Henrik

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So... my track day car is finally coming together to a state of MOT-readyness (after 5+ years of sitting around in the garage). Obviously during this time, there have been changes to the MOT procedures, e.g. now a missing airbag is a fail on a normal car...

My car has a full weld in roll cage, buckets, harnesses, tow bars etc, and I'm thinking I can't be the only one with a car like this, but what are people's experience of getting an MOT? I don't run a decat etc, but the airbag bit worries me...

I'm thinking of entering sprints with it eventually, but it will never see a rally stage, for example (too low...), if that makes a difference.

Ash Webster

You need to find a friendly garage and go with an extra couple of notes.


So long as your car isn't a deathtrap its not the crime of the century. Its how I get mine past the decat etc.

CraigBWRX

I believe there is an option for an MOT advisory explaining that the car is heavily modified for track/race use which is in the MOT manual.

You may have to call a few garages to see if they are familiar with this and what is deemed acceptable.

Or get a garage to do a pre MOT checkover and tell you what would fail etc and they may also help with ways to solve those issues.

BrownPantsRacing

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Agreed, anything is possible and you're certainly not the first person to put their race car on the road with an MOT. I managed to get one of my race cars through an MOT with no front windscreen fitted after it had been rolled (not by me I should add).

Henrik

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BrownPantsRacing, if you've managed that, then I think my car should be fine

BrownPantsRacing

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Technically they can't fail you for a new problem found on a re-test. So I took this approach and took my racecar (freshly rolled) to the MOT station and as you can imagine, once they'd stopped laughing/crying I went away happy with a long list of things to fix. One of which was the shattered front windscreen.


I managed to fix all the issues myself including changing every body panel and knocking the roof out, repainting the car etc, but the window company let me down. I took the car back for the re-test regardless and when asked where the front windscreen was I replied, it's no longer cracked though is it? They laughed and gave me the MOT cert!


Was a rather windy experience driving too and from the test station!

Dannymot

Most the information you need should be here .

https://mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk...e-a-rally-car/

gussy

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Henrik mine is a full on track/competition car, weld in cage/seats plumbed in system etc etc has a custom loom with seperate switches for everything to work for an MOT with the lights /indicators/horn as Dannymots link has put up, mine has been MOT'd for the last 3 years no problem.

Henrik

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Thanks guys, sounds like it shouldn't be impossible then