No insurance, no mot, no tax! Please advice.

MooseRich

jw1096 wrote:

If the car is spotted without a valid tax disc on a public road, it will be clamped and the release fee is £200, £120 of which can be refunded if a valid tax disc is shown at a local DVLA office within 14 days. Of course, the car would then need to be insured and MOT'd to actually buy the tax disc.

If the fine is not paid within 24 hours, the fine goes up to £280, and if not paid within 48hours, the car will be towed away and stored at a cost of £15 per day. Id get the address changed on the v5 immediately and tell your friend to remove it. If it is not paid then you are looking at being taken to court (its not registered under your name is it??) and then at bailiffs coming to your house for non payment. It needs to be kept off the road or taxed, mot'd & insured, or sold.

HTH

Jo xx

I never had that. I've had a £60 fine for no tax and I've also had a warning from the local police. The £60 was for being about 7 months out of date and the car declared SORN and the warning was an expired tax disc by about 2 weeks. Though this time it wasn't SORN'd.

machofairy

An update on this situation ...

The car has now been impounded due to it being untaxed (rang the pound and they confirmed). We got a DVLA letter to our address under the owner's name, which presumably, lays out all the fines that the owner is liable for. We have lost touch with the owner ... or he is not replying to our messages. All we want is that our address not be credit blacklilsted for unpaid fines. Any suggestions please?

Sharra

I would definitely phone the DVLA and tell them the situation - I have had DVLA stuff come to my house for previous owners and the DVLA just asked me to put it back in the post.
In your situation I would talk to someone there tho and ensure they know this 'friend' has never lived at your address.

david29dpo

the car cannot be transferred to you without YOU signing the logbook. you have NEVER been the keeper of this car and so are not responsible for it.

Lob_Rockster

I would wash my hands of the situation and send anything from the DVLA delivered via post back with a "not known at this address, try previous address" Because this person is really not known anymore at your address.