Previous registered keepers

Previous registered keepers

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pb450

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1,303 posts

161 months

Thursday 23rd October 2014
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Just finished reading the very informative write up by a Porsche owner about his newly aquired 106k mile Cat D Chimaera and went to respond to a question raised. By the time I had logged in and returned to the page the topic had been closed by a mod. I guess some PH rules were breeched in the content.

However, the new owner (porshefreak?) asked if there was a way of checking out previous owners. Yes there is, DVLA has all the answers and this should do the trick: https://www.gov.uk/request-information-from-dvla

I did it for my Tiv when I bought it in April 2012 and now have details of all the previous registered keepers, from new. This service used to be free but from memory there's a small charge involved now. Good service though. smile

pb450

Original Poster:

1,303 posts

161 months

Thursday 23rd October 2014
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I should have added that you need to prove that you are the registered keeper first. Or at least, if you request information on a specific car then DVLA can check you out and I'm sure they won't hand this over if their records don't tie up.

Assume you will receive some sort of V5 but I have no idea how the Cat D thing works.

Like V8 GRF, I'm surprised the thread ran for so long. Note my previous post about all the 'scrappers' disappearing off the classifieds too. Interesting.