DVLA date of first reg and year of manufacture - Years apart
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Doing some checks on a used car and the date of first registration according to the DVLA is 4 years later than the car's date of manufacture - I thought this must mean it's an import but a check on that suggests that is not the case - It seems unlikely it would sit in a showroom unregistered for 4 years so it's a little confusing.
Anybody had any experience of this sort of situation? - Any idea what else could have caused this?
Anybody had any experience of this sort of situation? - Any idea what else could have caused this?
Lagom said:
Not really.There's maybe 5000 or so cars there (they normally have a max capacity of around 4500 cars) and the UK (normally) registers around 2m cars a year so that entire place gets cleared and restocked many times per year in all likelyhoods.
milfordkong said:
Not sure that's relevant this case - Perhaps should have provided more context, this is a 90s car, it was manufactured in 1995 and the first registration date is showing as 1999...
A former girlfriend of mine had a car that had been originally sold new on the channel islands and then been sold in the UK second-hand and it showed up exactly as above. Not classed as an import as still a UK car but channel island registration numbers are not allowed to be used on the mainland so the V5 showed it as having a first registration date that matched the allocation of the standard number.milfordkong said:
Lagom said:
It takes a while to rotate stock when you have so many laying around.
Not sure that's relevant this case - Perhaps should have provided more context, this is a 90s car, it was manufactured in 1995 and the first registration date is showing as 1999... Riley Blue said:
I once owned a '90s Mercedes that had spent the first few years of its life on Jersey. It was registered with the DVLA several years later when it arrived on the mainland so not uncommon.
Ah ok - Thank you (and to the earlier poster who mentioned the channel islands) - This could well be the case then. Any way at all to check on this? the current owner is unaware of the car's history and a little flippant perhaps due to it coming from a larger collection but i'd like to know. Could it have had a private plate (or just a different plate) on for the first few years? I believe the date refers to when this plate was applied to the car - I know a chap with a Viva HA that had the original registration removed, and I think his V5 shows it was first registered sometime in the mid 1980s. Similar scenario to it being imported, really.
droopsnoot said:
Could it have had a private plate (or just a different plate) on for the first few years? I believe the date refers to when this plate was applied to the car - I know a chap with a Viva HA that had the original registration removed, and I think his V5 shows it was first registered sometime in the mid 1980s. Similar scenario to it being imported, really.
Another potential - Interesting the government MOT check states the date registered as 1995 - The plot thickens.I'm facing this same issue. Car was manufactured in 2011 and had first MOT in 2014 so it's not loke the car has remained in the showroom. There was a change to private plate in 2018 and back to the original plate in 2023. I can't just figure out why the date of first issue of certitificate is 2021. The car has 4 total keepers and the logbook has only been issue twice, 2021 and 2023. This bothers me a lot.
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