plentywahalla
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:19 PM |
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What to do ??
Got a bit of a problem ...
I bought my daughter a classic Mini Cooper for her 18th birthday. It proved a great fun drive but was a bit unreliable, typical BL electrickery!
When she went off to Uni in Bristol I didn't like the idea of her tramping up and down the M4/M25 in the dodgy old thing so I bought a nice
boring but relaible Escort.
Now she is finished Uni I thought we would get the Mini back on the road.
Problem is we discovered neither of us had done a SORN. The car is registered in her name so I thought she would get the reminder and look after it.
Unfortunately she moved from flat to flat and the post didn't follow her.
She assumed that as the car was sitting in my garden it was my job!
So its been untaxed and unsorned for 3 years. I looked on the DVLA website and it talks about £1000 in fines! The car is hardly worth much more than
that.
So ... What to do??
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:22 PM |
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Ring them, explain and ask.
Surely our fine nation has a solution to this.
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rayward
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:24 PM |
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sorn it online now, !!
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thunderace
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:25 PM |
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the only thing you can do is buy another shell and take all the good bits from yours and cut yours up ,when or if they contact you you will have to
say you sent the papers away to them as you scraped it years ago.cant think of any other thing you can do ,the second you tell them they will fine you
,i know as it happened to a mate of mine he paid a fine of £1800 for a shell he was restoring that he did no sorn .
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plentywahalla
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:26 PM |
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If I contact them won't it just trigger an automatic penalty notice?
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thunderace
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rayward
sorn it online now, !!
and he will 100% get the fine
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thunderace
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by plentywahalla
If I contact them won't it just trigger an automatic penalty notice?
yes you will 
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tomprescott
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:33 PM |
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DUnno, tough choice to make, I left my bike without sorn or tax for 9 months by accident, when I did it online I got a confirmation letter and no fine
- I would do it online now as already suggested - got to be a better option than buying a shell and creating a dodgy car!
A bird in the hand....
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turbodisplay
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:36 PM |
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So to sum up.
You try to tax a vehicle to be leagel and you get stung? Very fair.
What if you just bought the car (ie if you sold the car then bought it back).
Surely you cannot be held responsible for the last owner???
Darren
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jossey
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 09:40 PM |
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explained you posted the sorn and because you have not had a reminder you thought it was done.
and show the mot ran out years ago and take pictures of it in garden if it looks like its been there years.
i did that with a very old cortina and they said ok and let me off fines.
dave
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loggyboy
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 10:06 PM |
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either tax it or sorn it. dont call or do anything to bring it to their attention. You may get away with it of they havent contacted u allready.
If they do fine you then your no worse than if you went to them 'cap in hand'
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 18/6/10 at 10:11 PM |
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Did she inform DVLA when she moved from your house to living away? If not and they've still got her at your address then presumably they
haven't sent her a notification of a fine yet? When I went to tax my kit-car at the DVLA office some time ago (6 months after my tax ran out
while I was away on honeymoon - too many other things going on beforehand to remember to tax it) they asked had a received a notification of a fine (I
hadn't) and they said that I wouldn't be getting one then.
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StrikerChris
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| posted on 19/6/10 at 08:35 AM |
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Don't want to put a downed on your weekend but it'll probably cost her (or you) £80! Or that's what it cost me after declaring a car
sorn first time then binning the reminders 12months later.(apparently their computer is retarded and doesn't understand I've declared it
sorn and not taxed it since so its still bloody sorn!)kick up as much of a fuss as you can but I fear dvla only employ the people who tick the
a*sehole box on their application form.
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 19/6/10 at 02:17 PM |
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Im suprised you haven't had any reminders. Surely they cant fine ou without giving you any warning???
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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morcus
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| posted on 19/6/10 at 07:31 PM |
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Swapping the v5 to your name might work, then go insure it and buy tax.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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