How to avoid fine for insurance?

Norman_Castle

You don't need the logbook to scrap a car.
For info only, others are available. http://www.scrapcarcollecting.co.uk/documents.html

sillygoose

Well people can debate the rights or wrongs of it but the rules are the rules, and I don't want to sound harsh, but no one has a right to own a vehicle no matter what. The simple fact is you can't afford to run the car so it has to go. You can apply for a replacement V5 for £25 so that's not a real block.

Of course the easy answer is to SORN it, but its not the governments fault you have no where to keep it any more than its their fault you can't afford to run it.

Try checking around for one of those long term parking places people pay to store their caravans on during the winter, you may be able to make an affordable deal at one of those until April, I think they are about £15 a week.

Aretnap

rtho782 wrote: »

But if it rolled off his drive into your car parked opposite, it would be ok?

I'd probably be fairly peed off it rolled off his drive as well. But I can also see that it would be unreasonable to force people to have insurance on a car which is stored out of the way of the public on private land. The law requires a definition of where you can and can't store such a car, and the end of your drive seems like as reasonable a place as any to draw the line.

Do any of your friends have drives? Does your workplace have a car park you could sweet-talk your boss into letting you use for a few weeks? Does your local pub have a car park and are you on good terms with the landlord? Failing that search for "car storage" in your local area - it's not always as expensive as you might think.

TrickyWicky

rtho782 wrote: »

Does anyone know the legal definition of "on the road"?

If I put it on bricks and remove the wheels, it is not touching the road, so it can be SORNed?

That won't work but if you put it on a car trailer which is attached to another vehicle then it is classed as 'goods'.

Note that the trailer needs the towing vehicle attached..

sillygoose

TrickyWicky wrote: »

That won't work but if you put it on a car trailer which is attached to another vehicle then it is classed as 'goods'.

Note that the trailer needs the towing vehicle attached..

What about if he rents a skip and puts it in that?

DaveF327

Cheapest and simplest solution is to SORN the thing and find somewhere. Anywhere.

Can't you ask friends and family if you can shove it in their garage / garden / duckpond or something for a month? It's a crying shame that so many homeowners have garages but never keep a car in it; filling it instead with crap.

paddedjohn

Norman_Castle wrote: »

You don't need the logbook to scrap a car.
For info only, others are available. http://www.scrapcarcollecting.co.uk/documents.html

One part of that link looks wrong,

"We can scrap your car without the logbook V5 document. However you are legally obliged to notify the DVLA that your vehicle is SORN and ready to be de-registered"

Why would you have to sorn the car to scrap it? ive scrapped many cars and never needed to do that.

Norman_Castle

Its a car breakers website!. If you confirm to the dvla the car has been scrapped and can provide a certificate of destruction it would be pointless declaring sorn.