S Series How many are there?

S Series How many are there?

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S2Mike

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3,065 posts

149 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Just a little bored here at work (dont tell the boss) wondered if, the spreadsheet on Pistonheads has pretty much every living/loved S listed with its owner as a member of this site. Or could there be others where the owner is "flying solo" not a member of Pistonheads.
Whats your view?
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1 - 1.5 = 56
2 = 82
3 + =118

excepting there may be some gaps in the list that I missed.


Edited by S2Mike on Thursday 20th December 12:07


Edited by S2Mike on Thursday 20th December 12:09

RayTVR

1,040 posts

142 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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I am sure t's been discussed before but you can look into the DVLA database. At the following


http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&am...

This shows not only how many are there by each type, but also how many are on the road and SORN at any point

Of course, being TVR there are many that are registered as the wrong model or with no model type at all!

S2Mike

Original Poster:

3,065 posts

149 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Oh yes Thanks for the link.

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Hi Mike,
In trueTVR tradition, my S1 was registered by them from new as a Tasmin, in a block of Tivs that included Mr Tank's Tasmin Auto, Reg No. two digits before mine.
I'm on the P/hds S owners list, but won't be on the DVLA list of S / 280's.

RayTVR

1,040 posts

142 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Yes -only TVR could mange to have ten a thousand registered vehicles with "missing" accounting for a thousand of them!

wizzer

204 posts

162 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Model identification is always going to be a problen with the S series because of the way TVR registered them. I did a full check on mine when I aquired it and found it was also recorded as a Tasmin. Why did they do that?

phillpot

17,105 posts

182 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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wizzer said:
Why did they do that?
Pure speculation but....

Maybe there were "advantages" to fudging the production figures so chassis and engine numbers were registered as complete cars and then demands changed, anticipated orders for Tasmins didn't materialise but orders for S's did ?


Or maybe the apprentice was despatched to the tax office and cocensoreded it up wink

NiceCupOfTea

25,280 posts

250 months

Friday 21st December 2012
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I'm sure I read that something in the order of 2500 S's were made and about 1500 were left currently. Could be way off though... I am sure there are many other S Series around than the ones on PH.

mohitos

1,313 posts

198 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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So here's an interesting thing. I think it's pretty common knowledge that lots of S Series are not correctly registered with the DVLA. As an example, my V8S is registered and the V5 shows as a 290S. It's been discussed on the forum many times and leads to confusion about how many of each model genuinely exist.

I'd always though that the fault lay with TVR and their sloppy registrations back in the day.

Anyway, I recently requested the full vehicle records for the car from the DVLA. Only costs a few quid and thought it would be nice for the history file. The history arrived in the post today.

It seems that TVR factory correctly completed the registration request as a V8S, and the fault actually lies with the DVLA. I'll be on the phone to them next week to see how we go about having them rectify the incorrect registration. I guess there's a chance that on the date my car was registered, the DVLA had not yet accepted the V8S as a model and so put it down as the closest thing ?


phillpot

17,105 posts

182 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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Never doubted TVR for one minute wink

themee

342 posts

158 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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Let us know how you get on! Mine is the same, would prefer it to say V8S. Also might get my vehicle record if only a few quid, Cheers!

SJS357

1,505 posts

155 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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When I bought mine it showed 290s, so amended it when sending the v5 back.

Guess what it came back as.....yep 290s .. frown


mohitos

1,313 posts

198 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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SJS357 said:
When I bought mine it showed 290s, so amended it when sending the v5 back.

Guess what it came back as.....yep 290s .. frown
I'm hoping now that I can point them to their own error in the original registration, I might have some success. It's pretty hard to argue with...!

mohitos

1,313 posts

198 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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themee said:
Let us know how you get on! Mine is the same, would prefer it to say V8S. Also might get my vehicle record if only a few quid, Cheers!
If you fancy doing the same with your car, here's the form to request the car's history:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...

The cost is £5 payable by cheque to DVLA Swansea.

In return, you get a photocopy of the original registration document completed by TVR, and every subsequent V5 completed when a change of ownership occurred thumbup

AutoAndy

2,265 posts

214 months

Friday 7th March 2014
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We can do this...



...there's me... 1....



v8s4me

7,234 posts

218 months

Saturday 8th March 2014
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Who ever TVR got to fill the form in couldn't spell grey!

jg6461

6 posts

128 months

Saturday 8th March 2014
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Thanks for posting the form and the info. I'd like to request the records for my '87 S. What are the chances the DVLA would post to the U.S.?

Roy C

4,187 posts

283 months

Saturday 8th March 2014
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It's not just TVR. There are probably hundreds of thousands of vehicles registered incorrectly on the DVLA database.

The most common aberration is that the make and model are entered as the make.

Now the local offices have been closed and Swansea has to do everything in-house, the chances of anything being done about this mess are less than zero.

But, of course, they still have plenty of time to sell your personal details to anyone who claims they need it. rolleyes

mohitos

1,313 posts

198 months

Saturday 8th March 2014
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I'm guessing that's unlikely but you might be able to have it sent to a friendly UK address ?

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Saturday 8th March 2014
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I would think the DVLA would only send the history to the owner/ registered keeper. Or possibly the last UK owner?

As for getting the correct model type put on the V5, it's easy peasy. I queried this with DVLA when I purchased my S / Tasmin.
All you have to do is get a verification letter defining the correct model from the manufacturer (TVR), and send it to Swansea with the V5.

This is great if either :
a) your name is H.G.Wells, or....
b) your car is a DeLorean fitted with a 15 Gigawatt flux capacitor.

I decided to let it lie. frown

BTW, in this instance, it WAS TVR who put "Tasmin" on the original registation application form.