E39 M5 Road Tax
Discussion
Right - just so I am clear on this, I have an M5 registered about mid April 2001 so I pay £445 for my road tax. Someone else has the same car but registered 6 weeks before mine and pays £185.
What on earth has this got to do with co2 emmissions or am I missing something?
Is there a polictically party that is pro car? If so they will get my vote
What on earth has this got to do with co2 emmissions or am I missing something?
Is there a polictically party that is pro car? If so they will get my vote
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/UNFAIR-VED/
Im sure it wont change anything but only takes 2 seconds to do.
I also signed the petition for making 'witchcraft'a religion, just for a laugh. They only had a couple of hundred signatures.
Im sure it wont change anything but only takes 2 seconds to do.
I also signed the petition for making 'witchcraft'a religion, just for a laugh. They only had a couple of hundred signatures.
Forget the face lift, its the vanos issues sorted you want to be sure about, and if you look on M5board you'll see engine numbers before and after the sorting. My April 2001 car is a fair few after but I don't know how many cars BMW made in a month 
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Totally false economy to be happy you got a pre march car and then have to fork out for vanos problems.
.Totally false economy to be happy you got a pre march car and then have to fork out for vanos problems.
crusty said:
Right - just so I am clear on this, I have an M5 registered about mid April 2001 so I pay £445 for my road tax. Someone else has the same car but registered 6 weeks before mine and pays £185.
What on earth has this got to do with co2 emmissions or am I missing something?
Is there a polictically party that is pro car? If so they will get my vote
Correct.What on earth has this got to do with co2 emmissions or am I missing something?
Is there a polictically party that is pro car? If so they will get my vote
Sorry mate. Labour don't want to upset pikeys with big engined cars which are old. So they've selected a cut off date, which you missed.
You know who to vote for next time.
Edited by Vesuvius 996 on Tuesday 18th March 09:56
E38 said:
So when exactly did the facelift happen? Im looking for a E39 but really dont want to pay the government any more than I have to...
If you are talking about the M5, then engine modifications were done in March 2000. Pistonrings were changed as was a VANOS oil pressure acculimator (spelling). Visual faclift was done in Sept 2000 which was angel eye headlamps, widescreen Sat Nav etc.
Regarding the tax situation, it will affect 'Y' reg cars onwards.
Neil.D said:
E38 said:
So when exactly did the facelift happen? Im looking for a E39 but really dont want to pay the government any more than I have to...
If you are talking about the M5, then engine modifications were done in March 2000. Pistonrings were changed as was a VANOS oil pressure acculimator (spelling). Visual faclift was done in Sept 2000 which was angel eye headlamps, widescreen Sat Nav etc.
Regarding the tax situation, it will affect 'Y' reg cars onwards.
I have just had a look at the car tax rules website www.direct.gov.uk
I still think that the higher rate of tax is only applicable for cars registered on or after 23/03/2006 (two thousand and six)
Can someone please double check for me ?
I still think that the higher rate of tax is only applicable for cars registered on or after 23/03/2006 (two thousand and six)
Can someone please double check for me ?
Edited by gavm5 on Tuesday 18th March 22:08
Edited by gavm5 on Tuesday 18th March 22:09
Edited by gavm5 on Tuesday 18th March 22:10
This link sets it out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/729301...
As someone with 6 and 7 year old cars, doing about 6k miles in each per year, I can't see how they can justify £880 road tax + the tax on fuel? It's nothing more than an anti motorist con.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/729301...
As someone with 6 and 7 year old cars, doing about 6k miles in each per year, I can't see how they can justify £880 road tax + the tax on fuel? It's nothing more than an anti motorist con.
M'lud, it's theft, state theft at that, predicated on what the dogs of the left perceive as some derivative of their favourite tipple, class war.
Great, isn't it? 'We' can always afford that little bit more because 'it's alright for them,' as it were.
Trouble is, all these little 'bits' add up, death by a thousand cuts...
Any idea what my R400 exhibit is going to cost me next time? 1500 miles in 4 years from new, it must have the CO2 yield of an aphid's rectum so how, by what tenuously scrotumless test of reasonableness is that just?
Britain is witnessing a tide of barely concealed communism and it is time camel, camel laden with semtex, went ape in Westminster, to deliver a whirlwind of retribution against these bourgois trots, after which men wearing tweed and armed with grape shot can assume control.
We are quite knackered.
Great, isn't it? 'We' can always afford that little bit more because 'it's alright for them,' as it were.
Trouble is, all these little 'bits' add up, death by a thousand cuts...
Any idea what my R400 exhibit is going to cost me next time? 1500 miles in 4 years from new, it must have the CO2 yield of an aphid's rectum so how, by what tenuously scrotumless test of reasonableness is that just?
Britain is witnessing a tide of barely concealed communism and it is time camel, camel laden with semtex, went ape in Westminster, to deliver a whirlwind of retribution against these bourgois trots, after which men wearing tweed and armed with grape shot can assume control.
We are quite knackered.
gavm5 said:
I have just had a look at the car tax rules website www.direct.gov.uk
I still think that the higher rate of tax is only applicable for cars registered on or after 23/03/2006 (two thousand and six)
Can someone please double check for me ?
Sorry, wrong.I still think that the higher rate of tax is only applicable for cars registered on or after 23/03/2006 (two thousand and six)
Can someone please double check for me ?
Any car registered after 31st March 2001 will attract the higher rates e.g. if you have an April 2001 M5 then it's £445 a year.
Definitive.
Vesuvius 996 said:
gavm5 said:
I have just had a look at the car tax rules website www.direct.gov.uk
I still think that the higher rate of tax is only applicable for cars registered on or after 23/03/2006 (two thousand and six)
Can someone please double check for me ?
Sorry, wrong.I still think that the higher rate of tax is only applicable for cars registered on or after 23/03/2006 (two thousand and six)
Can someone please double check for me ?
Any car registered after 31st March 2001 will attract the higher rates e.g. if you have an April 2001 M5 then it's £445 a year.
Definitive.
Bit more research:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/Budget200...
Defo from 1st march 01. Feck.
Edited by dazren on Wednesday 19th March 10:57
DannyB2007 said:
So an X reg M5 is the ONE to go for now then, cheaper tax and the vanos sorted right?
That's what I've got (although the car is currently not without problems)! To be serious though, any taxing of high capacity vehicles is stupid. The tax should be incorporated in fuel costs (just an extra 1p would cover it). That way you integrate fuel consumption rate with miles driven i.e., you're taxed for the emissions you produce. You can currently own a high capacity car and do very few miles in it per year, producing less total emissions than a Prius but pay many times more road tax. It's not at all fair and just another way for the government to justify extra tax. I'm glad I live in Scotland and will be opting out of the UK as soon as the opportunity presents itself!Gassing Station | M Power | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff