Can i sorn my vehicle online

Unless you want to pay a third-party company to carry out this simple process on your behalf, make sure you go directly to the above link. By post. By phone. If applying by post or over the phone, the DVLA should issue an acknowledgement letter within four weeks. If you do not receive one, make sure to call them.

There are a number of situations where you are required to make a SORN on your vehicle, including:. It doesn't cost anything to declare a SORN and you can choose to do it online via the government's website, by phone or by post. To apply online, you'll need either the digit reference number on your tax renewal letter V11 or the digit reference number on your log book V5C. If you want to keep your car off road whilst you're on holiday, you can file a SORN by post two months before you leave - just make sure you include a letter in the envelope explaining why.

There are a number of circumstances where you can only make a SORN by post, such as if you're not yet registered as the car's keeper, or you've recently registered as the keeper and received the V5C document in the current month. If you haven't yet registered as the car's keeper, you need to fill in the necessary sections of the V5C and send it to the DVLA along with the V form. If you don't have a V5C for the car, you're required to fill in an application for a vehicle registration certificate V62 and send it with your SORN application - there's a fee.

If you apply for SORN online or by phone using your V5C it will be declared immediately, but if you use your V11 it'll come into effect at the start of the next month. If you make a SORN via post, it'll start on the date you write on the form. Your car will remain declared SORN until you tax and insure it, sell it, scrap it, or permanently export it. If you have any remaining tax on your car at the point it's declared SORN, you'll receive a refund for any full months.

When you want to get the car back on the road, the SORN will expire automatically when you apply for car tax using your V5C. There are a number of ways you can apply for tax - visit our car tax guide for more information. Remember, you can only legally start driving when the car's taxed, insured, and has a valid MOT certificate.

If your car's declared SORN, the only exception where you can drive it on a public road's to drive to and from a pre-booked MOT test, or to a garage for another pre-booked testing appointment.

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You cannot use the vehicle on the road until you tax it again. Use the digit number on your vehicle log book V5C to take the vehicle off the road immediately. Use the digit number on your vehicle tax reminder letter V11 to take the vehicle off the road from the first day of next month.

You can only use this number once. Start now. Change your address online , then register your vehicle as off the road. Fill in the appropriate part of the log book and send it with a filled in V form. You can get a duplicate log book V5C if your original one is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.