Bravo2zero_sps

Can someone please explain the valid reasoning behind this ridiculous and pointless check because I must be misunderstanding what they are for? My station/run about car has been given a cat c rating and am being paid out for it but have kept it on the road ever since the accident because it is mechanically fine, it was all cosmetic damage which wrote the car off and has now been reparied for next to nothing with 2nd hand parts.

Now I have to pay £36 to book a VIC test miles away where they will tell me yes the car is still the same car and the vin plates all match up and I can carry on using it What an utter waste of time, money and effort all because of a few damaged panels on the car which I replaced for very little money and the car has not transferred ownership and has been used as normal from when the accident happened. How would the vin plates suddenly have changed for that? And before anyone says well how would they know that, quite easily because the insurance inspector who comes out and writes the car off has to do a report on the damage and what state the car is in etc.

More made up and useless jobs designed by our completely and utterly incompetent Government allowing the DVLA/VOSA to charge money for old rope. I could understand it if it was for written off cars that then changed ownership but certainly not for cars that remain with the original owner and subsequently passed an MOT after the accident occured

Bravo2zero_sps

I know that Dave, that's my whole point, my car obviously isn't a cut and shut or been ringed having had an insurance inspector do a report on it and the fact it then passed it's MOT and is still owned by the same person as before the accident, ie me! It's a total waste of time and money with no justification for it as it's already been proved to be the same car, the insurance inspector checks the vin numbers himself when doing his report so I don't need VOSA repeating that same check to tell me it's the same car!