Got my renewal through, “renew online for entry into prize draw” bla bla….
My insurance and tax run out simultaneously – having bought a car and insurance for it at the same time, as millions of people must do.
Online system tells me I dont have insurance to cover the start of the tax period. Fair point, I’ll ring up and do my insurance…..insurance done, all active and sorted sir – will send out your certificate today. A few days later, no certificate but surely no problem – tries online tax again – no luck, stil no insurance. Call insurance…yes sir, can confirm its all ready to go on that date. Calls DVLA – apparently the records on the MID are only updated at the date of changeover (when my tax becomes invalid and they send out a fine), plus up to 7 days. So there is physically no way that I can do my tax online as I will always have the tax/insurance clash.
What a stupid system. I posed this to the man on the DVLA helpline. He agreed and said a remarkable number of people have the same problem, the only solution is to do it the old way (go into a PO) or spend the extra for a 6 month tax disc to stagger the dates.
What sort of a farcical system do they run at the DVLA/MID?! So now not only do i have to take time off work to tax my car at a PO, I also dont get to enter their prize draw for a car.
Idiots.
