Extremely expensive VED??

Inner_Zone

My previous diesel car was £165
Then my next petrol car was £265
My current diesel car is £185

So all sound correct, OP.

Joe_Horner

AdrianC wrote: »

VED for anything pre 2001, 1550cc+ is £245. That's just the over-time-and-inflation line from what VED used to be for ALL cars before the small engine discount came in in 1999.

This thread just shows how much we've got used to relatively low VEDs due to CO2-test-fiddling over recent years.

Yep, except for my wife's Mondeo which was pre-2001 build but first registered just after the new rules, so gets hit for £300 based on emissions

worried_jim

But they scrapped the tax disc a few years ago so free motoring now.

AdrianC

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Yep, except for my wife's Mondeo which was pre-2001 build but first registered just after the new rules, so gets hit for £300 based on emissions

It goes by registration date, obviously.

mattyprice4004

£546 here, what’s she moaning about?

Joe_Horner

AdrianC wrote: »

It goes by registration date, obviously.

Yeah, which leaves a (very slight) sour taste in your mouth when you pay £45 more per year than an identical car would that happened to be registered - in this case - 6 days earlier!

But that's how it works.

AdrianC

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Yeah, which leaves a (very slight) sour taste in your mouth when you pay £45 more per year than an identical car would that happened to be registered - in this case - 6 days earlier!

But that's how it works.

Caveat emptor...

But at least she had the "new" 51 plate rather than the old Y...

Joe_Horner

AdrianC wrote: »

Caveat emptor...

But at least she had the "new" 51 plate rather than the old Y...

Nope, it's first registered 24th July 2001 and on a Y plate. Obviously had a transfer at some point but not bothered enough to pay for its history to find out when - the Y goes better with the L on mine anyway!

Besides, people tend to see £1k cars as disposable bangers now so the £400 this one cost saved 13 years worth of the difference & I doubt we'll still be running it in 11 years time!

forgotmyname

Same here with a Mondeo. Y reg, registered 17 days after the tax change so I paid something like £40 more than an identical car that was 18 days older.
But it was a very good car so a few quid extra on the tax was soon saved.

My current car is a euro 4 but it will do 60+mpg and my tax is £240. If that was weekly/monthly it would be gone but a year its nothing when you add up all the other costs.

AdrianC

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Nope, it's first registered 24th July 2001 and on a Y plate.

Ah, my apologies - it's the break between X and Y, 1st March 2001, that was when CO2 VED came in - not 1st Sept, Y-51.

So her car's nearly five months past the change-over date.
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables/rates-for-cars-registered-on-or-after-1-march-2001