drewf
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Recently, (well, I say recently, but it's actually 10 weeks ago), Susie sent her V5s for both her BMW and Cayenne to the local DVLA office, to have the plate on the Beemer swapped to the Cayenne, in readiness for the Beemer Convertible being disposed of, ahead of its third birthday.
Should be easy, no? They do this V5 registration deal all the time - in fact, I rather thought that was pretty much 50% of what they did.
Well, the cheque for the transfer was cashed, and two new tax disks arrived, along with a permission slip to get some plates made for both cars. eBay being cheaper than Halfords, they were obtained without needing the use of the permit, and I swapped the plates and put the new tax disks in the window. That was 8 weeks ago.
Then began the long wait for the replacement V5Cs. We are still waiting, and the BMW needs taxing and its first MoT. Tricky bit comes next - a reminder arrived in the post for the tax a couple of weeks ago, bearing the old registration. Oh dear, one thought. Perhaps there's a bit of a glitch in updating the tax reminders, against the registration database. If only....
My local MoT chaps can't log onto the test database, as the car now doesn't exist. No, really... Several phone calls to the DVLA (during which the bast@rds were actually chuckling) have resulted in Susie being told she can't drive the car, as it has neither MoT nor tax from Sunday, it's fitted with plates which don't exist, the tax disk isn't valid, and they have no idea when or even IF they can sort the V5C.
It gets better.... her Cayenne is wearing the reg still associated with the BMW (bear with me - that's the BMW they just said didn't exist, remember), and ALSO they claim is now illegal to drive, as it is on false plates, and has an invalid tax disk.
So - that's two cars they've taken off the road (supposedly - I'm thinking that it's their problem really if she's stopped for using the Cayenne, which is MoT'd, and I'm prepared to talk about it quite openly in a court, given they've sent the tax disks and plates through), and they have no fear of any penalties whatsoever that can be imposed on them for failing to do their job. Splendid.
Should be easy, no? They do this V5 registration deal all the time - in fact, I rather thought that was pretty much 50% of what they did.
Well, the cheque for the transfer was cashed, and two new tax disks arrived, along with a permission slip to get some plates made for both cars. eBay being cheaper than Halfords, they were obtained without needing the use of the permit, and I swapped the plates and put the new tax disks in the window. That was 8 weeks ago.
Then began the long wait for the replacement V5Cs. We are still waiting, and the BMW needs taxing and its first MoT. Tricky bit comes next - a reminder arrived in the post for the tax a couple of weeks ago, bearing the old registration. Oh dear, one thought. Perhaps there's a bit of a glitch in updating the tax reminders, against the registration database. If only....
My local MoT chaps can't log onto the test database, as the car now doesn't exist. No, really... Several phone calls to the DVLA (during which the bast@rds were actually chuckling) have resulted in Susie being told she can't drive the car, as it has neither MoT nor tax from Sunday, it's fitted with plates which don't exist, the tax disk isn't valid, and they have no idea when or even IF they can sort the V5C.
It gets better.... her Cayenne is wearing the reg still associated with the BMW (bear with me - that's the BMW they just said didn't exist, remember), and ALSO they claim is now illegal to drive, as it is on false plates, and has an invalid tax disk.
So - that's two cars they've taken off the road (supposedly - I'm thinking that it's their problem really if she's stopped for using the Cayenne, which is MoT'd, and I'm prepared to talk about it quite openly in a court, given they've sent the tax disks and plates through), and they have no fear of any penalties whatsoever that can be imposed on them for failing to do their job. Splendid.
