Renewing your Picture Driving Licence?

Post by **baggy** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:21 pm

RENEWING YOUR DRIVING LICENCE

Plastic driving licences, which were first introduced in 1998 expire after ten years to stop photographs going out of date and to stop licences being used fraudulently. Motoring organisations say that few people realise that their licence needs renewing after ten years.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will send you a renewal application pack two months before your photo is due to expire and renewal will cost you £17.50. Drivers who fail to pay, and use out-ofdate
documents could be charged with failing to surrender a licence and fined up to £1,000.

If, for any reason, you don t receive the renewal application pack you can use the D1 application for a driving licence . This is available from DVLA form ordering service, and Post Office branches. You can check the expiry date of your photo in section 4b on the front of your driving licence.

Full licence renewal details can be found on
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Dr ... /DG_078070

Post by **bmcecosse** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:45 pm

I'll just stick to my non-picture Licence then !

Post by **MGFmad** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:20 pm

bmcecosse wrote:I'll just stick to my non-picture Licence then !

You wil be fine as long as you don't move house - thats when the photo driving licence requirement caught up with me.

Post by **alainmoran** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:22 pm

Same here .. i should probably get my picture updated too, since when I moved I had short hair, now I have dreds down to my shoulders

Post by **moggyminor16** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:52 pm

im shore that the old licens are out now and must be changed
well that what we have been told in the MOD and as i work in the motor transport troop we get teh emails from DVLA

Post by **Onne** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:52 pm

I'm due to change my Dutch licence for a UK one...

Post by **IaininTenbury** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:08 pm

moggyminor16 wrote:im shore that the old licens are out now and must be changed
well that what we have been told in the MOD and as i work in the motor transport troop we get teh emails from DVLA

I sent my old non picture one off to, er, have some points added, and it came back fine, other than the three points that is. No suggestionthat it should be changed to a photo one. Putting that off for as long as poss. Another unnessacery over complicated government bit of red tape.

Post by **Luxobarge** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:25 pm

IaininTenbury wrote:
moggyminor16 wrote:im shore that the old licens are out now and must be changed
well that what we have been told in the MOD and as i work in the motor transport troop we get teh emails from DVLA
I sent my old non picture one off to, er, have some points added, and it came back fine, other than the three points that is. No suggestionthat it should be changed to a photo one. Putting that off for as long as poss. Another unnessacery over complicated government bit of red tape.

Same here (

) - paper one's fine for me, until I move house!

Post by **moggyminor16** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:51 pm

must be just us then they make do it strange why i wonder may be they dont like us either lol
i wish i could kept my paper one was a lot better