'New' car at 16

captainawsome

OP why don't you just get your butler to drive you around instead of doing it yourself like a peasant?


Got to be a wind up

[Deleted User]

Personally I wouldn't think twice about driving a car a short distance home if it had no tax e.g just bought from private seller/back street trader, I'd just do it and I have in the past. Only thing I'd make sure was the insurance.

Richard53

Deleted_User wrote: »

Personally I wouldn't think twice about driving a car a short distance home if it had no tax e.g just bought from private seller/back street trader, I'd just do it and I have in the past. Only thing I'd make sure was the insurance.

Same here. I think enforcement has to be reasonable. I bought the car and drove it (untaxed but insured) half a mile to a car park in town, then walked to the Post Office. Total time untaxed in a public place, about 20 minutes. Strictly speaking, illegal, but it would be a very harsh copper to do someone for that, I would have thought.


What's the alternative - borrow the seller's computer to do it online?

Spicy_McHaggis

Richard53 wrote: »

Same here. I think enforcement has to be reasonable. I bought the car and drove it (untaxed but insured) half a mile to a car park in town, then walked to the Post Office. Total time untaxed in a public place, about 20 minutes. Strictly speaking, illegal, but it would be a very harsh copper to do someone for that, I would have thought.


What's the alternative - borrow the seller's computer to do it online?

Or use your own before you leave to collect it?

Mobile phone.

BeenThroughItAll

arcon5 wrote: »

So technically millions of people are now committing an offence when they drive their new car off the forecourt?

No, they just ARE committing an offence.


Whether it's logical or not, the law's simple enough. Tax the car before you use it on the road.


You can do that online, via the phone, or at a post office. It's not like they've made it harder to do.


I taxed the car I bought two weeks ago in the seller's driveway using the DVLA mobile website. It took me five minutes, then I drove away; insured, taxed, and with a valid MOT. Happy days.

jaydeeuk1

forgotmyname wrote: »

I doubt there is anywhere in the country that doesnt have a half decent Corsa within 30 miles.

That implies Corsa's were half decent to begin with. They're the worst cars I've driven, and I've owned a Daewoo Lanos.

heartbreak_star

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

That implies Corsa's were half decent to begin with. They're the worst cars I've driven, and I've owned a Daewoo Lanos.

I loved mine and got really upset when it died

HBS x

StickyNikki

If you don't want to go through the hassle of taxing / insuring the car just to get it home have you considered hiring a trailer (I'm guessing if you have caravans your dads car will have a tow bar).


My hubby bought a car for parts to do up his "project" car and obviously didn't want to tax or insure a car that was being used for spare parts. Cost of a car trailer was only about £40 a day incl insurance

Geodark

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

That implies Corsa's were half decent to begin with. They're the worst cars I've driven, and I've owned a Daewoo Lanos.

You never driven a Ka then? :rotfl:

alwaysskint96

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

I taxed the car I bought two weeks ago in the seller's driveway using the DVLA mobile website. It took me five minutes, then I drove away; insured, taxed, and with a valid MOT. Happy days.

How had you got your insurance to appear on the database within minutes- this is the bit i dont understand