I'm I correct to say....

It is illegal to continue to drive because!!! (Doubled up on that sentence because wally can't see it.

I mot tested an Insignia today and failed it because a steering rack gaiter was detached from the steering rack which would allow the ingress of dirt etc. The car also failed on the steered axle braking system for imbalance. A couple of lights defects also failed. The front and rear brake pads were close to the legal limit.

The presenter said to me that is okay because the mot does not expire until the 19th of this month!

Now prior to this conversation with this presenter I was talking to another presenter who had just collected his car mot prior to the Insignia. We were talking about a post on this forum were a member had been commenting on the government keeping us all working until we were seventy years old. The second presenter then spoke while I was in conversation with the first presenter and he said he was thirty five years old and was a police officer.

So now referring back to the second presenters mot above that expires on the 19th of this month I advised him after him telling me that his mot is still current, which it is, that the Insignia itself has now fallen below the mot minimum standard to pass an mot and therefore should not rely on the fact that the previously issued mot still covers this defective Insignia for use on the roads. A new mot has been carried out and the Insignia does not meet the minimum criteria for a pass certificate. I advised him as a police officer that I thought he should already know this and he admitted that he did.

Speaking to my colleague at work afterwards he said that I am wrong to advise people that their not suppose to continue driving their defective vehicles on the understanding that they have an old mot still in force. Some of the presenters are driving their vehicles for up to ten working days with defects such as braking systems and tyres. 

My colleague seems to be of the mindset that because a vehicle has a current mot in force at the time it is presented for another test that it is okay to continue to drive with the defects listed on the new fail document until they can pay to have the vehicle repaired within the next ten days!

Any views on this?

It is illegal to continue to drive because!!! (Doubled up on that sentence because wally can't see it.

I mot tested an Insignia today and failed it because a steering rack gaiter was detached from the steering rack which would allow the ingress of dirt etc. The car also failed on the steered axle braking system for imbalance. A couple of lights defects also failed. The front and rear brake pads were close to the legal limit.

The presenter said to me that is okay because the mot does not expire until the 19th of this month!

Now prior to this conversation with this presenter I was talking to another presenter who had just collected his car mot prior to the Insignia. We were talking about a post on this forum were a member had been commenting on the government keeping us all working until we were seventy years old. The second presenter then spoke while I was in conversation with the first presenter and he said he was thirty five years old and was a police officer.

So now referring back to the second presenters mot above that expires on the 19th of this month I advised him after him telling me that his mot is still current, which it is, that the Insignia itself has now fallen below the mot minimum standard to pass an mot and therefore should not rely on the fact that the previously issued mot still covers this defective Insignia for use on the roads. A new mot has been carried out and the Insignia does not meet the minimum criteria for a pass certificate. I advised him as a police officer that I thought he should already know this and he admitted that he did.

Speaking to my colleague at work afterwards he said that I am wrong to advise people that their not suppose to continue driving their defective vehicles on the understanding that they have an old mot still in force. Some of the presenters are driving their vehicles for up to ten working days with defects such as braking systems and tyres. 

My colleague seems to be of the mindset that because a vehicle has a current mot in force at the time it is presented for another test that it is okay to continue to drive with the defects listed on the new fail document until they can pay to have the vehicle repaired within the next ten days!

Any views on this?