Grarg HULK SMASH!

[azekeil]

Right, so remember I sold my car? I had been meaning to post off the log book to the DVLA for ages, and finally got around to it a couple of weeks ago. Well, this morning I got a letter from the DVLA saying thanks, we've updated our details. This evening I got home to find a red card from the post office, requiring me to sign for a delivery. So I worked out I had just enough time and got the delivery, which turned out to be a letter sent by registered post from a company who had recovered the car on the 3rd Oct and wanted ~£470 pounds for the recovery and storage costs..!!

Remembering the DVLA adverts telling you that you're liable for your car until you inform the DVLA that it's been transferred I started really stressing that I was going to have to cough up with this money. After a number of fraught phone calls and Skype calls, I finally managed to track down that:

1. The DVLA's automated phone system is tortuous (but we knew that anyway)
2. They go by the date written on the form, not the date they received the form - HOORAY!
3. The guy had broken down on the M40 (not crashed)
4. kissycat1000 had his details buried in an email somewhere, so I was able to get the details to the company almost straight away
5. That the DVLA and the recovery company are open until at least 7:30pm (thank god, that's saved my night's sleep)
6. I'm quite glad I didn't sell the car to a friend after all.

I knew it was on the way out, that's why I sold it. Even though, I have to admit a little surprise that it broke down so soon after selling it, as we'd been to London and back in it shortly before I sold it. I wonder what they did (or didn't do) to it.

I think I'm 95% happy I'm off the hook. But f'ing hell. If anyone sells a car, post the slip the same damn day, or risk all sorts of pain and misery.

Right, I'm off to have dinner, have a shower and try to relax and enjoy the rest of my evening.

This announcement brought to you by the letters A and C and the number 4.

Comments

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

bloody hell, glad I didn't buy it now!

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

Me too. :/ IMO, it's never a good idea to sell to a friend, hence me never even putting ebay links on my LJ.

[invisigoth51.livejournal.com]

Heehee - we've been cooking up an RPG where you're all actually muppets from sesame street but you don't get told that. You get a character sheet with something like. 'You're a vampire from transylvainia with a stong accent (play this up) and obcessive compulsive disorder - if anyone drops crumbs or something, you have to count them'
'Your an alien with a big nose, blue skin and an unatural obcession with chickens'
'You have bulemia, you snack on cookies almost constantly but virtually none of them make it to your stomach, you never gain weight, you're a bit mad (play this up)'
Etc... you bumble alone through your adventure - you think you're hiding some of your stranger traits quite well and cannot figure out why everyone is so goddamn freaked out when you talk to them.

[cryx]

that really really amuses me...