DVLA and buying a Cat D car

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Right... Advice needed on this one if poss.

Father Wogan recently bought a damaged car from a salvage yard a few weeks back. They gave him an invoice for the car as they should.

However, he's since found the V5 in the glove box, with the previous keeper listed as the current owner (ie it's not been updated to show my father is now the registered keeper). I guess the previous owner must have just shoved it in there when the salvage company took it away as a write off. It's not signed, either.

He's getting worried about Sorning issues and how to get it logged in his name. Any ideas of next step without getting himself in the shizzle?

[Kiltox]

Has the yellow slip from the old V5 been sent off? If so its "with trade" with the salvage yard and it'll be fine for a bit

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Didn't think to check that! I've got him to send me a photo of the V5 and sure enough, the yellow part is missing. I guess I can assume that a new V5 should be winging its way to him in that case?

[Kiltox]

Nope. The old v5 still needs to be sent off with his details but nobody will care what the car is doing in the mean time

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Might have to fake sign for the previous keeper then?

[Dave_Q]

Just put an X or whatever, it's probably a machine and doesn't care about the signature.

[JohnK]

Just do the online keeper change on the .gov.uk website - it's only available 8am-6pm Mon-Sat though. New log book Will be with him in less than a week typically.

 

He can use the green slip he already has to tax it or SORN it etc.

 

https://www.gov.uk/sold-bought-vehicle

[For Fiats Sake]

Just do the online keeper change on the .gov.uk website - it's only available 8am-6pm Mon-Sat though. New log book Will be with him in less than a week typically.

 

He can use the green slip he already has to tax it or SORN it etc.

 

https://www.gov.uk/sold-bought-vehicle

 

That online shiz is the biz!  Instant Sorn and Taxability,  I miss the old tax disc but this more than makes up for it.

[Pillock]

Maybe the Salvage Yard did the online thing?

 

If you go on the DVLA website where you bang in the reg number and manufacturer and it tells you date of liability etc, there's a bit at the bottom where you can put in a V5 reference number for that car (I don't think it has to be the latest one) and it tells you when the last owner change was.

If it was the last few days, then it's sorted. 

 

They'll also do the same over the phone, I had to when my ex fiddled some paperwork and changed the registered keeper of my car to her - they wouldn't confirm the name of the keeper, but could tell me that it had recently changed (on a car I bought two years prior)

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Cheers all - will have a goose at that in the morning. Thought I knew of all the car info/dvla/car data sites, but never knew of the V5 online one, or the fact that the Dvla site will tell you when the last owner change was.

[JohnK]

Another top tip with the ownership change site - you can do it with the green slip when you buy a car too - just take the first number off the Doc Ref No to do it.

 

When I bought the MG I waited 4 weeks and no log book, I went online and did this and it went through (confirming no new V5 had been produced - it only works off the most recent Doc Ref No) - I got the updated log book within a few days. The previous keeper obviously hadn't posted the paper copy off.