Getting zv plate but no insurance.

shawnee

I want to re register a 79 car and get a zv number and tax book for it. However the car is not insured. Will I be able to get a taxbook for the car without insurance ?:rolleyes:

alias no.9

The registration cert is sent out when the car is taxed. You need to have the car insured to tax it. You could transfer another policy to the car for a day and tax it online, quoting the policy number. Do they ever even check the policy numbers?

atlantean

shawnee wrote: »

Will I be able to get a taxbook for the car without insurance ?:rolleyes:

You can but you will need to have it insured to tax it once it has been reregistered!

shawnee

Can't tax the car online for first taxation.

Anan1

shawnee wrote: »

Can't tax the car online for first taxation.

Can too, all you need is the form RF100 which they give you on first registration.;)

Sids Not

All you need is money and to bring the car to be vrt'd at yer local office, legally you shouldnt drive without insurance,;) unless youre covered to drive any car as long as you dont own it, which you wont until the forms go through..

MercMad

Hold on, is this car on a foreign reg at the moment ?

You could transfer insurance, drive it to the VRT office, register it, and wait for the tax book/forms to arrive.

You dont have to tax it to re-register it, however strictly speaking you are not entitled to drive a foreign registered car if you are an Irish resident, but if you DID drive it and were stopped and you told them you were on your way to the VRT office I'd say you'd be ok.

corktina

you probably will be able to re-register it without taking it to the VRT office...I re-registered one of mine whilst it was still in the UK...took the Tax and Insurance discs and the numberplates over with me to drive it back....

atlantean

corktina wrote: »

you probably will be able to re-register it without taking it to the VRT office...I re-registered one of mine whilst it was still in the UK...took the Tax and Insurance discs and the numberplates over with me to drive it back....

Now thats an idea! I was going to bring a car back from the UK. It was MOT'd but not taxed so I would have to put 6 months tax on to to drive all of 6 hours on the UK roads so as to avoid it being taken off me by the cops!

corktina

you'd probably be OK with no tax so long as you could PROVE you have Insurance (ie a cert with the reg no on it would be best) and it has an MoT. I don't think they would seize it for no tax if you had just bought it and had a receipt showing that...

atlantean

corktina wrote: »

you'd probably be OK with no tax so long as you could PROVE you have Insurance (ie a cert with the reg no on it would be best) and it has an MoT. I don't think they would seize it for no tax if you had just bought it and had a receipt showing that...

Well, not according to two officers I asked over there! I was told that if a camera picked up the car I could easily have it taken off me. I then enquired with the DVLA as what to do and basically was told to tax it.

While in the UK it is best to observe their laws as they enforce their laws unlike here where no one gives a damn!

corktina

technmically yes, but if uyou just bought it that day, it wouldnt be reasonable to exopect you to tax it, just fill out the froms and put them in an envelope "ready to put int he post"

atlantean

corktina wrote: »

if uyou just bought it that day, it wouldnt be reasonable to exopect you to tax it,

Exactly! It would be up to you to tax it and as the only time a car without road tax is permitted on the public roads in the UK is when traveling either to or from a MOT centre for testing.

It's not worth taking the chance IMO