Can I drive home the newly purchased used car with NO tax?
Sorry chap but you can’t. Driving a car without tax is bad enough, but driving one that is SORN, is a potential suicide for your license 🙂 You chance of getting caught are very high and it simply not worth it. I would definitely advise you to wait till Monday and either get a tax disc sorted or to arrange a trailer for the car to be collected.
YES you can drive the car home – the car is MOT’d but declared SORN by the previous owner, you can drive the car providing you tax it from the start of the month in which you drove it. Also get a receipt from previous owner stating the date you purchased the car in case you are stopped. It was impossible for you to tax the car anyway before you bought it.
can you: yes however it is illegal, you have no road tax,the vehicle is declared off road, so if you get caught……. in practise if you did get stopped and told the police, and had all the documents to hand, they’d probably let you off, assuming that you do get the vehicle home, make all the transfer arrangments and either declare the vehicle SORN in your name, or get it taxed. should you.. its up to you. the probability of getting stopped is low, however if you do then you could get fined and possibly some points, although I doubt it. the safest thing to do is to leave it where it is and get the vehicle taxed, or get it towed (on a trailer) to your home.
