How the car
scrappage scheme
works
Which magazine reports that
from mid-May 2009, drivers who
voluntarily scrap their old car
will be offered £2,000 towards
the cost of a brand-new vehicle.
It’s hoped that this will not only
boost the number of new cars
being sold, but also help to take
thousands of older, less effi cient
cars off the roads.
To qualify for the £2,000 bonus
the car being scrapped must have
been registered on or before 31
August 1999 and come complete
with valid tax, insurance and
MOT documents (or be registered
as SORN). The driver applying to
scrap the car must also have been
its owner for at least a year.
The government will give drivers
£1,000 towards a new car for
each old vehicle scrapped.
The remaining £1,000 will
come directly from vehicle
manufacturers, which can choose
whether or not they take part.
Several have confi rmed already
that they will offer more than a
£1,000 incentive on some cars.
I.T. QUICK FIX
DVLA Personalised
By Colin Fyfe
Have you, like many others found your Microsoft Vista platform
Number Plate
running a bit slow? Here’s a wee tip to get things a bit quicker.
Windows defender is a security scanner, similar to other antivirus
Auctions
software. It comes preinstalled on the Windows Vista platform. I
Every year the DVLA holds around
would like you to adjust it a bit!
six auctions of DVLA personalised
Here is how it’s done. Go to the once very obvious now rather
registrations at locations
ambiguous ‘Start’ menu (the blue circle bottom left of your screen)
throughout Great Britain.
and then fi nd ‘All Programs’. In there, fi nd ‘Windows Defender’. Open
The next auctions will take place
it up and see the home screen. Up top and fourth along is ‘tools’, click
from 3rd to 5th June and 5th to
that and then into ‘options’.
7th August, both in England. If you
It’s about now you may realise why the PC always seemed to be on
are unable to attend in person,
a go slow after lunch! Remove the tick from the “Automatically Scan
applications for telephone and
My Computer (recommended)” button. This will remove a scheduled
Internet bids can be submitted
daily 2pm scan of your pc.
prior to the event.
There are other small tweaks that can improve vista’s sluggish
We make the auction experience
performance, watch this space.
as enjoyable and as friendly as
Find me on Page 7.
possible so that you get a great
day out as well as the opportunity
to bid for some highly distinctive
and collectable registrations.
Bidding in person is by far the most
popular way to buy a registration
A question with no answer.....
and it is at the auction where you
will fi nd the real atmosphere. If
Why do we press harder you can’t make it to the auction
on a remote control
we offer free telephone, internet
and absent bidding facilities.
when we know the
Visit www.dvlaregistrations.
batteries are flat? direct.gov.uk for more
information.
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