Taxing car with no MOT. What's happened to 6 months grace

[Dave7]

My MOT ran out last September.
It was my understanding that, with Covid, BoJo had given us 6 months grace.
Just tried to re-tax it......no joy.
Phoned the garage and fortunately they have re-opened so its booked in for MOT.
The garage thinks I am right.
Anyone here know for certain?

 

[Landsurfer]

That ended ages ago .... majority of MOT stations never closed ....

 

[Milkfloat]

Congratulations you have been driving illegally since September. Without getting all high and mighty did it not occur to you to check the rules rather than having an understanding?
https://www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot

 

[fossyant]

The Govt stopped the extension around then. We checked with my wife's car as the garage was still shut in June.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

My MOT ran out last September.
It was my understanding that, with Covid, BoJo had given us 6 months grace.
Just tried to re-tax it......no joy.
Phoned the garage and fortunately they have re-opened so its booked in for MOT.
The garage thinks I am right.
Anyone here know for certain?

Garage is wrong.

Grace extension was only for certificates expiring between end of March and end of July 2020. If yours was after that it was book before expiry, as usual.

 

[I like Skol]

TBH @Dave7 I wouldn't take any reply on here as gospel anyway. For something so easy to check I would simply head over to the DVLA or .gov website and find the definitive answer for myself

 

[glasgowcyclist]

TBH @Dave7 I wouldn't take any reply on here as gospel anyway. For something so easy to check I would simply head over to the DVLA or .gov website and find the definitive answer for myself

Milkfloat already cited the relevant .gov link up thread

 

[Dave7]

TBH @Dave7 I wouldn't take any reply on here as gospel anyway. For something so easy to check I would simply head over to the DVLA or .gov website and find the definitive answer for myself

Appreciate all most of the comments though i could live without the snide ones.
Seems like I have got away with one there .
Fortunately MOT is booked for tomorrow so I have dodged a bullet.

 

[Drago]

...so I have dodged

Apart from the public admission on the internet there is no trace of your villainous offending

 

[Archie_tect]

I could've saved nearly £300 on insurance with a SORN, and the VED if I'd only known the car wasn't going to move for nearly a year.

 

[Accy cyclist]

This thread has just reminded me. I have to pay my £125 annual 'road tax' in 8 days time. 125 quid,yet those damned cyclists pay absolutely feck all!!

 

[I like Skol]

Strange coincidence? This arrived by email yesterday lunchtime...

 

[Mo1959]

I suppose MOTs are pretty essential but it's weird that you can have people you don't know inside your car handling the seatbelts, pressing buttons and switches, etc. but you can't sit in a hairdressers wearing a mask and not touching anything for half an hour........can you tell I need my hair cut?

 

[Phaeton]

I suppose MOTs are pretty essential but it's weird that you can have people you don't know inside your car handling the seatbelts, pressing buttons and switches, etc. but you can't sit in a hairdressers wearing a mask and not touching anything for half an hour........can you tell I need my hair cut?

Other than somebody inches away from you breathing the same air for half an hour

 

[biggs682]

damned cyclists pay absolutely feck all!!

Why not be a cyclist then