VW California - Kitchen options & Tax

[MKRW]

As a Full California SE owner I've just gone through my first MOT, with the Cali now 3 years old I got a letter about thinking to upgrade to new and so keeping a lot of the benefits / cover of a new vehicle.

Since buying I've been torn between Full Cali or Beach. As we have a family of 5 and have to drive the Cali with a 5th seat.

The reasons for not going Beach were:
Max 140 engine. I like the extra power of 180 and the Road tax.

Seeing on a post earlier around the sale of a kitchen POD unit, in France offering a lower tax rate, it got me thinking. If ordering a Cali Beach from new with a kitchen POD installed could the Beach be fully classified as a camper and therefore registered for the same tax as a full Motor Home?

Very interested as if it could I might consider changing to a Beach.......

 

[calikev]

You can not change the tax it goes on vehicle emissions I have read a lot about this on the t5 forum people think by registering it as a camper makes the tax cheaper. All it does is make the insuransce cheaper.

 

[shambly]

Yes, the rules changed on the 1st august 2013 from memory. Before then you paid road tax as a van (~£215, flat rate), now you pay as a car. Makes a reasonable difference on 180 4 motion DSG...

 

[MKRW]

Tax just paid on the Cali SE 180 was £230.... (as a motorhome I think, but may be wrong?)

Could it not be the same for a Cali Beach if the Beach were to be registered at time of purchase (with a kitchen) as a motor home? Or am i missing new rules?

 

[shambly]

New rules that came in after your current vehicle (and ours) was registered....

http://www.ukmotorhomes.net/motorhome-road-tax.shtml

 

[California124]

So does this mean the 180 dsg auto 4motion is £485 against a180 dsg auto being £285, seems a big difference to me.

 

[MKRW]

New rules that came in after your current vehicle (and ours) was registered....

http://www.ukmotorhomes.net/motorhome-road-tax.shtml

Thanks I had completely missed that change...... I did think it was odd that the Cali when I bought it was so much better Road tax than an equivalent car.

 

[WelshGas]

180 DSG 4Motion tax is £285pa

 

[MKRW]

There is a benefit of having a manual 180 then!

 

[WelshGas]

Sorry, you pay the extra for the 4Motion, not the DSG.

 

[Skylark2.0]

The road tax on our Cali dsg 4motion 180 (to be...) is £285 for 12 months on the bill.

 

[California124]

I think you are right, the bluemotion tech takes the emissions below 225 and the older 4motions without bluemotion tech are above 225

 

[MKRW]

I am still a bit confused by the new registration VED in the price list.

Is the new registration VED 1st year different to what you will pay in future years? The 180 PS (&DSG) is £485 and the 180 PS 4 Motion (&DSG) is £635! What is it now for year 2?

 

[WelshGas]

Correct MKRW. 1st year rate £635, 2nd year rate £285.