Getting an untaxed car home

ess0two

pandora205 wrote: »

My son has bought a car from his girlfriend's nan. He hasn't passed his test yet, and it's been kept at their house (Well actually as gf's great grandmother's but that makes no difference). Anyway, they've now decided the car needs to be moved. It's not taxed and my son doesn't have insurance. I would have third party cover on my insurance but the car isn't taxed. As we don't know how long it will take my son to pass his test, it would be premature to tax it. So..... how the heck do we get it home?

I am not prepared to drive it untaxed, so that probably leaves having it towed or driven by a garage with trade plates. How much would that cost - I think it's about four or five miles to our house?

(There is nothing wrong with the car - It's in better nick than mine and was a bargain too).

Any ideas?

Thanks

4-5 miles just drive it home late at night or early morning.

System

enfield_freddy wrote: »

or day insurance book an MOT , but break down outside your house , and cancel the MOT

And then find somewhere off-road to park it because you will need to SORN it..

It should have been SORN'd or taxed, insured and MOT's as soon as son bought it. If it was originally SORN'd then that is automatically cancelled on change of owner as is the tax if not SORN'd

pandora205

It is off road and will be if it is moved to our property. It was SORN'd after he bought it as we thought it could stay where it is now until he passed his test. It's just that the gf's family have changed their minds and now want it moved.

windup

sell it, buy another when (and if) he has passed the test and can afford insurance and running costs, otherwise it's a uninsured millstone devaluing by the minute

=rizla=

I had a car break down outside my g/f's house once, the RAC towed me home for nothing

Nodding_Donkey

!!!!!! wrote: »

It all depends on the insurance company.

E.G. LV do not require any other insurance on the vehicle for it to be driven under DOC

Before anybody says that is rubbish, I actually asked them and have a letter confirming this fact.

This is one of those things that keep getting repeated on here until people seem to accept them as fact.

You're right, LV don't specify the car needs to be insured elsewhere and from memory I've never had insurance that does. I suspect it might be a rule introduced by the cheapo companies and not standard industry practice.

Nodding_Donkey

ess0two wrote: »

4-5 miles just drive it home late at night or early morning.

You do know that ANPR works in the dark? :wall:

BeenThroughItAll

BigBopper wrote: »

May not.

Well, I actually considered using those words, but the proportion of policies in force which actually allow DOC without the other vehicle being insured is so small, I thought 'almost certainly' was closer to the truth than 'may' which more closely implies a 50% likelihood of legality.

foxy-stoat

Hire a car transporter for around £75 or 1 day insurance for £25, if its 5 miles without going on major roads I would probably risk the tax but you can always tax it and pay by direct debit monthly and SORN it when you get home to be 100% legal. You dont really want to risk a large fine for the sake of 1 months worth of VED.

foxy-stoat

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Well, I actually considered using those words, but the proportion of policies in force which actually allow DOC without the other vehicle being insured is so small, I though 'almost certainly' was closer to the truth than 'may' which more closely implies a 50% likelihood of legality.

Eh what???

If the OP is thinking about driving it DOC they need to be 100% sure its insured, it wont be taxed though so if he did get a tug with no insurance in its own right and no tax, it would almost certainly be impounded.