SORN car with CUP 2s

[jay2000]

I have just SORN my GT4 for the winter but realised that i will only get a refund starting from the beginning of next month. Does that mean that i can still drive the car until the end of the month or have i just wasted 22 days of road tax?

[Discombobulate]

jay2000 said:

I have just SORN my GT4 for the winter but realised that i will only get a refund starting from the beginning of next month. Does that mean that i can still drive the car until the end of the month or have i just wasted 22 days of road tax?

The SORN is immediate so no driving until re-taxed.

[Ken986]

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/

Put your VRM in to this . I suspect it will tell you that your car is now SORN.

[woodysnr]

If you have just sorned your car say today you will not be able to re tax it for another 5 working days.so see no reason to re tax it as you have lost the remaining 23days sadly.

[cuprabob]

SORN is from the day you apply therefore you cannot drive, so effectively you have wasted 22 days tax.

Most cost effective is to SORN on final day of the month and tax on the 1st day of the month.

[jay2000]

Not that i am going to drive it with the current crappy weather. Still

[supersport]

Maybe there's a special dispensation for CUP 2s

[hunter 66]

Yes had my RS out on Sunday , lot of standing water . Always fun . Remember beginning of hanger straight 3 am in the morning and a huge Aquaplane which was an eye opener

[ChocolateFrog]

If the SORN car is on PS4S tyres I think you're OK.

Might be worth checking.

[John D.]

supersport said:

Maybe there's a special dispensation for CUP 2s

Glad someone made that gag.

[CanAm]

From a recent thread on SP&L

V8LM said:

https://www.gov.uk/sorn-statutory-off-road-notification said:

When a SORN starts and ends
Your SORN will start immediately if either:

• your vehicle tax has expired
• you’re not applying in the month your vehicle tax is due to expire

Your SORN will start on the first day of the next month if you apply in the month your vehicle tax is due to expire.

[Composite Guru]

My rule of thumb is only SORN just before the end of the month. At least you have the option to still use it up to the actual point you have paid.
Think most will agree.

[KOKSRACING]

Yeah the tax rules mean you are more than likely to lose out if you sorn it anything but the end of the month

Btw don’t believe all the hype about cup 2’s being undriveable. My gt4 is still on its original set of tyres after 12k miles and I took it out last Thursday in cold wet conditions and the tyres were fine - limited to no slides or hairy moments and we were pushing on.. just need to get a bit of heat in them and drive the conditions

[TDT]

If you SORN a new car that you have paid 1st year registration on… is that extra sales tax pro-rated back to you?, and then you need to repay the balance when you next put the car back on the road?

[TDT]

With a bit more digging on another forum.. looks like answer is no.

[LiamH66]

Has to be said, Tyrone, it's a stshow all round, so I never bother with SORN. They give you money back as if you'd paid the most basic rate of anything, and then charge you the full whack when you renew. Be it for emissions, being too expensive to buy in the first place, or whatever other tax they place on my conscience for having enough money to buy a nice new car that consumes fuel at a rate they make money out of whenever I put it back on the road.

I try to treat nice winter days with no risk of salt on the roads as champagne moments. Few and far between up this way, but at least I can blow the cobwebs out of the current 3-season daily. Not much risk of that this week, so I'm sticking to the Cayman GTS 4.0 "winter hack".

Liam

[TDT]

Lol, Indeed.

I’ve never SORN’d a car for the winter, as similarly I like to be to get out as soon as the conditions permit (weather and time!)

So, just resting on a trickle at the moment…



Not fully clean, so no bother with a car cover…

[InitialDave]

jay2000 said:

I have just SORN my GT4 for the winter but realised that i will only get a refund starting from the beginning of next month. Does that mean that i can still drive the car until the end of the month or have i just wasted 22 days of road tax?

It is something administered by an arm of the government.

Which answer results in the minimising of the money they have to give you, and the maximising of the money you have to give them?

There you go, you have identified the most probable scenario to be in effect.