Moving house with a SORN car

Foxy-Stoat_3

I think the options of moving a car without tax/mot/insurance are:

Paying a recovery firm to transport it for you, around £1.25 per mile, they may charge this each way = £250 plus possibly a return trip.

Hire a recovery truck @ roughly £100 per day plus fuel, say £0.30 per mile each way plus a train/car ride home = £280

If your car has a tow bar or you know someone with a tow bar, hire a trailer for £75 a day maybe? plus fuel each way twice.

Drive it illegally for only the cost of the fuel but if caught you will lose the car plus fine plus points plus ban.

Other options are:

Call a local scrapyard to collect it for scrap and get £100-£150 for it.

Sell it on Ebay

The choice is yours.

redux

As above, the car must be taxed and insured to be on the road with a dolly arrangement, and even then it is still fairly questionable legally

In any case, insuring the car for a couple of days to move it, plus one month's road tax, would work out to almost the same amount as hiring a full trailer or a flatbed transporter.

So I'd look around for trailer and transporter hire, and probably prefer the latter, as you wouldn't have to worry about weight limits and towing experience for a trailer. (A car on a trailer is likely to weigh about two tons, which will be too heavy for most ordinary cars to tow.)

paddedjohn

Unless the car is a complete basket case then paying someone to transport it is money down the drain. Why not invest the transport costs (£200ish) directly into the car, use the money towards its mot and tax and then insure it for the journey down. This way you are saving yourself a few hundred quid. Simples.

ThatGuy19

Don't know if this is a bit late mate but try AnyVan maybe? They do car transports

Norman_Castle

Spam.......

skivenov

Trailer or flatbed are the only totally legal ways. Anything else is a grey area to some extent.

I tend to avoid putting RWD cars on a 2 wheel suspended tow (spec or dolly) in case you end up oil starving the front of the gearbox while spinning the output shaft for a couple of hundred miles.

As stated above, there's a lot of legal methods of recoverring a breakdown that aren't legal for transportation of a none-roadlegal car.

Jox

Can I hijack this thread to ask something please?

My dad's car is on his driveway. It's been SORNed (or whatever you call it).

It has insurance for the rest of the year.

The MOT and road tax ran out in August.

My dad is abroad until November and when he comes back he wants the car to be MOT'd and taxed.

How does he get the car to the garage for the MOT?

Do we ask the garage to tow it?

Sorry if the answer is in an early reply

Thanks

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BobQ wrote: »

Put it on a trailer and tell the DVLA when you move it.

And cover the number plates.

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redux wrote: »

So I'd look around for trailer and transporter hire, and probably prefer the latter, as you wouldn't have to worry about weight limits and towing experience for a trailer.

But has the OP any experience of driving Category C1 vehicles?

200 miles is a long way, for someone with no experience.

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skivenov wrote: »

I tend to avoid putting RWD cars on a 2 wheel suspended tow (spec or dolly) in case you end up oil starving the front of the gearbox while spinning the output shaft for a couple of hundred miles.

You could remove the driveshaft.