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VRT without logbook

  • 28-07-2019 9:59am
    #1
    tobottherobot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭


    Hi all

    I bought a car over in the UK about 2 weeks ago at a main dealer. When closing out the sale, the dealer gave me the new keeper form and insisted that they were unable to give me the V5 as part of their policy and that the new keeper section should suffice. I would've been stranded in the UK and missed the ferry so I just had to go with it...

    All of the details are in my name but I'm just not sure what to expect next? I've had a look around various forums and am struggling find anything definitive.

    Will the DVLA send me any documentation i.e. cert of export? I know they won't send the V5 to me. Can I use this for VRT process? And if not, what are the next steps to getting the logbook.

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,720 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Essentially, you are fcuked.

    You need to get the V5 and that will only be posted to a UK address. Car may have already been marked as exported as well.


  • #3
    michellie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    Get the dealer to contact the DVLA,its their fault - they messed up. They might be able to get it back from the DVLA to post it to you.

    It says on the slip on the side of the V5 that if it's being exported that the new owner keeps the full V5.. tell them to have a read on one of the V5s they have in stock.


  • #4
    darragh o meara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,237 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    At this stage the DVLA will have your logbook. You will need to ring them and explain the situation and try organise some way of getting it back to you, however I hear this problem a lot so they surely have a way of sorting out.

    They used to post out a certificate of Export that would do the job ( before the NCT crowd took it over ) but they stopped this a few years back. There is zero chance the lads in the NCT centre will entertain you showing up with no V5, so you need to sort it pronto or you face getting caught for penalties too.


  • #5
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,411 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    This is getting all too common now that the DVLA are no longer issuing Certificates of Permanent Export:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058000698

    UK dealers are not educating themselves or being educated on the proper procedure for selling to a person who is buying the car for permanent export. Not a lot buyers can do here at this end other than know the proper procedure before hand and inform the dealer of researching the procedure properly as per their own DVLA procedure prior to agreeing to buy the car. If the dealer doesn't do that then buy from one who does.


  • #6
    darragh o meara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,237 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    bazz26 wrote: »
    This is getting all too common now that the DVLA are no longer issuing Certificates of Permanent Export:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058000698

    UK dealers are not educating themselves or being educated on the proper procedure for selling to a person who is buying the car for permanent export. Not a lot buyers can do here at this end other than know the proper procedure before hand and inform the dealer of researching the procedure properly as per their own DVLA procedure prior to agreeing to buy the car. If the dealer doesn't do that then buy from one who does.

    ANytime I purchase a car in the UK, I always make sure that the seller is aware of the procedure and invite them to contact the DVLA if unsure about it. I make it very clear that I need the V5 and will not buy the car unless its available for me to take there and then. Never really had any issues before to be honest, most of the lads I deal with over there are used to selling to the Irish and know the score.


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  • #7
    michellie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    darragh o meara wrote: »

    They used to post out a certificate of Export that would do the job ( before the NCT crowd took it over ) but they stopped this a few years back.

    Nct took over the VRT contract in 2010 and they accepted Certs of permanent export until the DVLA stopped issuing them in January 2019.


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