SORN

[richandhazel]

aww Rich don't let it get to you, forget about it for today,

Back from work, Stella in front of me and have chilled now

I'll send them a snotty letter and then, from what I've seen of other peoples experiences, I guess I'll end up paying..........you live and learn, put it down to experience.

If I take anything from this it will be that I hope everyone on here has seen what has happened to me and will have learnt from it. I don't want to hear the same thing happening to anyone else

[richandhazel]

£40 is nothing Rich. My insurrance just fleeced me out of £200

Well actually its £67.50 because I have to pay £27.50 back duty even though the car has been sat in my garden since the SORN expired.

Not as bad as £200 I'll give you........to be honest its not about the money, its the more the principle of the matter.

[richandhazel]

Ohh, I sympathise with you Rich. Remember my post about the sorn on my motorbike?. Fought with them tooth and nail, didn't get me anywhere as it is your responsibility  . I thought this system was put in place to stop people from using untaxed cars on the road, the element of society that they should be catching do not register the car in there name!. How can they think of admin charges as aren't we are already paying there wages?. Are these people civil servants? (or tax collectors), if so should they help us or advise us as to the best course of action?. Just another tax on the shoulders of the honest man.
(Thinking of forming my own government )
Steve.

Exactly. There are a couple of 'friends' of mine who have been using their cars for around 3 years with no tax, insurance or MOT, in fact one is even banned from driving. They drive down the local regularly and always seem to get away with it. How does that make me feel. Makes me wonder why I bother. Anyway I'm chilled now, not going to upset myself again.......where's that Stella

[...joe]

^^ you should get them pissed, shop them in and with the £200 the police are supposed to give you (if they get convicted) you can pay for the fine and spend the rest of the cash on that polo!!

[richandhazel]

Don't think it hasn't crossed my mind. And it does worry me that something could happen to an innocent person or people. But I really can't bring myself to grass on anyone. At the end of the day isn't that what our police force is supposed to be doing: enforcing the law? This is another can of worms I don't really want to open right now as I know how strongly some people do feel about this issue. 

[Horney]

I've had a similar problem but it was resolved. I shall explain!

In 2002 I bought an MG Metro sport as I had nuked the engine in the mini at a track day and the Metro Sport has an MG Metro lump, just what I needed! I ranit as my car for a couple of months as the mini needed some other work first. Eventually the Metro was taken off the road and stripped. The engine stripped, tuned and dropped inthe mini, the rest of the usuable parts flogged on ebay and the vehicle declared SORN. in around August the remains of the shell was picked up and scrapped. I forgot to send the V5 back stating it had been scrapped until the new one arrived shortly before Christmas so I sent that one back with "SCRAPPED" written in big letters across it.

Just after CHristmas I recieved a letter saying the Sorn had expired and that I owed the £60 fine and some tax arrears of around £30. I wrote back explaining that the vehicle had been scrapped before the SORN had expired but I also included a cheque for the fine etc as I didn't want it being increased for late payment.

A week later I got a letter back saying that the matter would be dropped and they included my cheque so I could destroy it.

Guess I was just lucky!

Nick

[carrie]

^^ you should get them pissed, shop them in and with the £200 the police are supposed to give you (if they get convicted) you can pay for the fine and spend the rest of the cash on that polo!!

dont work joe, comming home from the pub with my sister one night and this guy mounts the kerb completely nearly hitting my sisters boyfriend (he had to jump out the way), the car was weaving all over the road. called the police and their response was "we cant just go round stopping people cause you think they are drunk and its not a priority for them" naturally words were said by me to them and their response was if i swore at them again they would come round and nick me.
3 witnesses to whats happened, my sisters bf nearly getting killed and a driver who is obviously drunk, and all they cared about was my "attitude" to their response of we cant be bothered.
what do we pay the police for? i have forgotten

[tinman]

^^ you should get them pissed, shop them in and with the £200 the police are supposed to give you (if they get convicted) you can pay for the fine and spend the rest of the cash on that polo!!

dont work joe, comming home from the pub with my sister one night and this guy mounts the kerb completely nearly hitting my sisters boyfriend (he had to jump out the way), the car was weaving all over the road. called the police and their response was "we cant just go round stopping people cause you think they are drunk and its not a priority for them" naturally words were said by me to them and their response was if i swore at them again they would come round and nick me.
3 witnesses to whats happened, my sisters bf nearly getting killed and a driver who is obviously drunk, and all they cared about was my "attitude" to their response of we cant be bothered.
what do we pay the police for? i have forgotten

thats when you phone the Daily Mail and express your "OUTRAGE"....

[carrie]

^^ you should get them pissed, shop them in and with the £200 the police are supposed to give you (if they get convicted) you can pay for the fine and spend the rest of the cash on that polo!!

dont work joe, comming home from the pub with my sister one night and this guy mounts the kerb completely nearly hitting my sisters boyfriend (he had to jump out the way), the car was weaving all over the road. called the police and their response was "we cant just go round stopping people cause you think they are drunk and its not a priority for them" naturally words were said by me to them and their response was if i swore at them again they would come round and nick me.
3 witnesses to whats happened, my sisters bf nearly getting killed and a driver who is obviously drunk, and all they cared about was my "attitude" to their response of we cant be bothered.
what do we pay the police for? i have forgotten

thats when you phone the Daily Mail and express your "OUTRAGE"....

and spend the rest of my life living with the shame of having a letter printed in the mail 

[tinman]

i've had a letter printed in the mail thanks. and the telegraph. and quite a few magazines....