Think you can dodge VED? Think again.

Think you can dodge VED? Think again.

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Riley Blue

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20,915 posts

225 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Earlier I spotted a couple of DVLA flatbeds in a residential part of town, both with cars on the back. I only managed to note the registration of one car and though it's showing as insured till April next year, it's VED was due on May 1st 2015. Looks like their may be a clamp down going on or is this normal, I've never seen them anywhere before.


alorotom

11,909 posts

186 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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The estate that I used to live on would be swept by the DVLA in the early hours of the morning. They clamped and put notices on all the cars that fell foul of the rules and then returned about 10days later to ‘collect’ all the cars that remained non-compliant.

Happened roughly once a year for the last 3-4yrs of us living there. It a mostly ex-council estate but was a haven for reasonably large volumes (considering the area) of untaxed and/or uninsured cars as no properties had any off the road space or parking.

paintman

7,669 posts

189 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Not unusual to see DVLA clamped vehicles around the Leicester area. Big stickers on the windows showing to all that they are untaxed vehicles.

blue_haddock

3,143 posts

66 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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When i lived in Stoke there were fairly regular round ups of un-taxed cars.

They would go round clamping loads of cars and then a few days later a large transporter would park up in a side road close to my house ready to receive the clamped vehicles.

Dogwatch

6,223 posts

221 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Every so often a car appears locally which I've never seen before - OK I don't know every car locally but there are 'regulars' - plastered with Do Not Move and Untaxed Vehicle stickers and bright yellow wheel clamps and always in a prominent position. After a week or so, after everyone has got the message, it disappears.

Very strange...

...or not.


Greg the Fish

1,410 posts

65 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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All the time here in Brighton.

Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Dogwatch said:
Every so often a car appears locally which I've never seen before - OK I don't know every car locally but there are 'regulars' - plastered with Do Not Move and Untaxed Vehicle stickers and bright yellow wheel clamps and always in a prominent position. After a week or so, after everyone has got the message, it disappears.

Very strange...

...or not.
Ah! The old "T. V. detector van is in your area" ploy!

smile


Terminator X

14,922 posts

203 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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How can they get away with not paying though? All electronic surely either SORN or pay up? Unless perhaps they are driving around in SORN cars I guess.

TX.

slk 32

1,486 posts

192 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Riley Blue said:
Earlier I spotted a couple of DVLA flatbeds in a residential part of town, both with cars on the back. I only managed to note the registration of one car and though it's showing as insured till April next year, it's VED was due on May 1st 2015. Looks like their may be a clamp down going on or is this normal, I've never seen them anywhere before.
So it looks like he got away with it for three years then?

paintman

7,669 posts

189 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Terminator X said:
How can they get away with not paying though? All electronic surely either SORN or pay up? Unless perhaps they are driving around in SORN cars I guess.

TX.
You're making the assumption that everybody plays by the rules.
Buy a cheapie for cash, give false details to the seller & drive off into the sunset. No need to bother with tax, MoT, insurance, licence etc & until it either gets stopped by the police or clamped by DVLA you've got cheap motoring.
If you want to get away with it for longer look for a similar car - make, model, colour - & make up & fit a set of identical number plates. Plenty will do 'show plates' so no need to produce the i.d that's required for plates from your local motor factor etc.

Edited by paintman on Friday 16th November 15:28

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

254 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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paintman said:
If you want to get away with it for longer look for a similar car - make, model, colour - & make up & fit a set of identical number plates. Plenty will do 'show plates' so no need to produce the i.d that's required for plates from your local motor factor etc.
You'd be reamed if/when you got stopped.

geeks

9,122 posts

138 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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DVLA did this around our way some time ago and then promptly and proudly displayed three of the crushed case on the estate for a short while with signage.

Best one was near the wifes work, she works next door to the MIB (not the Will Smith variety) and the DVLA went around checking all the cars parked on the road outside their office, quite a number of red faced people leaving the MIB building to find their cars clamped for no tax and or insurance!

Pica-Pica

13,625 posts

83 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Dogwatch said:
Every so often a car appears locally which I've never seen before - OK I don't know every car locally but there are 'regulars' - plastered with Do Not Move and Untaxed Vehicle stickers and bright yellow wheel clamps and always in a prominent position. After a week or so, after everyone has got the message, it disappears.

Very strange...

...or not.
I saw a DO NOT MOVE sticker on a car parked at McDonalds at Flintshire Retail Park just off the A55 on Wednesday evening. I wondered what it was.

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Car just up the road from me currently has a DVLA clamp on it.

Pica-Pica

13,625 posts

83 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Dogwatch said:
Every so often a car appears locally which I've never seen before - OK I don't know every car locally but there are 'regulars' - plastered with Do Not Move and Untaxed Vehicle stickers and bright yellow wheel clamps and always in a prominent position. After a week or so, after everyone has got the message, it disappears.

Very strange...

...or not.
I saw a DO NOT MOVE sticker on a car parked at McDonalds at Flintshire Retail Park just off the A55 on Wednesday evening. I wondered what it was.

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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So you said 5 mins ago wink

njw1

2,054 posts

110 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Mr2Mike said:
paintman said:
If you want to get away with it for longer look for a similar car - make, model, colour - & make up & fit a set of identical number plates. Plenty will do 'show plates' so no need to produce the i.d that's required for plates from your local motor factor etc.
You'd be reamed if/when you got stopped.


......If you actually stopped...

MellowshipSlinky

14,673 posts

188 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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There has been a clamped car with big stickers on the windscreen on the main A60 in Nottingham.
Major bus route and it’s parked right near a main junction.
It’s been there for weeks so I’m surprised it’s not been taken away yet.

bitchstewie

50,813 posts

209 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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This happened to a neighbours son the other week, van came around from DVLA and simply clamped it, came back the next day and unclamped it.

LuS1fer

41,086 posts

244 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I think this guy is responsible