Bad surprise - untaxed vehicle

Myriddin

Possible, but expensive, solution to your dilemma:

'You can pay a ‘surety’ (deposit) if you don’t tax the vehicle before you get it released. It costs £160 for cars or motorcycles, and up to £700 for other vehicles.'

https://www.gov.uk/get-a-clamped-or-impounded-vehicle-released

Quentin

robotrobo wrote: »

is the insurance valid with no tax or mot?,
i dont think so

You think wrong

You don't invalidate your insurance just by no mot or no tax.

Hedgehog99

Bit late now, but...

Just leave your last paper disc (or a new piece of paper the same size) in the windscreen to remind you which month your VED anniversary falls.

I received a postal reminder about my VED this year.

McKneff

Quentin wrote: »

You think wrong

You don't invalidate your insurance just by no not or no tax.

Quentin, I bet you wish you had a pound for every time you have had to say that on here x


Annie

JohnBravo

Fruitcake wrote: »

It's pot luck with regard to reminders. It's up to the registered keeper to ensure vehicles are roadworthy, insured, SORNed or have tax and an MoT (except in certain circumstances.) If you get a reminder, consider it a bonus. If you don't, well you have just found out unfortunately what happens.

Thank you very much for the bonuses.
I would say that this is kind of coincidence that DVLA has scrapped disks and the same year has failed to deliver MULTIPLE reminders to my address.
I have this car for 7 years and had no problems with the reminders before.

I am wondering how many random people in the UK have clamps on their cars at the moment for the same reason - corrupt gov agency (a jammed machine, one bag full of DVLA letters lost). And these people are definitely random, because DVLA does not send reminders postcode by postcode or borough by borough, but by date which is geographically random.

Of course that I have looked at my tax disks occasionally, but also used V11 reference to buy a new road tax.

I understand one lost reminder but 2 or 3?

esmerobbo

JohnBravo wrote: »

I understand one lost reminder but 2 or 3?

Why have they lost 2 or 3?

I can never understand why people wait for the their MOT expiry date or very near before renewing it, you can MOT a car 28 days before the expiry date.
If you need reminders they will remind you for £1.50 there are also garages, apps,and free services who will send you a reminder, and there are several online calendars which you can send yourself a reminder.

As stated by Myriddin you can pay a £160 surety to have the vehicle released, but book it in to a garage for an MOT and take it straight there.

robotrobo

JohnBravo wrote: »

@robotrobo
Do you get it that I have received no reminders this year?

Hi John.
I am also guilty earlier on this year of haveing no mot for 8 weeks , so i wasnt throwing stones at you , im lucky that i got away with it, infact it was my wifes car that i tax & insure , so i would have been in trouble properly if the cops had banged her up :rotfl:

bazster

JohnBravo wrote: »

I would say that this is kind of coincidence that DVLA has scrapped disks and the same year has failed to deliver MULTIPLE reminders to my address.

I've got a current reminder (i.e. for tax due this month) on my desk in front of me right now.

Iceweasel

I'm long enough in the tooth to know that you can rely on no-one to do something that you are legally obliged to do yourself.

You will get nowhere blaming the DVLA or the government so don't waste time on that approach.

Get a red pen and mark the dates on a calendar hanging on your kitchen wall.

Personally I still use a Filofax - but alerts can be set up on phones, tablets, laptops, etc etc.

We all forget things - I certainly do - but in the end it's up to the individual.

JohnBravo

I am aware of the calendars and reminders.

This is about something else that happened as a coincidence. With a tax disk still on my windscreen probably I would not miss that date.
And tax discs have been scrapped the same year the remainders have been lost.
Looking at your posts I can see that all of you have received them.

This pattern is too obvious too me and don't tell me that there is no conspiracies when it comes to money.
They should scrap their reminders as well if this is unreliable and if they do not take any responsibility.

Also I am sure the number of scrapped cars in result of pounding has increased and someone is doing this dodgy thing in untraceable manner, geographically random. My car is old and who knows if they haven't marked it as perfect for pounding, so it can get scrapped. "Lets freeze reminders of these poor people!"
Someone at DVLA is able to pull these levers.

Sorry but many drivers do not release their cars once pounded, because sometimes it is more than £600 and if the car is worth £1200 it makes 50% of the value. More scrapped cars, a bigger sale of new cars, more people with car mortgages.

I am also thinking about people that go on holiday for longer time and come back to their home to find all this crap or the car already pounded.