Hi
Hopefully collecting my first ever car next week all being well.
Basically, I am going to be financing my car for a few years and I haven’t signed the contract yet so therefore the dealership have not told the DVLA yet that I am the new keeper of the car.
They have told me to put insurance on my car now, should I be doing this even though I’m not registered keeper yet?
Also, they said that in order to tax my car and get a new V5, they will write my details on the new keepers slip and that I need to take both the V5 and the new keepers slip to the post office where I will tax the car and the post office will send off my V5 and i will receive a new one within 2 weeks.
Is this right? I thought that the seller had to register the car to the new keeper online, fill in the new keeper slip, tear it off their V5 and give it to the new keeper for them to tax the car and then the seller had to destroy their V5, so why do I need to take it to the post office?
Also, can I not tax my car online? Or does it need to be done for the first time at a post office?
Thanks
Hopefully collecting my first ever car next week all being well.
Basically, I am going to be financing my car for a few years and I haven’t signed the contract yet so therefore the dealership have not told the DVLA yet that I am the new keeper of the car.
They have told me to put insurance on my car now, should I be doing this even though I’m not registered keeper yet?
Also, they said that in order to tax my car and get a new V5, they will write my details on the new keepers slip and that I need to take both the V5 and the new keepers slip to the post office where I will tax the car and the post office will send off my V5 and i will receive a new one within 2 weeks.
Is this right? I thought that the seller had to register the car to the new keeper online, fill in the new keeper slip, tear it off their V5 and give it to the new keeper for them to tax the car and then the seller had to destroy their V5, so why do I need to take it to the post office?
Also, can I not tax my car online? Or does it need to be done for the first time at a post office?
Thanks