Mot exempt

[edk83]

I know that cars registered before 1960 are now MOT exempt but how come my old mk1 escort is showing exempt?

Maybe its because its dead?

[MK2VR6]

Cock up on the part of DVLA I'd imagine. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over the car being dead - although mk1 values have gone mental in recent years, I'd imagine it was still worth a decent amount of coin, pretty much regardless of condition, considering it was last taxed 7 years ago...

[edk83]

Indeed, I sold it in 2006, wish I hadn't!

Speaking of Dvla cock ups, the mrs just got a £85 tax refund for a car we sold with no tax two months ago! We had the new keeper acknowledgement slip come at the beginning of Jan too!

[PandaSelecta]

Is it possible that the car is now on an island, as some islands that are not linked via tunnels and bridges to the UK are allowed to have MOT exemption.

[steveg]

I have the same on a car of mine that isn't back on the road yet. I wondered if it's what comes up if the car has been scrapped or something but it would say that if it was.
What tax classes make a vehicle MOT exempt other than age is it recovery vehicles or something ?

[Ryannn]

Is there an export marker against the car?

[edk83]

How would I check?

[steveg]

Doing an HPI check might give you that info, I did my car and it didn't come up with anything strange. I have another car thats been off the road long enough not to have a MOT record and that just says there is no info.
I expect there were a few choices of what to enter onto the system and the wrong one was clicked.

[Sealtainn]

I live on mainland Shetland where cars have to have a valid MoT but cars on the smaller islands don't so you often see "Isles Cars" for sale which, providing they don't come onto mainland Shetland, can legally be driven with no MoT (they still need to be taxed and insured). You can also drive them on a Provisional licence unaccompanied too :-)
You are expected to keep them in reasonable roadworthy condition but this is open to individual interpretation lol

[scimjim]

export marker is further down the DVLA page you have pictured above.

However, it's not exported, it's been scrapped. The date of 4 Oct on the last tax gives it away. If it's not the first of the month, it's the date the DVLA desk officer scrapped it.

[steveg]

Feb 23, 2015 20:39:14 GMT scimjim said:

export marker is further down the DVLA page you have pictured above.

However, it's not exported, it's been scrapped. The date of 4 Oct on the last tax gives it away. If it's not the first of the month, it's the date the DVLA desk officer scrapped it.

That scared the curse word out of me !

I just checked my car and it's got tax for renewal on 1st so hopefully that isn't the case with mine at least. There ought to be more info supplied by the DVLA as to what all this stuff means. They are quick enough to give us hassle but it seems a lot of the time it's because they have done something silly. I doubt a phone call to them would get a proper answer.

[scimjim]

The MOT exempt is a new one though - it may be a flag to show a dormant record, they're clamping down on cars that have suddenly come out of the woodwork now they qualify as tax exempt (eg VIN plates and V5 sales).

[steveg]

Sorry for the thread hijack edk83.
I printed the out the online tax check a while back and it came up with no details held, it now says MOT exempt so somethings happened fairly recently.

Looks like I will be on the phone to DVLA again tomorrow morning.

[steveg]

Just out of interest I checked the few cars I have scrapped and none of them came up on the vehicle info system at all. Hopefully the fact that the Escort and my car are still on there they haven't been scrapped.

I'm going to try and find out about this tomorrow. I wonder if the odd tax date could be when the Escort was made tax exempt perhaps.

[edk83]

Id be suprised if it was scrapped, unless it was crashed. Nice car it was.

Feel free to check the reg yourself, maybe it would show more down the page.

It was a 74 car, I thought it had to be pre 72 to be tax exempt. Odd that it shows mot exempt though!

[taurus]

Tax exemption is now rolling again. They did a one year extension to include 73 cars, then rolled it onward from there.

[edk83]

Yey so when will be my 1979 Allegro be tax free? 2019?

[incarsolutions]

I have a 1970 mk3 mini hauled up in a lockup that has been off the road since '92. its showing last taxed 01 October 1992, MoT exempt and £145 a year to tax. Should be tax exempt but not MoT exempt

[steveg]

I've just been on the phone to DVLA and have to say they were very helpful. The reason my car is MOT exempt is because it's down as being for farm use, Judging by the state of it I can quite believe it !
I was worried about putting the car back on the road but apparently all I need to do is change the tax class which will be Historic when I apply for the tax and it's all done.
I asked if they knew why the Escort was listed like that and without the full details they wern't sure. It won't have been scrapped though so hopefully it's currently living on a warm island somewhere enjoying itself. Is the Isle Of Man MOT exempt perhaps ?

[Dez]

someone at the DVLA has f-ked up here.
ive just banged in the registrations of all the cars i have that fall into the tax exempt but not MOT exempt category(admittedly only 4, most of mine are MOT exempt as well), and all but one come back as MOT exempt. one is even still registered as PLG though its a 71, it hasnt been changed to historic yet, and it still comes back as mot exempt!

would be interesting to see what happens if you try to tax one.