Mot on limited use vehicle?

[jerseycowsman]

Hi, just tried to tax my kioti UTV that is just gone 3 years old and it says I can’t as I need a valid MOT? Is that right? I don’t have an MIT as I didn’t realise it needed one? It’s 1000cc and runs on red diesel. It’s registered as limited use. If it is right, can I change it?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Be no tax on limited use would there

 

[sjt01]

Hi, just tried to tax my kioti UTV that is just gone 3 years old and it says I can’t as I need a valid MOT? Is that right? I don’t have an MIT as I didn’t realise it needed one? It’s 1000cc and runs on red diesel. It’s registered as limited use. If it is right, can I change it?

If I try and tax our Gator on line I get the same response, but take it to the Post Office and it goes through without any issues.

 

[hoff135]

Is limited use not different to agricultural?

 

[DeeGee]

Limited use is definitely different to Agricultural, but there is still no need for an MOT. Occasionally get the message that there is an MOT required to tax such a vehicle, but generally there is no problem renewing at a Post Office.

 

[Barleymow]

They want the mot for the combine if I try and tax it on line ,so have to go to the post office

 

[Gone Shooting]

Have two old trucks for keeper and farm use - both on limited use and do not need an mot. You can only tax at local post office as it says you need an mot on line - we do not abuse the limitations and try to keep both trucks road worthy ie lights working etc and brakes ,steering etc fit for purpose. Both on red diesel .

 

[Tarw Coch]

Same here with our Kioti, have to take the form to the post office every year to sort it out.

 

[Goweresque]

To run a Limited Use vehicle with no MOT you need to qualify for an MOT exemption, and fill in form V112, ticking the exemption that applies to you. The most likely is the one that limits you to 6 miles on the road per week. You take that form with you to a Post Office and it all goes through fine.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925057/v112-declaration-of-exemption-from-mot.pdf

 

[agrimax]

Don't know why the dimwits at DVLA can't/won't sort out this issue so that all vehicle taxation can be done on line.My 135 could be taxed online as agricultural until they decided it had to be a historic vehicle and no amount of convincing would make them change it back(a historic vehicle is not allowed to be used for hire or reward,which the 135 occasionally does- topping or hayturning). Have to go to the PO with the MOT exemption form to tax it.On the other hand,the 3CX was changed to limited use and there's no mention of MOT or requiring an exemption and I can tax it online.

 

[DeeGee]

To run a Limited Use vehicle with no MOT you need to qualify for an MOT exemption, and fill in form V112, ticking the exemption that applies to you. The most likely is the one that limits you to 6 miles on the road per week. You take that form with you to a Post Office and it all goes through fine.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925057/v112-declaration-of-exemption-from-mot.pdf

I don’t think it’s six miles per week.

I stand to be corrected (as the prostrate bishop said to his whip wielding mistress) but on my vehicle the mileage limit is 1.5km between fields or land that you own or occupy.

Therefore in theory, providing you have convenient parcels of land not more than a mile apart, you can journey from Lands End to John O’Sullivan taking your time over a leisurely few days. This being of course that you might indeed wish to do so in a rattling old 1992 Land Rover Discovery on those droning off road ploughing tyres.

Of course if you owned such vast amounts of land you would be most unlikely to be driving around in such a vehicle: and like me you would probably have moved on to an upgraded 1994 facelift model.

 

[jerseycowsman]

Thanks, seems I don’t need an MOT. Will get it sorted with v112 at post office

 

[roscoe erf]

To run a Limited Use vehicle with no MOT you need to qualify for an MOT exemption, and fill in form V112, ticking the exemption that applies to you. The most likely is the one that limits you to 6 miles on the road per week. You take that form with you to a Post Office and it all goes through fine.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925057/v112-declaration-of-exemption-from-mot.pdf

I don’t think it’s six miles per week.

I stand to be corrected (as the prostrate bishop said to his whip wielding mistress) but on my vehicle the mileage limit is 1.5km between fields or land that you own or occupy.

Therefore in theory, providing you have convenient parcels of land not more than a mile apart, you can journey from Lands End to John O’Sullivan taking your time over a leisurely few days. This being of course that you might indeed wish to do so in a rattling old 1992 Land Rover Discovery on those droning off road ploughing tyres.

Of course if you owned such vast amounts of land you would be most unlikely to be driving around in such a vehicle: and like me you would probably have moved on to an upgraded 1994 facelift model.

This includes tractors, agricultural engines and light agricultural vehicles used off-road. It also includes ‘limited use’ vehicles used for short journeys (not more than 1.5 kilometres) on the public road between land that’s occupied by the same person.

 

[Goweresque]

I stand to be corrected (as the prostrate bishop said to his whip wielding mistress) but on my vehicle the mileage limit is 1.5km between fields or land that you own or occupy.

Limited use taxation is indeed 1.5km between land you occupy. But that fact is independent of the decision whether to have an MOT or not. If you want to MOT your Limited Use vehicle then you can drive 1.5km on the road as much as you like. Lets say you had two farms that far apart, you could be whizzing back and forth 20 times a day, covering tens of road miles and you'd be legal.

However if you want to run your Limited Use vehicle with no MOT then you need an MOT exemption, and all the categories that qualify for one are on the form V112 I linked to above. The most likely one to apply to a Limited Use farm vehicle is the one that limits the total travel between land you own to 6 miles per week. There are others, including what looks like a new one since I last looked, it now seems that any vehicle that was first registered over 40 years ago now qualifies for an MOT exemption. So presumably one could use the age exemption from MOT and drive as many 1.5km journeys you like with a 40 year old Landrover, for example.

 

[zyklon]

Found this old post and our 3-year old UTV is requesting an MOT before taxing it.

Just wanted to clarify that I just need to take a V112 form to the Post Office with the UTV being put under category ‘F’ ?

‘Vehicle used only to pass from land occupied by the person keeping the vehicle to other land occupied by them, and not travelling on the road for more than a total of 6 miles a week’

What category is a tractor on because a tractor could do more than 6 miles?

Cheers

 

[Blue.]

Found this old post and our 3-year old UTV is requesting an MOT before taxing it.

Just wanted to clarify that I just need to take a V112 form to the Post Office with the UTV being put under category ‘F’ ?

‘Vehicle used only to pass from land occupied by the person keeping the vehicle to other land occupied by them, and not travelling on the road for more than a total of 6 miles a week’

What category is a tractor on because a tractor could do more than 6 miles?

Cheers

What taxation class is on the log book?

For some strange reason one of my limited use vehicle can be taxed online the other we have to go into the Po to tax it.

 

[zyklon]

What taxation class is on the log book?

For some strange reason one of my limited use vehicle can be taxed online the other we have to go into the Po to tax it.

It’s stated as ‘Limited Use’

 

[Glomulinman]

It’s stated as ‘Limited Use’

I have a Ssanyong 4x4 and it is a devil of a job to get limited use status at the post office ,tried 2 local ones and have been advised to send the log book to Swansea with a covering letter ,seems strange.

 

[Blue.]

I have a Ssanyong 4x4 and it is a devil of a job to get limited use status at the post office ,tried 2 local ones and have been advised to send the log book to Swansea with a covering letter ,seems strange.

To tax it?

To charge the taxation class you have to send off to Swansea.

 

[zyklon]

Got the Can-Am taxed at the PO and while I was there, I changed the Jeep to limited use so I can run it on red between farms. No bother.