Registering a UK reg car - DVLA notification

Spit62500

Hi,

I've got the V5C for a UK reg car that was declared SORN. The V5C is missing the detachable second page where the export details would be filled out and sent to the DVLA. What I have is enough to reregister the car here but I don't want the last owner to get any hassle from the DVLA when the SORN period expires (I think that an automatic fine is issued if the car isn't taxed or redeclared SORN). I don't want to send the V5C back to the previous owner and have it lost in the post or caught up in some DVLA beaurocracy

Does the DOE here inform the DVLA that the car was reregistered here and therefore exported from the UK?

Thanks...

JMURPHY3

Hi,
I had to reregister my 1973 Renault 16 in Ireland last year, and as far as I know, you dont have to return the english car documents back to the DVLA if the car is vintage,I didnt return mine as I wanted to keep the english and Irish documetation for the car.As far as I know the VRO here in Irleland look after the bureaucracy once the VRT has been paid....Hope this helps

JMURPHY3

As far as I know the car must be registered immediately once it hits Irish soil, but in the case of vintage cars the VRT is only 50 euro, and I have noticed that at many vintage shows, some people dont rerigister the cars.....my renault was in Ireland for a year unregistered.........I dont know what the story is if there is tax owing in england on the car at time of export....but I think the car falls under irish jurisdiction when imported to Ireland...could stad corrected on that tho...:D

UncleDeez

JMURPHY3 wrote:

As far as I know the car must be registered immediately once it hits Irish soil, but in the case of vintage cars the VRT is only 50 euro, and I have noticed that at many vintage shows, some people dont rerigister the cars.....my renault was in Ireland for a year unregistered.........I dont know what the story is if there is tax owing in england on the car at time of export....but I think the car falls under irish jurisdiction when imported to Ireland...could stad corrected on that tho...:D

I find it very hard to understand how VRO issued you with an Irish registration and left you keep the UK registration documents, as it is my understanding that all UK documents are returned to DVLA in Swansea. Or did you present them with a certificate of export instead of a V5.

JMURPHY3

For vintage you have the option..........the VRO send back a copy of registration receipt to Swansea

JMURPHY3

I think I filled out a V5.......a yellow document with a white page behind..I dont think that option is available for vehicles that are not of vintage grade i.e 1 to 30 years old:D

JMURPHY3

I did have to present the english documents to VRO to register the car here, but they posted me them back when I had the car registered.....:D

corktina

Spit62500 wrote:

Hi,

I've got the V5C for a UK reg car that was declared SORN. The V5C is missing the detachable second page where the export details would be filled out and sent to the DVLA. What I have is enough to reregister the car here but I don't want the last owner to get any hassle from the DVLA when the SORN period expires (I think that an automatic fine is issued if the car isn't taxed or redeclared SORN). I don't want to send the V5C back to the previous owner and have it lost in the post or caught up in some DVLA beaurocracy

Does the DOE here inform the DVLA that the car was reregistered here and therefore exported from the UK?

Thanks...

i have had a couplke of UK cars this year and didnt SORN them immediately and got no fines. I would suggest that if the second page is missing , the previous owner must have kept it to inform the DVLA that you had bought it.....just re-reg it...im pretty sure they notify Swansea anyway.

JMURPHY3

The DVLA would have all the car details anyway..........let us know how you get on and if you have any probs pm me.You also have to register the car in the county you live in.In my case I am from wex, and I wanted a TS reg cos my car is a Renault 16 TS, so I got mine registered in Tipp South county council by hook or crook....:D

corktina

nice...i tried for my initials...(roscommon) but they wouldnt wear it....

TigerTim

I recently paid the VRT on my 1985 Toyota MR2 & the customs kept the V5. The nice girl who handled the documentation(& happily took my money)told me that they send the V5 back to the DVLA in Swansea.

T.

galwaytt

All the UK owner has to do anyway is write to DVLA and tell them it's been exported. He doesn't even need a form to do it.

MercMad

As far as I know the authorities over here let the DVLA know it has been imported into Ireland so the DVLA take care of deregistration !

For vintage you have the option..........the VRO send back a copy of registration receipt to Swansea

..........I dont understand ? The option of what ....?

I see lotys of vintage cars on still on UK plates year after being imported. Whats the story here ?

macplaxton

The option of retain the original document.

I had 3 old V5s returned to me when they were changed to the new V5Cs. This was upon my request (it was allowed in the UK if requested for posterity)

MercMad

macplaxton wrote:

The option of retain the original document.

I had 3 old V5s returned to me when they were changed to the new V5Cs. This was upon my request (it was allowed in the UK if requested for posterity)

.......ok I see. I must have been asked that too at the time !!