ROAD TOLLS WITH NO VAT

No VAT currently charged
No Vat is currently charged on the Dartford Crossing. The 2003 leglislation applies to privately operated tolls and "Le Crossing Company Ltd" who currently run the Dartford Crossing are contractors acting on behalf of The Highways Agency who are the operators and outside the scope of the 2003 leglislation.
If it is of any help the following tolls do not charge VAT:
Cleddau Bridge
Dartford Crossing
Erskine Bridge
Forth Road Bridge
Humber Bridge
Itchen Bridge
Mersey Tunnel
Tamar Bridge
Tay Bridge
Tyne Tunnel
And the following ones do charge VAT:
Aldwark Bridge
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Dunham Bridge
Rixton and Warburton Bridge
Severn River Crossing
Skye Bridge
Swinford Bridge
Shrewsbury (Kingsland) Bridge
Whitchurch Bridge
Whitney on Wye Bridge

Ex police car

I have just bought a car that was an ex police car and found that, interestingly enough, that they do not have to be taxed and thus do not require MOT certificates. That meant that to tax the car I had to go to the local vehicle licensing centre. That was quite a simple task as you needed all the documents as usual but needed to complete a form or two. one form was for licensing and the other form was for classifying the vehicle.it would have been useful if I hadn't posted the new owner form on the log book, as they would have processed the change of class there and then. However, I will still receive a new log book one for the change of owner and one with the change of classification from police to diesel. The car also needed an MOT, so the dealer put that on for me as I would need it for the tax on the car.
I would like to know if the car as police car was insured with them as I seem to believe that government cars are self insured, with funds put aside. Apparently that's more cost effective.
They would obviously need to be third party insured for other drivers incidents, but I will continue to look out for this information.
This car was a Ford Mondeo diesel 1900 130. I used to own one of these a few years ago, but when I test drove this car the power is amazing. Its the 130 bit meaning 130 BHP, the other car I used to have was a 115 BHP and therefore as suspected those police cars always have something done to them to make them fast.

Its amazing what you discover online. I have recently bought another car to add to my private hire fleet in Colchester. I already have a Vauxhall Zafira, so decided to buy another one of these, as its always better the devil you know, don't they say?

Well, having trawled the internet for good value 4 year and younger cars, I found a decent one to enquire upon in Sittingbourne in Kent. What coincidence, I used to live in Sittingbourne and my brother lives only half a mile away from this actual Garage and to add Ironicy to the story the garage owner's name is the same name as my brother Nigel. How much of coincidence is that aye!

The car that I have purchased has turned out to have some pre sale complications as follows:

The back passengers door wouldnt open and the road spring has broken. I had experience of the road spring, even in other cars its common but the back door was news to me. So, after two days I called the garage to ask how things were going on the pre sales work and they reported that the main dealer at vauxhalls were requesting further authority to spend extra 2-3 hours on the wiring loom in the back door and seating area. This would mean a lot of money as main dealers are expensive on their hourly rate,its got to be serious. This made me consider whether the car has serious damage due to maybe an accident or something.

My wife and a driver, explained that day, that you can check details of pre owned cars for previous history such as a previous write off, accidents and the like on the internet. I then decided to look on the internet and found the AA do vehicle checks for £19.99. I proceeded to check my vehicle and found no specific situation had occurred to bring on concerns. I then thought there must be someone else that has had this type of car fault. So I continued to search the internet.

I found that the wiring loom in the back passenger door, has been found by others to be faulty and break in some situations and takes just over the hour to fix. Its the wire that goes between the door and the car as it flexes every time the door opens.

I am only glad that I checked to see if all the doors opened and found that this fault exists before I bought it , otherwise it would be me paying for the repair. Lets just hope that they put a better quality wire loom in. There is one good thing, the wiring will have a guarantee/warranty from the main dealer.

To add one last thing to this story, over the years I have bought cars and I have found within a short time you find out things. Such as heater or air conditioning, don't work, so now I always open doors, windows, turn on heaters, air conditioning etc as a pre check. The AA vehicle check wouldn't have picked up this door problem or any of the other things above.

On top of all this, when I was once a car salesman, in my spare time I used to go over each of my cars I had for sale and find the good and bad points especially to find out how they work. When I went over the Vauxhall Zafira above, I checked that all the seats laid back, folded to allow people in and out checking all in operation. The car salesmen didn't even know that the seats did all this and that surprises me because if you are a good salesman you should always know your product.