Recent content by gdog

interesting. Has anyone actually tried it or are we all just speculating. / theorising.

if it was just for a year and i wasn't doing more than say 100 miles most days i would just live with granny charger and save the money

Im a little confused. is the first service not due 12 months after its first registration. Surely its not an earlier date? That not something i considered when i got first service

Sure it applies. There will be a few of these but in likely equal % for ICE or any other cars. Surely few would bother to SORN a car for a month or two? Maybe i'm just wasteful minded :-) I didn't include Cyberster in this small survey?

The survey was only of 2022+ cars so posts #4 and #7 shouldn't factor much in SORN i thought.

Yes that;s what i was trying to get across. my data is based on cars 2022+ so SORN will have very few collectables, hobby, summer or show cars etc. cars in the mix, that are not driven. because of their young years i assumed that a large percentage of the SORNs here are being repaired to...

Just let it go. I have no beef with you and didn't mean any offence by debating.

Insurance co write them off. The worst are scrapped. Some as uneconomic to fix which may be bought and fixed up (SORNed)

heaven forbid someone should disagree with you. unforgivable. I didnt realise that you were referring to write off that are scrapped only. As far as i know, not all written off cars are scrapped, some are just deemed not economic to repair.

fair enough if your not interested.

what is the usefulness of this reply? @MG Clive clarified his position and i agreed. anyway i would argue that scrap numbers are extremely low given Between January 2023 and June 2025, only 3,250 electric vehicles were scrapped in the UK and i would imagine the majority of those are crashed...

but i only included 2022+ cars in comparison and BEVs had lower SORN % than ICE

yes that makes sense. maybe just SORNed at transition to being scrapped. but that would be the same for both ICE & BEV

i previously conceded that reliability was a poor choice or words. roadworthy is better

that not correct. in the UK written off cars must be SORNed. otherwise the owner at that time is liable for tax