jack trolley
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 posted on 13/10/05 at 05:36 PM |
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Can u drive your car home if it fails the SVA?
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Guinness
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| posted on 13/10/05 at 05:52 PM |
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I did!
(You can drive it between your house and a garage which is carrying out work to recitfy any fail points, provided that you have an appointment and are
insured)
HTH
Mike
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shortie
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| posted on 13/10/05 at 06:02 PM |
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One thing to consider is that if it's anything that would be considered dangerous (i.e. brakes don't work properly!) then your insurance
company would probably not be happy and would probably reject a claim if you had one.
Rich.
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Hellfire
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| posted on 13/10/05 at 06:28 PM |
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Mmm thats an interesting one. They'll insure you to drive it to the SVA, so technically you'd still be insured to drive it back if it
failed.
Whether you would want to or not is a different matter.
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Guinness
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| posted on 13/10/05 at 06:40 PM |
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Obviously I wouldn't have driven if it had been anything serious.
My fails were too noisy, emissions and sharp edges in the main, nothing that made it un-road worthy. In fact to check that it was OK to drive my
local motorsport garage did a virtual MOT beforehand for me.
Mike
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pajsh
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| posted on 13/10/05 at 08:06 PM |
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I'm pretty sure that if the SVA guys felt it was that unsafe for road use, i.e. "to and from places where you can have work done"
then they would not let you drive it home.
It's their neck on the block at the end of the day if something goes wrong even if it's your arse!
pajsh
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/10/05 at 07:17 AM |
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Yes - they can slap an "unfit to drive" ticket on it. These are the same blokes (VOSA) who stand by the road and check cars and lorries
after all.
David
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