What road tax, they having a laugh.
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Well shock of all shocks £198 for road tax, for a measly 6 months. When I got the car in 2021 it was £145, that was just about the right spot to make 6 months driving worth the cost.
Circa £300 / year on top of the other 2 cars is one step too many.
I guess that is last time on the the road until it ticks over to 40 years. Mind I can see that being abolished before I get to qualify.
Certainly having the right effect driving me off the road. What will that do to the value of the car?
Still done now for 6 months of driving, providing the "I have no clue" MOT people don't apply modern MOT methods and give it grief again come June?
Circa £300 / year on top of the other 2 cars is one step too many.
I guess that is last time on the the road until it ticks over to 40 years. Mind I can see that being abolished before I get to qualify.
Certainly having the right effect driving me off the road. What will that do to the value of the car?
Still done now for 6 months of driving, providing the "I have no clue" MOT people don't apply modern MOT methods and give it grief again come June?
After being forced to sell my beloved Poppy 350i and scrap my daily runner due to high fuel prices and the ULEZ i built an e-bike but then faced fears of it being confiscated by backward plod cos it does 30mph...oooo...wow careful...ffs!..so have bought back and re-commissioned Delilah my ole 280i who now is 41...happy days...no ULEZ...no road tax and no MOT...insurance still takes the biscuit but hey i can now have a conversion to unleaded fuels and around another 50 horses with a 3.5 long stroke rebore...and maybe a small 5psi NOS set up on to full throttle...
Still sexy with the roof on...
Still sexy with the roof on...
Road tax is a real pain, especially when you have three cars, a camper van and two motorcycles as I do. But it is a necessary evil I guess and there isn't much point in owning a car worth thousands only to garage it because of a few hundred quid road tax? And the reality is that if my TVR needed a new part (which it regularly does!) I wouldn't think twice about spending the money rather than just laying it up. Not the same for decorating the house of course but that's another story!!
BlueWedgy said:
Yep see you doing all that for ULEZ.
Insurance I can live with £105 / year fully comp.
The road Tax is an absolute P*ss take in my book.
The year before last my fully comp insurance was £200 now it has nearly doubled and most will not take a single car policy even with a garage and limited miles, cheaper if i add an older driver...hang on i am 62 ffs...Insurance I can live with £105 / year fully comp.
The road Tax is an absolute P*ss take in my book.
I think they are trying to squeeze us all onto the failing public transport and leave the driving to the rich...they can stick that where the sun dont shine, i would rather stick pins in my eyes...
BlueWedgy said:
I use Lancaster for insurance, always seems to be a good price, been about the same for the last 4 years.
Best ring them for a chat, seems to work for me.
I did ask them...and Adrian flux and Heritage and Footman james...eventually went with my old 350i insurers Elephant, even though its all gone up and nearly the same for the 280i that it was for the 350i...CheersBest ring them for a chat, seems to work for me.
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
The road tax is a proper bargain compared to say France.
We use the peages a fair bit and can easily spend £400 in three weeks.
God forbid they scrap the road tax and make it pay for miles pricing.
And foreigners are also paying the tax in that case, this is clever.We use the peages a fair bit and can easily spend £400 in three weeks.
God forbid they scrap the road tax and make it pay for miles pricing.
We don't have annual road tax however we have the "malus" based on CO2 emissions on new cars.
If you buy a Yaris GR you will have to pay 70k€ of taxes, totally crazy (this will even be 80k in 2026 and 90k in 2027).
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