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    • First of all please can you tell us the name of the seller, something about the van – age/year, mileage, price paid. How far away is the seller from where your son lives? Who do you take it to for this inspection? Are they prepared to give you a written list of the things that they found? This is very important and you may well have to get an independent inspection from somebody such as the AA. This will cost you some kind of feedback we expect that we will be able to help you get it back. I would say that if you have to bring a court claim – which is likely – then your chances of success are better than 95% but the difficulty might be enforcing the judgement against the seller. We will have to no more in order to give you better advice. Does it have an MOT? What is the date of it and who gave it the MOT? I suggest that you start taking pictures of all of the defects that you can find.   Also I am going to say that I believe that you came over from Facebook where you were already informed that we would need at least all of the information which I have requested above. It will save a lot of time and effort for everybody if you can simply come up with the things that we ask without too much delay
    • My autistic son brought a van from a private seller. ( there was 5 other cars on his drive and another van, plus loads of machanic tools in his hallway,  so he probably is a unofficial dealer).  He gave the van a once over, he checked for any warning lights that might be on, there was none. He checked underneath for any rust etc, it all looked fine. The body was rough, but you'd expect that for the age of the van.  He got his brothers machanic to give it a pre mot check, as the van was old so he expected it to have a few problems. The van is a deathtrap, the seller had blacked out all the warning lights that were on the dash,  and I mean all.  He had also painted some kind of black stuff on the underside, to hide all the damage there.   My son drove it for over 2 hours to get it home. The machanic said he's surprised my son is still alive, and an untrained eye would not of seen what the seller had done.  Iv asked the seller for a refund and for him to have the van back, but he is refusing. Is there anything we can do.   
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    • First of all it sounds as if your retailer is very decent and very responsible. This itself is unusual in these kinds of circumstances and I think we need to bear this in mind. The guarantee is not particularly relevant and in fact the dealer had a statutory duty to exercise a certain responsibility for your computer – probably for several years as their obligation under the consumer rights act. The dealer may not have known this and it simply acting out of a sense of moral responsibility and that is even more noteworthy. You've already suggested earlier that you didn't really want to cause problems for your retailer. I think that you will need the help of your retailer as well in order to get information and evidence. I suggest that you proceed against DPD – but before you do that – I suggest that you have a discussion with the retailer. Tell them that this is what you are going to be doing and you would like to have a copy of anything they have which relates to the special instructions which apparently your dealer has already informed you about in relation to where item should be left. Secondly, maybe you should tell your dealer about this site and also about this thread. I can imagine like many dealers who are frequently sending items by means of couriers, they have had things go missing. Tell them that we will be very happy to help them recover money for lost or damaged or stolen items – and that is regardless of whether or not they have purchased insurance. Apart from being very pleased to help your dealer recover items which have been lost by irresponsible parcel delivery companies, I think we need to encourage the complicity between you and them so they will be pleased to support you in your claim against DPD. It will be helpful if you can get a copy of the instructions that you have referred to above, and also if you can get some written evidence of your own instruction that your laptop should be left in a safe place. Have you done the reading on this sub- forum? You will need to do lots of reading of many of the similar stories on this sub- forum. They won't necessarily be against DPD but the principles will broadly be the same. Also read the pinned topics at the top of the sub- forum in order to understand many of the principles involved. Getting your money back but be quick – but your chances of success are better than 90% that you can bank on it taking anything up to a year. Have you got anything in writing from DPD either refusing you or telling you that they won't discuss with you?  
    • Thank you for telling us the text of the letter you had from the police. As we don't seem to have come across this before, it would be really useful for us to see the original please. HB
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We have a camper van which sits on our drive for much of the year. When we do drive it in the UK we make one journey down to the Tunnel at Folkestone and another from Folkestone home!

I have no problem with taxing the vehicle for these 2 trips but the DVLA make it unnecessarily difficult for me to do so.

The current SORN expires in October and our train is in the wee small hours of the 1st July so I want to buy a 6 month disc effective on the 1st July.

I have tried to apply online but the website will only give me one starting on 1st June.

I phoned the DVLA and they said that the soonest I can apply is 2 working days before, which is the 28th at a Post Office or the 27th at a DVLA office. The website will only issue one when you are in the month itself, so that's no good to us.

I asked the woman why they don't say all this on the website, and her answer was that it's a pilot system and still has teething troubles! Aargh!

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Immaterial. You are not allowed to drive a vehicle on the continent without a valid tax disc. Similarly, your insurance may also be invalidated. Imagine a camper owner in France, it has no road tax, but makes a bee line for the runnel and arrives in Folkestone. If he 'comes to notice' here, his vehicle could be seized for not displaying a current disk. I saw this happen during a vehicle check on the A74 at Carlisle. The reasoning is it is a 'reciprocal' arrangement, you're vehicle is allowed free passage providing it meets the regulations pertaining to that country (plus any special local ones like toll-road billets and the like.

 

Spain too is doing the same with campervans blighting the shore in Tenerife, with many saying it will cost them too much to take the vehicle back to blighty for an MoT, but if parked on a public road, they get towed.

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I am sure that nobody on these boards would suggest I should do something ILLEGAL like drive an untaxed vehicle...;).

 

I wouldn't risk invalidating my insurance, and in any case, with HM Revenue now married to Mr Excise it would not surprise me if the guys looking for contraband at the ports are not also doing a spot of tax disc checking in their spare time. Since the limits on tobacco and alcohol were raised it is wise not to give them any other excuse to spoil your day, such as an overladen or unroadworthy vehicle.

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I may be missing something here, but I fail to see where there is a problem. If you are going to use the vehicle on the 1st. July what prevents you from getting a VED two days before at your PO? DVLA won't let you tax a vehicle that has a SORN fourteen days before the next month for obvious reasons.

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There's nothing at all to stop me buying a tax disc at the Post Office. My beef is that the DVLA do not say anywhere on their website that this is what you have to do. I also don't see why they can't let you send off for one online but only send it out a few days before. If tax discs had a start date on them as well as an expiry you could order them for whatever period you liked. Or is that too logical?

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My mum worked for the Motor Tax department (as it was then called) in the 1950s. In those days the money they got was supposed to go towards maintaining the highways. Now it goes towards maintaining highwayMEN on nice fat government inflationproof salaries.

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