Discussion
Well it's free tax I suppose from a system that penalizes perfectly economical vehicles just for being older and as we no longer have the rolling tax it's taking the identity from a dwindling number of vehicles that are no longer able to claim free tax and sticking it on one which should/eventually qualify under a sensible rolling tax system.
I do not agree that it is right to mislead (for example) an early manufactured example of certain cars being worth more (someone once went on about pull handle MG's on here) and anything else that could be falsified to look like an original and then charged at the premium rate.
But.
I have less of an issue with changing identity than say a percentage of cars advertised (yes, even on PH) when the car is extensively modified and, hey presto, the plate is run through the dvla and the details turn up with a lower capacity engine. I imagine it is also an insurance dodge, possibly an MOT emissions fiddle, because the capacity change will have different figures. We can even go so far as anything with a de-cat pipe that is passing MOT's but should have one fitted by law. Funnily enough I bet some people see no harm in this but moan about everything else.
Worse.
The points accruement system whereby people heavily modify the shell, the suspension, steering and drivetrain but keep the engine the same, well that aint right either - technically the car needs an IVA test due to the number of changes made to the factory specification, but do they declare them ? do they f
k.
Now some car builders do a proper job, and I'd trust their work just looking at it, so no reason to fear an IVA then, eh? Many folk just think, arrrr it's OK, where's the worry, so I've chopped it about a bit?? But IMVHO when you stick some plates on a car and give it a new identity it is far less destructive than some amateur wielding a welder and a toolset making a hash job of a car, that may never pass an IVA but requires one, and then it's sold on and the new owner is oblivious (or, does not care) until he stacks it.
I do not agree that it is right to mislead (for example) an early manufactured example of certain cars being worth more (someone once went on about pull handle MG's on here) and anything else that could be falsified to look like an original and then charged at the premium rate.
But.
I have less of an issue with changing identity than say a percentage of cars advertised (yes, even on PH) when the car is extensively modified and, hey presto, the plate is run through the dvla and the details turn up with a lower capacity engine. I imagine it is also an insurance dodge, possibly an MOT emissions fiddle, because the capacity change will have different figures. We can even go so far as anything with a de-cat pipe that is passing MOT's but should have one fitted by law. Funnily enough I bet some people see no harm in this but moan about everything else.
Worse.
The points accruement system whereby people heavily modify the shell, the suspension, steering and drivetrain but keep the engine the same, well that aint right either - technically the car needs an IVA test due to the number of changes made to the factory specification, but do they declare them ? do they f
k. Now some car builders do a proper job, and I'd trust their work just looking at it, so no reason to fear an IVA then, eh? Many folk just think, arrrr it's OK, where's the worry, so I've chopped it about a bit?? But IMVHO when you stick some plates on a car and give it a new identity it is far less destructive than some amateur wielding a welder and a toolset making a hash job of a car, that may never pass an IVA but requires one, and then it's sold on and the new owner is oblivious (or, does not care) until he stacks it.
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