Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Hello,
Bought a car a few weeks ago and the tax class is disabled, (it's not taxed anyway).
Is the only way to change it to go to a main DVLA office? Can i not phone up / send a form off?
How long does this process usually take?
I'm not even wanting to tax the car, just swap its class over, so it's easier for the next owner.
Thanks
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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Quickest way is to get it done at the local office.. Doing it by post will = hell.
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Any how long that'll take mate?
Thanks
Edit: I mean, is it instant in the office?
[Edited on 03-11-2009 by Whittie]
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DaveyLC
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you'll no doubt have to wait for the new V5 to be issued.. I'd say 4 weeks.
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sand-eel
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Well my brother had to do this, and he HAD to go to the DVLA office in person, they said post office can't do it and you can't do it on the phone, it took weeks.
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Andrew
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Manchester DVLA office is closest to Leeds. If you go in with all yout documents and the V5 they will tax the car there and then for you and send back the V5 to be put back onto private.
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daymoon
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Registered: 1st Aug 08
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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i had to do this... filled in a for for v5 and taxed my car straight away.
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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From the DVLA website:
Change of tax class
If you’re changing the tax class from private to disabled, provided you have the whole Registration Certificate, you can tax at a Post Office® branch.
If you only have the New Keeper Supplement and for other tax class changes eg from disabled to private, you’ll need to tax at your nearest DVLA local office. Write the new tax class in section seven of your Registration Certificate. If using a New Keeper Supplement, you’ll also need to fill in a V62 ‘Application for a Vehicle Registration Certificate (V5C)’.
As you can do it at the same time as taxing, it'll be done instantly, but you won't have any documentation to show the change until the V5C comes through. But you'd need to wait for that to give them the new keeper slip anyway.
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
Manchester DVLA office is closest to Leeds. If you go in with all yout documents and the V5 they will tax the car there and then for you and send back the V5 to be put back onto private.
Pretty sure the leeds DVLA office is closest to leeds tbph.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/contactus/localoffices/findnear/england/leeds_local_office.aspx
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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quote:
Originally posted by glb
quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
Manchester DVLA office is closest to Leeds. If you go in with all yout documents and the V5 they will tax the car there and then for you and send back the V5 to be put back onto private.
Pretty sure the leeds DVLA office is closest to leeds tbph.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/contactus/localoffices/findnear/england/leeds_local_office.aspx
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