Correcting V5 details

[Pillock]

Not my details.... the cars details!

 

The BMW I just bought is a 318i saloon. The V5 has come back with 318i TOURING LUX A on it. I presume the last V5 had that too, I just didn't notice

Thing is, it's got a tight history, I know full well the car and V5 match - it's just the description of the car is wrong. I'd bet my pants that it happened when it was privately imported from Germany, a year into it's life (Declared manufactured 1994, date of first registration 1995. Special notes states was registered overseas) and someone pressed the wrong button.

 

How do I go about getting this corrected? Does it involve a VIC check, or will they just crush the car the minute I murmur anything about the V5 not matching the car, and I'll be sentenced to death?

[Guest]

I wouldn't touch anything to do with the DVLA more than you have to. I can just imagine this leading to them losing it off the system or something daft involving you having to take it for a VIC at your own expense and all this other nonsense. Just leave it as their mistake!

[Pillock]

Just worried for when I come to sell it and being branded a criminal. Unlike me, the next guy might actually read what he's buying!

[Shep Shepherd]

TV2 is a UK-spec personal import which was originally supplied to an RAF man stationed in Germany and not registered in the UK until the mid-2000s, and as such is known as a 'VOLVOV70' (no space) by the DVLA and a 'Volvo V70 SE 2.5 10v' by my insurance company

[Pillock]

Yeah if I insure it on the registration it comes back as a 318iS 2-door auto.

It's a 4-door manual. Luckily Footman James just asked what it was and never checked.

[wuvvum]

When I bought the Innocenti it was registered as a Daihatsu. When I eventually got around to getting the car back on the road I wanted it correctly registered, so I changed the details on the V5 and sent it off with a couple of photos of the car and a covering letter. Four weeks later the V5 came back with the car correctly registered as an Innocenti. So DVLA do occasionally get it right...

[Anglevan]

If you are not happy to let sleeping dogs lie

 

So long as it's 100% legit VIN and your confident not tampered with i'd just send it back with some pictures of the car / VIN

 

I had a Singer Chamois and when the log book was swapped in the seventies someone mis read the letter 'B' as 13 problem was my car had had 3 colour changes in it's life so I ended up having to sand down the paint to show the colours and a clear shot of the VIN. 2 Weeks later I received the correct V5C no issues Can be done I just guess it's if you get the right bod at the other end. I need to do a colour change / engine change and model change on another car of mine *that will be interesting* plan to do it in dribs and drabs over the next year break em in gently...

[Claypole]

I had a MK2 Scirocco for a couple of years that was manual but down as an auto (was low miles when i bought it but had always been a manual).

 

Never told them. Sleeping dogs and all that.

[Pillock]

If it ends up in the hands of a techie bod, it'll be fine. It's fairly easy to understand and imagine what's happened.

If it ends up with a headset-wearing baboon then I'm screwed.

 

Since this car was a personal special order, it's even got a plate on the turret with a build number on. I wonder if BMW can decode that and "prove" what it is, and put it in writing?

[chaseracer]

Since this car was a personal special order, it's even got a plate on the turret with a build number on. I wonder if BMW can decode that and "prove" what it is, and put it in writing?

Should do - worth a punt.

 

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/about/cservi ... __,00.html

[Mr_Bo11ox]

OMG UR 2-DR BMW PICKUP ESTATE 325 1.8 (VANOS) R DEFO A RINGER!!! UR A CRIM 4 SURE

[cobblers]

I'd ignore it if the difference was auto/manual, engine size or something else not immediately obvious, but if for some reason the plod run your plate, and by chance the particular officer knows what a touring is you might get some hassle. I probably wouldn't trip over myself to get it sorted, tho

[Albert Ross]

I had to do it once on a 1983 Sierra Ghia Estate, imported after use on an RAF base in Germany, it just said Ford Sierra, on a Boston plate. I took it to the Lincoln office, and the inspector had worked at Ford when the Sierra was released in 1982, and immediately opened the bonnet, checked for a brown/yellow ignition live running to the washer bottle area, and looked at a tag. He then told me it was overdue a recall on the electrics to prevent the ignition loom overheating due to excessive load! He confirmed it was a genuine Ghia, as the ignition loom was for High spec only, and the dash configuration and "economy gauge" were a Ghia only fitment! I was granted the full "Sierra Ghia Estate" title on the V5C, and got a free loom sent to me from the local Ford dealer, on the basis that I fitted it, and accepted there was no warranty on the part, as it was considered obsolete, and they couldn't claim for it from Ford anymore... apparently it had been cancelled 10 years previously....

 

I got a free V5C in with the deal.

[dollywobbler]

I should have sent the Westminster one off. That was a bit iffy to be honest - 2660cc (the four-cylinder Atlantic engine - it definitely had a six-pot!) and came up on the MoT system as "Austin Saloon." Not sure what happened there. Maybe a cock-up when it was plate raped?

[barefoot]

I had a MK2 Scirocco for a couple of years that was manual but down as an auto (was low miles when i bought it but had always been a manual).

 

Never told them. Sleeping dogs and all that.

 

 

I've also got a manual Mk2 that's down as an auto,

I wonder if there are hundreds of them.