17-07-2021, 07:17 PM
Has the body been changed recently, or was it changed a long time ago, but nobody bothered to register the change with DVLA, (I suspect this happened pretty often).
When I aquired my Maroon open topped special in 2010 it was still listed on the V5 as a Black Saloon. If I had known then how fussy DVLA would become I would have changed the details then. I kept it on SORN for several years then insured it and removed it from SORN. I then returned the V5 to DVLA on the grounds that the details on the form that they had supplied did not match the car I had bought. I then recieved a form to fill in wanting to know when the body was changed, who had made the body, etc. etc.. I sent a lengthy reply, including pictures of the car taken by the previous owner in 1995, and an old MOT describing the colour as Maroon, and pointing out that I had no way of knowing when the changes were made, but they had been made long before the incorrect V5 was issued to me. Not a word for a couple of months then a new all correct V5 arrived in the post.
Of course none of this will be any help if you have just changed the body.
When I aquired my Maroon open topped special in 2010 it was still listed on the V5 as a Black Saloon. If I had known then how fussy DVLA would become I would have changed the details then. I kept it on SORN for several years then insured it and removed it from SORN. I then returned the V5 to DVLA on the grounds that the details on the form that they had supplied did not match the car I had bought. I then recieved a form to fill in wanting to know when the body was changed, who had made the body, etc. etc.. I sent a lengthy reply, including pictures of the car taken by the previous owner in 1995, and an old MOT describing the colour as Maroon, and pointing out that I had no way of knowing when the changes were made, but they had been made long before the incorrect V5 was issued to me. Not a word for a couple of months then a new all correct V5 arrived in the post.
Of course none of this will be any help if you have just changed the body.