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Originally Posted by Lee

Mine has pretty much doubled even for 08


I think it will be cheaper to pay the fine

Mine also goes from Band F to Band K and it's a bloody 1.8 VW Passat for heavens sake!
Beware of thinking it's cheaper to pay the fine, the ANPR system (Automatic Number Plate Reader) has become widespread throughout police forces as well as the DVLA since it's introduction for use on congestion charging in London. Go through an ANPR camera and get stopped and they have the power to seize your car. Costs vary but it's over £100.00 recovery fee, daily storage if you don't collect it straight away, plus the back tax. If you don't collect it within a set time they also have the power to crush it or sell it if it's worth something.
The CCTV cameras in the bigger towns are also linked to ANPR and clock the registration of every car going through them, George Orwell 1984 ring a bell?
Now of course this only applies to hard working, law abiding citizens as opposed to the low life benefit scrounging chav's of this world who don't bother to register, tax or insure their rust bucket death traps. They just run off and let them get seized knowing they're worth nothing and buy another £50.00 heap of crap from their local rag.