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Last year the DVLA registered me as the new keeper of a 1936 Alvis. The car was at the time registered on SORN which was due to expire nearly a year later. I contacted the DVLA's Enforcement Centre where...
Carla Carlisle, a columnist with Country Life, wrote a harrowing piece about an A14 accident in the Travel Section of the DT on Saturday 24 March. I wrote to her this week and had a very positive email...
I received a Parking Charge from Parking Eye. Parking Eye claimed that my car entered the Associated British Ports Town Quay (Short stay) Car Park in Southampton at 12:39:07 on 7 March and left at 17:32:59...
The DVLA states it has no record of my having passed my motorcycle licence in 1951. Can you help as I do not wish to retake at my age (79)? I have a full car licence.
I have an old Triumph Herald which has been laid up by my garage since the end of 1997. Prior to that it was used on the road and was taxed. The car has not been declared as SORN since then. I have carried...
I can suggest an easier method of RB of Daventry removing the address of the fake owner from the DVLA's database? Simply make a complaint to the Information Commissioner that the DVLA is holding false...
Our four-year-old Nissan Note has just been for its second MoT. Unfortunately, the information on the dashboard was showing the 'trip' mileage since we had bought the car a year ago, and the garage recorded...
I bought my Audi A3 TDI from a garage in January 2012 and paid in cash. I got pulled over by the police who informed me that I wasn't the registered keeper, I rang up DVLA who confirmed it was registered...
My ex partner bought me a car for my bday/xmas in December and we put the logbook in his name because the insurance would be cheaper. However I am the registered keeper on insurance and the main driver....
I've just sold my car to a buyer in South London but I'm uncertain as to when my liabilities will transfer to the new keeper. I prepared a handwritten receipt, which both buyer and seller signed at the...