Buying a Honda Civic from a dealer - strange plate issues?
Discussion
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
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