Retained plate and DVLA have issued an incorrect new plate!!

Retained plate and DVLA have issued an incorrect new plate!!

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AOK

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2,297 posts

165 months

Saturday 17th January 2015
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Can someone advise if I'm missing something here?

I sent off a retention for a car which was registered on 01/09/2014 with a private plate.

They have sent back the retention certificate and an amended log book with an LX14XXX number. Date of registration shown on the log book is definitely 01/09/2014.

Surely it should be issued with a 64 plate? Someone who I've sold the car to wants to come collect it next weekend... if I call up DVLA first thing on Monday and I likely to get them to churn out a replacement in time?

What baboons arghhh!

imagineifyeswill

1,223 posts

165 months

Saturday 17th January 2015
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Theyve probably used the date of manufacture rather than date of first registration.

sim72

4,945 posts

133 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
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imagineifyeswill said:
Theyve probably used the date of manufacture rather than date of first registration.
Almost certainly. Same thing happened to my sister-in-law; car registered on the start of the 08 plate, they sent a 57 plate back.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
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DVLA...it's Welsh, you 'tard.

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
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sim72 said:
imagineifyeswill said:
Theyve probably used the date of manufacture rather than date of first registration.
Almost certainly. Same thing happened to my sister-in-law; car registered on the start of the 08 plate, they sent a 57 plate back.
I beg to differ.

I somehow doubt that the DVLA has access to every manufacturer's production line records.
You certainly won't find a date of manufacture listed as such on any V5C - only the date of first registration.
Think about it - the VRM is not allocated until an application is submitted to register the vehicle.

The DVLA make mistakes/don't follow their own rules. I know someone who has a Jap import on a 51 plate.
The model in question ceased production 1n 1999 and his was first registered in Japan several years prior to that.




imagineifyeswill

1,223 posts

165 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
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The paperwork which the franchised dealer files with DVLA when the vehicle was first registered will contain the date of manufacture. Had this vehicle been registered new on a regular number then that number would have been reallocated to it, as it was registered on a personal number which may have been first allocated 60 years ago then they will have used the date of manufacture.
In the case of Jap imports unless they come in to the country with ful paperwork to prove original date of first registration they get allocated a plate relevant to the year they were first registerd here.

Edited by imagineifyeswill on Sunday 18th January 11:42

AOK

Original Poster:

2,297 posts

165 months

Monday 19th January 2015
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Update - They have confirmed it was an administrative mistake and I need to post the logbook back to them for it to be re-processed!

God knows what to tell the insurance company... best I just don't drive it till its back (don't want to pay 2 lots of Admin fees because of DVLA's cock up!)


sim72

4,945 posts

133 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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Red Devil said:
sim72 said:
imagineifyeswill said:
Theyve probably used the date of manufacture rather than date of first registration.
Almost certainly. Same thing happened to my sister-in-law; car registered on the start of the 08 plate, they sent a 57 plate back.
I beg to differ.

I somehow doubt that the DVLA has access to every manufacturer's production line records.
You certainly won't find a date of manufacture listed as such on any V5C - only the date of first registration.
Think about it - the VRM is not allocated until an application is submitted to register the vehicle.

The DVLA make mistakes/don't follow their own rules. I know someone who has a Jap import on a 51 plate.
The model in question ceased production 1n 1999 and his was first registered in Japan several years prior to that.
I happened to see my sister-in-law today and asked what the DVLA said when she complained to them - apparently with hers there was a glitch with the computer system, which got confused with leap years and thought 1st March was 29th February - hence the 57 plate!