Taxing a car for sale with no insurance

NeverInDebt

If the car was off road you still need a valid road tax unless you notify DVLA

They are really clamping down on people who did this and rightly so, too many drivers flouting the law which can result in large fine and a crushed car if driving. If not they can clamp the car if not a valid tax disc unless they are notified.

dacouch

BFG wrote: »

Wrong, wrong, wrong,.............wrong.

EU law says you CAN.

Which EU law are you refering to?

hartcjhart

getting back on topic,do as
TERRYYA says

Quentin

hartcjhart wrote: »

getting back on topic,do as
TERRYYA says

This is a money saving site. (TERRYYA mentions a cost of £8)

So see post #30 where the cost would be nil!

vikingaero

A lot of misconceptions about driving a car with/without insurance.

You CAN drive a car without insurance in it's own right using your driving other cars extension. It seems to me that the OP drove the car from home to a MOT station - the vehicle is going from an off road position at home to another off road position at the MOT station. That is fine.

The problem with driving an uninsured car using the "driving other cars" extension arises if the car is left alone on a highway or other public place. As soon as the driver leaves the car (say to visit a cashpoint) then it automatically becomes uninsured and is liable to seizure.

BFG_2

dacouch wrote: »

Which EU law are you refering to?

The 'you're allowed to drive another car [even if car is not insured] on your own cover' Regulations 2004.

gaz_jones

Do you perhaps know a car salesman that could get the tax for you on his trade insurance?

Premier_2

Why would a mechanic go and spend a fortune on a trader policy when many normal policies allow someone to drive a vehicle that is not belonging to them?

Doesn't a trader policy only cover vehicles in the course of a traders business? Not sure they can use it legitimately as a business purpose to tax otherwise uninsured vehicles.

rachy86

I was always under the impression that if you have the 3rd party clause on your insurance, the catch was that the car you wanted to drive had to have insurance for you to be covered? I very well could be wrong but that's what i've always read/been told/believed.

Would be interesting to know what the legal answer is though?

Also not sure if somebody has answered this, but mechanics have trade policies which allow them to drive cars they are working on etc.

As its been said, either get temporary insurance to tax the car, or take out RAC insurance and cancel after a few days. Temporary insurance may be better though incase somebody wants to take the car for a test drive - at least you are fully covered then if anything happens.

Quentin

rachy86 wrote: »

I was always under the impression that if you have the 3rd party clause on your insurance, the catch was that the car you wanted to drive had to have insurance for you to be covered? I very well could be wrong but that's what i've always read/been told/believed.

You have been mislead.

As has been posted, it is not normally a condition that the "other car" is also insured in its own right.