Evening all

Right, been looking for a runabout for a while now and have been offered a very cheap mondeo. It needs a few small things doing to it so the current owner has it parked off the road and he's SORN'd it. He also doesn't have insurance on it. The MOT also runs out at the end of the month.

If I were to buy it, how would I get it taxed so I can drive it away? The current owner can't tax it for me as he has no insurance, so would I be right in thinking I would have to buy the car, insure it, wait for documents to come through so I can tax it before driving it home? Or is there some kind of loophole that allows you to drive a car straight home etc like there is with the MOT rule of driving straight to your nearest station?

Cheers

Rich

 

You need to insure it and wait!

 

you can insure it and get the insurance company to email you a cover note and print it out

 

As above easiest is to insure it then take small part of log book and mot to post office and tax it, I drove my car back from nottingham to Birmingham with no tax after buying it, but kept off the motorway, then taxed it next day. But presume I would have got in trouble had I been stopped.

 

insure it, book it for an mot, take it for the test, drive it home. job done.

travelling to and from a prebooked mot test station covers you for tax and mot

 

best way

 

Ok cool thanks for the replies guys