Eflow penalty notice - Dispute

They did step 1 already and it was rejected.

Step 2. Take a day off work for a €3 issue are serious?

It appears that in their crusade not to pay the €3 toll they have never contacted the dealer to ask them to pay.

At this point OP either call eflow offer to pay the €3 and set up a video account, they usually wipe the additional fines if you do this, or else do as @mikeecho says and have your day in court for the principal of not paying a €3 toll. It'll cost you more than €3 with transport costs to "win".

Yes, I read it fully.

But now send it by post with the details again and let them know that you are willing to defend it as no court would/ could find against the op.

Maybe also urge them to actually look at the relevant dates and that if they proceed with going to court this letter will be shown.

My guess is someone just had a casual look and didn't do it properly.

OP still hasn’t mentioned the date of sale on the logbook (section C.9)

He only stated something irrelevant such as date of first licensing

Until OP confirms the date of sale then this whole thread is pointless

How does that work then? I have a similar looking VLC, but with the difference that I imported my car myself. I went to the VRT office on Monday 19-09-2022, got the reg number, had to wait a week before I could insure it (as the insurance companies seem to work off the same system as Cartell.ie which updates once a week on Monday) and taxed it on 27-09-2022. So those are the dates on my VLC and of course also with 0 previous owners in Ireland.

But OP didn't import the car himself, (an employee of) the dealership did. Surely there must be some sort of record who was responsible for the car up to the moment (some time between 18 July and 22 July) the details of the OP were sent to the registration office?

Can you clarify a few dates so?

From the other thread you had traded in your car on or before the 6th of July 2022 ?

So at this stage that you had agreed to buy the Golf from the dealer who them proceeded to register this in your name, looks like that happened on the 11th July, a week later you collected it and signed whatever paperwork but the car was already registered in your name, they knew you were buying it because you had already traded your car in, handed the keys and VLC over.

Perhaps it was test driven in this period by someone interested in a similar car, contact the dealer.

Perhaps someone in the dealership took it home one night, contact the dealer.

Maybe it was given as a courtesy car, contact the dealer.

If you genuinely did not have the car in your possession on the dates involved the dealer is your port of call, as far as eflow are concerned you are / were the registered owner at the date of the journeys so you are liable.