mot, insurance, tax ordered online - can you still drive?

[S8QUATTRO]

Car is mot'd and insured, tax ordered online but car had been sorn'd

Can this be driven on the roads whilst tax is in the post? the dvla website is not clear

Thanks

[SS2.]

When was the SORN due to expire, and when was the disc ordered ?

[saaby93]

Look at Cats post half way down here
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...
It implies that you have 5 days from the end of when the relevant declaration was in force.
i.e. 5 days from when you take out tax and unSORN
However DVLA tends to SORN/unSORN on whole month boundaries rather than use the actual date and might take that as the end of the relevant declaration

[aw51 121565]

See http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/pressoffice/pressreleas... . The 5 days' "period of grace" applies to continuous licensing only, as long as the new tax disc is purchased before the old one expires.

Admittedly, a quick Google generally only throws up stuff from 2008 on the first page and I didn't go any further. If anyone can produce anything more recent then please do and put us out of our misery .

[SS2.]

aw51 121565 said:

The 5 days' "period of grace" applies to continuous licensing only..

And SORN.

[henrycrun]

just to clarify, does buying new VED automatically un-SORN a car ? (or is there yet more to do)

[SS2.]

henrycrun said:

does buying new VED automatically un-SORN a car ?

Yes.

[S8QUATTRO]

thanks, collect tomorrow then

[saaby93]

you can do a vehicle enguiry here
https://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/app...

[Jayfish]

You're fine to go except for one thing, which is failure to display VED, you'd have to be seriously unlucky to fall foul of it though as traffic wardens generally put an enforcement notice on if they see an untaxed car, this triggers a DVLA response, who will see that it is actually taxed.