Removing sor notice

AdrianC

billymadbiker wrote: »

What do you do if you have sorne'd the car as the insurance had run out but the tax is still valid and you have not asked for a tax refund.

If you get new insurance is that enough to start driving again or do/ how do you declare un-sorne'd?

You'll need to tell 'em that the vehicle's back on the road - but I don't know if there's any simple procedure to do so. I suspect that the assumption is that anybody who's skint enough to delay the reinsurance is also going to be skint enough that the tax refund would be welcome...

A phone call to DVLA, I think.

paddedjohn

billymadbiker wrote: »

What do you do if you have sorne'd the car as the insurance had run out but the tax is still valid and you have not asked for a tax refund.

If you get new insurance is that enough to start driving again or do/ how do you declare un-sorne'd?

If you have sorned it then you should have returned the old disc, you could find that the disc has been cancelled and you are driving untaxed.

Rolandtheroadie

If you sorn a car and still have the disc, call DVLA and "unsorn" it over the phone.

Just an afterthought, I'd only sorned the car for a couple of weeks. I got the idea from another post on here.

Again, I dont think their car had been sorned for long.

It might be due to timescales, but just call, explain the situation and see what they say.

billymadbiker

So say my car has 5mths of tax left.
I then buy a new car and swap the insurance to my new car.

Obviously I have to sorn my old car as it has no insurance on it.
But I want to leave the tax disk on the old car to sell it.

I know if I sell it then the sorn is automatically cancled when the v5 gets sent off but do I get forced to surrender the tax disk?
As you only get whole months refunded I could loose a few quid if I have just gone past thre first day of the month.
I would also be usable to let anybody test drive the car if it was not taxed?

Rolandtheroadie

I had hoped to sell my car quite quick after i'd got my new one.

I had changed over the insurance and put the old one on ebay. I was going to cash in the tax disc, but the previous owner got in touch wanting to buy it back.

As he had left the tax on it when I bought it off him, I decided to leave the tax on it for him.

The insurance had been transferred for a week or 2 and it was going to be another week before he uplifted it so I declared sorn just incase.

He came to uplift and I phoned DVLA to cancel sorn. The person on the phone said they would pass it onto the relevent department and as long as the car was showing mot'd and taxed, it would be fine.

Couple of weeks later I got a letter saying something along the lines of they had recieved my request and changed the status of the vehicle.

AdrianC

billymadbiker wrote: »

So say my car has 5mths of tax left.
I then buy a new car and swap the insurance to my new car.

Obviously I have to sorn my old car as it has no insurance on it.

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I would also be usable to let anybody test drive the car if it was not taxed?

Stupid question - how you planning to let them test-drive it uninsured? I'd have said that was a MUCH more serious issue than untaxed. And, no, their "somebody else's car" clause won't cover an uninsured car at all.

Talk to your insurer. They'll probably cover the old one as well as the new one for a fairly small extra cost. Last time I did it, it was about a tenner a month.