HELP PLEASE ! DVLA Fine for un-taxed car on SORN

AndyMc.....

stevehull73 wrote: »

I borrowed and paid £100 Clamp Removal fee on the day. Does anyone know where the £410 figure comes from as the most recent fine for someone was £160. I fully accept that I shouldn’t have left the car on the roadside. What I am struggling to accept is the DVLA fine. Would the DVLA accept payment by instalments ? Say £20 a week ?

No, it would need to be a court fine or an agreement with the bailiffs to pay weekly.

Aylesbury_Duck

My advice? Don't spend time and energy trying to argue the level of the fine. You've been caught at that is the fine. Spend your energies raising the funds to pay it. Can you sell the car? If it was SORNed anyway it suggests you don't need to use it.

stevehull73

AdrianC wrote: »

He saw the car on the road. The letters "OR" in SORN mean "OFF ROAD". Bingo. Bang to rights.

Even if you say "Well, being parked there is different" (it isn't), you clearly didn't carry it there and place it carefully without rotating a single tyre, did you?

If £410 results in "bankruptcy", it may be a better idea to sell the car that you're not using, instead of insuring, MOTing and taxing it.

I could try and say I borrowed a forklift and carried it there ! . Maybe not..........

waamo

stevehull73 wrote: »

I could try and say I borrowed a forklift and carried it there ! . Maybe not..........

It still wouldn't be off road. If you are genuinely struggling your only option is to go to court and set up a payment plan. Sadly there is a possibility you may incur extra costs for doing this.

You could plead not guilty but from what you say you have no defence. If you do this and are found guilty the costs will be even higher so unless you come up with a viable defence this is not a sensible option. Only being on the road 2 hours or you can't afford to pay it are not viable defences.

cajef

stevehull73 wrote: »

it was on the roadside for literally 2 hours whilst work was being done in the drive/garden.

In your OP you state it was on the roadside for a couple of days now it was only two hours, which was it?

Aylesbury_Duck

cajef wrote: »

In your OP you state it was on the roadside for a couple of days now it was only two hours, which was it?

Two weeks, perhaps? Maybe even two months? What's in a unit, after all?

AnotherJoe

stevehull73 wrote: »

Hi All,
I’m hoping someone can help, this morning a DVLA letter arrived saying I have until the 21st January to pay a fine of £410. My car whilst on SORN had to be left on the roadside for a couple of days whilst work was being done on the drive. I accept that the car should not have been parked on the road outside my home, but I had no other option*.

Of course you did, and your reasoning is tantamount to saying its OK to break the law if its inconvenient to do otherwise.


BTW, if this is moving your close to bankruptcy, was it wise to spend money on your drive?


* (use neighbours, friends, colleagues drive. Flatbed it to storage. UnSORN it.park it on your lawn. Sell it)