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Bit of a weird one this...
I know someone who owns a car. They've not changed the registered keepers address for 2 house moves, their MOT is out of date by 6 months, and so is their insurance.
Feel like I should do someting, but saying "You need to get it sorted" has fallen on deaf ears.
Suggestions please.
nick the keys and the spares and throw them away?
It's clearly not a lapse in admin. He clearly dose not take the responsibility of driving seriously. No insurance e.t.c increase the probability of hit and run in the event of an accident e.t.c
How close a friend is he? How much influence do you have? Dose he have a partner / family?
Go joy riding in it? they must get pulled soon, plenty of anpr out there now.
Apply to be the registered keep of it yourself from the DVLA and wind them up that the car is now yours (after you've stole the keys) 🙂
No question if they don't have insurance grass them in. If it's a close mate then think along the lines of your doing them a favour.
Shop him and get the police to crush the car.
Shop him....think of the kids... and the baby robins!
shop him - driving with no insurance is not acceptable - he has not updated the registered keeper so as to attempt to avoid being caught for no insurance
Shop him - no excuse for that situation.
How has (s)he managed to avoid ANPR for six months?
They'll get caught when the tax expires as he'll need the other docs to buy tax. If they don't SORN, they'll get caught and by the sounds of it they won't SORN as all the reminders will go elsewhere.
Just contact the police, anpr should spot it if they go driving in it anyway, you wouldn't like it if there was an accident.
Mate or not a mate?
If the latter, then give the plod a ring.
shop him - driving with no insurance is not acceptable
+1 regardless of what type of "mate" he is..
Set it alight. A nice fire is always lovely.
Get some new friends ??
Cheers all, he's a pretty good mate/work colleague.
Whenever I try to bring it up, I get told it's none of my business.
Well, he certainly values your friendship
Turn a blind eye from now on and when he does eventually get nicked, you can always say "I told you so..." in a seriously patronising manner. 🙄
crimestoppers
Whenever I try to bring it up, I get told it's none of my business.
Remind him, preferably one to one with no witnesses, that it [b]IS[/b] your business if his un-MOT'd vehicle is not road worthy and as a result injures or kills one of your loved ones.
If you've got no tax,insurance or mot and run over a pedestrain/cyclist, the incentive is to flee the scene so you don't get caught rather than help. This is exactly what happened to a friend a few weeks ago. Car drove off leaving them lying in the road. It was only some passers by that came to help. It was all reported to the police who confirmed the lack of tax/insurance.
It is your business. Shop him as it's costing you £30 a year in premium to cover his risk.
scrape his face off with a hammer drill then beat him to death with your penis, its what a real man would do
shop him.
as he's not insured any accident he has be it into another vehicle or into a person won't be covered by him but by the rest of us and higher premiums. if he doesn't care then he should.
it is your business you've tried to do the friendly thing and unless you're happy to stump up the cost of doing it for him there aint owt else you can do.
if it's parked in the company car park so long as it's on public display the coppers can wander on doing a 'spot' check. if they've had a tip off it'd be hard to tell.
scrape his face off with a hammer drill then beat him to death with your penis, its what a real man would do
Then shop him after you've set fire to his car.
Think I covered it there.
if it's parked in the company car park so long as it's on public display the coppers can wander on doing a 'spot' check. if they've had a tip off it'd be hard to tell.
Security in the place I used to work would inform the DVLA if discs were out of date in the company car park.
PM me his number plate and where you work. I'll shop him. 😉
There's a DVLA website where you can report untaxed cars without giving your name IIRC....
surely
Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure...
Here, scroll down a bit for the link:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/UntaxedVehicle/DG_4022073
If you don't shop him, you're as big a dickhead as he is.
Why is it ok to set fire to it?
Criminal offence, wilful fire raising..you'd get cell next to each other.
As Dangriff says really! There is only 1 reason why someone would leave "previous keeper only" details adn that is they are up to something dodgy, add in the no MOT and they clearly are up to something very dodgy. As already mentioned this is shooting your (and our)insurance premiums up, un insured drivers get away with murder, and the Motor Insurance Bureau stump up (hence our higher policies). No MOT .. mmm dodgy AGAIN!
What police force are you? Either crime stoppers or ring the local police and tell them you want to remain anonymous, again there will be a roads policing intelligence department who will receive this information then one day catch up out (hopefully).
If he knocks someone down as his car is ****ed becuase he hasn't had an MOT..how would you feel then?
Stop wasting your time on STW and report it.
Ps you'd be quick to get on STW and moan and bit** if you got hit by an uninsured driver with no MOT, so this is no different.
it's none of your business.
So did this mate blab all this out as some kind of boast ? If it were me in his shoes I'd be keeping stumn, not broadcasting to info to all and sundry. Is he a loaf short of a picnic or something ?
You have to tell him you don't want to be his friend no more.
I don't know how people get away without insurance.
One of my landys was off the road for a bit as I was working on it. I put it back on the road one sunday, got insurance that day etc. I got 20 miles before a passing police car scanned my numberplate and picked up that I had no insurance (their system hadn't updated that day)
How people get away with it long-term is beyond me.
Oh, and shop them, no question.
How people get away with it long-term is beyond me.
Fake (cloned) plates ?
Bring it up one more time, when he says it's none of your business, ask him if he saw the ad on telly last night offering £1000 for info on un-MOT'ed and uninsured drivers (and it's a grand for each offence apparently, and the same again for out of date owner's info). Tell him you've got a holiday planned and you're a bit skint. Take your phone out and walk away looking at it in a "Should i, shouldn't I" sort of way
Shop him. I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't got a current license either.
Remember, driving is a priviledge, not a right and come with conditions. If they can't afford insurance / Tax / MOT, then they shouldn't be driving at all and get on a bus or bike
No "last chances", just shop him. It's serious stuff and I'm hacked off with paying a premium to cover his/her stupidity.
Remember, driving is a priviledge, not a right and come with conditions
Took the exact words out of my mouth.
I think people who flout any law or let cars get into dangerous conditions should have their licenses revoked.
That would be one way the government can get rid of a lot of cars and drivers off the roads which can only be a good thing for everyone.
PS you can double check his tax expiry on the taxdisc site and you could check if he has insurance on the askmid site but that is illegal if you don't own the car.
id shop him and id tell him i was doing it ....
Cheers all, I'll give him one last chance to get it sorted, and then shop him.
He's not boasted about it, I noticed his tax was running out and suggested he should get it sorted (trying to be helpful in case he'd not noticed, he is dopey like that) he then told me he couldn't because his MOT had run out as had his insurance. This was about a week ago, and I've been trying to get him to do something, and getting more concerned that he's not been doing anything.
"This was about a week ago,"
and hes still driving it ....
shop the ****er. Am i alone in that once the mot or tax has run out the car doesnt move till its replaced or im taking it to be mot`d
Shop him! What's the reg no, I'll do it for you!
shop him for all the reasons mentioned above
We pay to cover this risk and there really is no excuse for this sort of behaviour
I would be nicked the first day i did anything like that, oh and shop him ASAP i am paying over the top insurance to cover dickheads like him when they prang another car or hit a kid.
thank him .. tell him you ve dobbed him in and crimestoppers are sending you a cheque..
why on earth are you giving him more time?!?!
Hes abviously doing this deliberately, he hasnt notified them of his change of address (an offence in itself) so he'll claim he never recevied the reminders when he's stopped.
Before he has an accident or hits someone do something - tell him now (or even show him this post) that if he doesnt do something about it youll report him to the police - if he again tells you its none of your business call them - I don't know why youve waited this long
Cheers all, I'll give him one last chance to get it sorted, and then shop him.
Whats wrong with 'shopping him' now?
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I'd stop mentioning it to him and avoid him and then shop him.
A bit cowardly I know but he's not worth the trouble it could cause at work etc.
Just give us the reg number and we'll do it online.
How nice
Only become someone elses moral compass when you are sure yours works properly.