URGENT!!Car Tax??

[LeeDewell0121]

Quick question:

If i have just bought a car (without tax) can i still drive it back from the location i bought it from to my home address.? with a reciept off the seller?

[SAM-S44MDS-]

If it aint taxed, it aint taxed. Shouldnt be driving it

[craig180]

You will have up until the 14th day of any month to tax the car, which you can do at a post office with the new keeper supplement, otherwise no.

[jonsey]

Just go to the post office and get a tax disc then drive home?

[JoshB]

Or risk it for a biscuit

[LeeDewell0121]

I cant because:

i have just change dmy insuranc eover to this new car, and it takes upto 7 days for the new insurance cert to come through.

[LeeDewell0121]

from london to birmingham? i ent risking it with no tax

[Silky]

You could risk it, but at that distance I wouldn't bother. There are so many camera's these days that one of them is bound to pick you up.

If it was a few miles then personally I would drive it back, but I wouldn't do that distance.

Either wait for the insurance docs to come through or phone up your insurer and get them to email them through

[makaveli144]

You dont need the insurance cert,tax the car online aslong as you have insurance.

It will check the database so you dont need the ceet. then you have taxed the car you just wont have the disk

[LeeDewell0121]

tried phoneing and saying to email them but apparently they cant do that anymore! :( worth mentioning it been off road for the past month

[Hatcha]

Are you feeling lucky? Risk it son.

[LeeDewell0121]

makaveli - it states i need an mot, insurance cert and logbook to tax at post office

[Manu]

You dont need the insurance cert if you have just bought the car.

wrong, you do need an insurance certificate and valid MOT to purchase a tax disc

[Pixie]

Surely if you have changed your insurance over the Phone and you put your start date to change for today's date, you are insured ?! :err:

Tax then drive home :y:

[Prickle]

You'll be alright. ;)

Take a risk, go on, go onnnn.

[swampy]

You dont need the insurance cert,tax the car online aslong as you have insurance.

It will check the database so you dont need the ceet. then you have taxed the car you just wont have the disk

and as he isnt the registered keeper the new disk goes to the chap he has just purchased the car from!!

not a very bright idea!

[Moke]

Or risk it for a chocolate biscuit

Corrected :A:

[LeeDewell0121]

i will be insured straight away however, it takes upto 7 days to register with dvla, so cant do it online, and with no certificate i cant do by post office

[LeeDewell0121]

the disc goin to previous owner isnt a prob as he sed he will post it to me

[MikeYost]

Only thing you can do if you want to get it home today is tax it online, the tax disc will be sent to the previous owner though so you'll have to agree with him in the reciept for the car that he will send the disc when it arrives.

You obv won't have a tax disc in the car but your car will be taxed.

[LeeDewell0121]

as stated above it takes upto 7 days to register on the database so couldnt do it onine

[bonesvtr]

ive been pulled for this before and the copper was understanding and let me carry on, just told me to get it taxed in the morning.

but i bet not all of them will be so leniant:n:

[SAM-S44MDS-]

Trouble with that is if you get a c*nt of a copper on a bad day, you're f*cked :n:

[LeeDewell0121]

^ very lucky. like you said not all coppers are understanding.

[wadoryu]

im pretty sure as long as you have paid the money to the dvla you have tax. because you are allowed a run off period of 5 or 7 days for not showing a tax disc. phone the dvla

[LeeDewell0121]

i cant purchase online though because it checks the database and it takes upto 7 days to register although i will be insured straight away.

and obvs i wont have a cert to go to post office.

[Tringaling]

I drive my old one home from Bradford :)

[swampy]

and if it has being sorn for the last month it wont let you tax online

when mine came off sorn i had to go in to the post office to tax it

[Manu]

i will be insured straight away however, it takes upto 7 days to register with dvla, so cant do it online, and with no certificate i cant do by post office

That happened to me, ad to wait for the paperwork before I could get the disc. Then I was all legal, taxed and insured etc. and still got pulled over by the police. Their computers apparently take a while to be updated.

[SAM-S44MDS-]

Is the guy selling the car still insured on it? If he is, ask him to tax it, but you will pay :y:

[LeeDewell0121]

DAMN! so any suggestions or alternatives?? Ive got to get the car back from london to birmingham.

[LeeDewell0121]

no hes not insured on it. i already asked him, he sed he wudnt have a prob but he not insured.

[SAM-S44MDS-]

DAMN! so any suggestions or alternatives?? Ive got to get the car back from london to birmingham.

Trailer/transporter.

[LeeDewell0121]

dont know anyone unfortuantely with one.

[SAM-S44MDS-]

Get a company to move it then :y:

[LeeDewell0121]

to costly?

[SAM-S44MDS-]

Only way you can do it tbh.
If you cant tax it, he cant tax it, you wont drive it and you dont know anyone with a trailer/flatbed or anything. Then the only way to do it is pay a company to collect it for you. Or dont buy then car :S

[LeeDewell0121]

Damn! i think im gunna ring up DVLA and see what they say.

[chinkostu]

they'd tell you to go and buy a taxdisc from the post office ;)

can't print off a cert online??

the only other option is early morning driving, or getting a transporter

[LeeDewell0121]

nah i asked the insurance to send the cert through email or fax and they cant apparently

[SAM-S44MDS-]

they'd tell you to go and buy a taxdisc from the post office ;)

can't print off a cert online??

the only other option is early morning driving, or getting a transporter


London to Birmingham is a bit risky though aint it. Cameras everywhere these days aswell :n:

[Saxguy]

what if you got temp cover they should email you a cert as soon as they get the money?

[MikeYost]

Guess you'll just have to wait for insurance to come through..

[sebo123]

what about the little bit of the v5 you get, the whole idea of that is so you can get tax while the document is getting updated??

[chinkostu]

what about the little bit of the v5 you get, the whole idea of that is so you can get tax while the document is getting updated??

no insurance certificate so can't do it

me and a mate got a punto back from stevenage with no tax ;)

[LeeDewell0121]

^ How? lol.

[rowza]

Cover the task disk, Special paint the Reg plates SORTED

[chinkostu]

^ How? lol.

was about 2am. bloody lucky tbh lol

[DannyVTS]

Who are you with ? Insurance wise?

You can print off insurance docs online and the post office will accept them, if your company does this

[LeeDewell0121]

with tesco's. already phoned them and they wont send one through fax or e-mail.

[DannyVTS]

what a joke

do you know anyone with a traders account? they can tax any car iirc

[LeeDewell0121]

unfortunately i don't! :(

[jonsey]

go on ecar and get temp cover for cheeeeeaaap, then print it off and bobs your aunty cup cake =]

[LeeDewell0121]

do you get the insurance certificate straght away though?

[Silky]

You can print it off but I didn't think you could buy tax with a temporary cover form

[LeeDewell0121]

i just got a quote off ecar for 1 days cover. £10. Not bad at all. providing i can get tax with the insurance certifiate.

[LeeDewell0121]

Just been told that, i cant go to a post office to get tax with a insurance certificate printed off and the post office wont accept a 1 day insurance certificate to get tax?

[CampDavid]

They won't accept it. It's a pain.

Options are a mate with trade plates or get the insurance now for 7 days time and go down then

[dave-richards]

and if it has being sorn for the last month it wont let you tax online

when mine came off sorn i had to go in to the post office to tax it

think thats wrong, my car was stood 3 years and sorn, i taxed it online with no issues

[0rang3peel]

If it's just tax, I would risk it. You can only incur a fine if stuff like MOT then fook that!

[Chris-VTR]

Tbh mate the only option there is, is to just sit tight and hope royal mail sort themselves out! I'm in exactly the same situation at the minute. Bought myself another vtr on monday night, at newcastle (Only 30/40 mile from me) And just risked driving it strait home down the A1. Been dieing to drive it but have to wait for the doc's. I've tried every possible way and did the same with my old BMW too, only thing at all that we can do is wait.

Tomorow is the fourth working day so i've got fingers crossed :) I'm guessing if you have no other option you'll just have to sort something along the lines of the seller keeping a hold of the car untill the docs come then go get it?

[Dizzy]

Just drive it home. £45 fine and no points for driving without a valid tax disc. If police pull you up for it just say you taxed it online that day and dont have the disc through.