Taxing ex-disabled car

agav

Hi all,
I am disabled and have the disabled tax disc on my car. I'm planning to sell the car. What do I do with the disc? Do I take it off and sell the car without it? I think I'm not allowed to leave it on the car.
Help, please.
Thanks,
Aga

s_b

sell the car but dont mention it was disabled tax or new owner wont be able to tax it unless he goes to a local dvla office or sends log book to swansea for change of status
either eat the disc or return it with a covering letter (salt and a dash of black pepper helps):)

agav

I think I might need to return it rather than eat it, however tasty it might be. I will be applying straight away for one for the new car so maybe it's better that I return it.
Oh dear. So it looks like it will be difficult to sell the car as people keep asking about the tax disc.

Notmyrealname

You need to retain the tax disc as you will need to surrender it when you tax your new car as disabled.

I would personally get the car changed to PLG tax class and buy a 6 month tax disc for it which is what I'll be doing with mine. It'll sell a whole lot better with 6 months tax on and you can put the cost of the tax onto what you were going to sell the car for so it costs you nothing.

People are wise to the aggro involved taxing a Disabled class car when they buy it and it'll either put them off or they'll want a drop in the price for the inconvenience.

agav

Thanks Notmyrealname,
How do you go about changing the tax class from disabled to PLG?

missile

agav wrote: »

Thanks Notmyrealname,
How do you go about changing the tax class from disabled to PLG?

As sb said in post #2. You can do that at your nearest dvla office or send v5 to swansea.
Your car will sell easier with tax and MOT.

Rover_Driver

agav wrote: »

Thanks Notmyrealname,
How do you go about changing the tax class from disabled to PLG?

Unless it was registered before 1st March 2001, it won't be changed to PLG, it will be to either 'Petrol Car' or 'Diesel Car'.

stressedofthecentury

Sorry to bump I owned an ex-mobilility car and it was a matter of going to the dvla office to change it over. At the time it seemed a bit of hassle. But in the long run it was worth it as it was a really good car as it had a full service history, i think it was serviced every 5000 or 10,000 miles can't quite remember now, it had all the stamps anyway. I don't know if this is a legal requirement for a mobility car or not to be serviced this often. I ended up having the car for 5 years and it was lovely to drive and started up first time almost every day, apart from when it needed a new battery.

Notmyrealname

Its a manufacturers requirement of every car to be serviced by either mileage or time based so it'll be 12 months or 12,000 miles - whichever comes first for example. So on a car doing 5000 miles a year it'll be serviced every 5000 miles. For a car doing 15000 miles a year it'll be serviced every 12,000 miles and could end up being serviced twice in a year.

agav

Do I only need to take the registration certificate to dvla to change the taxation class or do I need anything else (apart from money of course)?