owner/registered keeper of two cars

[Kiki1]

Hi All

 

I can't see the answer to this on the site, apologies if it is here somewhere

 

 

I am the owner/registered keeper of two cars that predate the last major changes in licensing.

 

Both have the older style V5's, one is in need of some engine parts (that so far haven't appeared - at the right price - on a certain auction site), and the other is slowly being cannibalised for parts to keep a similar one on the road.

Both are garaged on my own property, neither is likely to make it back on the road in the forseeable future, PLUS I have letters from the DVLA confirming that since neither have been on the road before 1998, they do not have to be SORNed.

 

The DVLA database of course has a link between myself and the two vehicles as I originally tried SORNing one of them in 2001 and received the first of the two letters as their response.

 

Does anyone know if this new insurance/SORN change of conditions supercedes or invalidates these earlier letters, and they now have to be SORNed and a new V5C issued ?

 

If so, there are obviously people who do something similar, (both cars and bikes) who will now have to submit registration numbers to the DVLA,presumably to initially get a V5C, and then SORN them on a yearly basis, with the added risk of a fine if for any reason they lapse on a renewal.

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited June 18, 2011 by Kiki1

[maroondevo52]

Hello and Welcome, kiki1.

 

I've stated a new thread for you in the appropriate Forum.

 

Regards.

 

Scott.

[Kiki1]

Anyone ?

[Gick]

The new vehicle insurance law - don't be caught out

 

 

 

 

 

If you're the registered keeper of a vehicle, it must be insured at all times.

The exceptions are:

 

• if you have made a SORN for the vehicle
  
• if your vehicle has been kept off-road since before SORN came into force on 31 January 1998 – unless it was brought back into use
  
• if your vehicle is recorded as stolen, passed or sold to the motor trade or between registered keepers
  
• if your vehicle is recorded scrapped or permanently exported by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing (DVLA)
  

[Kiki1]

Thanks, and a sigh of relief.

 

The DVLA don't make anything clear about you second point on their website, unless it is on a page that I have overlooked.

[Gick]

As I am a newbie I am not allowed to post links. However, if you go to the government website of direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Motorinsurance/DG_186696

you will see the extract. DVLA are concerned with the licencing, not continuous insurance, so may feel justified in not mentioning the exemptions!

 

Regards,

 

Andrew

[Kiki1]

Makes sense of course.

 

Why notify people they don't have to be on a database that is designed to issue fines to those that have joined up.

Edited July 25, 2011 by Kiki1
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