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Forced charge for new driving license photograph
Saffy:
--- Quote from: KTM Gordo on July 22, 2009, 15:06:35 ---I don't know why people are complaining about it now - they've not made any secret about you having to replace the photo every ten years. It just happens that it's ten years since the photo licences were introduced.
A tip: they only charge the lowest fee, so if you're updating your address as well as your photo they will do it for free. I did this when I moved house a couple of years ago.
It isn't your driving entitlement that expires, just the licence.
As for moaning about the cost of driving in to town, parking, photo booth, fuel etc. well you're going to be in town some time, so do it at the same time. And the cost of a set of photos (I paid £6 last time I got some done) is nothing compared to a tank of fuel.
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nope, you will get the charge of 20 quid for any update that includes a photograph. Change address its free... change address and want your photo changed too then its 20 quid, its all detailed on the form.
Well no, I do not go into town for months between visits thanks all the same. Anyway with my digital camera I have taken my own photo and printed it out to their specifications and my wife who works near the DVLA offices in bristol took the documents and fee in to them. The 6 quid for photos, the 2 quid for parking, and the what ever for a postage I saved I shall buy 10 litres of fuel.
Yoshi:
Well we have an odd one!
I passed me test in 2003, and as such me photocard expires in 2013.
Now the missus who passed her test in 1996 doesnt have to re-do hers until 2016???
Its all on the license, and she hasnt replaced her photo in all that time?
Not worked that one out yet!
Saffy:
--- Quote from: Yoshi on July 22, 2009, 16:26:59 ---Well we have an odd one!
I passed me test in 2003, and as such me photocard expires in 2013.
Now the missus who passed her test in 1996 doesnt have to re-do hers until 2016???
Its all on the license, and she hasnt replaced her photo in all that time?
Not worked that one out yet!
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:-k
paul_humphreys:
I have to update mine every 5 years anyway as I am a HGV/LGV driver, so work will pay.
Paul
Gordo:
--- Quote from: Tanglefoot on July 22, 2009, 16:22:38 ---nope, you will get the charge of 20 quid for any update that includes a photograph. Change address its free... change address and want your photo changed too then its 20 quid, its all detailed on the form.
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Must have changed then - I changed my photo and wasn't charged.
--- Quote ---Well no, I do not go into town for months between visits
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Hermit ;)
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