Buying Used car without Road Tax Disc

Keith

Not for failure to display it can't. The maximum penalty is £200.

Unlicenced vehicles can and will be clamped or removed.

reduceditem

The thing to do in that situation is put a note inside the windscreen where the disc normally is saying ''please don't ticket, will be taxed tomorrow'' and put the date. No guarantees, but I know from experience this can work.

Cars are not clamped and impounded immediately. First a warning notice (and fine) will be placed on the windscreen...24 hours later they come back to remove.

An obvious one...park the car close to a van or something so that at least one number plate can't be seen (the one facing the traffic flow, preferably).

reduceditem

Or park it at the 24 hour Asda.

Lynxette

To be honest, the police and/or DVLA are usually fairly agreeable if you can prove that you only recently bought the car and haven't had the ability to purchase a tax disk yet. Although it doesn't make it any more legal, it will hopefully give you a little peace of mind. :P

On this note, I think my local coppers think I'm either a little nuts, or are running some variety of illegal car-sharing/swapping scheme. :P They have pulled me over three times this year, in three different cars, all untaxed. xD I've give them the same, (genuine) reason each time - I haven't had the ability to purchase a tax disk yet) and although they gave me 5 days to present last time, they've let me off each time. See, how I've ended up in three different cars is since I know my car was going to repo'ed, I started buying cars at auction - Start little, a little motor for £200, clean it up a bit and taz/MOT it and put it back through the auction to claim a little more money on it. Add a little from savings, and buy another. Repeat, until you have a car you want. xD Gone froma Rover costing £180 to a Polo costing £240, to my current punto costing £325

MarkyMarkD

I'm sure you'd make more money if you sold them privately, not at auction.

Lynxette

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

I'm sure you'd make more money if you sold them privately, not at auction.

Probably, but I like having the guarenteed sale or money in hand option that my local auction offers. :P Means I know the car is going to sell without hanging around on my driveway for weeks while I want to be working my way up to a better car.

Keith

which auction are you refering to? If using a main one like BCA the auction fees would hammer any profit, plus you'd have the time between sale and the cheque clearing to be car less.