Continous Registration with the DVLA

[Davel]

Sold my XK8 in January and the dealer, who sold me my X5 and took in the Jag as part-ex, went to the DVLA with the V5 etc, to get the plate transferred to the new X5.

A while later a new V5 arrived for the Jag, which I no longer owned and so I sent it off to the dealer. I think that I tore off the relevant slip and sent it back to the DVLA but it is 5 months ago so honestly cannot be positive.

All quiet till a few days ago when I receive notice that I am still supposedly the registered keeper as at 1 April and should pay a fine for not taxing it since the tax ran out. It was taxed in my time of ownership.

I've sent them a copy of the sale invoice dated 14 January but they still insist on trying to fine me £40.

I think that the DVLA messed up but apparently the car is your's until they write and confirm that it isn't.

Is this right or should I continue to fight it?

Its not the money, its the principal that, because they haven't amended their records, the car is still in my name as at 1 April.

[alarmist]

(rant on) either ask to speak to someone higher up or tell them to take you to court. i had same problem with works transit van, got 4 v5s all with the new owners name and our address, everytime i rang up wasting time in a automated call, they assured me it would be soughted, and the following week i got a new doc. in the end told them i was passing it on to my solicitors and it stopped.
the last 3 vehicles i have registered or transferred have either messed up on paperwork, or not been recieved, or paperwork has come back wrong,the last one the young lady said, didnt you send the v5 back registered, as the post is useless, when i said yes she went away and found it on another desk.
sorry to rant but its a money making scam... my daughter had problems with her document paid the 19 pounds for a duplicate and recieved it 10 days later, we bought a focus 6 weeks ago and watched the dealer post his part of the document, and still havent recieved anything.(rant off)

[gone]

I have just received a tax renewal form from DVLA for a car which I owned but put through and sold at auction 2 months ago. The auction are supposed to send off the V5 filled in properly unless they sell it to trade in which case the red slip on the bottom of the V5 goes to DVLA informing them that the car is in trade.

I will draft them a letter today explaining that this is the case. I will not SORN it in case a dodgy dealer is running it around at the moment.

DVLA are trying their best to stop little scams on road tax but they have not thought about all eventualities, especially trade sales and cherished numbers which are a nightmare to sort out through them!

[Davel]

I wrote to them saying that the dealer, where I traded in the Jag, had actually gone to the local office - and that when a replacement V5 was later sent to me in error. I'd then sent back the torn off section and forwarded the new V5 to the garage.

I suggested that there may be a 'Bermuda Triangle' thingy between their two offices and mine!

Matter dropped apparently............

[alans]

another good idea that falls over in the real world, if you have a personal reg the system cannot work. I traded my cerb and kept the reg, so I can't fill in the new owner bit, or I lose entitlement to the reg plate. Once the retention cert comes through (several weeks) the cerb had been sold by the dealer the DVLA notify the new owner of the cerb to change the reg number, fair enough so far.
They then send me a fine for not notifing them of change of keeper but they must have known cause they wrote to him. The car I had bought (also personal number) the dvla had been notified by the previous keeper, and the dealer was registered in the V5 as the owner!!!

Alan

[streaky]

[quote=Davel]I wrote to them saying that the dealer, where I traded in the Jag, had actually gone to the local office - and that when a replacement V5 was later sent to me in error. I'd then sent back the torn off section and forwarded the new V5 to the garage.

I suggested that there may be a 'Bermuda Triangle' thingy between their two offices and mine!quote]It's called the Post Office. Your letters are probably in Belfast where all the undeliverables end up - Streaky

NB - that is undeLIVERables, not undeSIRables - S