Insurance Certificate & Road Tax

forgotmyname

If the police pull you and its not showing as taxed or insured, They will attempt to contact the insurance.

If they cant get through or they dont say your insured they tow the car. If its just no tax you will get fined.

DVLA love people that dont renew on time. The bills keep coming.

Sgt_Pepper_2

forgotmyname wrote: »

If the police pull you and its not showing as taxed or insured, They will attempt to contact the insurance.

If they cant get through or they dont say your insured they tow the car. If its just no tax you will get fined.

DVLA love people that dont renew on time. The bills keep coming.

If they don't get through they should give you the benefit of the doubt.

Tilt

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

If they don't get through they should give you the benefit of the doubt.

They won't though. They must establish that the driver is insured to drive the car, it's as black and white as that. Without confirmation or proof, there is only one set procedure now and that is to seize the car.

forgotmyname

With no tax also i bet the benefit may not be given.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Tilt wrote: »

They won't though. They must establish that the driver is insured to drive the car, it's as black and white as that. Without confirmation or proof, there is only one set procedure now and that is to seize the car.

Do you have a link to back that up?

Tilt

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Do you have a link to back that up?

http://www.drivingban.co.uk/drivingban/drivingwithoutinsurance.htm

raskazz

In order to avoid this problem occurring in the future, best to either:

1) buy 6 months road tax now, or
2) buy a short-term insurance policy then once this has run its course purchase an annual policy

In this way the insurance renewal date will not correspond with the road tax date.

getzls

Don't all rush at once to call me silly.:D But if the tax expires on the 30th april and the insurance on the 1st of May, why do they not allow you to tax it? I can see if both were the same day.

estimagal

getzls wrote: »

Don't all rush at once to call me silly.:D But if the tax expires on the 30th april and the insurance on the 1st of May, why do they not allow you to tax it? I can see if both were the same day.

I was wondering the same ?? Its only when the MOT has less than a week left that you cant tax it online . Have you tried to do it online ??

Limey

My thoughts too, if the OP went down to the post office today and bought the tax would they look that closely at the current certificate.

The car's insured at the moment, will they refuse to tax it if they notice insurance expires a day after the tax would begin?