V888

[mk2_craig]

  trigger said:

Has anyone else on here ever sent off a V888 form?

 

Yes! After I took my C-reg Fiesta back to Jersey with me in 2007 I contacted the Doovla in an ultimately fruitless attempt to detemine its provenance, since the car had been registered in the UK Oct 86 and a note on the V5C indicated it had been previously registered elsewhere.

 

Sadly the paperwork didn't include any previous identity nor date of first registration, and Swansea were unable to extract anything else from their archive. Ford couldn't help either. I strongly suspect it started life as a Channel Islands hire car given the extra screw holes found behind the number plates. Had I been able to prove it was a Jersey car originally I would have saved a bit of import tax. I gave up and ultimately sold it still on the UK plates!

[worldofceri]

  autofive said:

a lot of hire companies sent cars to be registered in Jersey, then straight back to southampton with only delivery miles, new car exported to Jersey, used car arrives back on Uk mainland - nice tax dodge and helped to shift a few cars too

 

Sounds like mk2_craig got lumbered with the tax a whole 20 years down the line!

[oman5]

funnily enough my current snotter is the the only one I've had where I know its full history from new. 1990 volvo 740 GLT. dealer demonstrator in Bristol for several months, then sold to a couple who kept it until 2009, part x-ing it for something new. then I bought it. In the time the last owners had it, there are reciepts for work carried out amounting to almost the cost of the car when new

[greengartside]

I have yet to send off for the Previous owner history for my new 306 Diesel I bought a coupla weeks a go. I know it was from the NW London area as it's a 'LP' registration, and I have seen a few Peugeots with a similar reg wearing Warwick Wright of Chiswick number plates.

 

How do you go about tracing what happened to a car long after you sold it? I would love to know more about my dad's only ever brand-new Sierra he bought in 1983. (A510 SVV was the reg) - it got repo'd in 1985 following my dad's bankruptcy, last changed hands in 1987 and was last taxed in 1996. Part of me dreams about it being sat in a dusty shed somewhere and I'd like to know the address of the last owner so I could make some enquiries. Is there a section for this on the V888 or am I thinking of something else?

[trigger]

Just bumping this up for Barrett.

[DSdriver]

  trigger said:

Just bumping this up for Barrett.

 

Well worth it, especially reading about the hire car escapades.

[240gl]

Thanks for the bump. I wouldn't mind knowing the earlier keeper history of a couple of our cars. I know from the previous owner of the 240, that at least one of the previous keeper has passed away. I would also like to know which Police force owned one of our Vauxhalls, so that I can get a copy of the missing service history.

[barrett]

Cheers Trigster!

 

a bit annoying that it only goes back to '74 or so. I'm hoping the club will be able to help me out with some of the early history too, ideally I'd like to find out who sold it originally. I'm guessing there were more than a couple of Standard-Triumph dealers in London in the '60s....

[gricer]

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How do you go about tracing what happened to a car long after you sold it? I would love to know more about my dad's only ever brand-new Sierra he bought in 1983. (A510 SVV was the reg) - it got repo'd in 1985 following my dad's bankruptcy, last changed hands in 1987 and was last taxed in 1996. Part of me dreams about it being sat in a dusty shed somewhere and I'd like to know the address of the last owner so I could make some enquiries. Is there a section for this on the V888 or am I thinking of something else?

 

 

I guess you write "trying to trace a car I used to own" in the "reason for making enquiry" section of the V888 form?

 

You could try "I have been offered this car as a non-runner and would like to know its history before I buy?" BS I know, but I guess Doovla'll just take your fiver and run off the relevant pages.

 

I did it for my cars - really excellent service, but it does take about 6 weeks.