Car written off, which bit of the Reg Cert' do I send?

[Marc]

Quick plea for help please people, DVLA website is utter gash and my insurance losers are too busy to answer the damn phone.
Anyway my cars been written off and I need to inform the DVLA (even though I read my insurance company do it they still tell me to do it!?!), which bit of the Reg Certificate do I complete and send off?
There is not anything on there to do with Written Off Cars as far as I can see.

ta muchly

 

[clippedgull]

from dvla

If it’s likely that the vehicle will be written off, then it will be the responsibility of the insurance company to make a SORN when they take possession. You can claim a refund of vehicle tax for any remaining full months.

 

[Box of Frogs]

If your Insurance company are paying you out you need to send the whole document back but make sure you sign the section 9 declaration (yellow bit) first. Don't fill any of it in, just sign where it says registered keeper.

And if I were you, take a photocopy of it before you send it to them by Recorded Delivery!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

If your Insurance company are paying you out you need to send the whole document back but make sure you sign the section 9 declaration (yellow bit) first. Don't fill any of it in, just sign where it says registered keeper.

And if I were you, take a photocopy of it before you send it to them by Recorded Delivery!

If I was you I would send it as Registered , that way the insurance company cannot say they havent received it. If it gets lost in the postal system you're buggered.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

If I was you I would send it as Registered , that way the insurance company cannot say they havent received it. If it gets lost in the postal system you're buggered.

Sorry it used to be known as Registered , now called Special Delivery Next Day (£4.60) which is more secure than just sending it as "to be signed for".

 

[SussexHoop]

When my wife wrote her car off, we also wrote to the DVLA advising it was being written off and who ownership was being transferred to and they acknowledged the transfer.

 

[clippedgull]

Sorry it used to be known as Registered , now called Special Delivery Next Day (£4.60) which is more secure than just sending it as "to be signed for".

cannot see how you worked that one out?

sd is no more secure than rd. both have to be signed for.

the only real difference is the guaranteed next day delivery and better compensation. but in this case compensation is meaningless. its the proof of delivery that's important.

 

[Marc]

If your Insurance company are paying you out you need to send the whole document back but make sure you sign the section 9 declaration (yellow bit) first. Don't fill any of it in, just sign where it says registered keeper.

And if I were you, take a photocopy of it before you send it to them by Recorded Delivery!

'send the whole document back' - to who? DVLA or the Insurance company?

 

[Guy Fawkes]

cannot see how you worked that one out?

sd is no more secure than rd. both have to be signed for.

the only real difference is the guaranteed next day delivery and better compensation. but in this case compensation is meaningless. its the proof of delivery that's important.

I think the compensation for recorded deliveries is only about 100 times the price of a first class stamp, if what you are sending will cost more than that the replace, then special delivery is the way to go,

where i work, we often encounter mistakes with royal mail recorded deliveries, it amazes me how many i see which hadn't been tracked properly by Royal Mail and arrive as normal letters, meaning that there is no proof of delivery, and more seem not to arrive at all.

I think what you need to do depends on whether your pursuing a claim from insurers, and whether you are third party or fully comp.If you are 3rd party, often you will remain the registered keeper of the vehicle even after the claim has been settled, ( the scrap value of the vehicle is taken off the settlement cheque)

 

[Seagull Stew]

I think the compensation for recorded deliveries is only about 100 times the price of a first class stamp, if what you are sending will cost more than that the replace, then special delivery is the way to go,

where i work, we often encounter mistakes with royal mail recorded deliveries, it amazes me how many i see which hadn't been tracked properly by Royal Mail and arrive as normal letters, meaning that there is no proof of delivery, and more seem not to arrive at all.

I think what you need to do depends on whether your pursuing a claim from insurers, and whether you are third party or fully comp.If you are 3rd party, often you will remain the registered keeper of the vehicle even after the claim has been settled, ( the scrap value of the vehicle is taken off the settlement cheque)

Also, special delivery is trackable whereas recorded delivery will just tell you whether an item has been signed for or not, it does not tell you if it has even reached it's destination.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Roz had a Special Delivery Next Day package delivered the other week - on a Saturday morning. It had been wrongly addressed by the sender ("Eastbourne" instead of "Firle"), but the postcode was correct.

No knock on the door by the postman to get a signature - it was just left in the porch. But here is the interesting bit ...

Scrawled across the label were the words "SIGNED FOR BY POSTMAN. SEAGULLS!!"

That's what happens when you get the lads at Lewes Sorting Office to campaign for Falmer.

 

[Box of Frogs]

'send the whole document back' - to who? DVLA or the Insurance company?

Insurance Company - if they are paying you!

 

[Marc]

Insurance Company - if they are paying you!

cool many thanks mate for the help