Odd letter from DVLA - someone asking for a V5 for my car

Odd letter from DVLA - someone asking for a V5 for my car

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psi310398

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9,036 posts

202 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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I've just had a letter from the DVLA telling me that they have received an application to record someone else as the registered keeper of one of my cars.

The thing is I have not sold or given the car to anyone else. I keep the car in an area a small distance from where I live where there is no residential permit parking and don't drive it very often, but it is taxed, insured and MOTd. I wonder if someone thinks it has been abandoned and wants to mump it. Needless to say, I have moved it pronto and told DVLA its staying mine!

Does anyone else have experience of this?

TIA

Peter

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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PH often have posts asking how one can find a solution to parked vehicles causing a problem in the local - perhaps your predicament(and resolution)is the answer. wink

psi310398

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9,036 posts

202 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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Laurel Green said:
PH often have posts asking how one can find a solution to parked vehicles causing a problem in the local - perhaps your predicament(and resolution)is the answer. wink
Hmm, interesting thought.

I hasten to add I'm inconveniencing nobody with my parking, although this is not far from an area patrolled by private security plastic cops who try to intimidate ordinary punters from parking on the public roads leading to their rich tt employers' houses...

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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I'd say it is more likely to be just a chancer, though my initial thought remains.





LordLoveLength

1,903 posts

129 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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Could be someone who has bought a ringer of your car..

psi310398

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9,036 posts

202 months

Thursday 14th May 2015
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LordLoveLength said:
Could be someone who has bought a ringer of your car..
Ouch! That is a possibility. Well, I've left it in the hands of DVLA...

SistersofPercy

3,334 posts

165 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Has it ever had a reg change?

Had something similar for an old bike a few weeks ago. It belonged to Father In Law who'd bought it years previously with another reg on it then applied to get the original plate back. This was done, bike has been SORN'd in garage for the last ten years and forgotten about.

Transpired the DVLA managed to assign both registration plates to the bike and so when someone bought the plate FIL handed back to the DVLA it was still registered to the bike he owned. DVLA held up their hands, admitted that it was an error and corrected the mistake. Worried us for a while though as FIL died 2 years ago and we were concerned someone was trying to register the bike from under him.

guru_1071

2,768 posts

233 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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years ago a mate of mine lent his morris cooper s to the producers of 'Heartbeat'

the car came out of long term storage, spent a day on a closed set and then went back into storage.

the program aired on a Sunday night, and the following Wednesday a DVLA letter dropped through his letter box telling him that someone had applied for his V5c.

needless to say he went absolutely bisbo!!

after this the producers of Heartbeat fitted fake plates to all the cars they used for the filming as apparently it wasn't the first instance of this happening

psi310398

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9,036 posts

202 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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SistersofPercy said:
Has it ever had a reg change?

Had something similar for an old bike a few weeks ago. It belonged to Father In Law who'd bought it years previously with another reg on it then applied to get the original plate back. This was done, bike has been SORN'd in garage for the last ten years and forgotten about.

Transpired the DVLA managed to assign both registration plates to the bike and so when someone bought the plate FIL handed back to the DVLA it was still registered to the bike he owned. DVLA held up their hands, admitted that it was an error and corrected the mistake. Worried us for a while though as FIL died 2 years ago and we were concerned someone was trying to register the bike from under him.
Yes, good thought. It is one of those models of cars whose owners tend to have private plates and it is currently on NI plates but I've owned the car with those plates for over ten years...it has had a couple of SORN years though.


bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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I took my 71 rangerover to a landrover show,

a couple of weeks later I had the same letter, someone had applied for my V5. I wrote back, and telephoned them,

a year later I sent the V5 back to change details of the engine number, they told me they had no record of me owning the car,

good job I had a photocopy, new V5 came back but the date I bought it had changed by a day??

be carefull.

DaveCWK

1,979 posts

173 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Probably someone thinking it is 'abandoned' as it hasn't moved for 1 week and therefore they can claim it rolleyes

psi310398

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Monday 18th May 2015
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DaveCWK said:
Probably someone thinking it is 'abandoned' as it hasn't moved for 1 week and therefore they can claim it rolleyes
Exactly so - I had a call back from DVLA today saying that somebody was claiming it had been dumped. Even if true, which it isn't, that does not give them any kind of claim on the vehicle...and it is a bit worrying that DVLA would have issued a new V5 if I'd failed to respond within the stipulated fortnight - what if I'd gone to Oz for a month?

I'm wondering if I should go to the police. If matey boy is trying it on for my car, presumably he's doing so for others.