Except that replacement has /never/ been mandatory. If it becomes mandatory, I'll expect them to send me a V5C and I'll complain if they don't.
Oh, so you keep all your cars ready to pass an MOT test, do you?
Ian
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No. I was just searching for some connection, however remote, with your apparent line of thinking.
OK, I was obviously being unclear, sorry.
The argument seems to be that /although/ it is not mandatory to obtain a V5C, and /although/ no deadline for doing so has been announced, the DVLA might at any point decide on a whim, and with no further notice, to deregister all cars without one.
Well, it's not mandatory to paint your car green or have it MOT'ed, but the DVLA could decide on a whim, and with no further notice, to deregister all non-green or un-MOT'ed cars.
So as well as applying for that precautionary V5C, better get out the spray gun and book a test, eh?
Ian
Hi, Thanks for your thoughts but the car does have a sorn on it at the moment...I have the certificate, it expires end of October....All I want is a new reg. doc. in my name...simple...I think not.......
Pam
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V5s have already been declared invalid so I think it is inevitable that some day soon the DVLA will say enough is enough and kick the cars without V5Cs off the register just as they did after the change from logbooks to certificates. Given their track record I can't see them going to the trouble of individually notifying the remaining owners let alone issuing a V5C without being asked.
Not exactly like for like is it. On one hand you have a change that is as near certain to come about as it can be and on the other a change that will never even be considered by the DVLA however barmy the Government eventually becomes.
I am already well prepared. I haven't driven anything but green (colour, not poseur) in the last 10 years. :-)
Perhaps. I think they are likely to announce the change, though. When logbooks went they heavily publicised the need to get a certificate instead.
Ian
Is the car SORN'd? If not, SORN it and you'll get the document a month or two later. If it is, write to the DVLA and get a new document. You might have to send in the old one though.
-- Howard Rose
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You mean like they DID do for the vast majority of registered vehicles?
Let's face it, "live" cars which haven't been taxed for a decade are a very small minority.
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