If your car requires an MOT and you’re caught driving without one, you can be fined as much as £1,000. Alternatively, if you drive a car that has failed its MOT with “dangerous” faults, the penalty can go up to £2,500. You may also get points on your licence or, in a worst-case scenario, be banned from driving. However, you are allowed to drive to a pre-booked MOT test centre for a test, provided you drive straight there and nowhere else until it has passed the test.