Just looking around and there seems to be a lot of log book horror stories. I sent off for mine on Tuesday and I need it for the 11th of April. What's my chances?

Hard to say really when I picked up my new car I signed my old one over to my wife and sent both away the same day hers took 3 weeks to come back mine was 4 weeks.

Nightmare, I don't have that long and we are supposed to go down south to my girlfriends, aaaargh

Why does it matter?

Do you need to show it to anyone? 

I need it to tax and insure the vehicle before I can drive it?

What do you find in the toilet on the Starship Enterprise?

The Captains Log.

You do not need the V5 back in the post,

if the DVLA have changed you to the Registered keeper, & you have it Insured you just get the VED online.

 

? Do you not have it insured now?

Basically, I've bought the Carr off of my dad's friend. Who buys them and sells them on.

I filled in the form on Tuesday and he sent it off Tuesday.

The car has no tax, no insurance. But it has mot.

The car is at my dad's mates house until I can legally drive it back to mine.

What's my best steps

Call the DVLA which is a PITA, but then you know it is registered on the Database,

and ask for a number to buy online, or do it over the phone.

 

Why not insure the car if you now are the keeper/owner and will be the registered Keeper?

If money has changed hands, even if offroad now, its you that looses out if no Insurance cover.

 

george

We'll i shall ring the dvla on Monday now cheers. So if I get that number, tax the car and insure it, I can then drive the car without having to wait for the physical logbook to come?

We'll i shall ring the dvla on Monday now cheers. So if I get that number, tax the car and insure it, I can then drive the car without having to wait for the physical logbook to come?

Yeah that's right you don't need the actual logbook to be in your hand as long as it's taxed/insured it's all good to go.

cheers dude i shall investigate this monday and hopefully i can get the car neext week

Basically, I've bought the Carr off of my dad's friend. Who buys them and sells them on.

I filled in the form on Tuesday and he sent it off Tuesday.

The car has no tax, no insurance. But it has mot.

The car is at my dad's mates house until I can legally drive it back to mine.

What's my best steps

 

You should have kept the green new keeper supplement, you can use this to tax the car. You only needed to return the left hand half of the V5, the current turn around for change of keeper is around 4-5 weeks.

Even if you tax the car online you can not drive it until the tax disc comes thru because it does not follow on directly after the last one. You can only drive without showing a disc if it carried straight on, ie ran out 28/02/2014 and new one was bought on or before 01/03/2014

You can drive the car without a tax disc as the Police use ANPR. From October 2014, tax discs will be no more as they're being fazed out, you don't even need to supply proof of insurance at the Post Office as they use the MIB database, exactly the same as the Police do.

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You can drive the car without a tax disc as the Police use ANPR. From October 2014, tax discs will be no more as they're being fazed out, you don't even need to supply proof of insurance at the Post Office as they use the MIB database, exactly the same as the Police do.

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Up until October you must show an in date tax disc. You will be committing an offence if you do not display

Up until October you must show an in date tax disc. You will be committing an offence if you do not display

 

If you tax your car online like I do, it takes up to 5 working days for the tax disc to come through.

 

They send an email to you which you can print off or keep on a smartphone to prove that you have purchased your Road Fund Licence.

 

The DVLA state that their internal register which the Police have access holds all details of vehicles currently taxed, who their registered keeper is or whether they are SORN so how are you committing an offence if they themselves state this.

 

Are you saying that I or anyone else can't drive their cars if they tax them online until the tax disc comes through, this is why they are doing away with tax discs as it's going to save them millions of pounds as the info is held internally so the insurance companies, post offices and the Police can do instant checks.

Edited 29 March, 201412 yr by Gazbull17

You only get the grace period if & only if the tax disc continues straight on from last. If you tax it mid month you must wait for the tax disc to arrive

From-

https://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/app/home/commonquestions

"I have not received the tax disc. Can I use the vehicle without the tax disc displayed?When you apply for a tax disc online or by using DVLA's phone service you are able to legally continue to drive your vehicle for up to 14 days after the tax disc has expired while you wait for the new tax disc to arrive. This will only apply when you have applied for a new tax disc before the current one expires. You should continue to display the expired disc on your vehicle, until the new one arrives."

Then if that's the case I stand corrected and tip a brim to you my friend

 

We had a memo sent round at work, I work for an insurance provider, which stated that if a customer was ringing up for docs to be sent urgently via email for Road Tax purposes then we had to inform them that they didn't need to provide them as it was all held on an internal system used by all the necessary agencies. It's a good job I don't work on the phones !!!

 

I shall maybe research this a bit further in case we are informing the customer incorrectly.

 

I've only ever taxed cars that had recently expired online so wasn't aware that it only applies to previously taxed vehicles.

Edited 29 March, 201412 yr by Gazbull17

No worries bud. I've been thru all this recently with work so had to find out all the ins and outs about it all.

I think you are right about the insurance side of things, you do not need to provide proof at the post office as it is on a database, same as MOT iirc

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When I sold my Bravo it took exactly four weeks for the "you don't own the car any more" letter to come through from the DVLA, so I'd imagine the new keeper had a similar delay.

I think you are right about the insurance side of things, you do not need to provide proof at the post office as it is on a database, same as MOT iirc

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This is correct, all you need is the log book and the tear off strip will do. I taxed a car using just this only last week, providing the slip hasn't been stamped they can accept that. the rest is on the data base. 

So I better ring my dad's mate and ask him if he tore off the half of the form realy..