Buying a SORN'd car

bledd. said:
It's quite a situation they've created with these new legislations, they should have added a 30-day grace period, with a "not kept on the road" stipulation attached to it. This way, all a buyer would have to do is take out day insurance on the vehicle.
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There is a big car supermarket down the road. My father recently bought a car from there and they had removed the tax. He was given a map on collection showing him directions to the main post office in Crawley. It's about 60 yards from the Police Station. They had taken his car as a P/ex and refused to run him to the post office to get the tax before he took the new car away.

He reluctantly did it and got away with it. They claim they have an 'arrangement' with the Police but I bet they don't.

I do think some leeway should be given providing the car is only being driven on day of purchase/collection and the car is later taxed to include the day of collection.

I was very lucky that I only got fined, the DVLA told me on the phone that they would have seized the vehicle from me for my act if I had been stopped. I suppose the same could have happened to my father.
 
I highly doubt a human being would even fine you let alone take the car if you could prove you had genuinely just bought it and intended to tax it that day (or even soon). If they suspected that you were driving around in a car for weeks/months at a time that was declared SORN that's a bit different.
 
It's all one big grey area. I bought a car from a local dealer, was all solid except for not being taxed. We took it for a test drive, but it had no tax. So I wasn't sure on how that would work, or if it was even legal.

Didn't get caught so nothing ever came of it. The dealer taxed the car when I bought it, so I was fine driving it home :)
 
MooMoo444 said:
It's all one big grey area. I bought a car from a local dealer, was all solid except for not being taxed. We took it for a test drive, but it had no tax. So I wasn't sure on how that would work, or if it was even legal.

Didn't get caught so nothing ever came of it. The dealer taxed the car when I bought it, so I was fine driving it home :)
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Thats what the trade plates are for
 
rodenal said:
I highly doubt a human being would even fine you let alone take the car if you could prove you had genuinely just bought it and intended to tax it that day (or even soon). If they suspected that you were driving around in a car for weeks/months at a time that was declared SORN that's a bit different.
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Thing is it is not human beings making the decisions. No human being caught me. I went passed a camera, was flagged up and automatically sent to the DVLA. I spoke to a human being who was sympathetic but still fined me.

The DVLA told me on the phone the Police would have been obliged to confiscate my vehicle, recover it and store it until I arrived at the compound until I arrived with tax, insurance and a copy of my licence.

So that would have been £120 recovery, £25 a day storage till Monday on top of a £80 DVLA fine.

I feel that a lot of modern road policing is more about issuing and collecting fines.
 
G-Man said:
Biggest hassle is getting an insurer that can email or fax a certificate to you instead of having to wait for the post, and even if you get one as someone else mentioned some post offices can be fussy.
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Or just scan your old cert and photoshop the new reg no. in.

Not that I've ever done anything like that.

I still find it odd that the government makes it hard to give them money!
 
Is it a hassle?

Day insurance is always electronic and most of the large insurers are electronic now too. I'm with Sky who still use paper, but when I needed to tax mine after buying it I called and they emailed it straight over
 
I'd drive the thing home and tax it when i could, chances of getting caught are slim and if its a policeman then tell truth and be on your way.
 
Demons UK said:
I'd drive the thing home and tax it when i could, chances of getting caught are slim and if its a policeman then tell truth and be on your way.
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You be surprised how many fixed ANPR systems are out there. You may get home but like me not escape it. If you get caught you will see your new pride and joy low loaded away and cost you and arm and a leg to be returned to you.

Like the DVLA said to me, they catch thousands of untaxed cars a day on ANPR, unfortunately the persistent offenders or the ones who don't care simply fail to register the vehicles to them. Only us legitimate people pay the fines, the others as usual walk away Scott free.

Like I said a majority of road policing relies on collecting fines from the legal drivers. The total non-regard for the roads roam around freely until the rarity of a traffic cop pulls them.
 
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