DVLA vehicle checker

[muddyjames]

I was just playing on the dvla vehicle checker website and put in one of my dads old cars to see if it was still going and I got this

The enquiry is complete
The vehicle details for TGO 118F are:

Date of Liability    01 10 1994
Date of First Registration    16 02 1968
Year of Manufacture    Not Available
Cylinder Capacity (cc)    1998CC
CO2 Emissions    Not Available
Fuel Type    Petrol
Export Marker    Not Applicable
Vehicle Status    Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour    GREEN
Vehicle Type Approval    null
The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry.
Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle    
6 Months Rate    £104.50
12 Months Rate    £190.00

What puzzles me is why the road tax is £190 a year when it was made in 1968. Surely it should be free? :-k

[william127]

just ran thriughh some of my old cars, and my scrapped sj is down as unlicensed, as is my old hilux, which probabley means its bean scrapped (i sold it to a hilux breacker, but i was hoping hed change the head and sell it on cheap, so that one day id be on ebay and see it and wed have a touching reunion in a services somewhere on the m1 :'()
beeter news is my first car a 2.25 petrol 110 is listed as a 2.5 diesel and currently sorned- supriesed anyone bothered to convert it as was told by local landy garage (reliable) it would never pass its next mot, and in my opionion the sweet running but eyewateringly expensive(12mpg) engine was the only thing going for it.

so does anyone on hear know what happened to c185 aww(red 110) or n109lmw (white hilux single cab)?

just had another thought- if id been on here when the hilux packed up id probabley have been able to get the second hand head needed to fix it :(

[Amma]

just ran thriughh some of my old cars, and my scrapped sj is down as unlicensed, as is my old hilux, which probabley means its bean scrapped (i sold it to a hilux breacker, but i was hoping hed change the head and sell it on cheap, so that one day id be on ebay and see it and wed have a touching reunion in a services somewhere on the m1 :'()
beeter news is my first car a 2.25 petrol 110 is listed as a 2.5 diesel and currently sorned- supriesed anyone bothered to convert it as was told by local landy garage (reliable) it would never pass its next mot, and in my opionion the sweet running but eyewateringly expensive(12mpg) engine was the only thing going for it.

so does anyone on hear know what happened to c185 aww(red 110) or n109lmw (white hilux single cab)?

just had another thought- if id been on here when the hilux packed up id probabley have been able to get the second hand head needed to fix it :(

12mpg??????????

 :shock:

How the **** were you getting that?

I managed to average 25.5mpg on saturday on a 275 mile journey to a 'play site', having a play and coming back!

have you got a lead foot?

 :roll:

[SteveGoodz]

I was just playing on the dvla vehicle checker website and put in one of my dads old cars to see if it was still going and I got this

The enquiry is complete
The vehicle details for TGO 118F are:

Date of Liability    01 10 1994
Date of First Registration    16 02 1968
Year of Manufacture    Not Available
Cylinder Capacity (cc)    1998CC
CO2 Emissions    Not Available
Fuel Type    Petrol
Export Marker    Not Applicable
Vehicle Status    Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour    GREEN
Vehicle Type Approval    null
The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry.
Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle    
6 Months Rate    £104.50
12 Months Rate    £190.00

What puzzles me is why the road tax is £190 a year when it was made in 1968. Surely it should be free? :-k

Probably because they don't know the year of manufacture, which is the deciding factor for free road tax. I know it says first registered in 1968 but you don't really expect DVLA to put 2 and 2 together and realise it must have been manufactured before the cut-off date for free tax do you?  [-X

[william127]

just ran thriughh some of my old cars, and my scrapped sj is down as unlicensed, as is my old hilux, which probabley means its bean scrapped (i sold it to a hilux breacker, but i was hoping hed change the head and sell it on cheap, so that one day id be on ebay and see it and wed have a touching reunion in a services somewhere on the m1 :'()
beeter news is my first car a 2.25 petrol 110 is listed as a 2.5 diesel and currently sorned- supriesed anyone bothered to convert it as was told by local landy garage (reliable) it would never pass its next mot, and in my opionion the sweet running but eyewateringly expensive(12mpg) engine was the only thing going for it.

so does anyone on hear know what happened to c185 aww(red 110) or n109lmw (white hilux single cab)?

just had another thought- if id been on here when the hilux packed up id probabley have been able to get the second hand head needed to fix it :(

12mpg??????????

 :shock:

How the **** were you getting that?

I managed to average 25.5mpg on saturday on a 275 mile journey to a 'play site', having a play and coming back!

have you got a lead foot?

 :roll:

it did turn out the handbreak was partially on, got better after that, i thought 17-18 was average for a 2.25 petrol, i did onlyhave it for 2 weeks after passing my test so my lead foot hadnt really developed by then :)

[Amma]

18mpg is about right.

22mpg is pretty good.

I was just being very gentle with the throttle on saturday as I was in no rush what-so-ever and a gentle 50mph on the motorway was fine by me.

 :D