Anyone else had a letter from the DVLA?

[justinhenley]

After sitting about for a few weeks Bommel was put through the MOT. The inspector read the number off the chassis plate. The MOT cert thus has the MA5 prefix and the suffix for Adderley park.

The V5 just has the chassis number on it.

I got a letter from the DVLA saying that I would not be able to tax the vehicle again unless I filled in a form with all the car details on.

Am I allowed to be a little bit [Don't swear or you will be banned - Admin] off by this? It's plainly obvious that the person demanding the information has not even LOOKED at the information held by the DVLA, if they had however little they knew about cars and chassis numbers they would have seen that the numbers were the same to a human if not to a computer.

I dunno if I should return the form or make a complaint ..

[Kevin]

You could ask them why they now need the information that they have had on record for a long time.

[paulhumphries]

I've give them the information so you can tax the car and start enjoying it on the road.
It seems to be quite simply DVLA haven't got the correct VIN on the roecord so they are confirming the correct details.
You can understand it from their point of view in that you MOT under one VIN but the car, according to their records, has another so alarm bells must sound as if the vehicle is a clone or whatever.
There are going to masses of cars out there with incorrect details for all kinds of genuine reasons so updating is just part and parcel of DVLA's job - nothing more sinister.

Paul Humphries

[aupickup]

i had this

so i sent off all the relevant info they needed, and all was ok in a week

you can phone them to make it quicker

i still used the car in the meantime

i have found them very helpful

[bmcecosse]

You must do it - or else! I had this before - the MOT place accidentally swapped over two digits on the form (this before computer MOT) and they reqired me to provide the correct details - then I had to return the car to the MOT place for them to check and correct - and issue a new MOT (but without inspection, other than the chassis plate). What a palavar - but all ok once netered in the data base correctly.

[plastic_orange]

When I got Bessie MOT'd recently they copied the chassis number from the ID plate, which had a different letter to the V5 (E instead of F). I'd noticed this myself, and sure enough the letter arrived from DVLA, and I filled in the form to rectify things and received a correct V5 shortly after.
Nothing to worry about, and shows they are paying attention.
It used to be that cars made before a certain date, didn't even need a chassis number for an MOT (was the case about 4 years ago) - may still be the situation.

Pete

[rayofleamington]

It used to be that cars made before a certain date, didn't even need a chassis number for an MOT (was the case about 4 years ago) - may still be the situation.

It certainly used to be the case!
~15 years ago one of my Minors failed an MOT on missing chassis plate (it had fallen off). I was going to appeal as it didn't actually need one but to avoid the same hassle every year I just bought a plate and re-stamped it.

I expect that with the electronic MOT, they have had to back date the chassis plate rules - I think it only used to apply back to ~1980, around when the standardised VIN format was introduced.

[stevey]

never had any problem with this. the V5 has just numbers without the prefix and the MOT is the same. They just take off whats on the computer. never got asked about the prefix needed or not needed. On the other minor i did get it changed it had the full prefix on the V5 and so gets the same on the MOT. Did have to correct it as the Prefix was stated as MA255 on the V5 and not MA2S5, saved any problems later,

[mike.perry]

I checked the registration docs of both my Minors and found errors. I supplied DVLA with photcopies of the original log books and the Heritage Certificates and filled the" Change to Current Vehicle" section of the Registration Certificate and received new corrected registration certificates.

[stevey]

yep thats the way to do it!!!