now that they are both due on the same date....next yr should be easier :)
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sometimes a little bit too much opinion....but its only because i care !!!
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That funny little blue sticker they stuck on my Landie and SWMBO's windscreen will give you the Heads Up !
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mk,
Your post says you need the car to get to work but you won't be taxing it till Saturday.
We'll keep our fingers crossed for you.
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A diary's good ;-)
as is google's free calendar, or outlook's calendar, or many such other free software on the net.
and so is the alarm/date-reminder function on your mobile-phone.
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Or you could write a letter and get a solicitor to hold it in storage for you (like the end of Back to the Future 2) and get them to hand deliver it when its next due. Know any solicitors ???
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I really wouldn't worry about it.
There are plenty of people driving around with no tax and no MOT and with no intention of obtaining either.
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If what are laughingly called "The Powers That Be" got their act together and crushed every untaxed, uninsured, MOT failed and illegally run foreign registered car in UK we'd get about 2 million cars off the road and reduce emissions and congestion at a stroke. If these computer systems are so marvellous (NOT!) that we have vast numbers of untaxed and uinsured cars on the road what confidence can we have that a system, also based on computers, will be able to hande road and/or congestion charging, or whatever it is called this week?
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If these computer systems are so marvellous (NOT!) thatwe have vast numbers of untaxed and uninsured cars on the road what confidence can we have that a system, also based on computers, will be able to handle road and/or congestion charging, or whatever it is called this week?
The facts are that the computer systems only know about cars that are registered. The GATSOs, Congestion Charging, Threats of coming to get you over SORN/Road Tax only applies to those who care to register their cars.
If you are the soret that does not have a licence, insurance MoT or whatever you are not going to register the car are you? What arethe cahnces of being stopped for any of the above? Very little.
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"What arethe cahnces of being stopped for any of the above? Very little."
It depends where you live. If I had an untaxed, uninsured vehicle I would definately have been pulled by now. There is barely a week goes by when I don't see the unmarked police car doing ANPR checks, but I live in a large urban conurbation.
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Last week I spent £200 on a service / MoT, £190 on Road Tax and £200 on 1 yrs Comp Insurance.
This morning I walked the dog at 6:30am - a stream of K,L,M reg cars came out of a local estate - presumably people on their way to work -
Lights not 100%, exhausts emitting noxious and visible trails from the exhaust...................
What are the chances that they have been serviced, MoTd, taxed and insured? - £500 car and it would cost more than that to stay legal for 12 mths........... I am not saying all the cars but I am sure a fair proportion will be illegal in some way.
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There are more and more static ANPR cameras going up to automate fines.
Latest request I heard for one was on the Humber Bridge - a nice bottleneck for maximising captures.
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But if the car is not registered to the correct "owner" or address then ANPR without plod-on-a-bike to do the chasing bit is useless. Although it will catch the OP if he travels to Hull.
From my recollection of Hull, there is no reason to visit.
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