Doing something to a car to use your breakdown?

[x Alex x]

thats they way i wouldve gone r.e. a trailer

Im sure they do care and im sure if they suspect anything im sure they do get in touch with people, if we have any aa men/women on here who can confirm what they do that would be great

i wouldnt want that on my conscience knowing id repaired a clearly visible untaxed car that i knew about but didnt tell anyone then discovered it had wiped a family out down the road

at the end of the day it's only tax, now like i'm never going to tax it and i'm sure if i was gunna wipe a family out on the road if it was taxed or not wouldn't make much of a difference.

i've had the RS recovered with no tax and no MOT before, the bloody fuel pump packed in on the way to an MOT re-test.

too much hassle though and not worth the risk being stuck with a car i can't drive on the road miles from home, i've got a lend of this trailer but going off the MPG my dads car does towing the caravan it's cost around £100 to get there and back, probably not worth it.

 

[dave]

why not just get £1 a mile one way delivery guys to deliver it? i got a car from derby to essex and it was even cheaper than that

 

[x Alex x]

why not just get £1 a mile one way delivery guys to deliver it? i got a car from derby to essex and it was even cheaper than that

would be £180 for a car i've not seen yet and is only costing £725.

gutted though, it's an HLX JTD!

 

[AppleSei]

Out of interest what would you do if the roles were reversed?

You was the AA man and you came to fix this guy that had broken down (intentionally or not) and his car had expired tax?

 

[x Alex x]

Out of interest what would you do if the roles were reversed?

You was the AA man and you came to fix this guy that had broken down (intentionally or not) and his car had expired tax?

Honestly? i'd never notice BUT if i did, i'd see it as none of my business or assume he'd got it online and it hasn't came yet as i've done a few times.

 

[dave]

have you asked seller if they can tax it for you?

 

[x Alex x]

have you asked seller if they can tax it for you?

yeah and he can, but this throws up some more problems, if he taxes it i'll loose a month with it being the end of the month and i need to change the belt before i drive it, also, he said if he tried to tax it with the logbook they'll put it in his name and i'll have to wait for the logbook to go back to him and them him to send it to me, i didn't think that was right but i think he fancied himself as a bit of a del boy so i just aggreed.

it's honestly going to be too much hassle, such a shame though, punto JTD HLX with 60k miles on and in my fav colour, it's what i want EXACTLY!

 

[dave]

if its not already in his name then he is a trader

 

[x Alex x]

if its not already in his name then he is a trader

it's his neices. the whole thing stinks of BS tbh lol

 

[ycming]

I had my car taken back by the AA with no road tax (totally forgot!). The AA man just said, the DVLA could just take your car away at any time.

Also when you first phone, if you tell them something like you have a Gearbox problem or some sort, then they won't send the normal AA man out (as they feel they can't repair it on the road) they will just send a pick up truck. All depends how you describe it to the person on the phone and time of the day.

Ming

 

[sludgeguts]

Whilst the grease monkey might not check tax etc, you can be sure in this day and age that when they enter the details on their database it will most likely be flagged as uninsured - remember, the AA do car insurance & so will be linked to national database.

 

[dave]

I had my car taken back by the AA with no road tax (totally forgot!). The AA man just said, the DVLA could just take your car away at any time.

Also when you first phone, if you tell them something like you have a Gearbox problem or some sort, then they won't send the normal AA man out (as they feel they can't repair it on the road) they will just send a pick up truck. All depends how you describe it to the person on the phone and time of the day.

Ming

not always i was in a mk1 punto, the diff fell apart put big hole in casing and totally locked drive shafts and dropped oil all over the road, i rang and told them what happened and that it it was un towable, but they still sent a man in a little van first

 

[dave]

it's his neices.

that's a classic kerbside dealer line

this isnt the right car for you, just walk away

 

[x Alex x]

I had my car taken back by the AA with no road tax (totally forgot!). The AA man just said, the DVLA could just take your car away at any time.

Also when you first phone, if you tell them something like you have a Gearbox problem or some sort, then they won't send the normal AA man out (as they feel they can't repair it on the road) they will just send a pick up truck. All depends how you describe it to the person on the phone and time of the day.

Ming

thanks for that mate! still a possibility but i rekon ill just wait till the 1st of this months if it's still there i might get him to tax it, then ill insure it and ill pick it up, hopefully a nice one will come up closer to home

 

[x Alex x]

that's a classic kerbside dealer line

i know i know, specially when his insurance allows him to tax cars, TBH i don't care as long as the car checks out, i think if he taxes it and i pay him for the car and take it away, will he even bother to send the logbook to me?

 

[Davren]

The AA and their patrols are no longer interested whether the broken down car is taxed or not. Road tax is the responsibility of the driver and the AA are not the Police.

Several years ago when they used to tow cars with a rope or tow-pole, the car was still classed as a car so it had to be taxed whilst being towed. A car that was not taxed had to be recovered on a truck. The AA would not deploy a truck for a car that was able to be flat towed purely because it wasn't taxed so the recovery would have been refused.

Currently, the AA only use a rope or tow-pole for the emergency recovery of a broken down car away from a dangerous location e.g. off a motorway to the next exit or service area. The majority of AA breakdown vehicles are now equiped with recovery equipment capable of lifting one axle of the broken down car off the road. In this situation, the car is classed as a trailer and therefore doesn't need to be taxed. However, for a car to be legally classed as a trailer, it must be genuinely broken down and incapable of being moved safely under it's own power. It would be the attending patrol's responsibility to ensure that the car was genuinely broken down.

If you say you have a gearbox problem, they will usually send a breakdown patrol to investigate that the problem isn't repairable. If it isn't, with the exception of some 4WD vehicles, the recovery equipment in his van will be able to lift the driven wheels for him to do the recovery. They are also targeted, and to some extent paid, for single resource completion of the job.

 

[x Alex x]

The AA and their patrols are no longer interested whether the broken down car is taxed or not. Road tax is the responsibility of the driver and the AA are not the Police.

Several years ago when they used to tow cars with a rope or tow-pole, the car was still classed as a car so it had to be taxed whilst being towed. A car that was not taxed had to be recovered on a truck. The AA would not deploy a truck for a car that was able to be flat towed purely because it wasn't taxed so the recovery would have been refused.

Currently, the AA only use a rope or tow-pole for the emergency recovery of a broken down car away from a dangerous location e.g. off a motorway to the next exit or service area. The majority of AA breakdown vehicles are now equiped with recovery equipment capable of lifting one axle of the broken down car off the road. In this situation, the car is classed as a trailer and therefore doesn't need to be taxed. However, for a car to be legally classed as a trailer, it must be genuinely broken down and incapable of being moved safely under it's own power. It would be the attending patrol's responsibility to ensure that the car was genuinely broken down.

If you say you have a gearbox problem, they will usually send a breakdown patrol to investigate that the problem isn't repairable. If it isn't, with the exception of some 4WD vehicles, the recovery equipment in his van will be able to lift the driven wheels for him to do the recovery.

thanks for that mate, great info. going to be a few days till i can even think about getting it, 'cos normally me or the GF is at work.

 

[beau]

For loss of brake fluid with no visible leak, he'll refill and bleed it (you will have to pay for the fluid). Leaking brake fluid makes an awfull mess under the floorpan and around the leak area. .

of course they wont, if the brakes have failed, and the fluid has been lost, they are not going to bleed them and let you on the way... they are then liable for if the brakes fail.

 

[Focus Owner]

and if they tow it and a pnc reads the plate. its cheaper to tax and insure it in the long run.
have no problem with defrauding the AA tho

 

[Big Black Stilo]

not always i was in a mk1 punto, the diff fell apart put big hole in casing and totally locked drive shafts and dropped oil all over the road, i rang and told them what happened and that it it was un towable, but they still sent a man in a little van first

strange, when i smashed the stilo up, they asked me if it was driveable if repaired at the roadside or could be towed by a van, to which I said it couldnt and wouldnt... they sent a low loader