Help with SORN please.
13 September 2010, 10:53 PM
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Help with SORN please.
Due to not been able to insure my car i had to declare it SORN. Now i am selling her it turns out it is a rightpain in the **** to get her off Sorn. Has anyone here taken their car off SORN.
As i see it now, to get her off SORN i need to buy road tax, to buy road tax i need a MOT and insurance. I cant drive to the MOT station to get my MOT as i have no road tax and because i am using my no claims bonuses towards my other Scooby i have no insurance. With No claims bonuses to my name no insurance company will insure me for my "high performance sports car"...........IT'S A F**KING WAGON.
I have tried a few one day insurance places but they do not offer me insurance on an import. Not having insurance is the reason i had to put her SORN but now i need insurance to sell her....i cant win with this can i??
Anyone got some advise for me please
Bit of a rant, sorry.
As i see it now, to get her off SORN i need to buy road tax, to buy road tax i need a MOT and insurance. I cant drive to the MOT station to get my MOT as i have no road tax and because i am using my no claims bonuses towards my other Scooby i have no insurance. With No claims bonuses to my name no insurance company will insure me for my "high performance sports car"...........IT'S A F**KING WAGON.
I have tried a few one day insurance places but they do not offer me insurance on an import. Not having insurance is the reason i had to put her SORN but now i need insurance to sell her....i cant win with this can i??
Anyone got some advise for me please
Bit of a rant, sorry.
13 September 2010, 11:49 PM
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sell it as it is, as soon as the car is sold the new owner can do he/she likes with it, and as soon as the car is bought by someone else they have to apply for the sorn themselves, or put it on the road.
14 September 2010, 07:20 AM
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Yeah, thats not going to work. Feels a bit dodgy selling like that. Anyone got some more ideas for me as i am running out of time here.
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Pimmo is right- you can drive to the MOT station and back without an MOT and without Tax legally.
If you have got a friend/partner/parent with 3rd party cover on other vehicles you could get them to drive it to and from the testing station, get the MOT and then leave the tax to the prospective buyer (or offer to pay the tax but explain your position as to why you are selling and so can't get the tax on it yourself)
If you have got a friend/partner/parent with 3rd party cover on other vehicles you could get them to drive it to and from the testing station, get the MOT and then leave the tax to the prospective buyer (or offer to pay the tax but explain your position as to why you are selling and so can't get the tax on it yourself)
14 September 2010, 01:19 PM
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Pimmo is right- you can drive to the MOT station and back without an MOT and without Tax legally.
If you have got a friend/partner/parent with 3rd party cover on other vehicles you could get them to drive it to and from the testing station, get the MOT and then leave the tax to the prospective buyer (or offer to pay the tax but explain your position as to why you are selling and so can't get the tax on it yourself)
If you have got a friend/partner/parent with 3rd party cover on other vehicles you could get them to drive it to and from the testing station, get the MOT and then leave the tax to the prospective buyer (or offer to pay the tax but explain your position as to why you are selling and so can't get the tax on it yourself)
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Hmmmmmm.....I've been pulled in my bro's car for no reg plates (going to MOT...) it wasn't insured and they didn't say anything as I am 3rd party on another policy...??
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Quote:
Originally Posted by allsop83
Hmmmmmm.....I've been pulled in my bro's car for no reg plates (going to MOT...) it wasn't insured and they didn't say anything as I am 3rd party on another policy...??
They've not been watching Police Interceptors then
Punters on there have tried that one and the cars have still been seized as they set off the ANPR cameras! Happened in one of the recent episodes again IIRC.
Reckon you were lucky.
Originally Posted by allsop83
Hmmmmmm.....I've been pulled in my bro's car for no reg plates (going to MOT...) it wasn't insured and they didn't say anything as I am 3rd party on another policy...??
They've not been watching Police Interceptors then
Punters on there have tried that one and the cars have still been seized as they set off the ANPR cameras! Happened in one of the recent episodes again IIRC.
Reckon you were lucky.
Don't actually think they checked the car....just that I was insured.....eek....
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