Right, I about to put my Vitara on the market.  Whats the score with this new road tax malarky - must I reclaim the road tax and must the buyer then retax?

 

it has about 3 months tax on it at the mo and is "discless" since I put the last 6 months worth on.

Buyer must retax but i think the refund comes automatically upon the new keeper registering

Buyer must retax but i think the refund comes automatically upon the new keeper registering

 

Exactly as Rich says. Just consider yourself lucky you are not in Northern Ireland as when you buy a car here with the new rules you cannot take it away until you have been to a post office in person to tax it.................. Utter load of crap because Swansea claim they cannot see insurance for NI.......... 

NI has some strict mot regs as well !

Buyer must retax but i think the refund comes automatically upon the new keeper registering

 

 

Buyer must tax as soon as they have the green new keeper slip, and the refund is automatic once the DVLA get the completed V5C processed. When I sold my late fathers Fabia it took about 2 weeks from the V5 being sent off to the cheque arriving in the post.

http://lawgistics.co.uk/read-news/729

Systems now working quite well now,

i have received a refund in about 10 days.

Edited 14 February, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

http://lawgistics.co.uk/read-news/729

Systems now working quite well now,

i have received a refund in about 10 days.

Yes, took about a week including the postage. Quite impressed.

New v5 within 10 days too.

Please don't start saying DVLA is efficient!  They'll read this and probably lay off a few people and double the lead times

NI has some strict mot regs as well !

 

Same regs just done by the book at government test centres by government employees, not Kevin Webster with a wink and a nod.  Bikes are a total pain in the hole now as they have to go on the rolling road for front and rear brake test...... not a special rolling road, just one side of the car one and it's spun up. I am refusing it when mines due in July. 

In NI any car fitted with xenon lights needs washers, not a requirement over here which results in many Heath robinson affairs on cars which didn't have then fitted originally

In NI any car fitted with xenon lights needs washers, not a requirement over here which results in many Heath robinson affairs on cars which didn't have then fitted originally

 

There is essentially a one word difference which is 'may' with regard to the light washers and also self levelling system. There are small subtle differences between lots of things like that between NI and GB. GB pays £100 for a basic SP30 FPN now still £60 here (bargain) We will adjust ours in due course. Some things we come up with first and GB implements and vice versa. It's like we take it in turns to try out new crap.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=1169094&mid=0&nmt=HID+lights+and+MOT

Remember this for fellow evo owners at the time

Just had this come up in conversation randomly with someone else and we watched this video

 

 

It would shock anyone from NI at how pikey it all is lololol One thing that's evident more so here is that most filling stations with a car wash will have big steel ramps to take a car up on to get it cleaned underneath and all price boards will have 'MOT Wash' listed as an option. I had a car fail about 12 or 13 years ago on it's rear suspension as despite it passing on the computer the examiner thought it was too hard.

 

The whole corruption side of it though Rally cars here tend to get their MOT done in GB and most done over the phone/email and certificate posted over. The system is so weak it's shocking. There are massive ExPat communities all over the EU where UK residents live there permanently and are too cheap to pay the going rate for a car in that country so keep UK plated cars and get MOT's posted out. You can openly ask where and how much to get one on public forums all over the UK (not this one thankfully   ). It is just so alien how poorly regulated it is in comparison. No free retests here though  . A used car from GB for sale here would advertise the fact, as the car would be seen as having had an easy life on the better roads etc, but where it has a full GB MOT, it's seen as a bad point. When 'MOT2' happened here in early 2000's (full upgrade of all test centres and new stricter again testing), a local main dealers as a publicity stunt presented 5 brand new cars for test and either 3 passed or 3 failed out of the 5, I can't recall which. 

 

And then taxi's, am I right in thinking a taxi in GB just needs a normal MOT? They get a PSV here instead which is much more in-depth again