stevegough
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 01:23 PM |
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Just to go off on a slight tangent from this thread, but on the same lines.......
Last year my son bought a car which tax had just run out - when he came to try and tax it - he wasn't allowed to do so - the reason was that
the car had been previously recorded on the V5 as registered to a disabled person (hence the tax was 'free' ) - as my son wasn't
disabled, he was not able to tax it until he had re-registered it in his name and recieved the new V5. He then had to go IN PERSON to the DVLA
offices, sign a declaration that he wasn't disabled - they then sent the V5 to Swansea - only then was he allowed to tax it. He was not
permitted to use the car for almost six weeks.
Red tape gone bonkers 
Moral - watch out if you buy a car on a 'disabled' V5....
[Edited on 6/1/10 by stevegough]
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sonic
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 01:37 PM |
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Hi Guy's
If the Garage or Motortrader you are buying it from has full motortrade insurance he can tax any car with it.
He needs to fill in the small Green section on the V5 and say the full V5 has been sent off,they will then tax it.
If not as long as it has a valid MOT and you have a insurance note with a number on take your laptop go to the nearest McDonalds as they have free
WiFi connection and tax it on line.
The coppers scan your reg plate these days and check before they have pulled you to see if the car has Tax so if you do it on line it will not flag up
with them.
Second thing is if you get caught with no Tax they can take the car off you and have it crushed so beware.
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Peteff
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 01:43 PM |
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If you have a receipt and are driving it home you will obviously not be trying to get away with anything, just get insured.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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johnston
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 03:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by prawnabie
Its also worth noting that you cannot TAX a car if there is only a few days MOT left. im not sure of the exact number though.
well thats a load of tosh I taxed a MK2 golf with 1 day
mot left on it in the tax office not post office.
One year My mum cocked the form up once first time she posted it by the time she got it back to fix and posted it again it would have got to them on
the last day of MOT but she chanced her luck anyway. She got a years tax.
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bmseven
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 05:04 PM |
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I spoke to a traffic copper at work and said he wouldnt nick you if you had just bought it and had all the paperwork in order.
You will not be able to insure and tax it online on the same day as it takes a while for the info (24-48 hrs) for the information to populate the
insurance database.
BMW 7 Resource
Bures Pit anyone?
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prawnabie
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 07:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by johnston
quote:
Originally posted by prawnabie
Its also worth noting that you cannot TAX a car if there is only a few days MOT left. im not sure of the exact number though.
well thats a load of tosh I taxed a MK2 golf with 1 day
mot left on it in the tax office not post office.
One year My mum cocked the form up once first time she posted it by the time she got it back to fix and posted it again it would have got to them on
the last day of MOT but she chanced her luck anyway. She got a years tax.
Just shows you the consistency isn't rife in the post office either!
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morcus
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| posted on 6/1/10 at 08:45 PM |
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I'm sure it says on an MOT certificate that getting it tested again with more than a month on it invalidates the old one, I haven't got
one handy as the car here with an MOT is the jag and as I posted earlier, I'm not risking unlocking it again.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Mot/DG_4022108 This says that doing so within a month of expirery
won't hurt the old one but I can't see anything explictly stating you'd lose it here but I'm sure I've read it
somewhere.
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