Vehicle Identity check (VIC)
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Following from a post on long term parkers in side streets, I punched details of one that's sat around a while near me into https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/Default.... Not taxed, , but it shows as
" A Vehicle Identity Check (VIC) is required for this vehicle" . Any one in the know advise as to what VIC is and why one is needed ?
" A Vehicle Identity Check (VIC) is required for this vehicle" . Any one in the know advise as to what VIC is and why one is needed ?
freddytin said:
I believe it will be phased out next year, probably due to the fact that it hasn't been particularly effective in catching the "Ringers" .
That is an understatement 
!!Not trolling
; googling reveals that it really hasn't been a success when measured by any metric (apart from raising funds for HMG 
) 
. aw51 121565 said:
freddytin said:
I believe it will be phased out next year, probably due to the fact that it hasn't been particularly effective in catching the "Ringers" .
That is an understatement !!Not trolling
; googling reveals that it really hasn't been a success when measured by any metric (apart from raising funds for HMG ) . .TooMany2cvs said:
I still have a couple of questions that I can't see the answer to..Can you buy a car needing a vic check (e.g. from a disposal auction) and drive it around for a while before taking it for the vic test?
Can you tax it whilst a vic test is pending?
Would it needing a vic test have an effect on the insurance at all? (increase premium or cause cover to be declined?)
scdan4 said:
Can you buy a car needing a vic check (e.g. from a disposal auction) and drive it around for a while before taking it for the vic test?
You won't get a V5C in your name until it's been VICd.scdan4 said:
Can you tax it whilst a vic test is pending?
If you've got a V5C in your name, yes. Otherwise, no.[quote]Would it needing a vic test have an effect on the insurance at all? (increase premium or cause cover to be declined?)
TBH, given that the VIC is cheap and quick, why not just do it? Unless, of course, you've got grounds to believe it might fail...?
TooMany2cvs said:
TBH, given that the VIC is cheap and quick, why not just do it? Unless, of course, you've got grounds to believe it might fail...?
I'm considering buying a car that needs one. It's about an hour away, so I'll have to go and have a look, and if i like it hand over the money, ring the insurance company and drive away. Without tax.
It being a shiny new car (everything is relative remember!) i'd want to drive it but my understanding is that if I want to be a good citizen then i'll have to park it off road, on sorn because I don't want a DVLA failure to tax fine (and because of the lovely continuous insurance idea although I will have only just insured it to get it home i'll have to uninsure it so I don't get a DVLA fine) until i\I can get it to the vic test center (Newbury is the nearest office from Swindon) at a time suitable for us both (they work office hours, I work all hours god sends so not that straightforward), reinsure it to get it to the VIC center and then assuming it passes (something I have no doubt about) i'll have to wait for the dvla to send me the new v5 so I can tax it and then finally use it.
Ballache central.
scdan4 said:
on sorn because I don't want a DVLA failure to tax fine (and because of the lovely continuous insurance idea although I will have only just insured it to get it home i'll have to uninsure it so I don't get a DVLA fine)
No, you won't.If it's not taxed, it needs to be SORNed.
If it's not insured, it needs to be SORNed.
But it can be insured and SORNed, quite happily.
scdan4 said:
Ballache central.
So get the bloke selling it to VIC the damn thing.TooMany2cvs said:
scdan4 said:
on sorn because I don't want a DVLA failure to tax fine (and because of the lovely continuous insurance idea although I will have only just insured it to get it home i'll have to uninsure it so I don't get a DVLA fine)
No, you won't.If it's not taxed, it needs to be SORNed.
If it's not insured, it needs to be SORNed.
But it can be insured and SORNed, quite happily.
Oooooooo - thats going into todays good to know file. Thanks.
scdan4 said:
Ballache central.
So get the bloke selling it to VIC the damn thing.Edited by scdan4 on Thursday 6th November 15:24
SCdan, does the current owner have the V5? If the car was written off whilst he owned it then he should still have the V5 and you should get the new keepers slip when you buy it thus enabling you to tax it.
When I was young and lazy I bought a car that needed a VIC check, I got the green slip when I bought it and the previous owner sent off the V5, I received a letter from the DVLA saying they had noted the change of keeper but wouldn't issue me a V5 until a VIC check had been done. Being lazy I couldn't be bothered so taxed it for a couple of years using the green slip, then the Post office caught on and said the green slip was now out of date, so I just taxed it online. I sold it to a mate after about 3-4 years of ownership and he sorted out getting the VIC check done and he was issued with a new V5.
In future I would never do this as it's so easy to organise a VIC check!
When I was young and lazy I bought a car that needed a VIC check, I got the green slip when I bought it and the previous owner sent off the V5, I received a letter from the DVLA saying they had noted the change of keeper but wouldn't issue me a V5 until a VIC check had been done. Being lazy I couldn't be bothered so taxed it for a couple of years using the green slip, then the Post office caught on and said the green slip was now out of date, so I just taxed it online. I sold it to a mate after about 3-4 years of ownership and he sorted out getting the VIC check done and he was issued with a new V5.
In future I would never do this as it's so easy to organise a VIC check!
TooMany2cvs said:
Thanks. It appeared on the local Arfur Daley forecourt ( the front garden of his council property )over a month ago .Then recently it disappeared as the tax ended. Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff