SORN VERY IMPORTANT NEWS

[andrew e]

No more annual renewing!!! Nigel Bickle will be on a massive bender tonight

 

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor ... nt-changes

 

http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/news/ne ... ent-106784

[SambaS]

Good-ish I suppose.

 

Still doesn't make 7 of my cars TAX exempt like the 25 year rolling rule would have.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The Government has also extended the cut-off date for road tax exemption, for classic cars, by one year. From 1 April 2014 vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1974 will be exempt from paying road tax.

 

Didn't expect that! Cool.

[jonny69]

Handy. I would expect.

[CortinaDave]

Suggests it will be a rolling exemption at 40 years with any luck. Great to see some progress finally but still super grippy of them though, the date's moved forward one year in the last 15!!! about time my '79 cortina was exempt. At this rate it'll become exempt in 2087.

[Junkman]

The Government has also extended the cut-off date for road tax exemption, for classic cars, by one year. From 1 April 2014 vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1974 will be exempt from paying road tax.

 

Blerdin fugg! Missed it by one fuggin year.

[trigger]

I've missed it by two months!

[Junkman]

You should be more pissed off than I am.

[R9UKE]

That's good news. That annual SORN renewal was a money making scheme.

[flat4alfa]

That didn't make the money after all

[andrew e]

I've missed it by two months!

 

By build date or registration Trigg?

[blackboilersuit]

Time to hit the bay and buy some 1973 chod before the prices go up.

[HillmanImp]

This will hopefully stop me getting bummed by Doovla for forgetting to do my SORNs each year. I am sure I will find some other way to continuously get into trouble with them though.

 

I do need to get a new driving licence as my current one has expired. I am sure I will get busted for that shortly as the chances of me walking 100m to the postbox up the road are roughly zero.

 

If it is a rolling 40yr excemtion thats good news. Lancia will probably still be up for sale in 2016 so will look forward to the money saved on that front.

[Junkman]

Time to hit the bay and buy some 1973 chod before the prices go up.

 

Too late.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cars-/9801/i. ... 0Year=1973

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Classic-Cars- ... 0Year=1973

 

But shitloads of shite for the Ebay thread.

[TimothyClaypole]

You can do your licence online now.

 

(Not that I've bothered yet either).

[HillmanImp]

You can do your licence online now.

 

(Not that I've bothered yet either).

 

Can you? Cool. Might give that a go.*

 

 

 

*Probably won't though.......

[trigger]

I've missed it by two months!

 

By build date or registration Trigg?

 

I *think* the build dates January 1974 but i need to double check my vin, even worse!

[whitevanman]

/\ my estate is the same built Jan 74....

[capsuleboy]

Thats fantastic as both my R5 and the R4van are 1973!

Still won't make me vote Tory though...

[trigger]

According to the Telegraph it's cars before 2014...

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/cla ... -1974.html

Previously only cars registered before January 1 1973 were exempt from road tax, after the Government abandoned the previous 25-year rolling scale in 1997. However, from April 2014 any car registered before January 1 2014 will be entitled to a free tax disc.

 

Basically the writer has copied Keith Adams post over on Honestjohn.co.uk and then continued to fuck it up whilst reposting it.

[Split_Pin]

Well that's grand about the SORN thing, means one less thing to remember in what will be a busy year!

[Micrashed]

First SORN, then the tax disc.

I predict that by 2015 the tax disc will be no more and it will all be done on line to save more admin costs.

 

 

I still think the Tories / Osborne are all cunts of the highest order though and I wouldnt piss on any of them if they were on fire.

[catsinthewelder]

A rare bit of good news on the motoring front then

 

A rolling 40 year tax exemption should keep us all quiet about reinstating the 25 year one for yet more paperwork saving (says the owner of a 39 year old van whos keeping everything crossed).

[nigel bickle]

It feels like part of the ongoing harmonisation with Yurop, frankly.

 

Most of the rest of the EU have 'easier rules' for old uns - often considerably younger than ours.

 

The stricter MOT rules introduced this month are to bring us more 'in line' (my arse!) & I understand that the MOT next year will include ''foreign options'' -which intrigues me.

Will we then be able to CT a French car -arguably an easier (2 yr) ticket as part of this 'harmonisation'?

 

If so -I' could be re-registering a large no of 80's vehicles..

[Junkman]

It feels like part of the ongoing harmonisation with Yurop, frankly.

 

Most of the rest of the EU have 'easier rules' for old uns - often considerably younger than ours.

 

The stricter MOT rules introduced this month are to bring us more 'in line' (my arse!) & I understand that the MOT next year will include ''foreign options'' -which intrigues me.

Will we then be able to CT a French car -arguably an easier (2 yr) ticket as part of this 'harmonisation'?

 

If so -I' could be re-registering a large no of 80's vehicles..

 

You obviously haven't fully grasped the concept of European harmonisation. It's not about to make anything easier or better for you. It's all about to get more money out of you.

So even if they change the MoT interval to two years, it won't cost you 30-40 quid like it does now, it'll cost 120, because so many more things need to be inspected due to the stricter rules. If anything, you will have fewer 80's vehicles registered than you have now.

[dollywobbler]

Ay yes. I forgot Europe only exists to make life more difficult for us, and easier for work-shy migrants who will steal all of our jobs. We'd better all vote UKIP.

 

Be warned that the 40-year free tax has NOT been confirmed as rolling. It will apparently be decided by the chancellor every year. Which probably means that Labour will put a stop to it if they get back into power.

[nigel bickle]

Junkman,

 

Thank you for filling in 'European harmonisation blanks'.

 

As my family are 50% French, I spend about 33% of my working time in southern Belgium, and own a few 'European' properties; I am indeed indebted to you for your, frankly, insulting opinion.

 

I am fully cognisant with 'the facts', and view your unwarranted slur, questionable.

[John F]

Junkman, didn't we discuss this sort of thing recently?

 

A German TÃœV takes about 45 minutes, and in many respects is NOT as thorough as a British MoT. Also, by way of example, there is no MoT on motorcycles in France and Belgium.

 

So I don't know why you're getting the idea that things are necessarily stricter over there.

[catsinthewelder]

I wouldn't have thought that JM would have anything against immigrants

 

My other half can't stand the european parliment and all it's corruption either and she's french.

[Bobthebeard]

You can do your licence online now.

 

(Not that I've bothered yet either).

 

Can you? Cool. Might give that a go.*

 

 

 

*Probably won't though.......

 

Going back to the licence thing, several of my friends and family, when asked, had only a hazy idea that the photocard part expired after ten years. Most of theirs had expired, mine was two years overdue until recently sorted. Given the general cant be arsedness about renewing, what happens (legally etc) if you are pulled over/have an accident or whatever with an expired photocard? Just wondered?