Roadworthy Condition

[Bazile]

MOT expiry is being extended provided your car is in roadworthy state

Fine , there are things you can check yourself
But what about the things the ordinary Joe can't , which would be picked up on an MOT test ?

[nescio]

what is the difference between driving around with such faults, completely unaware of them, until the next MOT, which could be more than 6 months away anyway?

[New Judge]

So what do you do to preserve your car's roadworthiness before it is three years old or between MoT tests?

[Hymie]

In the UK private cars are required to be MOT’d at 3 years old and every year thereafter.

Most European countries require private cars to be MOT’d at 4 years old and every other year thereafter – so I don’t think there would be any issue if the UK government extended that to one year.

I did read sometime ago about an authority (in think somewhere in the USA) had abandoned requirements for vehicles to undergo any periodic safety inspection. They found as a result that there was no increase in vehicle accidents caused by un-roadworthy vehicles and concluded that the public were being fleeced by the legal requirement for these annual tests (there being no benefit to the tests).

[ToraToraTora]

an MOT does not mean a vehicle is roadworthy for a year anyway. The law is clear the vehicle must be roadworthy regardless of MOT, that is not changing.

[ToraToraTora]

hymie; "I did read sometime ago about an authority (in think somewhere in the USA) had abandoned requirements for vehicles to undergo any periodic safety inspection. They found as a result that there was no increase in vehicle accidents caused by un-roadworthy vehicles and concluded that the public were being fleeced by the legal requirement for these annual tests (there being no benefit to the tests). " - in the short term, perhaps but over time we'd soon return to the dangerous heaps as junk on the roads that precipitated the need for an MOT in the first place.

[Togo]

What I want to know is when are they going to ensure that the kin roads are car worthy? Like Dodge City up here.

[Hopkirk]

I see vehicles with hardly any lights working on the back. It's obvious some people never make the simplest of checks on their vehicles.

[Bazile]

//an MOT does not mean a vehicle is roadworthy for a year anyway. The law is clear the vehicle must be roadworthy regardless of MOT, that is not changing.//

Indeed
So how do you make sure that your car is roadworthy each day you drive it ?

[Togo]

//So how do you make sure that your car is roadworthy each day you drive it ?//

If you don't know when your vehicle is roadworthy or more importantly unroadworthy then frankly you should not be on the road anyway. If you think that it is not roadworthy then don't take it out on the open road. It is called taking responsibility for your own behaviour and possible effect on the rest of us.

[Ryzen]

The biggest point of failure on a 1st MOT i.e.at 3 years old, is tyres.If they cant check their tyres,they should'nt be driving.

[Denton]

No MOT's in Adelaide,Australia,works OK.

[ToraToraTora]

well baz nothing says you are supposed to inspect each day but you can still be prosecuted if things are discovered to be unroadworthy.

[Bazile]

Togo - Don't be so patronising

So you check everything( that would be checked under an MOT , do you , )each day you jump into your car before you drive off ?

Like I said there are things that the ordinary driver can check each day- and there are things that they can't

[Togo]

I can check my lights, horn, indicators, wipers, brakes,(if they screech, pull, or make you go faster they are goosed) steering, and whether the windscreen is covered up. If anyone with a car cannot do those basic checks then they are not fit to be driving anyway.

[douglas9401]

Before I drive my wee lorry, at the start of every shift, I have to go through a set routine checking for faults.
Checks include lights, indicators, horn, wipers and washers, brake function, tyres, wheel nut indicators, mirrors, loose stuff and on and on.
This has to be noted, faults reported, action noted and all recorded on my tacho card so that when VOSA as was pull me over for a roadside check I can demonstrate (in theory) that I took the time to go through the procedure.
None of the above threw up the impending catastrophic failure of a propshaft bearing and a couple of other biggies but it helps keep things straight and saves drama with fines and penalty points.
You can only do your best.

[Bazile]

All those things the ordinary driver can check , which is what I have said

So what was that all about intimating that I should not be on the road

//If you don't know when your vehicle is roadworthy or more importantly unroadworthy then frankly you should not be on the road anyway//

[Bazile]

The above was to Togo

[douglas9401]

A leading contributor to problems on the road is an initial reaction resulting in a simmering rage leading to a desperate need for validation by the 'injured' party.

Sometimes you just have to let it go.






Bet this doesn't sooth.

[Togo]

No Baz your op was never designed to ask a genuine question. It was designed to allow you to flex your contentious and awkward gland. You could drive a brand new vehicle off the production line or a vehicle straight out of the MOT centre and have a major failure of a component. That is a given regardless of the bit of paper that you somehow feel makes you roadworthy. The responsibility always has been with the driver. You are trying to suggest that it doesn't. After being rumbled you are now doing this...

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[Bazile]

I've not been rumbled in anyway

I simply stated that there are things that you can check to ensure as far as you can that your vehicle is roadworthy and there are things that you can't on a day to day basis

But you believe what you want since you are a mind reader