Think you can dodge VED? Think again.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Very strange...
...or not.
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!Very strange...
...or not.
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?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.TX.
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
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.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!
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!
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.Very strange...
...or not.
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.Very strange...
...or not.
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...
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