Mike R

Is it worth sending off the V5 when you buy a secondhand car?

Personally, I can't see much advantage. You have the "previous" V5, the car and the keys, and in the unlikely event that you are asked to produce it by the police or your insurance company, you can send it off then and backdate it to the day you bought the car.

And there are many advantages ... avoiding taxes such as the CONgestion charge being one of them

V45DSM

It's the responsibility of the seller to send it off. If you don't know/like them, then it's their lookout. It will be them that gets bummed. Ideal for Speeding Fines, Parking fines and every illegal immigrant’s favourite - hit and runs.

[Edited by V45DSM - 1/7/2004 6:18:52 PM]

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Yes, if your selling, My brother didnt bother when he sold his Pug 309 for 50 quid, the new owner did an armed robbery on a off licence with it, Police assumed that the current owner was the armed robber and descended on my mums house at 3am, oh how we laughed !

paulr

How will you tax the car then?

Ian Griffiths

No speeding fines, free petrol and no silly SORN fine for not taxing it. Bonus.

Or you could register it in your name, get bummed for congestion charges, bummed for running costs and fined 80 quid for not filling a form in.

Long live the UK.

carl

You're not getting this, are you?

Dracoro

So when the car gets nicked The police find it at return it to the 'owner' who is not you.

medders

Can't wait to hear you lot moaning when a non registered uninsured driver hits your car.

Think it's a good idea then ?

pugoetru

No its not a good idea its just the way this country works

The rules are all there to help the crims

carl

You need to understand the difference between "legal owner" and "registered keeper". They are not necessarily the same person

ajm

Of course not, but it is paradoxical that the people on here are trying to get round registering a car to themselves in order to avoid wrongly prioritised offenses such as speeding tickets and congestion charge avoidance. Perhaps if the focus were on catching the original uninsured drivers rather than the easier target of legally registered drivers then we wouldn't even be having this discussion?

On a technicality, does not having your car registered to you invalidate your insurance? I am fairly certain that there is no such stipulation in my insurance.

carl

Well personally I thought this was a theoretical discussion to illustrate why the "****** class" never bother sending off the V5.

Both of the cars in our household are properly registered

Mike R

In response to some of the points above (my reason for starting the discussion was to see if any laws were being broken by those who do this):

1. If you buy a car from an auction you usually get the whole V5 minus the red portion if it's a garage part/ex.
2. You can tax a car with a V5 not in your name.
3. You are the legal owner and are therefore insured, although you are not the registered keeper.

P.S. I have a V5 in my name for my car.