Lost DVLA road tax renewal letter!

pinkbob

Hi there,

I received my renewal form through the post a few weeks ago and I came to get it sorted and the letter appears to have gone walkies.

What do I do to renew if I don't have the form?!

Help! ...

thank you in advance

Pinkbob xxx

scheming_gypsy

just go to the post office with your log book, insurance and MOT.. that's all they need

Strider590

Phone the DVLA as soon as possible....

Oh and so you don't look silly, it's not "road tax" (abolished in 1936) it's Vehicle excise duty (VED), it's got nothing to do with the roads whatsoever.

spiro

If you have the log book (which you should do) then you can do it online.

slyracoon

pinkbob wrote: »

Hi there,

I received my renewal form through the post a few weeks ago and I came to get it sorted and the letter appears to have gone walkies.

What do I do to renew if I don't have the form?!

Help! ...

thank you in advance

Pinkbob xxx

You don't need to renewal letter.

You can do it online without it, you just need to provide extra information such as your V5c (logbook) reference number. Or you can go to a post office with all your documents and they will do it.

pinkbob

Strider590 wrote: »

Phone the DVLA as soon as possible....

Oh and so you don't look silly, it's not "road tax" (abolished in 1936) it's Vehicle excise duty (VED), it's got nothing to do with the roads whatsoever.

Ooops! Thank you!:o

Thank you for all your quick replies! Off to get sorted :j

Pinkbob XxX

jhe

Strider590 wrote: »

Phone the DVLA as soon as possible....

Oh and so you don't look silly, it's not "road tax" (abolished in 1936) it's Vehicle excise duty (VED), it's got nothing to do with the roads whatsoever.

theres an awful lot of silly people around then. i have never heard anyone mention their 'vehicle excise duty' although i do realise that is the correct term, usually its 'car tax' people mention, unless thats just my part of the world

Strider590

jhe wrote: »

theres an awful lot of stupid people around then

Corrected that for you and I agree

That's not to say the OP is stupid, it's just that if you raise a child to think that dogs are elephants, they'll go into life calling dogs elephants until someone corrects them.

So effectively the problem is a lot of old timers telling later generations that its called "road tax" because that's what their father/mother used to call it and their father/mother before that. Hard to break that sort of cycle unless your the sort of person who doesn't automatically take things on face value.

The reason I make a point of it though, is because the phrase "get some f**king road tax" is often hurled abusively toward cyclists and in fact the very fact that most people call it road tax, does generate animosity toward the above group of road users.

A very good modern example would be the term "dongle" which thanks to mobile phone salesmen and TV advertising, is now used for practically anything you plug into a USB port.

A little OTT (sorry OP)

jhe

now now strider, putting words in my mouth so to speak!!! i didnt say 'stupid' i quoted 'silly'
i said car tax not road tax.
what with dogs, elephants dongles cyclists this old timer is getting confused.

Trebor16

Strider590 wrote: »

Phone the DVLA as soon as possible....

Oh and so you don't look silly, it's not "road tax" (abolished in 1936) it's Vehicle excise duty (VED), it's got nothing to do with the roads whatsoever.

There must be a hell of a lot of silly people around then as the vast majority of people I know still refer to it as road tax. But if your pedantry gives you joy, you carry on. The rest of us prefer to have a bit of silliness in our lives:D

scheming_gypsy

i'm still trying to work out why he needs to phone the DVLA