road tax

[B.Martin]

Tell them its an import and there was a mistake when it was registered.

[rising son]

thats what im goin with martin... mine is a jdm 1 anyway

[B.Martin]

Yeah go for i im gonna do it when i come back to the uk, by the way my name is Ben, Martin in my surname

I have a mate over here that made the same mistake, took me about a month to actually tell him and he almost died of embarrassment.

Let me know how you get on with it.

[rising son]

lol cheers ben, will do

[B.Martin]

Right guys, sorry to resurect an old thread but i\'ve been on the phone to the DVLA today about this very subject. To get the log book changed from 2354cc to 1308cc all you need is a letter from Mazda stating the the car is infact a 1308cc and not 2354cc, i spoke to Mazda in Nottingham and a friendly guy there has said he can do that for me.

Now let me tell you an amusing story, as you all know i\'m over in Cyprus where, might i add the law on Rotary Enginged vehicles is that they are 1308cc. When bringing a car to Cyprus you have to pay an import duty on my car @ 1308cc the duty is around €150. Now on the same car but with a CC of 2354cc that price suddenly becomes €2500!!!

This is also the same with the actual \'registry costs\' to register the car as 1308cc the price is €100 and registry on 2354cc is €1500. And get this Rotary owners, the road tax on 1308cc in Cyprus is €100 p/a and on the 2354cc the road tax is €500 p/a!!! Of course becuase i\'m English no one is preppared to help me with this so i have to do it myself in order not to be ripped off.

The first scentence should help people out that want to change this though

[Kamatari]

See i had a letter from mazda saying this, so i sent it all off the first time and then i had everything returned with a letter saying no basically

I\'d love to get this changed so any tips would be good

[Kamatari]

Also, from people that have managed to get the log book changed to say 1308c, has insurance worked out any better or do you still have to get insured as a 2354c?

[B.Martin]

Ah your insuring an RX7 mate, its done on the insurance group not on the CC

[grinder]

im sure that when i did mine , i changed the log book aswell .. im sure there is an engine size box , so i updated the to 1308 cc

[rx-dave]

I doubt very much that you\'ll get it down to 1308cc now :confused:  The last RX7 i got through as a 1308cc was around a year ago then some smart ass youngster picked me up on it :2Mad
I got a call from that lovely person saying that the volumetric output is that of a 2616cc to which i replied that the form asks only for the cc and not an \'ouput\'. I refused to pay the extra until i was informed the tax disc would be cancelled leaving the vehicle untaxed that would lead to it being clamped...............i shall post you a cheque then i said as i\'d already sold it and didn\'t need the grief!!
Best of luck but don\'t hold your breath!!

[Speedline Imports]

I have been very lucky with Brighton DVLA, registered 3 cars recently as 1308, but the 3rd one got picked up by a different person processing the documents and had to be registered as 2616.  Although with planned changes and possible closure of all local DVLA offices, it will mean all paperwork goes directly to Swansea and I cant see any getting registered as 1308

[B.Martin]

Perhaps your right, hopefully they will view my circumstances as different as I am exporting. Hope so anyway because frankly the car isn\'t worth the amount charged for either the import tax or the registry fee\'s!

[BinoX]

I got a call from that lovely person saying that the volumetric output is that of a 2616cc to which i replied that the form asks only for the cc and not an \'ouput\'.

Just so everyone is aware of the mathematical logic involved in this calculation (it\'s not just doubled arbitrarily), it\'s like this...

We start with a 2 rotor engine of 1308cc...
Each rotor actually has 3 combustion chambers so 1308 * 3 = 3924cc
But each stroke take 1.5 times longer than a piston engine so 3924 / 1.5 = 2616cc (as on the RX8 V5C)



However, I have yet to work out where the 2354cc comes from on the FC V5Cs, I\'m still working on it, I\'ll let you know when/if I find out.

[grinder]

i suppose you can do

3924 / 1.6666 = 2354

But thats an odd number to calc by ?

[B.Martin]

What would the result be based on the 12a capacity? Perhaps they based it on the FB RX-7 so they could charge on importation.