Fair call, although that was two years after I had it at guessI'd have to disagree with regard to your old 4200.
Saw it a year or so after Darren had it fully resprayed after he bought it, and it was suffering badly with body corrosion even after the respray before he sold it.
They simply do not like the English damp salty winters!
MOT will only pick up structural corrosion, the whole underside could be rusty but if not structural won't be mentioned necessarily.
Exactly right sir!For me both salt, general dirt and also money. I'm not going to pay 50 quid a month for a car I'm not going to drive. If I didn't SORN my cars my car tax would be over £3k per annum which is silly when we can only drive two cars at any given time.
It is a pain in the butt if I'm honest as every end of month I have to decide what to SORN and what to tax. I have a bank account dedicated just for car tax. I know....1st world problem but a stupid archaic system IMHO.
Anyway, I annoyed the neighbours by doing laps of the close //. It gets up to temperature and I do both clockwise and anticlockwise laps, so mine gets a thorough workout rather than an idle on the drive.
Also blows away the neighbours... And their cobwebsIs the right thing to do. Blows all the damp away properly.
I don’t SORN mine, I just use it less.
The problem is I do have trade plates and have had them for about 4 years now. There are strict guidelines on when and how they should be used though. The are allowed to be used for collecting/delivering the car on purchase/sale, demo or test drives, to or from MOT or service etc. and possibly shake down runs after works. That is what I use them for.I'm surprised none of you guys haven't got Trade plates especially you Dean trading the number of cars you get through.
I was gutted to hand mine back in 2014.
It was the best £160 a year to drive what I wanted too which most of the time was on my own.
A different ball game if carrying passengers though and lots of people abuse them.
Exactly right sir!
For those of us with a small fleet of rarely used classics, the cost and admin is a pain. The Govt got it right by giving FOC tax for cars > 40 years old, but you still have to go through the taxation process annually and many of my much younger cars do well under 1000 miles a year.
I would like to see the tax added to tax on fuel, so the more you use the roads the more you pay. This seems fairer to me or we could have the French system of tolls for most main roads, but that requires a charging infrastructure put in place at significant cost of toll booths and tv monitoring.
I agree 100% on the car tax levy going on fuel as it is the ultimate leveller and works for all ICE cars.
To replace car tax in its current guise essentially. I'm not sure a govt needs a reason to tax these days do they. Wear and tear on roads if you likeWhy? What are you trying to tax for? Wear and tear on the roads? At a guess the Macans discussed over there are rather bigger and heavier than Mrs C's 147 and probably do better mpg. Which one does more damage?
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I’m not sure I get how the owner of a large inefficient fuel guzzling engine should pay more road tax?...
I personally think there’s already more than enough tax on petrol / diesel, and can’t see how adding the car tax (or vehicle excise duty) to the price of fuel would be fair....
Equally, if I choose to drive my Maserati at high revs and high speed, why should that cost me more than if I choose to drive very slowly and sedately?