Advice re selling car with Road Tax

Trebor16

Two words........................buyer beware. Ask the question "is the road tax included?"

prowla

photome wrote: »

Strange logic

When is it legal to have a car on the road without road tax?

forgotmyname

On the way to a pre booked MOT etc.

Otherwise, Unless the seller said no tax i would assume whats there is included in the sale.

Sgt_Pepper_2

prowla wrote: »

It is a legal requirement to have tax on the car, so the seller was selling the car in an unroadworthy state if they cashed it in.

Would it fail a MOT without a tax disc?

londonTiger

wow what a cheapskate. i would never buy a car without tax. it can be a red tape nightmare, parking attendant will give you a ticket for lack of road tax.

I remmeber there being some sort of problem getting council parking without valid mot/tax/insurance or something. it's just not worth the headache.

Hintza

Trebor16 wrote: »

Two words........................buyer beware. Ask the question "is the road tax included?"

Following your logic I could take off my newish tyres and replace with the marginally legal ones that I have just replaced.

missile

It is a real pain in the a...e to buy a car without road tax.

Read a.n.other post from someone who purchased a car and it was clamped and impounded whilst he was waiting for insurance cert to arrive so he could buy the tax.

forgotmyname

Hintza wrote: »

Following your logic I could take off my newish tyres and replace with the marginally legal ones that I have just replaced.

I was going to say something along those lines.

You go and view a car. How would you feel if the seller started removing bits he fitted himself?

Seats are coming out the old manky ones are going back in. Mates are coming out. Spare wheel is coming out i bought that tyre your not having that. Those wipers are fairly new im having them back you can have the old split ones.

If its on the car when they viewed it and tested it then it should be sold with it. Unless you specifically said the tax is not included and kept telling them that. Until they think your a parrot.

Personally if you said that and the tax was worth £200 i would knock £300 off my offer.

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mikey72

missile wrote: »

It is a real pain in the a...e to buy a car without road tax.

Read a.n.other post from someone who purchased a car and it was clamped and impounded whilst he was waiting for insurance cert to arrive so he could buy the tax.

I don't think I'd be impressed if I turned up to drive it away, then found I had to trawl round for a local post office, and was trying to buy a tax disk for another few hundred quid. Assuming I had a hard copy of my insurance with me.
I probably wouldn't buy another car without tax in the first place.

pendulum

pinkteapot wrote: »

Sounds like they're just a bit dozy and didn't think to ask.

They did not have to ask, they saw the tax on the windscreen and had every right to assume it was included in the sale. The dozy one is the seller who forgot to mention they intended to remove something from the car that the buyer had already seen and based his offer price on.

I've bought cars before and checked the tax disc in the window; it is something people genuinely do take into consideration when buying a car, and I've never had some clown try to remove it after the sale.

I have seen adverts that specifically state "Tax not included" or "Tax will cost extra if you want it" - and that is absolutely fine.

Summary: seller is wrong, both "legally" and via "done thing".