I got a letter through just before christmas asking me about tax/sorn - usual thing.

Its for my project car which is off the road for the forseeable future!

What with christmas and everything else - it slipped my mind

It ran out on the 31st December 2005 - i'm planning to declare it SORN today at the post office.

As i'm nearly a week late - will i get a fine or anything?

 

should be ok, i have been that late and had no problems.

 

Nice one - cheers martin!

You still want to know about that waterfall in the honda advert mate?

Back at work now so i'll go interrogate one of the birds in marketing

 

no thanks, i think the info was put on the post.

 

i thought you would get fined after a month,but not 100% sure

 

They are much stricter now than they used to be. I left one of my car for a few months about 2 years ago and I played dumb and said I never knew, they let me off. However, I took my Astra off the road last year and forgot about declaring SORN and got a Ł80 fine, the playing dumb trick didn't work, they basically said now they are advertising on TV and national publications, etc there's no excuse. I would have thought a couple of weeks would be ok though.

 

Interesting post this,

My R5 was written off in november an the tax runs out at the
end of this month, do i still need to phone the DVLA even though
the car was written off?

cheers matt.

 

I got away with three weeks at the end of last year.

That was to renew my sorn - sure I have never had to do that before ?

WD

 

If your a dumb ass like me and forgot to tax your car from last October then you will receive a letter from the DVLA telling you so LOL!!!

I got mine this morning thought that can't be right, checked my tax disk and yep it ran out last October, wife filed the DVLA reminder thing in my car file hence never got it

I now have a Ł40 fine and have to pay the Ł27.50 back tax directly to the DVLA along with taxing the car at the post office obviously, if I don't do this by the 30/01/06 then the fine raises to Ł80.

 

tell em you wrote a letter informing em case they never bothered to send sorn declaration and the car IS STILL off the road as stated as its a summer use car and the other car is the main car

job done


that what i done last time,,,,,, but these days i dont have cars in my name as theres sooo many fines about for owning a car

 

I just got the fine letter through for two cars today.

B'stards.

 

btw if you write off declaring it sorn they cant fine you for not re-delcaeing it as you never signed you understand that part

i write all mine sorn in a letter and never had to renew a car yet