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We’ve got 3 cars and none of them taxed.
We’re away for a couple of months, no point in paying car taxes so SORNed.
6th May 2022 6:42 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
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I also wonder how much local councils pay out for pothole damage to vehicles
6th May 2022 7:32 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
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M3DPO wrote:
How much is a Discovery Sport?
I honestly think VED is the bargain of the year considering that you get access to literally millions of miles of roads, having owned and consequently had the cost of maintaining a private road, it costs in the region of £200 to fill a pot hole depending on size, if every car owner paid to fill one pot hole in there would not be any, I cannot understand why drivers who are paying nothing or very little VED complain about the condition of roads, but I do agree the maintenance of some roads is a disgrace and all LR owners do have a right to complain as we are the ones who are paying a questionable amount.
Land/Range Rovers are notoriously expensive but IMHO it is just a way of obtaining money for what they are capable of, for instance you cannot tow with an ordinary car what you can with a LR nor can you carry 7 people in comfort and most owners have them for this reason.
Wonder how long the pot hole repairs would last , lol
6th May 2022 7:36 pm
Motolab
Member Since: 18 Oct 2019
Location: Sleen
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Re: Vehicle tax
G7jtk wrote:
Why aren’t the motoring organisations lobbying to reduce vehicle tax?
It’s daylight robbery.
That is a bargain imho
In NL we pay for a D3 around 2000 gbp a year…
BUT we don’t have potholes here…Best regards
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6th May 2022 9:39 pm
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
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Aha, just taxed two of our cars yesterday. My missus 900 cc Captur - £30, and my 19 yr old Z4 - £360.
I think the D5 was £465. It’s the cost for the enjoyment of driving these days
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7th May 2022 9:13 am
gstuart
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Often wondered how it would compare putting the cost of car insurance and road tax onto fuel duty
7th May 2022 9:22 am
G7jtk
Member Since: 03 Jun 2014
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Exactly my point. Not so sure about insurance but if fuel duty included tax the nobody gets away with it and the more you use it the more you pay.
Just make it fair. There are cars on the road registered a few months before mine and are exactly the same but pay less than half the tax.
7th May 2022 9:29 am
Moo D3 Decade
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It's getting to the point on some D3s that annual car tax is over 10% of the vehicles value now.
Whilst the idea / dream of owning a nice big LR is something many aspire to there is also a reality of owning these beasties now. Buying a D3 is one thing, but running costs are such that the dream can become a nightmare. With the rise in fuel costs and environmental consciousness there is only one way D3 and D4 prices are going.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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7th May 2022 9:48 am
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
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I hope I’m right in thinking that as my FFRR was first registered in June 2017, the next “tax” payment will be the sixth one and therefore reduces to about £165 for the year. 🤞2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
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Often wondered how it would compare putting the cost of car insurance and road tax onto fuel duty
VED could easily be added to fuel duty and this may be a good idea.
Insurance could not, in my view, after all the premium varies with the value, type & age of vehicle, its use, the record of the drivers etc.
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7th May 2022 10:12 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
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Many thks and indeed see ur point ref insurance with its many variations , Including private / commercial
plus talking of insurance I’ve even toyed with the idea of one day changing my D3 to either a TDV8 or possibly a RRS, FFRR is out the question
I always like to go into depth before buying any vehicle , from cost of insurance , set of tyres, servicing costs etc Alas insurance for a petrol RRS would be around £800 per year , therefore hopefully I can keep my D3 going for as long as possible
Plus 1 Still weird how VED goes up from a euro 3 to 4, would have thought seeing the emissions are better it would cheaper
7th May 2022 11:27 am
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
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^The cost of my insurance (NFU Mutual) for my FFRR is only marginally more than my 2016 D4 Landmark.
I actually average more mpg in the FFRR, which is a bonus.
Servicing, must be more expensive but not noticeably so.
I’m about to renew the LR extended warranty and that’s more expensive, but the overall running costs compared to my D4’s really aren’t much more.2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
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2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
7th May 2022 11:51 am
Dondiddy
Member Since: 26 Dec 2019
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 308
LT wrote:
I hope I’m right in thinking that as my FFRR was first registered in June 2017, the next “tax” payment will be the sixth one and therefore reduces to about £165 for the year. 🤞
f you go to the check a car is taxed page on the DVLA website and put in your reg number it will give you the date that the additional rate payment is due up until.
7th May 2022 1:23 pm
riverblanche
Member Since: 31 Aug 2010
Location: retford'ish
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LT wrote:
my FFRR was first registered in June 2017, the next “tax” payment will be the sixth one and therefore reduces to about £165 for the year. 🤞
Hi,
another 5 years after the first new car tax so think your June 2023 before £165
Decide what car you want and pay what you have to pay,
be that Depreciation, fuel cost, Tax cost or maintenance costs
or in the case of most landrovers ALL of the above
Your only here once Buy what you want, we can still moan about it but at least you've owned it
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^
That’s what I have not checked out yet.
It was first taxed when new in 2017, so when I pay for it to be taxed in 2022 it will be the sixth time that it’s been taxed.2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
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