MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: Hedge on June 30, 2011, 05:19:31 pm
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I have just returned home after a nice day spent at the FoS Moving Motor Show. Opened the front door and there's a letter from the DVLA.
I open it and seems because I am still the registered keeper of my old R32, despite not actually owning it for nearly 4 months, I am guilty of not either taxing it , sorning it or telling them I sold it. :surprised:
When the dealer took it off my hands we did all the paperwork and they gave me the slip off the bottom of the V5 which I duly posted to the DVLA. Now this is where it goes a bit Pete Tong as they are supposed to write to me to confirm. If I don't receive anything within a month then I should contact the DVLA. My mistake. Once it's gone it's gone in my view so I ignore all paperwork that comes through the door for it especially the tax reminder which was due 3 weeks after I got rid.
So apparently I am still the registered keeper and they wish to fine me £80 reduced to £40 if I pay by 26/07. So I rang the payment line and asked if that's the end of it. The woman said not because I am still the registered keeper.
Right on to the dealer and they are sending me a copy of the invoice, dated, when they took the car off my hands. I am going to photocopy it and send it to every office that the DVLA have. Hopefully they will get the message.
Grrrrr!!!
Never had this sh*te before despite owning 1 or 2 cars in my 25year driving history.
Sorry folks, rant over. :fighting: :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:
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Some plank done half a job & you're paying for it :fighting: :fighting:
Feel for you
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I feel for you mate, but the DVLA dont give a shi!t.. You will have a fine of some sort. :sad1:
Good luck though :happy2:
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Exact same thing happened to me when i px'ed the A3 for the GTi :fighting:
In my case i rang the issuing fine office (Chester) and explained the situation to a very helpful chap, he recommended sending all the copies i had of the date and records of car changeover along with a covering letter explaining everything, 5 days later i got a reply letting me know everything had been dropped! :smiley:
Fingers crossed you get a good result! :happy2:
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I also had this with my old ED30, despite lots of letters and providing proof of sale they didn't budge :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:
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Sadly it's nearly always the genuine guys that take one up the arse for the d1ckheads that these procedures are in place to catch.
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It could have just been lost in the post though. Gutted for you, i once had the DVLA trying to fine me for a car that had been scrapped 6 months earlier. A stinky letter and they apologised and that was the end of it. I think i was lucky, they could have been total f*ckers about it. This was a few years ago mind.
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Surely the dealer must have sold it on by now and the new owner taxed it?? :confused:
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You would have thought so John but it's an R32 so not a huge amount of movement on those.
I did see it on another dealers website but since then it has gone elsewhere.
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I had to take an affidavit to get a load of parking fines and whatnot dropped from an old car, it was a while ago - but Jesus, they were relentless in insisting it was me despite the proof I provided.
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Guilty until proven innocent these days :fighting:
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Had the same thing a few cars ago. Right after I coughed up the money for the fine I got the letter thanking me for letting them know I was no longer the registered keeper of the car!
F***ERS!!