issues with re-registering, MOT, tax etc post-sale

[nadnodbe]

Hi!

I've just bought a car for my family. I bought if from a reputable trade seller, who, incidentally seemed like a genuinely nice, honest chap, FWIW...

The car was owned from new by a leasing company, and was then bought at auction by my trade seller.

The only problem(s) are...

- I was given the V5C when I bought the car, but the trade seller didn't sign it. We were rushed in completing so I'm wondering if this just got forgotten.

- I notice on the V5C the ownership hasn't changed from the leasing company to the trade seller. HOWEVER, section 9 of the V5C is missing, which I believe is the bit which is filled in when the car is sold into the motor trade? So probably nothing to worry about there.

- The MOT is due to expire. It expires on the 1st of March.
However, I am wondering if I can even get the MOT done if the car is not in my name, i.e. on the V5C?

- The road tax. The car is missing its tax disc, but still has some tax on it according to the DVLA website. It doesn't say specifically when the tax expires, it just says something like "EXPIRING" or "DUE TO EXPIRE". I have asked the seller if he has the tax disc and he says not.

So I have a few administrative problems I need to fix before I can begin to enjoy and use the car. But there seems to me an order in which the above problems need to be resolved.

I have read a few threads where people have said it's not that big a deal that the V5C didn't get signed because if I post it to the DVLA with a covering letter they probably won't be too fussed.

Is there any way I could use a combination of online/post office transactions to mitigate the paperwork being out of date etc? i.e. I was thinking that whilst I don't have a tax disc, the car is apparently taxed, so I could go online to get a new tax disc...problem then is that it would be posted to the seller.

Any/all help much appreciated!

Thanks

[C. Grimsley]

Sounds like no issue to me, sign the v5 and just send it off, no big deal, he got it like that and passed it on to you in the same manner, you can do the mot, anyone car present a car for a test, no need to be the owner.

I would say the car has either had the tax disc returned to dvla as only the owner now can cash in any time left on it or it's about to expire and been removed by the auction house.

It's win win.

Carl

Edited by C. Grimsley on Sunday 5th January 20:48

[nadnodbe]

C. Grimsley said:

Sounds like no issue to me

But technically I'm committing an offence by driving it without a tax disc even though it has tax?

[C. Grimsley]

nadnodbe said:

But technically I'm committing an offence by driving it without a tax disc even though it has tax?

You can call the dvla and ask them when it's due to expire, if I was in your shoes I would just take the new keepers part of the v5 and the mot with your insurance and just re tax it, you could even just hpgive them the logbook and they will send it to the dvla and a new one should turn up in your name after a couple of weeks.

be safe is better than being sorry, if the car comes up as taxed there would be no issue for the police to pull you it's just when it's sat on the side of the road and the traffic wardens see it, don't think they would have the data base to check.

Carl