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Looking at a car this Sat afternoon. I assume I cant drive home it if it doesn't have any tax? Or is there some other short term solution that the DVLA have in place?
If it's got no tax you're not allowed to drive it - or even park it on the roads. No way round that one. Given widespread use of ANPR, probably not worth chancing it nowadays either.
Yes, get the seller to tax it for you then drive it off. If no insurance then you will need to get a cover note from your insurance company.
Grr... Thanks for the info.
[url= https://www.tempcover.com/ ]Temp Cover[/url] Insurance - From one day upwards is worth a look. Instant insurance, saves waiting for cover notes etc....
I don't see how temp cover offers any benefits...but Shirley non-temporary insurance is required to tax the car?
Probably easier to get a local small garage to collect it for you
cost me £35 [cash in hand] to do that a few weeks back
You need to keep it off the road though until taxed
You can send a good quality colour copy (or original if reputable seller) of your insurance certificate, and get the seller to tax on your behalf. Temporary insurance usually won't count for taxing, and usually there is a statement to that effect on the certificate itself.
When I did this I made teh seller wait until I had Ins Cert and tax.
We bought a car from a car supermarket and what they do is you get instant cover via some insurance company over the phone who fax the cover note to the car supermarket. They then can release the car and 'suggest' you drive to the nearest Post Office to get the tax...even gave us a map! We actually just drove home and went to our local Post Office.
'suggest' you drive to the nearest Post Office to get the tax...even gave us a map! We actually just drove home and went to our local Post Office.
Both of which are illegal (unless you drive to the post office in an old currently taxed car).
Get the seller to tax it. It's a good bargaining point as well.
offer £500 less than you would for the inconvenience of sorting the tax, etc. 😈
assuming you're only going to "look at it" today rather than "buy" it today, If you like it, say you'll buy it but you want it taxed from Monday, and offer to pay the price of 6 months tax disc.
Is it a private seller or garage/dealer? If it's a dealer they can usually do the '7 day free insurance' thing & sort the tax out for you, then you go pick it up already taxed next Saturday. If it's private, well they'll still be insured on it in their own name, so not a problem
DON'T let them tax it today, you'll lose 1 month's RFL
Buy it then phone your local garage to book an MOT, you allowed to drive an untaxed car to a pre-booked test and nothing to stop you having an MOT test done a car which has still has a certificate. Whether or not you turn up to that to the test is none of the DVLA's business, maybe everything felt fine on the way there and you decided not to bother...
Interesting idea - the trouble being that you're only allowed to drive to and from the test, not book a test and then drive the car home from where you've bought it without going to the test. If you got caught on ANPR then I don't suppose they'd be very impressed if you claimed you were driving to and from a test which you didn't actually turn up for - particularly given no normal sane person would have an MOT done on a car which still had months to run on the current one. Would be pretty obvious you were trying to cheat the system, not something which goes down well!
given no normal sane person would have an MOT done on a car which still had months to run on the current one.
now I've certainly done that before [in order to make it a better proposition for buyers]
mind you, I may not be sane 🙂
I obviously should have qualified that "no normal sane person who's just bought a car and isn't a car dealer"