loosing 'DVLA liability' for self exported camper?

[Wonko The Sane]

Mornin'

long story short, my in-laws bought a left hand drive camper in the UK, threw the keys at their manager and sodded off on retirement for a month driving round Spain until they got to their holiday home and have parked up for the foreseeable future with the intent of enjoying their retirement out there for a number of years.

So, the camper is UK registered and UK insured and the plan is simply for it to stay parked up in their garden as guest accomodation as they can't extend the property or have permanent buildings.

So, to avoid my father in law clocking up 'fines' for lack of tax, insurance or MOT what's the easiest and cheapest method of removing it from the DVLA records or just my father in law not being considered responsible for it just in case it causes problems later. There is no intent to ever put the camper back on the road.

My thoughts so far are to ''sell'' it to Mr Cameron, 10 downing st and send it in recorded post, while finding it amusing he didn't seem to think this a good idea.

Persuade a local breakers that for a couple of quid to register it as having been dismantled

register it as sold for export


any other ideas, nice and simple as I don't think he really cares or sees it as possibly being an issue.

ta

sorry for any spelling errors, a few beers and I've lost my glasses so can't even see the keyboard!
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[Pjay]

Just register it as SORN.
You don't have to do anything more after that.

[Suntan Sid]

[Ste]

Sounds like it's going to be parked in Spain.

They could do this:
https://www.gov.uk/taking-vehicles-out-of-uk

If they're living in Spain and there's no intention for it to go back on the road then keeping the UK insurance running seems unnecessary.

SORN is probably a better idea as when they do want to drive it again, they won't have to mess around reregistering / importing / filling in whatever forms the DVLA want and paying however much it'll be.

Why did they give their manager a set of keys for their camper van?

[Wonko The Sane]

[Suntan Sid]

It's Sorned until you tell the idiots at Swansea otherwise, or you sell it.
Sorn and forget it!
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[Commuter_Tim]

[iooi]

Well given its going to be parked up in Spain. It's not exactly going to get dobbed into DVLA is it...... One would also guess that the address has not been updated either

But I would worry that "stay parked up in their garden as guest accomodation as they can't extend the property or have permanent buildings. " Is going to lead to problems with the locals, about breaching regulations or dumping the van (eyesore or such)
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[nickyboy4]

Why make it any more difficult than it needs to be-there's a section on the registration document which states the vehicle has been permanently exported, sign it and send it back to DVLA-why are people over complicating matters?

[Suntan Sid]

And how much of a ball ache would it be to reimport back to blighty?
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[BTTD]

[nickyboy4]

There is no intent to ever put the camper back on the road.
That's what he said in his original post so we have to assume that's what he meant!

[Evil Hans]

[Wonko The Sane]

[lihp]

[Evil Hans]

[Pjay]

Dont be mean guys...

Fuck it.

[Wonko The Sane]

meh
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