Thinking of buying a car without a V5? Think again!

[John]

This has reminded me of my blue SR, I never changed the logbook over to my address and sold the car on without the logbook, completely forgot to dig it out, buyer is a lad I know up the road but he sold it on again and never told me, so I found out who the new owner was and sent him a message on facebook asking if he wanted the logbook and put my phone number in the message.

No reply and again it slipped my mind to sort the log book out until one day I got a letter from Inter-Credit International saying I have been given an £80 fine for not SORN'ing the car, long story short but the DVLA had been sending letters to my old address and when I phoned them up they said it was no longer their concern goodbye, so I phoned inter-credit and they said I had to pay the fine no way out of it etc, was on the dole at the time so went to Citizens Advice and they 'handled' it for me.

So far I haven't heard anything back and I'm not sure if its time to worry yet as there was the potential of a £1000 fine and court summons if the £80 fine wasn't paid, which obviously I haven't paid a penny towards yet and I got the letter about February/March time.

I don'y know of anyone who has taken on the dvla ond won.

[wwmnw]

It's not in the hands of the DVLA any more they handed it to these Inter-Credit International people.

[Jon_nova1]

Inter-credit is the debt collector acting on behalf of the DVLA, the debt is still owned by DVLA unless it was sold to the debt collector

[bazil]

I buy a lot of salvage never get a log book and only needs a vic if cat c in your case it won't be a cat c even with cat d you don't get a log book I have a draw full of log book application forms

Maybe I was lucky as it was written of but not cat c or d due to being no car to assess? When the police recovered it to the insurance company it would have just been disposed of?
Duno

[L14MNP]

What he actually meant, since he's northern and all was "One of my vehicles didn't even have keys with it when purchased"

Not that, all of his cars come without keys

No, I never. Your second sentence is what I implied.

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