'New' car at 16

BeenThroughItAll

alwaysskint96 wrote: »

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

It no longer needs to. Insurance isn't checked at taxation time any longer.

19lottie82

Your three figure insurance quote, I take it that's as a learner? Have you checked how that will change when you pass your test? At a guess it will treble.

roonaldo

arcon5 wrote: »

Isn't there a grace period for tax? Surely you can't be expected to tax a vehicle at the point you buy it before you drive it away?

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The grace period was only from when you bought the tax to when you display the disc, but the discs are obsolete now. It is illegal to drive a car on the road without tax/ved.

There is now a 24 telephone line to sort or, also the internet, its 2015.

roonaldo

alwaysskint96 wrote: »

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

You dont need it to appear????

Richard53

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

Or use your own before you leave to collect it?

Not always possible, though. That assumes you are travelling to pick up a car you know you are going to buy. I've sold plenty of cars and bikes to people who were on a 2-3 day expedition to see several suitable vehicles and made the decision to buy (or not) at the time they saw it.


Yes, it's possible to do all this by phone, but I can't help thinking it was a lot easier when you had a week or two of tax remaining when you bought a car and could sort the disc out when you got it home. Or even if they gave an 'official' grace period of say a week after purchase to get it taxed. Oh, but that might lose them a bit of revenue ...

nicholaswitchell

If I bought a car with no tax, I'd risk getting it home without. After all, even if caught then the fine is £80, reduced to £40 if paid within 14 days. And thats IF you get caught. Sounds like no big deal to me.

I'm not suggesting for a second that tax evasion is a good idea, and once home I would tax the car before using it on public roads again.

The system whereby there is now never any tax on a newly purchased car (be it new or secondhand) is utterly unworkable, and will change within the next 6 months when the authorities realise the new system doesn't work as is.