Buying a Honda Civic from a dealer - strange plate issues?
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Hello,
I looked at a great Honda Civic MK8 2007 25k miles. There is a full service history to confirm the miles. Up until this point everything checks out but then there is the issue with the number plate. The car had a private plate at the dealer and after checking the MOT I got all years of MOT testing so it seems the original buyer got it with this plate from the start and always resold it with the plate.
The dealer told me that he needs to change this to the stock plate and that will take a few days which is fine with me. He told me the original number and it is supposed to be ******* which doesn't return anything on DVLA for MOT or tax and nothing on cazana.com.
The current private plate - ******* shows all the years of MOT including the registration date in 2007. I suppose if the first buyer somehow got the car with the private number and no one ever used the stock one it wont show in cazana.com but the strange thing is that if I put the private number in cazana.com I get the supposed previous original number which is ******* and is for a different black Honda Hybrid which according to DVLA is actually registered 3 days later than mine so that doesn't make sense as it should be the other way round if that was the original plate.
I am not sure what has happened. My only theory is that the first owner got it with the private plate and the original one was never even registered with DVLA (don't know if that's possible) so cazana.com simply looks for the Honda Civic with the nearest registration date to mine and finds the black hybrid from the 30th of April.
My question is is this something to worry about or just some sort of record keeping screw-up? Thanks.
I looked at a great Honda Civic MK8 2007 25k miles. There is a full service history to confirm the miles. Up until this point everything checks out but then there is the issue with the number plate. The car had a private plate at the dealer and after checking the MOT I got all years of MOT testing so it seems the original buyer got it with this plate from the start and always resold it with the plate.
The dealer told me that he needs to change this to the stock plate and that will take a few days which is fine with me. He told me the original number and it is supposed to be ******* which doesn't return anything on DVLA for MOT or tax and nothing on cazana.com.
The current private plate - ******* shows all the years of MOT including the registration date in 2007. I suppose if the first buyer somehow got the car with the private number and no one ever used the stock one it wont show in cazana.com but the strange thing is that if I put the private number in cazana.com I get the supposed previous original number which is ******* and is for a different black Honda Hybrid which according to DVLA is actually registered 3 days later than mine so that doesn't make sense as it should be the other way round if that was the original plate.
I am not sure what has happened. My only theory is that the first owner got it with the private plate and the original one was never even registered with DVLA (don't know if that's possible) so cazana.com simply looks for the Honda Civic with the nearest registration date to mine and finds the black hybrid from the 30th of April.
My question is is this something to worry about or just some sort of record keeping screw-up? Thanks.
Edited by nojoeing on Tuesday 21st July 13:04
nojoeing said:
Hello,
I looked at a great Honda Civic MK8 2007 25k miles. There is a full service history to confirm the miles. Up until this point everything checks out but then there is the issue with the number plate. The car had a private plate at the dealer and after checking the MOT I got all years of MOT testing so it seems the original buyer got it with this plate from the start and always resold it with the plate.
The dealer told me that he needs to change this to the stock plate and that will take a few days which is fine with me. He told me the original number and it is supposed to be SB07NHX which doesn't return anything on DVLA for MOT or tax and nothing on cazana.com.
The current private plate - IIW1025 shows all the years of MOT including the registration date in 2007. I suppose if the first buyer somehow got the car with the private number and no one ever used the stock one it wont show in cazana.com but the strange thing is that if I put the private number in cazana.com I get the supposed previous original number which is SB07WHX and is for a different black Honda Hybrid which according to DVLA is actually registered 3 days later than mine so that doesn't make sense as it should be the other way round if that was the original plate.
I am not sure what has happened. My only theory is that the first owner got it with the private plate and the original one was never even registered with DVLA (don't know if that's possible) so cazana.com simply looks for the Honda Civic with the nearest registration date to mine and finds the black hybrid from the 30th of April.
My question is is this something to worry about or just some sort of record keeping screw-up? Thanks.
This sounds perfectly normal, the VOSA MOT history system will only link one reg number to a car which will be the registration currently on that vehicle. Once the dealer has transferred/retained the private plate you will find the MOT history is all visible under the SB07 registration both on Cazana and the VOSA which it pulls the info from. Ignore the WHX registration that is clearly not anything to do with the car you are buying.I looked at a great Honda Civic MK8 2007 25k miles. There is a full service history to confirm the miles. Up until this point everything checks out but then there is the issue with the number plate. The car had a private plate at the dealer and after checking the MOT I got all years of MOT testing so it seems the original buyer got it with this plate from the start and always resold it with the plate.
The dealer told me that he needs to change this to the stock plate and that will take a few days which is fine with me. He told me the original number and it is supposed to be SB07NHX which doesn't return anything on DVLA for MOT or tax and nothing on cazana.com.
The current private plate - IIW1025 shows all the years of MOT including the registration date in 2007. I suppose if the first buyer somehow got the car with the private number and no one ever used the stock one it wont show in cazana.com but the strange thing is that if I put the private number in cazana.com I get the supposed previous original number which is SB07WHX and is for a different black Honda Hybrid which according to DVLA is actually registered 3 days later than mine so that doesn't make sense as it should be the other way round if that was the original plate.
I am not sure what has happened. My only theory is that the first owner got it with the private plate and the original one was never even registered with DVLA (don't know if that's possible) so cazana.com simply looks for the Honda Civic with the nearest registration date to mine and finds the black hybrid from the 30th of April.
My question is is this something to worry about or just some sort of record keeping screw-up? Thanks.
Funky Squirrel said:
Three letters followed by four numbers is a Northern Ireland standard plate. Was the car originally bought in norn iron then brought over to the mainland during its life?
Butterface has confirmed it was originally registered on a mainland plateButter Face said:
HPI says that the orginal reg is definitely SB07NHX. It was registered on that plate, changed to a different private plate in 07/16, back to the original in 08/16 and then to the current private plate in 09/16.
The NI plate was seemingly put on in 2016 as a cherished number, not unusual for NI plates to be put on mainland cars as a cheap dateless plate.Gassing Station | Car Buying | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff