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Fri 9 Dec 2005 19:14

New Car - Tax Conundrum - tack

Ordered a new car via broker. Car is at dealership awaiting my cover note so they can tax and deliver it.

The insurance company sent the cover note to the broker in my name but showing the brokers address.

The broker says that when the dealership goes to the post office to get tax and do the first reg' document, it will be rejected as the address shown on the cover note, i.e. "My name" care of "brian" at "Company Name/address" is not the same as the address on the new registration document.

The insurance company says it does this all the time and never heard of such a problem.

I have never heard of this, and have just received the policy which has my name and NO address on it.

Any ideas?

Cheers

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Fri 9 Dec 2005 19:22

New Car - Tax Conundrum - RoadDevil

Don't dealers fill in and stamp the tax discs themselves for new cars? Stamp where the post office normally stamp reads 'Dealer' with the date.

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Fri 9 Dec 2005 20:34

New Car - Tax Conundrum - martint123

None of my insurance certificates has an address on at all. AFAIK the PO only checks the name.

Last time I gave a mate a lift to buy a new van, they had a drawer full (well a dozen or so) tax disks and filled one in after asking if any of the letters/numbers was prefered.

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Sat 10 Dec 2005 10:40

New Car - Tax Conundrum - blue_haddock

Yep the vast majority of dealer now use the AFRL system where the car is taxed by themselves during the registration process. The only time things get complicated is if a private reg plate is being transfered in which case t has to go to the local DVLA office.

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