Anyone renewed a photocard licence?

[Ducatista]

I can confirm that my licence has come back in 2 weeks.
Unfortunately some of the advice was wrong

Hi there you will not lose time if you do it early

They have in fact chopped a month off me.
At 16.66p I guess I'm not too bothered, but just wanted to make others aware that you will lose time if you send if off early.

[8_ball]

I can confirm that my licence has come back in 2 weeks.
Unfortunately some of the advice was wrong

Hi there you will not lose time if you do it early

anyway you would of thought that going though the post office they would know ??? when you paid to get it done ??????
sorry if any of my advise was wrong :-X
next time I will just read the forum.
I once said that it would be ok to jump in a fire, no one listened ;D ;D

[Ducatista]

anyway you would of thought that going though the post office they would know ??? when you paid to get it done ??????

No - I didn't go to the post office and I didn't pay get it done.
I doubt the people behind the PO desk do know that kind of detail but if they did I wouldn't pay £4.50 to save 16.67p. How does that make sense?

sorry if any of my advise was wrong

No worries, it's only 16.67p.
I'd rather have my licence in time for my test TBH.
Don't take it personally. I am criticising the information and not you.
I was only trying to make sure people knew the correct information.

[8_ball]

:'(

[ozzie]

well what can i add , 2000 moved house sent licence off to change address never checked it to well just hgv car ect anyway 2002 noticed no bike on it ,cut long story short had to retake my bike licence. now cut off the corner when sending it off as well as photo copy of it.

[Jon_W]

well what can i add , 2000 moved house sent licence off to change address never checked it to well just hgv car ect anyway 2002 noticed no bike on it ,cut long story short had to retake my bike licence. now cut off the corner when sending it off as well as photo copy of it.

Photocopy ain't worth owt unless it is a DVLA witnessed photocopy.

Best way is to do it online. That way you keep your old lisence.

[Ducatista]

Best way is to do it online.

But as stated already you can NOT do it online if your passport is over 5 years old, so this isn't an option for over half of us.

I took a copy (which enabled me to check it when it got back).
I also rang up the DVLA beforehand to check that they had my motorcycle entitlement on their database. This means even if my licence was lost in the post that it would still be on their database (their telehphone systems is a nightmare though, keeps putting you through endless menus).

If your passport is over 5 years old you have no option but to send it off whether directly yourself or via the post office.

[Conehead]

I suppose the only way around would be to send in your paper counterpart stating that you lost your plastic card licence. If it comes back wrong, fancy that, you just happened to find the old one.

I renewed mine last year and thankfully mine came back without a problem.

[Ducatista]

I suppose the only way around would be to send in your paper counterpart stating that you lost your plastic card licence. If it comes back wrong, fancy that, you just happened to find the old one.

Make sure you don't tell anyone who might want to stitch you up (see Chris Huhne) or send any texts, emails or put anything on forums about it

[redken1]

I suppose the only way around would be to send in your paper counterpart stating that you lost your plastic card licence. If it comes back wrong, fancy that, you just happened to find the old one.

Make sure you don't tell anyone who might want to stitch you up (see Chris Huhne) or send any texts, emails or put anything on forums about it

Chris will have plenty of free time to ponder over the age-old cliché, “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"