should be retested at the same test centre which did the original test.
- a pre-arranged appointment at a garage to have the repairs done
- a pre-arranged MOT test appointment
I said this months ago, even quoted the NI direct website and still the typical know-it-alls argued against it!!! lol Same rules mainland or not.
Can anyone shed light on this? Anyone been to MOT recently with stretched tyres on?
This one?
If so, its purely to get the (I hate this word) stance right.
I've had many a stretched tyre and never once had an issue. And anyone else's issues I have seen where stretched tyres have been present are caused by other factors like leaking split wheels, or cracked wheels causing pressure to drop. Never once seen a problem caused by stretch on its own.
Mine passed a couple of weeks ago with 205/40 on a 8.5. Seems to just depend on who you get on the day!
Thats pretty unfair. There could be two people in at one time, both with stretch. One fails the other doesnt..MOT is a pile of balls IMO.All MOT tests depend on who you get on the day.
Thats pretty unfair. There could be two people in at one time, both with stretch. One fails the other doesnt..MOT is a pile of balls IMO.
Thats pretty unfair. There could be two people in at one time, both with stretch. One fails the other doesnt..MOT is a pile of balls IMO.