Written Off Car SORN weirdness

[Yertis]

Back in the summer a guy crashed into my daughter's Ka, breaking the bumper and not much else. Admitted liability no probs there. Insurance guy came out and declared the car and insurance write off as repairs to cost more than value of car etc. Car still perfectly drivable so daughter glues bumper back together and car passes MoT, carries on driving. Insurance settlement comes through, and she asks what to do with the car now. Insurance say "whatever you like, we don't want it" so she carries on driving the taxed and newly MoT'd car. Insurance company renew insurance at appropriate time. She's now gone off to University and has left car in Gran's garage, and asked me to get it SORNed.

DVLA won't let me SORN it, saying some stuff about change to vehicle status. Is this because of the insurance write-off thing? I've never written a car off before (at least not so that it wasn't very obviously written off). What goes on in this situation? I can't find anything on the DVLA site about this.

[Yertis]

Digging around a bit more it looks like I need to get a VIC done, then I can do a SORN. But if I don't do a VIC do I still need to SORN?

[Yertis]

Its all a PITA. The car is now 70 miles away tucked up for the winter. I'll phone DVLA on Monday.

[Yertis]

Some of the metalwork supporting the bumper was bent, and repairing that, new bumper plus spraying easily more than value of the car.

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Gaspode said:

pulling some metalwork back into shape, a bit of epoxy resin and 5 minutes with a rattle can would probably do equally as good a job as a repair, and cost a tiny fraction of the amount.

Which is exactly how I introduced my 19 year old daughter to the fine art of the bodge...

[Yertis]

Can't get anywhere online, beyond putting that code that's on the V5 in. Then it says "incorrect tax status or vehicle status changed" or something like that, and bumps me out.

[Yertis]

Well that's the thing, I think the big computer no longer recognises that the car even exists.

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shushu said:

I've got a Cat C that hasn't had a VIC. So far I have found that I don't receive tax reminders anymore and also I cant tax the car online.

The only way to tax it is at the Post office. You could try filling out form V890 and see if they will sorn it for you that way at the Post Office.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.