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Advice please - does anyone have experience of taxing a car/bike back to go back on the road after many years in storage ? vehicle is pre-1960 bike, so is MOT exempt Edit : Blue V5C with barcode (not a modern red V5C) is in my name last taxed before sorn was invented (pre-1998) Is it as simple as take insurance and old V5 to post office, and claim a years free tax ? No point in insuring it now if it's going to take months of inspections etc before I can get tax. Factual advice & experiences welcome (I can guess lots of different situations - I don't need more guesses about what might happen !)  <pics to follow...> |
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Last Edit: Feb 5, 2018 19:48:46 GMT by nomad: V5 info update
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you need insurance before you can tax it, they may not accept the v5 at the post office as it wont have a barcode for their system.
you should have a recent V5 for it as the dvla sent out all those ones with the red cover after someone nicked a few thousand of the older non red cover type, unless they thought it was dead and its not on the computer anyway.
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Have you tried to SORN it on-line?
My 1967 420 was SORNed re 98 and when I tried to SORN it I seem to recall I got a message to the effect it wasn't necessary. Suggested to me that DVLA knew it existed though which is a step in the right direction.
Sorry, no direct experience to help you though I hope to learn from your experience!
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^ Thanks for the input  It's showing as untaxed on the DVLA website, all details are correct so that sounds like it's still on their system  Have just checked the logbook and it's a blue V5C with barcode (not the modern red style). Good news - maybe  Date of registration is March 1960. The MOT exemption is for those "made before 1960"  Common sense says it was built before it was sold & registered, but getting it MOT'd will be easier than arguing the case  So the question now is : does it *just* need mot & insurance, then a trip to the post office?  or should I expect the tax application to hit a brick wall then to-and-fro with DVLA before they let me tax it? or or  |
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Go to postoffice with insurance and MOT (shouldn't need paper copies but just in case) fill out form V62 and hey presto it's done. they will give a receipt which states VEL exempt and V5 sent off.
I've done a few of them since the new system kicked in.
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retrolegends
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Go on then Pete, what have you gone and bought? ? 😆 |
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what have you gone and bought? ? Hi Col. Once upon a time in a land far to the North ... Oops - wrong forum  There's no easy answer, It's not a new project, more something that keeps moving near the top of the to-do list then getting pushed back down when something else (life, work, cars, festivals, music...) takes priority  The family home (with attached garage) has just been sold and we'll be moving out in less than 2 months We moved here 20 years ago and I've been stacking interesting stuff at the back of the garage ever since. This is one of the to-do projects that came with us from the previous house  I've been looking for a couple of photos, after digging back though 20 years of jpgs from several cameras I've remembered the photos are 35mm prints so I need to find which box they're in and scan them before I can upload them to put you out of your suspense  < scanned 35mm pics to follow> |
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Last Edit: Feb 5, 2018 21:16:20 GMT by nomad
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retrolegends
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Looking forward to it 👍🏻
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they may not accept the v5 at the post office as it wont have a barcode for their system. According to a helpful chap with a Welsh accent, the V5 Doc Ref numbers are only for online use, anything at the post office or indeed over the phone can be done using an old V5. So he tells me anyway, which saved me £25 so I'm taking it as fact. |
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they may not accept the v5 at the post office as it wont have a barcode for their system. According to a helpful chap with a Welsh accent, the V5 Doc Ref numbers are only for online use, anything at the post office or indeed over the phone can be done using an old V5. So he tells me anyway, which saved me £25 so I'm taking it as fact. great to hear ! |
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Feb 10, 2018 15:59:38 GMT
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Thanks for the feedback & suggestions, the plan now looks like : check it's running ok (hopefully just need to fit a borrowed battery) fix the headlight then MOT, insure it & make a trip to the post office No pressure, but it needs to be done by the end of next month (March) , and until recently it wasn't even on my "Urgent things" to-do list  paging retrolegends  |
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Feb 10, 2018 19:40:09 GMT
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they may not accept the v5 at the post office as it wont have a barcode for their system. According to a helpful chap with a Welsh accent, the V5 Doc Ref numbers are only for online use, anything at the post office or indeed over the phone can be done using an old V5. So he tells me anyway, which saved me £25 so I'm taking it as fact. The £25 fee is for replacing a lost V5, if you have the old one you haven't lost it. |
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Feb 11, 2018 18:55:42 GMT
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Yes thanks, I know that. In this particular scenario, I have saved having to make that application and therefore saved the fee.
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The family home (with attached garage) has just been sold and we'll be moving out in less than 2 months 
