Chassis number wrong

finky1 · 09-02-2014 9:18pm #1

got new car in 2010 brought it for nct test failed due to chasie number being wrong checked engine number also wrong looks like i got wrong car in 2010 and someone else has got mine how can this be rectified

biko · 09-02-2014 9:40pm

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Talk to the dealer? that sold you the car.

YbFocus · 09-02-2014 9:44pm

Please tell me you bought this through a dealer.

Are you sure you knew what you were looking at, not being bad but more hopeful for you.

Edit: missed the new part, it will be rectified through a dealer I presume, don't know how though.

dgt · 09-02-2014 10:12pm

Having had this problem with a car we bought privately, assuming you actually own the vehicle

Get to the main stealers and verify the vin number
Go to local tax office and let them verify it too
Sign a change of particulars form and wait for the updated book

It's that simple

colm_mcm · 09-02-2014 10:22pm

dgt wrote: »

Having had this problem with a car we bought privately, assuming you actually own the vehicle
Get to the main stealers and verify the vin number

Go to local tax office and let them verify it too

Sign a change of particulars form and wait for the updated book

It's that simple

I hope it is that simple.
What's likely to have happened is the car the OP bought (on paper) is being driven by someone else. If there is finance on either car, it could get very complicated.

This very thing nearly happened to me years ago. Only when we went to tax the car online using the last digits of the chassis number for the customer did we realise that the wrong plates were on the wrong car.
Amazing that it never came up in servicing/warranty over the last 4 years.

sawdoubters · 09-02-2014 10:29pm

you might have a stolen car

mickdw · 09-02-2014 10:30pm

This sounds crazy. I'm sure that will tricky to sort. So the reg you are driving around is actually registered to you but it's attached to the wrong car. What if you had an accident? There would be a **** storm with you being found to be driving around in a ringer.

dgt · 09-02-2014 10:53pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

I hope it is that simple.
What's likely to have happened is the car the OP bought (on paper) is being driven by someone else. If there is finance on either car, it could get very complicated.

This very thing nearly happened to me years ago. Only when we went to tax the car online using the last digits of the chassis number for the customer did we realise that the wrong plates were on the wrong car.
Amazing that it never came up in servicing/warranty over the last 4 years.

To walk through what happened to us, father got a Merc privately in 2008. He wanted to keep and restore but it had no book.....

Had to go to a solicitor, an swear an oath he purchased the car in good faith etc, submitted the forms to the local motor office. Grand, system checked against details given, chassis number was 1 digit short on the original book

He had to send the car to Newgate twice and it was inspected twice by the motor tax office people who came out to us to inspect and verify the vin rather than us bringing the car to them (he was pissed that he was ferrying the car about and had a very colourful phone call with them when they wanted the car brought to them)

I forget what the whole thing cost, the dearest part was getting a recovery lorrey to bring the car to Newgate. Otherwise the solicitor was reasonable enough and cost more time rather than cash.

He had the car over a year before he got the book!

Whilst not exactly the same as the OP's situation, the process is the exact same

Mycroft H · 09-02-2014 10:54pm

dgt wrote: »

Having had this problem with a car we bought privately, assuming you actually own the vehicle
Get to the main stealers and verify the vin number

Go to local tax office and let them verify it too

Sign a change of particulars form and wait for the updated book

It's that simple

I thought you could only change the engine number on the change of particulars form?

dgt · 09-02-2014 10:58pm

Mycroft H wrote: »

I thought you could only change the engine number on the change of particulars form?

Vin number in our situation, not the engine number

finky1 · 10-02-2014 8:48am

went to dealer he blames shannon took details and told me it should be ok in afew days

Guy:Incognito · 10-02-2014 8:59am

I'm sure he did blame Shannon. More likely is that whichever apprentice was given the task of PDI'g the cars skimmed the Vin's when looking for one and either never noticed with the next one or did and it was too late because the car was gone so just switched the reg's and said nothing.

biko · 10-02-2014 8:59am

Does this mean he sent off corrections to Shannon?

Anyway, let's hope you get this corrected. Can cause headache further down the road.

bbam · 10-02-2014 10:29am

We had this problem with a micra the MIL bought. It had been a jap import and the number was one digit wrong, presuming just a human error thing but was picked up at its second NCT, presumably missed first time..

Anyhow, change of particulars and the guy in the tax offive had to inspect it. Was quite simple.

mickdw · 10-02-2014 4:54pm

bbam wrote: »

We had this problem with a micra the MIL bought. It had been a jap import and the number was one digit wrong, presuming just a human error thing but was picked up at its second NCT, presumably missed first time..

Anyhow, change of particulars and the guy in the tax offive had to inspect it. Was quite simple.

one digit wrong is an obvious mistake. A reg not matching vin or engine number is into dodgy territory. If this had been a used car, it would look very like a stolen car cloned.

dbrunson · 10-02-2014 5:37pm

reg plate went on the wrong car in dealership. it happens....

mickdw · 10-02-2014 6:30pm

dbrunson wrote: »

reg plate went on the wrong car in dealership. it happens....

I understand that but it is pretty dam serious.
I guess the other car from same dealer with wrong plates on will be failing is nct any day now also.

colm_mcm · 10-02-2014 7:07pm

Bringing your chassis number (on logbook) to another dealership will show up fairly quick if there's another car with your plates.

Putting similar regs to yours into cartell might show you same model in same colour.

Just incase you're curious. Pretty shabby blaming shannon. They rarely/never make mistakes like this.

corktina · 10-02-2014 8:31pm

sawdoubters wrote: »

you might have a stolen car

as I read it, he bought it new.

dbrunson · 11-02-2014 12:00am

mickdw wrote: »

I understand that but it is pretty dam serious.
I guess the other car from same dealer with wrong plates on will be failing is nct any day now also.

correcto. get the dealer to find the other car. explain the scenario, swop the plates and change your insurance. pain in the hole but **** happens. btw your log book should show correct details.....

mickdw · 12-02-2014 9:08pm

dbrunson wrote: »

correcto. get the dealer to find the other car. explain the scenario, swop the plates and change your insurance. pain in the hole but **** happens. btw your log book should show correct details.....

Yes log book would show correct details but wrong log book will be with each car if that swap is done as currently each driver has correct reg as registered to them but wrong chassis.

Guy:Incognito · 12-02-2014 9:21pm

dbrunson wrote: »

correcto. get the dealer to find the other car. explain the scenario, swop the plates and change your insurance. pain in the hole but **** happens. btw your log book should show correct details.....

Might not be that simple. The other car may have been to the crusher or been involved in robberies or owned by the local drug dealer. Not the type of reg you'd want to be inheriting.

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