Buying/driving a car with no tax
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My mates over on the mainland this weekend veiwing a bmw 328, he arranged the veiwing 2 weeks ago, and the guys said if they do a deal he can take it away.

Hes just arrived, and found the car has ran out of tax last week and is sorn.

So his insurance is invalid if he were to drive it away.

Is there anyway around this? Otherwise my mate geoff's gonna be coming back to the island empty handed and about £400 lighter in the pocket.

I think the blokes an incosiderate tosser for not letting someone coming from so far away know the situation but hey ho.

Any help/advice on the matter would be appreciated.

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He could tax it online, then he would only get nicked for failing to display at worse. Only thing I can think of m8

Hi,
Your insurance isn't invalid if you've got no tax. If it ran out last weekv you should be OK as DVLA is usually 1 month to 6 weeks behind. Just tax it from the start of this month when he gets back
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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can he not book it into an mot center at home to "drive it there" then when at home phone up and cancel the mot?

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hi, sounds a bit risky really....
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Just hope he doesnt get caught by the pigs!

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to be honest, i'd risk it, but that's just me!

i think you'll be able to get away with it if you tax it on line

otherwise just risk it, or can he somehow just happen to hold another tax disc in this cars holder?

i think your better off having nothing than another car's tax disc.

depends on the legnth of the journey but if its a relatively short blast to the ferry it seems very expensive to tax it just for that.

If you get a full years tax at least you only loose a month via rebating it as soon as you get home.

agree with iain, better not having one, rather than gettin done for fraud as well which would probs be worse. Personally id risk it but depends on your concience really!

where is the ferry? book an mot as close to that as possible!then its just getting off the ferry!!!!

I third that, its worse to have another cars tax disc than none at all!

Personally I'd risk it, just don't drive lke a fool and their should be no reason to pull you for it!

If you don't want to risk it then, just pay for 6 months tax instead of a full year then get a rebate. At least that way you have less money in the tax mans pocket 'till you get your money back! :)

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What about towing it to the ferry? Don't have to be taxed then. Pain in the ass though.

both myself and Vegard has picked up cars without MOT or tax in UK and driven around the country with it. We have insurance trough the norwegian customs usually though. Once I went from London (wimbledon) up trough North wales, around manchester and that area a bit before going up to Newcastle, did not have any troubles then:)

I personally would just chance it, as would geoff, but the owner isnt happy with him doing that.

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"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

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just if you have an accident....insurance is void miniminor63. Done it myself, but with all these cameras around nowadays not worth the risk.

then I would call the seller a Tosser! Why did he not inform about this when he knew this situation would come up?!

id drive it to. get a receit to prove youve just bought it.

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Yeah I'd also drive it, tell the owner that you are buying the car and after that it is no concern of his what you do in it.

Hi,
Gav ... The DVLA are always behind by a month with log books and tax. I've had various problems with them over the years.
Mainly they f**k up and send me a fine.
I don't stand for that!
I bought my current car at the end of a month, the tax had ran out. It needed a rebuild to I SORNd it, the seller sent off the log book.
The Sorn came back with a letter accusing me of being a car dealer, and telling me they wouldn't accept it as I didn't own the car.
Shortly after came a fine for no tax.
Then the log book arrived.
Then I had to send a letter, photocopy everything, prove to them they had the log book at the same time as the SORN and tell them to get lost!
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Edited by Rob H on 17th Jun, 2007.

Whats it got to do with the seller?

Cash handed over, logbook signed etc and job done! not like he's just turned up.

I would of just started driving about 5:30, no way to get tax till monday then

Spoke to him this morning, hes bought autotrader and gonna look at a few other cars this morning, given up the the original one he went to view as the guys acting like a dickhead.

Geoff would never say boo to a goose, but if it were me my blood would have boiled!

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"