DVLA in SORN incompetance shocker

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

So I got a new bike. It's a rebuild project so I immediately registered it and put it on sorn. Confirmation by email.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOQnS-CAoq_fjGzifFy2LkyzptP3K-QQK4Yq1WxVYqLKxWbVNdqaVxCPzDOMc_yKnqQ-K50e19DgaGli_B1yQSPaVjxiSCKb5gmV5zoKDTKt1w4sHoJkILdsZSxIAYsP8mFqH7JKBcNpTVbramxFLWL0Q=w1319-h939-s-no

All good yeah? Got this through the post (note the dates).

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczP9Y4HdCZjq3ZsI3Ujsfp893tb0lJKqt5t5B39fGDN0bclw8DaQFBDYfBYSdk9Prsh3fvku-NOeBtOz6FVecFAA-gZQBKCSK61BNe8NSvCzp-ObenPZHvZCsR2iNlKjKxj2nNh0sTDA1JZigyr8ayV5Ig=w1244-h939-s-no

So I think I'll just sit on this and see how much of a fool they make of themselves.

Mainly posting because I know some other members have an interest in fighting SORN "fines" and showing the DVLA system is riddled with errors can be important in that kind of thing.

I do actually have an even better one with original documents on file which can conclusively prove I made a (written) SORN declaration which they received then returned (it has the DVLA received rubber stamp on it) along with a letter saying I didn't need to SORN that vehicle. A SORN enforcement letter came two weeks later. That vehicle was actually put on the road shortly after anyway so nothing further came of it.
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WD Forte · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jun 2010 Karma :

'New' bike eh? dvla sez its a 64 RE nice. Clipper? Continental? Trails? Bitza?
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

Sounds like a nice find. I'm sure Wally and Sickpup will be along shortly (for very different reasons).
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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

"DVLA on chopping block in Burnham’s 10-year plan"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/11/08/driving-licence-quango-hgv-10-year-plan/

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

They'll just replace it with something even less efficient. As much as the DVLA refuses to acknowledge it makes mistakes, it does, by and large do it's job 99.9% of the time. Considering the quantity of documents they generate, print and post out, it is surprising that it works as well as it does.
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DJP · Crazy Courier Joined: 11 Dec 2011 Karma :

Years ago I bought a restoration project off a mate. The bike had been sitting, untaxed, for some years and this was just before SORN became a thing.

I duly sent off the log book and promptly forgot about it.

Some months later I realised that I'd not had a log book back. Now, at the time I was a police officer (now retired) and so I got a supervisor to run a PNC check on the bike and lo-and-behold it had been registered to me.

So I rung up the DVLA and said: "Where's me logbook?" to which they replied that since the bike had been untaxed for xyz years it couldn't be registered to me and that I'd have to re-register it, get a new number plate and pay lots of fees etc. etc.

And then I pointed out that I had access to PNC which showed me as the registered keeper.

And just like that they were able to send me a new logbook.

The utter bullshitters.
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