Quick Sorn question

Lew · 16 Jul 2007 at 12:52

Had a car sorn of the road for awhile, Im now trying to get it back on the road booked in for its Re test on the Mot. How do I go about getting tax etc ?

ci_newman · 16 Jul 2007 at 12:54

You don't need to tax the vehicle until after it's passed the MOT, assuming that you will only be driving to / from the test centre

Lew · 16 Jul 2007 at 12:55

I meant to put after its Mot

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Confused · 16 Jul 2007 at 12:58

Once you have a valid MOT certificate, take it, along with your insurance certificate, V5C, and cash, a debit card or your cheque book, to a local Post Office, and ask for 6 or 12 month's road tax.

Go home, put the tax disc in the window, and go drive it.

You are not allowed to drive the car to the Post Office once it's passed it's MOT, only directly back to your house, so you will need alternative transport to get to your Post Office!

Lew · 16 Jul 2007 at 13:07

Didn't realise about the v5c as when you usually tax your car they send the form in the post. Ok thanks for that. Oh and yes I got another form of transport to get tax cheers

divuk83 · 16 Jul 2007 at 13:18

You can drive without an MOT as long as you are on your way to a pre-booked MOT. Just drive home via a post office and take your V5, insurance docs and MOT certificate with you so you can tax it. Thats what I did last week.

Dave

ci_newman · 16 Jul 2007 at 16:03

divuk83 said:
You can drive without an MOT as long as you are on your way to a pre-booked MOT. Just drive home via a post office and take your V5, insurance docs and MOT certificate with you so you can tax it. Thats what I did last week.

Dave

Except if you get caught in the post-office car park without a valid tax disc then you could get a fine...

Lew · 16 Jul 2007 at 16:16

Just had a thought, I own the car but Im giving it to my mum so can she get tax on it still with her insurance certificate but my name on the v5c ?

SB118 · 16 Jul 2007 at 18:37

Lew said:
Just had a thought, I own the car but Im giving it to my mum so can she get tax on it still with her insurance certificate but my name on the v5c ?

Depends on who serves you. The car is MOT'd & insured, but some of the staff get arsy if the names don't match. Had one old baggage who made me fill out the new owner slip on a car registered to my wife before she'd let me tax it with my insurance..

So i did so. With a fountain pen

Lopéz · 16 Jul 2007 at 18:41

SB118 said:
Depends on who serves you. The car is MOT'd & insured, but some of the staff get arsy if the names don't match. Had one old baggage who made me fill out the new owner slip on a car registered to my wife before she'd let me tax it with my insurance..

So i did so. With a fountain pen

I had to jump through hoops before I was allowed to pay £15 to tax a motorbike that was insured by me but owned by my mother. Other times I've handed over insurance docs for the wrong car/expired cover notes by mistake and still been given tax.

Lew · 16 Jul 2007 at 19:13

Ok thanks

Fingers crossed for tomorrow then