Failure to relicence vehicle Grrrrrrrrrrr

Ms-Money-Penny

I part ex'd my car in October, took the tax disc off and received refund. Filled in the slip on the log book and sent that to the DVLA.

Today i've received a penaly notice for failure to re-licence the vehicle.

I can pay the reduced penalty of £40 by 5/2/07 or £80 :mad: by the 5/03/06 plus back duty of £18.34.

It states that even if i no longer have the vehicle i must still pay the penalty and fill in the back of the form and write to discuss any exceptional circumstances.

Any advice please

Mrs_B_12

Did you get a letter from the DVLA saying that they had received the slip and acknowledging you are no longer the owner?

reduceditem

Who did you part exchange it to? Are you 100% sure that you, personally, filled in the slip and posted it?

Ms-Money-Penny

Mrs_B wrote:

Did you get a letter from the DVLA saying that they had received the slip and acknowledging you are no longer the owner?

No i dont think so

Ms-Money-Penny

reduceditem wrote:

Who did you part exchange it to? Are you 100% sure that you, personally, filled in the slip and posted it?

To a local garage and the slip was definitely sent off

reduceditem

I would pay the reduced fine for now and accompany it with a letter of appeal telling them when and to whom you disposed of the vehicle. Presumably your new car was registered in your name not long after you are saying you sent off the slip...they can check this easily...its a bit of evidence that supports your claim. Your local garage should have a record of whom your old vehicle was sold to. If they refuse to help it may be because they sold it 'off the books', others in this forum could advise you on how to pursue that possible issue.

Personally, I would think you have a good chance of reclaiming your money. I was reimbursed £190 by the DVLA a couple of months ago after an appeal that took about 6 weeks to complete (it was not for a similar issue to yours but at least you know that its not impossible to get money back off them). In any letter of appeal I always ask for a full written explanation to be given in the event of the appeal being unsucessful and I always ask them to clearly explain how I can take a complaint further...politely. It usually does the trick.
Good luck.

pinkfluffybabe

Ms-Money-Penny wrote:

No i dont think so

You should get a letter in within 4 weeks of the part of the V5 going to the DVLA stating that you are no longer the registered keeper of the vehicle. There is a phone number for enquiries on the V5 itselt - presume you have the one for the new car?

Ms-Money-Penny

Good news, received a letter back today saying thay had taken note of the contents of my appeal and returned my cheque:j .

Thanks for the advice

highguyuk

Well done Always a nice feeling to get your money back after an appeal.

Markyt

Same thing happened to someone I know, and a letter he got from the DVLA confirmed that a lot of these forms go missing on arrival at the DVLA.