Back page on V5 missing

[pistonring]

Hiya,

I've just bought a car on e-bay, phoned the guy and he said there is a slight problem. The rear page of the V5 is missing i.e the yellow / green new keeper slips. He said he has the front page which he's happy to give to me.

Seems OK to me or am I missing something. I've had the car HPi checked and it seems OK.

Thanks in advance

[Vulgar LS2]

How do log book loans work? Do they keep the back page to stop you signing the car over to someone else?, but leave you with the front to prove you're the RK, sounds a bit fishy.

[pistonring]

The back page of the V5 is not of much use anyway. I thought it was just for if you needed to tax the car before the new V5 arrives

[Mastodon2]

pistonring said:

The back page of the V5 is not of much use anyway. I thought it was just for if you needed to tax the car before the new V5 arrives

If you have a part of the old V5 you can use it to get the new one for free. I only had a shred of mine left (bought the car from a dealer, they took most of it, I never received the updated one in the post) so I took what I had left to the DVLA office, and I got the new one posted to me a few days later. If you lose the whole thing it's £25 for a new copy.

[Vulgar LS2]

The new keeper declaration is on there too (i think), the first page just has the car details on.

It just seems odd because there is no reason to seperate them.

I would look into how log book loans work as they don't show on HPI.

All im thinking is if the pawn broker keeps the back page it makes it hard to sell on to trade or anyone else, but you keep the front so you have something to "produce". Im perhaps a little mistrusting though.