Hpi checkers don't recognise car reg

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we're looking at buy a car from a dealer and he just announced today he doesn't have the v5, I was slightly suspicious so I tried to do an HPI check but not one of the checkers will recognise the cars reg?? compare the market reognised it though. Does anyone know why its not being recognised on the checkers??

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750turbo said:

Private plate change causing issues of sorts?

Possibly but its had those plates on at least a week, the same length of time that our car went back to its origanal plates and the checkers all recognise our car. but I don't even know if the plates were changed I shall enquirer tmoro!

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allroad one said:

Most likely a stolrn vehicle on fake plates and the seller is trying to offload, claiming "he doesnt have the V5"

Do proper garages actually do this, shocking if they do as that's one reason we only buy from garages is to save all this hassle!
Also how come the insurance companies can recognise the plates?

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allroad one said:

if it is legitimate:
bring up the gov.uk/ Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Agency (DVLA) database and submit a full vehicle enquiry;
https://www.gov.uk/get-vehicle-information-from-dv...

It will bring up the results.

Another way is a less detailed but accurate way;
visit www.eurocarparts.co.uk and type in the reg, if it comes up as the vehicle it is accurate.

If you don't mind please send me a link to the advert so I can help you confirm that it is a stolen vehicle. If it is, report it to Autotrader and the DVLA immediately.

If it is a main dealer/franchise, (e.g Lookers Group) it is extremely unlikely that it is a stolen vehicle as all cars on their forecourt lare subject to an advanced HPI Check and inspection. Same applies to large "car hypermarkets" such as CARSHOP and Cargiant. I would be wary of any cars sold by usual run of the mill household business, private seller, dodgy dealerships run by foreigners (no racism intended - I am south Asian) or anything sold in a shady area like Keighley.

High performance cars such as the Porsche Cayman and big SUV's like the Cayenne are most likely to be shady, especially if they are advertised at an abnormally low price. Be wary of hot hatches, but I would be slightly less wary if it was your run of the mill Vauxhall Astra Life owned by some old bloke in town with a full service history - THIS IS A MUST.


Happy searching - please send me the advert so I can help you.

Cheers, the DVLA is bringing up nothing, europarts brings up the car?!

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allroad one said:

The DVLA is the most crucial part, so if its not on there, its not legit. Eurocarparts uses an outdated version.

Can you please copy paste the make and model? And a basic description for any clues about its authenticity

Its a vauxhall mokka 1.7 se NK64 FXN thank you.

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bops said:

Its a vauxhall mokka 1.7 se NK64 FXN thank you.

Is it possible the reg I have taken from the photograph on the cars advert are private plates??

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bops said:

Its a vauxhall mokka 1.7 se NK64 FXN thank you.

NK64 FMX! Not the above nonsense!sorry!

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530dTPhil said:

There's obviously something amiss as there is a warning on the search that came back. Interesting that there's no CO2 figure either.

Perhaps ring the 0870 number and find out.

that's very interesting thank you very much.

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marshalla said:

It will only appear on the MOT check if it's had an MOT test. A car registered in 2014 doesn't need a test until 2017.

The DVLA vehicle check, however, says it has no record of that vehicle.

However : http://www.ukvehicle.com/N16NLL/ is interesting and DVLA confirm that information.

Vehicle has just had a private plate taken off and things are taking a while to catch up ?

Interesting thank you! Our car had private plates removed on Monday and the DLVA database is up to date with ours so don't see why the mokkas details wouldn't be updated by now aswell.

Edited by marshalla on Saturday 7th May 07:30

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bops said:

So here's the report than came back from the above webpage
https://pay.ukvehicle.com/your-check/?ukvcheckid=A...
Seemingly it still has outstanding finance,but the rest seems ok?

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So the car is still registered under its private plate N16NLL all details fr this are fine apart from the finance but that is seemingly paid, waiting to see the clearance email.
The garage is away to put the private plate on retention so surely he need V5 details to do this??

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Your right the car is still registered on private plate, garage have letter to say finanace is all paid. Garage also have log book for the car on its private plate. So to me its pretty legit?? but I don't know much about this kind of stuff hence why I'm here!!