So angry...

lesley1960

DVLA do get it wrong , we had a letter saying one of our lorries wasnt taxed , we sent them a copy of the disc and they agreed they were wrong , they have also sent us a letter about one we took off the road and they had refunded the tax !

Wig

vaio wrote: »

hold on….

You bought a car from a garage, it came with tax which whilst apparently being legal subsequently turns out to be fake?

Sounds to me like you need to refer it all back to the garage coupled with a police report. I’d also get some legal advice and not pay anything until I did.

By all means, try to recover losses from the garage, but you'd be a fool to not pay a police issued fine in your name, and if and when the DVLA decide to fine the keeper, then by all means put the matter into dispute with them, but at the end of the day if you get no joy, you would again be a fool to not pay up to mitigate the loss, rather than go to court and tell the magistrate that you were driving a car you had bought from a garage and you hadn't bothered to check yourself that everything was legal.

windswept

Have I said anywhere that I don't intend to pay the fine?
I've already paid it, thank you.

Wig

windswept wrote: »

Have I said anywhere that I don't intend to pay the fine?
I've already paid it, thank you.

Who are you talking to? I was talking to Vaio.

windswept

Sorry, wires crossed - my head's all over the place - just found out that the tax ran out at the end of September last year!:eek:
How we've been able to run around in it since then without being pulled, I don't know.
I don't know who I'm more annoyed with - myself for never noticing the disc was wrong, the car dealer for either putting in the wrong disc or not noticing, or the DVLA for not informing me when I registered the car with them, on the enquiry page it says 28th December was when the V5 was issued to me, so they have had a full 3 months to contact me.:mad:
I was even going to tax the car early as we go on hols in a fortnight, sod's law, eh?:rolleyes:

taxiphil

Markyt wrote: »

That isn't water damage. How often does enough water get on the inside of the windscreen to affect the tax disc?

It sounds to me like solvent was used to blur the details.

Agreed.

Furthermore, Post Offices certainly don't use pens with water soluble ink when they write the reg. no. on the tax disc.

The garage or the previous owner have deliberately tried to conceal the fact that's it's a tax disc from a different vehicle.

simongregson

If the car was sold 'with x month's tax' then you have a claim against the garage as the goods were not 'as described'. Seek the advice of your local trading standards department, it would help if you had some kind of printed description or receipt for the car which states that it is taxed.

TangledMemories_2

As someone who used to work for the DVLA let me just advise of something:

The issuing of tax reminder forms are purely as a courtesy and are only issued to 70-80% of the registered vehicles on the database. In the eyes of the law, it is the vehicle keeper's responsibility to ensure their vehicle is taxed at all times.

I'm not intending to be nasty or anything...just a bit of advice if anyone ever tries to use the argument of "you never sent me a reminder" with the DVLA because that is the answer you'll get I'm afraid. It isn't fair...but I guess the government are trying to ensure more responsibility is with the driver.

I can also advise you that when a garage or anyone for that matter, taxes a vehicle...all paperwork is sent to Swansea and is scanned onto the system. Therefore, the DVLA will hold a record of any tax, cherished transfer etc that has taken place on that vehicle in the form of a "scanned" image of the form.
Whether they can issue it to you under the Data Protection act I am unsure...however, it may be worth writing to Swansea or going to your local office and raising the issue with them.