DVLA question, sorn REALLY overdue!

[cornish]

Bike been off the road for few years, been moved around in temporary accomodation etc for long time. Been at current address for 3 years but and am just now starting to catch-up and sort out the chaos.

Last time I sorned the bike was about 5 years ago at a very old address. (have just worked this out and shat myself panicking!!!!)

Am trying to sort the bike out and it has popped into my head that i have not updated my address with the DVLA. . . .nor have I sorned my bike.

Any advice about how to go about this. As soon as I update my address with them the crap will hit the fan with regards to my SORN so any advice on preparation would be most welcome.

Thanks
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[Benson_JV]

What are you on about? You sent them the relevant letters...don't you remember?
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[Shaft]

^^^^ this

Or, if you don't need the possible crap entailed in keeping up the pretence, 'sell' it to a mate, let them register and SORN it, then 'buy' it back in 6 months.
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[lewis87]

[Tristan.]

I had 5 bikes unsorned for about 2 years. They send you an absolute shit storm of letters, but I realised a few months after selling one that they stopped sending me letters forthat one. So I sorned the others and all the letters stopped.

They'll never take anyone to court, cos if they lose they'll have to stop sending letters, and presumably a lot of people just stump up the cash.

[Scotsman37]

you've really got yourself in a pickle, but i think speaking to them on the phone or better still visit their nearest regional office in person is you best bet and give them classy dumb blonde act and MAYBE they will be lenient with you.

They may possibly penalise you in some way or hopefully telling them what happened back then you'll only get a warning! Leaving it any for longer and if bike found on public road it be could be crushed if not taxed still or have a hard time registering another vehicle if this one raises its ugly head to what happened to it?

[Tristan.]

Got any experience? Cos I have lots and there's fuck all to worry about

[G]

Indeed, best not to contact them, I'd say.
If you get any official court stuff through, pay attention, otherwise ignore.

Anyone know Scotsman's address, might send round some 'fines' myself, for hisanti-British communist views or something .

There's no way they could give you a hard time registering another vehicle due to an un paid sorn request for money. They will happily give a V5 to someone that is known to have stolen the bike, so don't think an out standing request for you to send them a monetary gift is going to mean much!

[Scotsman37]

G, I don't have communist views, and thankfully I have always kept bikes legal by remembering when things are due for renewal.

She has hard time by the sounds of it and is scared falling fowl of the law. Sometimes honesty is the best policy, but if youve done it plenty of times then i guess dvla isn't on the ball in chasing people for unpaid road tax or failed to sorn.

My helmets is off to you knowing that you can get away with it personally!

[Tristan.]

I don't like your tone

[Benson_JV]

[Blau Zedong]

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[Scotsman37]

[Chalky.]

I've just got the £80 fine through for a car that hasn't moved for 2 years, and has no SORN.

Do I ignore it or tell them I sent the sorn, and they must have lost it?

[P.addy]

[P.addy]

[DrDonnyBrago]

[P.addy]

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[Scotsman37]

One option to get around the road tax is have a motorcycle that was more than 25 years old i.e. built before 1971 as noted below when the rule was changed to reflect that, but that's if they've changed that rule too on that matter? In regards to a fairer road tax which I whole heartedly agree that a more balanced system is required for sole owner & driver of multiple vehicles requires a fairer tax system to reflect that he/she can't be driving them all at once. For now until the rules/law is changed we all have to deal with it and lobby our MP's for a better system!

Here's the other exemptions as noted below;

Exempt vehiclesVarious classes and uses of vehicle are provided with a tax disk without charge.

Vehicles constructed before 1 January 1973 are eligible for a free vehicle licence under "classic car" legislation. This is due to the age of the vehicle and a presumption of limited mileage. Initially this was a rolling exemption applied to any vehicles over 25 years old, however the cutoff date was frozen in 1997. The change to "pre-1973" was unpopular in the classic motoring press, and a number of classic car clubs are campaigning for a change back to the previous system.[6] In 2006 there were 307,407 vehicles in this category:[7]

Other exempt vehicle (broadly in descending order of total number) include:

Vehicles registered to disabled people (1.12 million vehicles).[8]
Emergency vehicles (includes police cars, fire-engines, and ambulances and other health-service vehicles).[9]
Vehicle registered to ex-soldiers who are in receipt of war pensioners’ mobility supplement (18,340 vehicles).[10]
Band A cars (306 vehicles in 2006, but rising fast).[11]
Ministerial cars.[12]
Vehicles operated by the Government Car and Despatch Agency.[citation needed]
Cars imported by members of foreign armed forces.[13]
Road construction vehicles.[14]
Agricultural, horticultural and forestry vehicles[15]
'Crown vehicles' for the use of Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family.[16]

[Blackwolf]

Sickpub, is prob the best perosn to talk to, considering he actually took them to court and won..
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[G]

Having quite a few vehicles and paying a silly amount of tax for very little use of the vehicles, I quite agree.
However, no one's trying to get away with not paying tax for vehicles they use on the road that I see.

What they are doing, is not wanting to pay the DVLA for not using the vehicles on the road, but forgetting to tell them about it.
Seeing that there is no law compelling people to give the money in regards to these requests, it seems reasonable for them not to.

[Chalky.]

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