Dvla & Sorn !!??

[mark]

This explains why i got fined by those lovely people at the DVLA then

When i got my donor it had a couple of days tax left and the owner said he would declare sorn for me, so i drove away with my donor happy as larry

Sometime later recieved a fine in the post, rang them up and they said it wasnt sorned and i was liable as i was the registered keeper, i tried to explain the situation and the fact the car was now a pile of bits but they didnt care and i had to cough up

I paid straight away so they halved the fine, nice of them eh, t*@ts!

Good job my wife stopped me going around to the previous owners house to make him pay it, he assured me he would sorn it right away and in light of this i guess he did! i was ready to pay him a visit, good job the red mist faded before i got to my car

[RAYLEE29]

yep sorn expires as soon as its reregistered new owner has to resorn.
found out by accident myself lol
currently got about 12 vehicles on sorn and only one on road
Ray

[flyerncle]

The law is an ass,but still the law and still an ass.

Thank the lord for government NOT

[Deanno]

I had the same thing but i got an £80 fine and when we moved house we re-registered the focus (Our everyday car) and totally for got to register the Escort Mk5 and when we moved. and our old Landlord failed to send us any mail we received then we had a letter from a collection agency and surprise surprise they gave us that one. and i thought once you SORN a car its sorn'ed till you tax it. tut tut.

[Eternal]

BUGGER! just checked my donor car this was Sorn before i bought it. I now have a 7 month fine this is stupid!

[twinturbo]

I thought this would be common knowledge by now.

TT

[Eternal]

Dont suppose anyone knows how much of a ass pounding i will get from the dvla for 7 months on a cosworth scorpio?

Humm thinking about it what gets me wound up is the fact i never recieved any letters saying "hay you dont have any tax!" from them. Also re reading the V5 nothing on there states that you have to renew it. only 1 line that says more info can be fount at www.blah blah blah.bs

[Bonzo]

Originally Posted by Eternal

BUGGER! just checked my donor car this was Sorn before i bought it. I now have a 7 month fine this is stupid!

SORN it online now mate, at least your ass will be covered from the start of this month

As far as I know, there is a standard fixed penalty for failure to declare sorn, not a sliding scale according to how many months have elapsed.

who knows, if you are lucky and if you SORN now, you may not hear anything from DVLA

Rob

Complete news to me & I have handled a fair few cars since all of this SORN malarkey came into force !!??

Nothing on the V5 to indicate that if you do not intend to tax the vehicle then SORN must be declared by the new keeper .... Could be a viable defefence for appealing any fixed penalty notice.

Mind you, probably wouldn't be wothwhile appealing as the penalty is doubled if you don't pay at the first time of asking.

In my defence, whenever I get a new vehicle, I always make sure that I take care of things at my end

[twinturbo]

Very very unlikly they will budge, the law has been in place for many years.

I fell foul of another part of the law, I forgot to tick the SORN box when returning a disk for refund. 8 months later I get a letter with a fine. The settled on 50% of the fine and no back tax, probably as I insisted that I thought I must have ticked the box, the nice e-mail corrospondent sent me the scanned form...

TT

Originally Posted by Bonzo

SORN it online now mate, at least your ass will be covered from the start of this month

As far as I know, there is a standard fixed penalty for failure to declare sorn, not a sliding scale according to how many months have elapsed.

who knows, if you are lucky and if you SORN now, you may not hear anything from DVLA

Rob

Complete news to me & I have handled a fair few cars since all of this SORN malarkey came into force !!??

Nothing on the V5 to indicate that if you do not intend to tax the vehicle then SORN must be declared by the new keeper .... Could be a viable defefence for appealing any fixed penalty notice.

Mind you, probably wouldn't be wothwhile appealing as the penalty is doubled if you don't pay at the first time of asking.

In my defence, whenever I get a new vehicle, I always make sure that I take care of things at my end