DVLA Debt Collectors.

Originally Posted by Nostrils

The DVLA are the new Stasi. The same goes when you get your licence renewed for change of address. Far too many people have found that their previous entitlement to dirve certain vehicles has disappeared from their licence. You call DVLA and they basically say "Prove It" - I have kept copies of all my DAS, CBT certificates, copy of both sides of the pic licence and both sides of the paper slip.....

I was warned about that **** when i passed. I got really worried when after 20 days i'd heard nothing about getting my licence, when i phoned them they hadn't received the confirmation that i'd passed O.O i received my licence 5 days later...
Scary stuff!

make sure you request the evidance that you are responseable for this debt and if they cannot prove it you want this taken of your record (it IS affecting ur credit rating at the minute making you a bad debter) i had something like this but with a company sopposedly 5 years ago i cashed a check in preston while i was in iraq and they could show any evidence cheeky gits ,got it sorted in the end

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Berlin

We got a letter through today fro a debt collection company claiming we could settle out of court for a DVLA SORN infringment, for a car that we sold 3 Years ago!

Unless we pay this amount it will go to court.

I phoned them thinking it was a scam and it turns out we haven't got a leg to stand on.

The Moron who bought the car (we know him) blew it up after a month of ownership and didn't bother SORNing it... or sending the log book off.

As we moved house at the same time the SORN reminders went to the old address and so the first we know about it is the debt collection agency sending the letter./ The car was scrapped lasy July after standing in a farmers filed for two years.

Turns out that its out fault for not getting an aknowledgement that the registration transfer had completed (how would we? we moved house). We sent off our part but the DVLC "Didn't receive it". Handy.

So now we've got to shell out or receive a court summons.

****ards.

Carl

Sorry to go off topic but I'm a bit worried I might have done this to someone else. I bought a car off a bloke with no v5 the car was shoddy so I scrapped it and wrote to the dvla to let them know. I've still not received anything to confirm they got my letter

hey , just reading the problem you have with dvla that happend with one of my mates too, he wrote a letter to the dvla explaining and he had kept a photo copy of the v5 with new buyers address and sig sent them off with a nice letter ,and he got a letter back saying it was was more or less down to computer error .uh huh !!

although if the sorn reminders for you were going to your old address , how did the debt collection agency manage to catch ya at your new address ..?sorry if it has been mention how they got you .

Making progress in this.

We have now contacted the following two owners who are prepared to testify that the paperwork was completed properly by both. As far as we can find out, the car has been taxed all the way through so would never have been sorned at the the time they are saying there was an infringement. The car was bought for a guy visiting from New Zealand to run around in.

So there was no ***** infringement in the first place!

Gotta love them for trying.

c

[Dave20046]

bankers

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

bankers

What? Unemployed?

They're a bunch of feckers the DVLA I part-exed a bike a couple of years ago now and sent all the paperwork off. Got my new log book - great, all's good with the world. But noooooooo, a couple of months later I get a letter fining me for not taxing the bike I'd part-exed. I wrote to them with receipts etc and said I'd sent the paperwork off, but they said I was still liable for it because I hadn't had their magic little piece of sh it letter. All they said on the phone was, yeah it's a grey area that but you still have to pay. Bunch of c0cks I'm still angry about to this day!

[Luckypants]

This thread is a cautionary tale to send all documents recorded delivery, then you have proof of delivery.

[gruntygiggles]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

This thread is a cautionary tale to send all documents recorded delivery, then you have proof of delivery.

And keep photocopies!!!