DVLA tax disc renewal offline for maintenance. I'm not taxed as of 17 minutes ago!!

withabix

londonTiger wrote: »

do parking attendants work bank holidays?

Nothing to do with them.

Buying it online on the first day of the month isn't what you are supposed to do anyway.

alastairq

ANPR is more likely to ping an untaxed vehicle than a triffic warden....perhaps?

jaybeetoo

jacko74 wrote: »

Had car MOT'd on 25 March.. failed due to a minor problem with headlights, need to order a main dealer part which won't be available till 4th-5th April... not a problem for the MOT as I have 10 working days for a re-test BUT I won't be able to tax it till at least 4th April.

I assume you haven't been driving the car since it failed the test?

jacko74

jaybeetoo wrote: »

I assume you haven't been driving the car since it failed the test?

No, I realise I'm only allowed to drive it to the MOT station for a pre booked re-test, so just waiting for the part to arrive now.

Quentin

jaybeetoo wrote: »

I assume you haven't been driving the car since it failed the test?

A fail mot doesn't void your existing mot, nor does it mean you cannot drive the car. (If the fail means the car is no longer safe to drive the mot station will tell you)

Thus the old one remains valid till its original expiry date.

alastairq

Thus the old one remains valid till its original expiry date.

yesterday?

Aretnap

Obviously he can't drive it today (other than to a pre-booked test etc). He would have been fine to drive it until the old certificate expired. Probably he would technically have been committing an offence relating to the dodgy headlight, but (a) he was committing that offence before the latest MOT anyway and (b) he's extremely unlikely to get into trouble for it in practice, especially if he doesn't drive after dark.

[Deleted User]

I think the OP is over reacting. My tax expired end of November and I didn't renew it online until 5th December. Nothing happened in that time and I still drove car.

Also you have just cost yourself more as the VED rates have just gone up today. My car is an extra £5 a year.

Quentin

Deleted_User wrote: »

I think the OP is over reacting. My tax expired end of November and I didn't renew it online until 5th December. Nothing happened in that time and I still drove car......

Poor advice. Something would have happened had you been spotted/caught/involved in an accident etc, and definitely not very MSE - think the cost involved had you been caught!

You got away with it.

It is an offence to have an untaxed vehicle on the road. (You get 14 days of grace to tax it before you get done by dvla, but during those days you must not put it on the road or face the consequences if you get caught)

Keith wrote: »

....If, the system was as strict as made out, you went unlicensed at midnight and face a penalty. Of course, in the real world nothing changed on the change of date.....

Separately, you do face trouble from midnight on the day the disc expires if you keep it on the road (and haven't renewed online).

You commit the offence of "failing to display".

The first day of the month starts at midnight.

It's known that a car parked on the road got a failure to display ticket before the owner went out to swap over discs.

There are jobsworths all around us.

See this tale of woe:

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?218797-Fixed-Penalty-Notice-Failure-To-Display-Tax-Disc

jaybeetoo

Quentin wrote: »

A fail mot doesn't void your existing mot, nor does it mean you cannot drive the car. (If the fail means the car is no longer safe to drive the mot station will tell you)

Thus the old one remains valid till its original expiry date.

If a car fails an MOT it is not in a roadworthy condition until the faults are fixed.