Parking a car on the road with no insurance?

WHS. Near me, there are a load of DVLA vans on the patrol with a number of cars with clamps on accompanied by a sticker on the window.

Yes, they may have nothing better to do with their time, but the sad fact is that there are still plenty of people driving without insurance (as I found out the other day when I almost sideswiped by a careless chav in a uninsured Audi).

A chum of mine bought a car Sunday, parked it outside his house on the street Sunday evening. Went in to town on the bus Monday morning to tax it (needed "Disabled" changing to "PLG") and he was done for no tax at 10am and he'd taxed it by 12:30.

OK its tax not insurance but he lived down a quiet back street.

He got the full £750 fine reduced to £400 for paying within 14 days business.

He tried to appeal but they just said he should have found off street parking for it.

I suspect you'll get the same story with insurance.

As someone who has always been paid up tax and insurance wise I like seeing the DVLA clamps. Finally *some* of the scumbags out there are getting the attention they deserve!

CIE can kiss my ring though, that's just a curse word take.

As for the original question, try and add the new car to your existing policy. Doing that has never cost me much and it's piece of mind.

Agree'd!

The wasteground/carpark that i use for work everyday has had a red BMW E30 plonked on it for the last few weeks with no tax/Not showing on MID - Kept moving spaces and would be nowhere to be seen at different parts of the day so was obviously being used. Belonged to someone in a block of flats opposite - Going home from work yesterday noticed young lad buzzing around the BM looking quite angry - He'd been clamped by the company who own the car park (I assume it was them anyway, Don't think the DVLA can clamp on a private car park?)..... Then some other curse word had been along and nabbed his other 3 (Unclamped) wheels leaving the car sitting on the ground (Manchester Cliche?).

For driving without insurance, yes, but having a parked car getting clamped? Hardly crime of the century is it?

No, but its designed to stop people using carparks to store vehicles and make it a bit easier to catch unisured drivers, just because its parked up when they see it it don't mean its noit being used on the road.

Owning cars is not a right, when you decide if you can afford one or not you need to include all the other costs as well, if you cant afford to have two cars insured, don't buy a new one until your old one is sold.

This I believe to be true though I've found to my displeasure that the wind* could lift a cover thus revealing the digits

* Yeah right

As long as the car has tax and you do not drive it without insurance you will be fine, there's no chance of points or fines unless you are actually driving the vehicle. However the vehicle could be removed although it is highly unlikely and if it does you'll just have to get insurance on it and pay for the removal charge.

But as someone mentioned earlier most insurance companies will temporarily add a vehicle to your policy for a small admin fee, I've done it everytime I've changed vehicles over the last couple of years, they do have a limit on the number of days they will do it within a year though.

As for the car cover... technically they're illegal to use on the road unless you make a cut out so that your tax disk is displayed

For the privelidge of owning a car on the Queens Highway you must have a form of insurance, road tax and MOT (unless going to test etc.)
Some may criticise the DVLA enforcement but I say bring it on. I have always paid my bit to keep things as right as possible and I don`t see why others appear to get away with it.