DVLA Site Not Loading

[theorganist]

Not sure if it is a problem my end but I am trying to tax the Princess but the DVLA website won't load on either computer, all other websites are fine!

 

Just wondering if anyone else may be trying to tax online and having problems?

 

Will try again in the morning, very frustrating!

 

EDIT: Just loaded but seems very slow!

[dollywobbler]

It's utterly kippered, as is the site for checking your vehicle details. Got the 2CV taxed earlier before it all fell down. Good start eh?

[cobblers]

It's probably offline while they swap over to the new no disk system. Obv any other company could do it seamlessly, but the DVLA are in wales and run by the government so it's a wonder they aren't still trying to get an advert under bamboozle on teletext.

[theorganist]

Thanks guys. Yes both sites are the same it's typical of a government run organisation, I dread to think how much the software would have cost?

[New POD]

Our MX5 tax went through fine on Sunday morning.

[Skizzer]

but the DVLA are in wales

 

Oi! 

[Jim Bell]

Well this IS a surprise. Good luck anyone who genuinely needs to ring them up today.

[Mr Lobster]

DVLA reporting on twitter that the site is still down this morning. 

 

What a massive surprise this is(n't)

[dollywobbler]

Great isn't it? As the vehicle check site is also down, one wonders how the Police can, er, Police it.

[theorganist]

Well my car is currently sitting outside my house without current road tax. Looks like I will be popping to the post office at lunch time to do it the old fashioned way!

[Skizzer]

DVLA reporting on twitter that the site is still down this morning. 

 

What a massive surprise this is(n't)

 

People follow the DVLA on Twitter?   Bet that's a laugh a minute.

[beko1987]

Is quite funny. Progress indeed...

[Jim Bell]

I want a refund for rfl and have not been issued a disk. I can't complete a V33 and can't submit anything online (even if there they HAVE remembered that they need an option for refunding without change of ownership or scrapping, which they most likely have not)

 

It's an outrage.

[andy18s]

The site wouldn't load up last night but ran fine at 6 am for me to tax the RF

Probably caused by all those corsa sellers on farcebook trying to cash their now redundant tax in......

[brickwall]

Hehehe...teknologee fails again.

[Mr Lobster]

People follow the DVLA on Twitter?   Bet that's a laugh a minute.

 

No, I don't. I just saw that someone else had retweeted them.

[Skizzer]

Wasn't accusing you, Mr L! 

[Stanky]

Are we sure that a DVLA minion hasn't taken the 'tax discs have been abolished' a bit too literally and unplugged the hard disks from their ancient, creaking server?

[Jim Bell]

They probably just need to put another 50p in the dragon.

[barefoot]

It's proper fucked

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/11132779/DVLA-website-crashes-on-first-day-of-law-change.html

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It'll be alright in a day or two no doubt.

[cort16]

But kittens are dieing NOW!

[theorganist]

Well that went well... not!

 

I went online just before lunch and lo it loaded up. I started the transaction but it said my card (debit) was declined. Odd I though shouldn't happen, tried again same again, so I cancelled and thought I would go to the bank at lunch and then to the post office. I checked my bank account and it appeared that the money for the tax has been taken, although as I cancelled the purchasing of the disc it has not gone through. The woman at the bank told me that the payment was "pending" and expired in 7 days and couldn't tell me what would happen to the money.

 

So as the car is still showing as untaxed I have had to pay again via my credit card, hopefully the money will be returned to my bank account, if not I envisage a long drawn out argument with the DVLA!

[mat_the_cat]

I want a refund for rfl and have not been issued a disk. I can't complete a V33 and can't submit anything online (even if there they HAVE remembered that they need an option for refunding without change of ownership or scrapping, which they most likely have not)

 

It's an outrage.

 

It appears as though you can declare SORN on this link (when it works!) using the 11 digit code on the V5, and it states that a refund will be automatically sent to the address they have for you:

https://www.sorn.service.gov.uk/

[Cavcraft]

I'm not brave enough to start a new thread about this car tax caper, so here's my question:

 

Someone (not on here) said that if you had already taxed a vehicle BEFORE the start of October, you could sell it with the tax remaining left on it. Is this true?

[Lord Sterling]

It appears as though you can declare SORN on this link (when it works!) using the 11 digit code on the V5, and it states that a refund will be automatically sent to the address they have for you:

https://www.sorn.service.gov.uk/

Well, I did manage to get on thier site today. All is good but they've got this "beta" thing going and thier site looks all very different and Government like. There is a notice to say that thier usual site is down so unfortunately no checking to see when that car in the undergrowth down the road was last taxed and if it's currently on SORN or not.

 

Happily I managed to SORN the now parked off road Ma_mobile_Micra.

[nick]

I'm not brave enough to start a new thread about this car tax caper, so here's my question:

 

Someone (not on here) said that if you had already taxed a vehicle BEFORE the start of October, you could sell it with the tax remaining left on it. Is this true?

 

From what I have read; no. The remaining tax left on (whole months only, naturally) is refunded to the person who paid for it as soon as vehicle ownership is transferred. The only way you could get round that I think is by telling them that the new owner had the car before the 1st October. I am unsure of how illegal that is.

[Jim Bell]

I wonder if the tax refund goes to the current keeper (as per v5) or to the person that paid for the tax. The Merc was taxed when I bought it and runs till after Xmas. Be interested to know if it's a digital refund to the purchaser, or a cheque to the current keeper.

[Jim Bell]

It appears as though you can declare SORN on this link (when it works!) using the 11 digit code on the V5, and it states that a refund will be automatically sent to the address they have for you:

https://www.sorn.service.gov.uk/

Cheers fella.

[STUNO]

I wonder if there will be .........The ability for someone to open up a shop in your local High Street to do all the DVLA stuff over the counter. Just imagine being able to go in and talk to someone who can do the changes of keeper and get the tax paid and refunded instantly plus all the other things DVLA do, for a fee.

 

I can go into the central High Street bookshop here and do that now, and there is instant service as the shop is connected live to the central computers. It is actually quicker and easier than on line from home.