I know the many super duper law abiding people out there who never even so much as fart in public will disagree with me, but I'm hoping there are still some common sense types still left in this world.
I had a car in my garage (old Civic). I stripped some bits off it; engine, gearbox, interior but left all the body panels on it since I had no use for them. Now the time comes to scrap the car and I call a friend of a mechanic I know to come pick it up.
So I took the morning off work and the guy came to pick up the car. Now my garage is situated in a narrow back lane that runs behind my house so it was phsyically impossible for him to maneouver his truck to tow it out of the garage since the front wheels + hubs were missing. He would have to lift the car and turn at the same time and there just isn't enough space.
He told me if I can get the car out he can come back the next day. I couldn't take another morning off work so I called the DVLA to explain the situation and ask for advice. I asked if I could leave the car outside my house for a few hours from 8am till around lunchtime when it is due to be collected. I got passed around to a few people but I ended up speaking to a robot person who just quoted the law about having to tax a vehicle. I said fine, I will pay the tax, cash it back in the next day and just lose 1 months worth. But then I need an MOT and insurance
for a car without an engine that's going to the scrap yard...
I thought ****** it, it's only going on the road for 3 hours they won't know. So I put the hubs + wheels back on the car and the next morning roll it around 50 yards and park it outside my house. Whichever way you look at it this car has to at some point, touch a public road without tax in order to be collected. There is no other way around it as far as I can see.
I then get a phone call at work around 12pm from the guy who's collecting the car. He said he picked it up but there was a sticker on the windscreen saying "this car is not taxed" etc.
Who wants to bet me they used the information I gave them when I called for advice? 
. I mean it was on the road for 4 bloody hours. I had given them the time and date of when I was going to have the car collected and they used it against me to make some easy cash
So now I'm engaged in a letter war with someone (another robot) from the DVLA. They are asking for £44. In my latest letter I have asked for a breakdown of the costs included in this £44 and how they arrived at this figure for less than 4 hours of road use. In my next letter I will be offering the total sum of £9.17 which is equal to 1 months tax on my vehicle.
Yes I know I broke the law, but suggest an alternative and I will hold my hands up. I asked in my last letter to them what I should have done... their follow up letter failed to answer this question. They were only interested in money and threatening me with court action if I didn't pay
OK I'm going to bed now!
I had a car in my garage (old Civic). I stripped some bits off it; engine, gearbox, interior but left all the body panels on it since I had no use for them. Now the time comes to scrap the car and I call a friend of a mechanic I know to come pick it up.
So I took the morning off work and the guy came to pick up the car. Now my garage is situated in a narrow back lane that runs behind my house so it was phsyically impossible for him to maneouver his truck to tow it out of the garage since the front wheels + hubs were missing. He would have to lift the car and turn at the same time and there just isn't enough space.
He told me if I can get the car out he can come back the next day. I couldn't take another morning off work so I called the DVLA to explain the situation and ask for advice. I asked if I could leave the car outside my house for a few hours from 8am till around lunchtime when it is due to be collected. I got passed around to a few people but I ended up speaking to a robot person who just quoted the law about having to tax a vehicle. I said fine, I will pay the tax, cash it back in the next day and just lose 1 months worth. But then I need an MOT and insurance
for a car without an engine that's going to the scrap yard...I thought ****** it, it's only going on the road for 3 hours they won't know. So I put the hubs + wheels back on the car and the next morning roll it around 50 yards and park it outside my house. Whichever way you look at it this car has to at some point, touch a public road without tax in order to be collected. There is no other way around it as far as I can see.
I then get a phone call at work around 12pm from the guy who's collecting the car. He said he picked it up but there was a sticker on the windscreen saying "this car is not taxed" etc.
Who wants to bet me they used the information I gave them when I called for advice?
. I mean it was on the road for 4 bloody hours. I had given them the time and date of when I was going to have the car collected and they used it against me to make some easy cash So now I'm engaged in a letter war with someone (another robot) from the DVLA. They are asking for £44. In my latest letter I have asked for a breakdown of the costs included in this £44 and how they arrived at this figure for less than 4 hours of road use. In my next letter I will be offering the total sum of £9.17 which is equal to 1 months tax on my vehicle.
Yes I know I broke the law, but suggest an alternative and I will hold my hands up. I asked in my last letter to them what I should have done... their follow up letter failed to answer this question. They were only interested in money and threatening me with court action if I didn't pay
OK I'm going to bed now!
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If I was to tax it now, the tax disc would get sent to my old address. Bloody stupid how something like a change of address can take a month. 
