Hurrah!!!!!!!

Just visited my local PO, that does road tax, and have successfully retaxed the car without an MOT (reminder said it needed one - 1st reg was Jan '10)

For a moment it looked like it was going to be a pain when the post master said "hang on it says here MOT unconfirmed, I need your MOT certificate"

"Ah" says I "it doesn't need one as it's less than 3 years old and I have here a form V112 ready for you" He has a read, nods his head and says "well yes your correct, please have tax disc with my compliments - oh that'll be £118.25 please. How would you like to pay?"

"In installments I said"

Card duely debited and nice new tax disc in my grubby little mitt. Lovely.

Now I just need to get the car back together and shaken down by the weekend ready for Stoneleigh (Off to Canada next week for a couple of days so no time next week).

I'm happy that I didn't have to go get an MOT etc and that the post master was a sensible chap.

And to top it all its sunny

I printed off the MOT exemption form, and was filling out while the lass processed my tax. You don't need that she said it's not 3 years old yet. Not what the muppets at the DVLA said when i queried why i could'nt buy one online.

mine is a year and 3months old on an age related plate and i taxed it on-line fine. must be one of the lucky ones.