Buying a car without tax
Discussion
On Saturday I am potentially buying a used car privately, however the vehicle is SORN'd and the reg is not on the motor insurance database so the current owner is unable to tax it. What's the best way around this? I was thinking of doing a HPI check + 7 days driveaway insurance (from http://www.hpicheck.com) and then using the cover note + new keeper supplement to tax the vehicle, would this be possible?
Edited by Janesy B on Thursday 24th March 10:31
The car has 9 months MOT remaining, it wasn't taxed and is sitting around due to the owner having a new car. I don't want to risk driving with no tax as the car is right by Heathrow airport and I suspect I would have at least 1000 cameras watching me. Definitely going to beat the owner down on price due to all this hassle.
WeirdNeville said:
The other option of course is to leave it on his drive for a couple of days while you get it sorted, although I'd want to be very sure I had all the keys in my possession!
Could you leave it there and immobilise it in some way?
I think I'd take the risk and drive it away, it's £40 at worst if you get caught provided you have all other paperwork in order. Get him to write a reciept with time and date on it to help explain your position.
That's what I was planning on doing, well more a case of leaving a deposit, sorting the insurance and then coming back to collect it with the full amount and then popping over the road to tax it with the new keeper's supplement and driving home.Could you leave it there and immobilise it in some way?
I think I'd take the risk and drive it away, it's £40 at worst if you get caught provided you have all other paperwork in order. Get him to write a reciept with time and date on it to help explain your position.
Liquid Knight said:
Get the car insured, then go online to the DVLA website and tax it there. You won't get ANPR hits for failing to display because the car is taxed and you're waiting for the DVLA to post it. The Police allow up to fourteen days for this. Failing that your only other option is to either transporter or trailer the car with all four wheels off the road.
How long will it take for the insurance database to update so I can tax online?Edited by Janesy B on Thursday 24th March 09:25
Stuey145 said:
don't see how it's a haggling point if it's advertised as not tax???? JKust because it's causing you ballache why is that the sellers fault?????
Safest, most legal way would be to trailer it.
It wasn't advertised, it was something he mentioned on the phone. It's a haggling point because it makes things awkward - I can't just turn up with temp insurance and drive away. Plus, anything is a haggling point for me Safest, most legal way would be to trailer it.
cuprabob said:
Just ask the previous owner to tax it and add it to the agreed price or negotiate down, job done
It's on his drive on a SORN + no insurance...Opulent said:
Quick word of warning if you've only got a pdf'd copy of the insurance certificate - some Police force's do not class a copy as acceptable if you have to produce. I was stopped in a works car, and given a producer. Company wouldn't let me have the original insurance cert, so I downloaded a copy off the intraweb. Took it to Colchester Police Station, and received a caution (including the whole "you do not have to say anything but anything you say...") for failing to produce an ORIGINAL certificate of insurance. When I laughed and suggested the desk officer was joking, he told me that whilst he sympathised, it was Essex's rules. (I should say that there was no question of me being insured or not, the issue was the fact the certificate was a copy).
So Essex Police don't accept copies, but strangely Suffolk do. Just a heads up.
Thanks for that, I will ask for the PDF so I can tax it + a hard copy if I get a difficult copper.So Essex Police don't accept copies, but strangely Suffolk do. Just a heads up.
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