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car towed away 'cos of out of date tax...?
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My car was clamped by the DVLA - I'd just bought it from a car supermarket the day before and couldn't tax it yet because my insurance certificate hadn't arrived.
They charged me £200 to take the clamp off otherwise they'd tow it away. £80 of that was a fine, the other £120 was a "surety" which I could claim back when I'd got a tax disc.
Getting the surety back from the DVLA was terribly hard. I had to go to my nearest DVLA office in person (150 mile round trip, which meant a day off work), and they told me they had no knowledge of how to refund a surety. Many angry letters and a few months later I finally got it back.
The DVLA are incompetent beyond words - they don't even know their own rules.0
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