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Just a heads up to those folk that are planning on buying a car this weekend. According to the RAC website, the DVLA website is down for maintenance until at least Monday! - so don't leave yourself open to a £1000 fine or a wasted journey thinking you can tax it on your phone when you get there to pick it up - you can't.
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www.gov.uk/government/news/important-information-for-dvla-customers-online-services
Interestingly, they don't specify whether it would be an offense if motorists can't tax their vehicle because of DVLA system unavailable.
How the police will check it is untaxed during this time? If they have a way to do that, why not make the same service made available to general public as well for the maintenance window?
Last edited by: movilogo on Fri 17 Aug 18 at 14:09
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If the site is down and unable to make your car legal, you will not get prosecuted, as long as you get it sorted as soon as the site is available. If the site is down, the ole bill dont know if its legal either.
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>> If the site is down and unable to make your car legal, you will not
>> get prosecuted, as long as you get it sorted as soon as the site is
>> available. If the site is down, the ole bill dont know if its legal either.
This has been discussed over on HJ. Consensus there pretty much as above. I think you'd be extraordinarily unlucky and/or fail the attitude test massively to get prosecuted. I suspect there's a grace period anyway unless there is evidence of intent to play fast/loose with timings to evade duty
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DVLA - down! - movilogo
