Car Hire. DVLA code

kimbo

Hi

I know of the new legislation for car hire but for some reason my details are not recognised. Which means I cannot use the online portal. No one at DVLA can help. So again I have to phone up and go through the torture with DVLA. Does anyone else have this problem? How did you fix it.
Thanks.

The_President

Yes.
I bought a car.

kimbo

I have a car but not in Italy!!

iamdan

I had a similar problem actually.

kimbo

Oh thank god thought I was thr only one. Spoken to another useless individual who cannot help so just emailed in a complaint. Stuck between Dvla and HMRC all the individual records are correct just not synced.

The_President

What i'd like to know is...why do HMRC need to know if you want to hire a car in Italy ? totally smacks of big brother. Can see a situation in the future where you have to provide your HMRC RFID tag to buy a pint in the booza.

Bigfatpete

You don't need it for car hire abroad do you? It's only when hiring in UK? I just returned from Spain and we didn't need it for the car hire there.

IdleHans

I didn't get asked for it in France by Europcar either. You may be ok.

Bigfatpete

The UK hire company in the UK we used for Spain 100% confirmed it wasn't needed.

cafcfan

The_President said:

What i'd like to know is...why do HMRC need to know if you want to hire a car in Italy ? totally smacks of big brother. Can see a situation in the future where you have to provide your HMRC RFID tag to buy a pint in the booza.

They don't and they don't care. It's just the same portal into the Govt. computer system. It's called the Government Gateway and gives you access to all sorts of services. It just so happens to include filling in you tax return, DVLA and stuff like passport renewal. In some ways it is quite handy. They simply upload your passport photo to your driver's licence for example saving you the bother of getting another photo taken.

guinnessaddick

You need your driver license No, your NI No. and your post code.

Needed the code, when I hired a car in Ireland recently.

Chippycafc

If you go to a decenrt hire car company they will help you out.

bazjonster

kimbo said:

Hi

I know of the new legislation for car hire but for some reason my details are not recognised. Which means I cannot use the online portal. No one at DVLA can help. So again I have to phone up and go through the torture with DVLA. Does anyone else have this problem? How did you fix it.
Thanks.

Rung the ticket office.