WOW! That's awful. In my case I just didn't renew the registration
(windshield license sticker) when it came due in Oct. 2010. Of course
if I'd been caught on the road with an expired sticker it would have
been a hefty fine. Likewise the safety sticker. We have to have our
cars inspected annually as to lights, brakes, etc. We have to show proof
that the car is insured as to liability in order to get these things done.
So after I put in the new brake MC and got everything else working, I
had to add the car back to my auto insurance policy, re-register the car
and then take it to an authorized inspection station to get the safety
sticker. Oh, I also had to sign a statement that I hadn't driven the
car in the unregistered period and that there were no outstanding
tickets on it. I suppose that tickets business has to do with abandoned
cars on the streets.
I suppose it boils down to much the same thing as in your country. Just
different terminology. :-)
CR
On 5/4/2012 11:39 AM, PaulHunt73 wrote:
Not an off-road vehicle, but a vehicle taken out of use. In the UK we
either tax and insure a car for a rolling 12 months, or we have to
notify the authorities that it has been taken out of use - a Statutory
Off Road Notification. Particularly in the case of a restoration that
may take some years you wouldn't want to tax (in the case of cars
built after 1972) and insure a vehicle that wasn't going to be used
for some time, and if you just stop taxing or insuring a vehicle
without declaring SORN you get fined. However some people only tax
their summer classic for the six months of summer, declaring SORN for
the winter months, to reduce running costs. It's supposed to prevent
people getting away without taxing, insuring or MOTing (annual safety
check) their vehicle but in practice those sorts of people have
vehicles that aren't even on the books anyway for various reasons, and
it's generally law-abiding people that get caught out, either through
a simple omission or something more sneaky. Imagine you declare SORN
and send your car away to be restored. If the restorer trailers the
car anywhere at any time, and one of the number plates is still on the
car, it can be picked up by an Automatic Number Plate Recognition
camera, and the owner gets fined for using a car on the road that he
has declared as SORN. Saying it was on a trailer at the time gets you
nowhere.
PaulH.
----- Original Message ----- What does "off road" mean? Up on blocks,
in storage, etc.?
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