help, DVLA impounded car, can i appeal?

zappahey

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

If you have no valid car tax, then the MOT and Tax are both void, so you may also get hit for this.

Do you just make this stuff up? In another thread you said that no MOT voids the tax and insurance. The reality is that, while MOT and insurance are required to buy a tax disc, each of these items stand alone the expry of one has no impact on the validity of the other two.

DiggerDan

think you are in trouble, i had my car clamped, i had sorn the car off road, then had moved it to the garage to work on it, i left it outside for 30 mins max in a back street while i went round the front to unlock and open the garage to put the car in, i came out to find it clamped and no one about. i rang to make payment, but was told they (NCP)dont take solo, but do take cash if i drove 170 miles to there office, i rang back the following day with a diff card(thanks to a good friend) but that too was not accepted, finally on the sat morning i rang with a visa card, at 9 am but was told to late the car had been taken and was in a pound 170 miles away in another county, it cost me £700 to get the car back as it had no mot and could not be towed on a motorway and had to be put on a flatback truck to come back, i got £125 back off DVLA for the inconvenience, but i then had to have the front wing and door replaced thanks to the NCP lads smashing them with their lifting truck. Just be warned that its now 1 week off 6 months and i just had a letter off DVLA wanting £112 as a fine. Who thinks that is right? And does anyone know if they can leave it that long? Good luck with your fight, and remember there could be another fine to fight over

raskazz

Not matter what was or wasn't received, you would have seen your tax disc every day getting in/out of your car. Surely that would have been a sufficient reminder?

raskazz

mommyme wrote: »

you was driving without tax - which also invalidates your insurance so technically you was an uninsured driver too as all insurance policies say your car must be M.O.T'd and Taxed.

This is totally incorrect BTW.

big_gay_kirk

My SORNed car was taken off my driveway by some over zealous types... I reported it stolen, was told that it had actually been towed away.... I rang DVLA, told them the situation, gave them the ref. number off the SORN acknowledgement they sent me, (their letter to me was dated three days before the tax ran out....) and bingo... car returned, luckily undamaged.... and then the letter arrived about the fine.. it said to ignore it if etc.. so I ignored it.. only to get a court summons.. rang DVLA.. got it sorted... and I was obeying all the rules!

Crabman

big_gay_kirk wrote: »

My SORNed car was taken off my driveway by some over zealous types... I reported it stolen, was told that it had actually been towed away.... I rang DVLA, told them the situation, gave them the ref. number off the SORN acknowledgement they sent me, (their letter to me was dated three days before the tax ran out....) and bingo... car returned, luckily undamaged.... and then the letter arrived about the fine.. it said to ignore it if etc.. so I ignored it.. only to get a court summons.. rang DVLA.. got it sorted... and I was obeying all the rules!

Are they allowed to enter private land like that?

roddydogs

Of course not!

big_gay_kirk

Crabman wrote: »

Are they allowed to enter private land like that?

apprently not... but they still did....

Crabman

big_gay_kirk wrote: »

apprently not... but they still did....

If they'd done that to me I'd be creating as much trouble for them as possible... I wondered whether they had a warrant or something. Obviously they're on par with those nice courteous TV Licence people.

big_gay_kirk

about two weeks.... and what seemed like a thousand phone calls!