as above thanks guys

 

nope

 

ahhh thought so....


sod buying it then ..... got no off road parking...ahhh fook it..

 

What's the point in taxing online then?

 

no because the v5 wont be in your name and im guessing that if your buying it today the insurance database wont be updated to allow you to buy online anyway. i bought a motor last weekend, my insurer emailed a copy of my cert on saturday morning for me to print off and use at the post office with the tear off new keeper slip .

 

failure to display

 

your supposed to do it before the old one expires to allow trime for the disc to arrive

 

mainly for renewal purposes .you do get 5 days grace at the start of the month according to recent radio adds but as today is the 6th... you buy tax online 15 days before the old one expires or if youve just bought the vehicle from the post office 3 days before the start of the month to get the full 6 months or it gets backdated to the start off the last month if its any earlier than 3 days. i went through it all last week.
i doubt youll get done before monday . buy the motor and get down the post office monday morning

 

hmmmm dunno might actually buy it and shove in works carpark as its down the road from work and its only a 300 quid seat arosa for a runabout...

 

Ask the seller to tax it for you and pay the cost of tax disc on top; or is that too simple?

 

im sure this guy would tax it himself if the post office was open on a saturday afternoon or sunday...

 

i've taxed cars plenty of time online and used the same day, as long as it shows as taxed, mot'd and insured on the police ANPR then you'd be extreamly unlucky to be done for failure to display

 

if your just buying it it wont show on any database until monday or tuesday risking siezing of your car. id take the risk but its your pot luck and down the the mood of the copper that might stop you.
i bought mine last friday and it didnt show on the insurance database until tuesday and the road tax database until wednesday .

 

Surely its not the car owners problem if the shitty datebase takes too long or doesnt work certain days? if you have had it go through online or its taken your money then its bloody well taxed as far as im concerned

 

You are forgetting the bit that if you tax it online, it will go to the registered keepers' address, which will be the previous owner, NOT YOU. So, until HE decides to send it onto you (or sends it back himself to claim a refund ) then you will have no tax disc to display.

 

i sold my Audi yesterday and the insurance was expired; the guy pick up the car and insured it over the phone; i went online to check it was insured and it was, that was about an hour later

i checked using this http://www.askmid.com/

 

I've done it plenty of times. Forgot to put the new disc in for 2 months too

JAmes.

 

thats exactly what i did and how i checked it. it took until, mid week to show mine last week.

 

You can tax online and use same day

if you speak to the dvla they have relaxed the laws slightly to get people to use the online service its part of there selling point

 

weird, its probably dependant on someone pressing a button that says "update"

 

He wont even be able to tax it online as his insurance wont be on the data base straight away,so you cant even tax it yet

 

thats what the dvla office told me when i was last there

 

i bought a car yesterday and it was too late to ring the insurance so i did it this morning.................. i just checked on askmid and its not on the database

 

Plod know the database is majorly unreliable, no court in the land would convict you of the offence, no cps would run with it either, as they have to show intent to evade, that is the basis of the law they prosecute you for.
Same as if you take a cake from a shop without paying and then put it back ten mins later, they can't do you for theft, which is in legal terms to "permanently deprive" owner of property.
The database is so good, me other halfs car is still not shown as taxed, but was done in APRIL, at the DVLA local Office in Norwich, when stopped earlier in year in the car it showed as being uninsured, for me to drive, even though the cert clearly stated I was and had been renewed over 6 months previously.
tabetha

 

you cant tax on line because the v5 isnt in his name . first tax when buying new is easiest got from the post office .

 

I taxed my ST without having the propper V5.

I bought the car with 2 weeks left. Went to the Post Office with my new insurance certificate and green slip and taxed it there and then. Now im £215 lighter. You can only do this 2 working days before the end of the month. Then I got my propper V5 about a week later.

If you only have the green slip of the V5, your not supposed to do your tax online as it will most likely go to the previous owners address. Its cheaper to do it in the P.O anyway, you get charged £2.50 for paying on credit card online. But then, you can only pay with cash, cheque or debit card at the P.O.

Andy

 

ditto bigal.

IF you could tax it online (which you cant) you could use the thing the same day without displaying the tax disc perfecly legally