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Planes, trains, and automobiles #1673497
27/08/2024 04:30 27/08/2024 04:30
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The coupe has finished its continental sojourn, so it's coming back to England today.

Potsdam - Calais - Ashford today; Ashford - Upton tomorrow, where it'll go into storage, then Birmingham - Berlin - Potsdam tomorrow evening.

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Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673500
27/08/2024 07:23 27/08/2024 07:23
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Safe driving Neil...

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Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673518
28/08/2024 07:05 28/08/2024 07:05
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Got to the UK last night, not problems apart from global warming... 42mpg laugh

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Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673529
29/08/2024 05:54 29/08/2024 05:54
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So now the coupe is back in hibernation and we are back in Potsdam... 40 hours start to finish.

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Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673535
30/08/2024 10:14 30/08/2024 10:14
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Good to hear you made it back home safely- and the car is also back safely tucked away!

Regards

MM
Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673540
30/08/2024 15:59 30/08/2024 15:59
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Now having a bloody nightmare trying to SORN it... can't do it online, can't do it by ringing up the DVLA, have to fill forms in and send them off by post. Amazing...


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Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673541
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Tried using a VPN Neil?

Just "tell " it you are in the UK.

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I unplugged a row of electric cars that nobody was using.
I even unplugged my own.
Re: Planes, trains, and automobiles [Re: barnacle] #1673544
30/08/2024 20:08 30/08/2024 20:08
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It's not an 'in the UK' thing; it's recognising the number plate and magic number combination but for some reason it won't let me do anything with it, nor sorting out that it has an old address and correcting that. Neither could the bloke at the DVLA sitting in front of a terminal do it - he sounded quite annoyed about that.

I keep a UK address (though the car doesn't live there) and the insurance is quite happy about that.

Annoyingly, I handed Joe all the documentation - including the V5 - when I brought the car back, so now it's in the post back to me in Germany.

Neil

(I note that the DVLA computer system has been considered a joke in the IT trade for years... can't think why.)

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