30-09-2014, 03:25 PM
(30-09-2014, 02:59 PM)powerandtorque Wrote: How is any of this different to buying a car under the old system when it wasn't already taxed?
Because I could go to the PO with a insurance doc, the green slip in my name, or hell the full V5 in previous owner, it doesn't matter.
The MOT and I could tax it on the day.
Something I've done many times.
The uninsured SORN rule was ok as you have effectively got a month grace during which the tax disc was in the post on the V15 ?? form. <ahem>
Like how I bought my 306 in July.
Taxed for that month still but no owner insurance on it.
Driven back with day insurance.
Tax ran out end of July.
I swapped my insurance on to it on the 14th August, didn't SORN it in the mean time (as DVLA suggest..)
And Taxed it from beginning of August.
If that were now, I couldn't drive it back as no tax and couldn't tax it if computer says no.
I couldn't do the wait 14 days before taxing either, the car must be continuously SORN'd or taxed according to the rules.
Assume you get 5 days at month beginning to sort it out, followed by auto fine.
BTW, in June I took out two week supplemental cover on my passat for the mother in law to drive it.
Once that ended, the silly buggers removed the car from MID even though there was another policy out standing on it.
I got a letter from the DVLA warning me it wasn't on MID (else fine) and I had to ask my insurance co to put it back on again.
System doesn't make mistakes tho....
