dunks Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 Heres something for you to check , After a year of ownership I've just realized My V5 has the wrong chassis number on it , Instead of the 11th digit being a S the've put it as a 5. The green slip copy I have from the previous owner shows as a S, So would only persume they use some kind of scanning machine that has read the text wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berni29 Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 Hi I cannot say I am surprised. I am not particularly fond of the DVLA. Berni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanB Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 So you are calling a machine a clown? Excuse my sarcasm 🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheddar Bob Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 My partner's v5 is missing a letter of her first name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
½cwt Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 They issued my provisional driving licence back in 1986 with my first name spelt as Christpher missing out an 'o' which it wrote to them to ask for it to be corrected with no response and even after submitting a name change with the evidence they required they have never changed it.... not caused a problem yet but it does have potential to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipsqueak Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 They reversed my first and second names but as above when asked to put them the proper way round they've never bothered. Complete pain when hiring cars, buying insurance or requests for ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanB Posted June 27, 2020 Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 Have a feel this may be an epic and very amusing thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menoporsche Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 Took mine for an MoT in Portugal, someone worked out that one of the chassis digits was wrong, a 0 instead of O, 1 instead of I, forgotten which. Anyway, she tapped away for 5 minutes and rectified it. Given how an*l they usually are about documentation all lining up, I guess that was pretty painless. It might be because here the test centres are dedicated state test centres rather than a private garage doing the job, perhaps they have some kind of better access to the database. OTOH spoke to a friend yesterday and he said after owning his brand new car for over a year it turns out it's not his; there was some paperwork to do and they found out that instead of being registered to him, "John Smith", it's actually registered to "Jean Smoot" living at his address... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el 3.2S Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 15 hours ago, dunks said: Heres something for you to check , After a year of ownership I've just realized My V5 has the wrong chassis number on it , Instead of the 11th digit being a S the've put it as a 5. The green slip copy I have from the previous owner shows as a S, So would only persume they use some kind of scanning machine that has read the text wrong This is the exact same problem that I had with the mixed up 5 and S. It did not come to light until I imported the Boxster into Spain and then they spotted it. It caused a huge amount of grief and time to get it sorted out. Paperwork is everything in Spain and they love it, the more the merrier lol. Fortunately the car was not with the test station when it was noticed or it would have been impounded, or so I was told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo000 Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 On a similar note albeit not DVLA's fault, I bought a Ford Focus once with 10,000 miles on the clock - didn't keep it that long but when I went to sell it a lady did a HPI check and said it had 100,000 miles on it! The dealer (none Ford) had filled in the mileage incorrectly and it was registered at HPI, thankfully HPI took the Ford Dealers service record as proof it had actually only done 10,000 but it took 4 weeks to sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfirstboxster Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 Always check the paperwork ! a few years ago I almost got done for having no insurance , the brokers had put one letter out on the policy and on the data base ( my bad, I should have checked ) and I was stopped by the police , no insurance , going to seize the car , you're in big trouble etc , manage to sort it out on the spot but it could have been a pain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milko Posted June 29, 2020 Report Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/27/2020 at 11:40 PM, pipsqueak said: They reversed my first and second names but as above when asked to put them the proper way round they've never bothered. Complete pain when hiring cars, buying insurance or requests for ID. Squeakpip?? I have a VW which now qualifies for Historic Status, I can't wait for DVLA to mess up the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzevans Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 I still haven’t received my V5 for the Boxster. I’m hoping they’ve just got a backlog!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinespace Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 Mine took 3 weeks, got it yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambo550 Posted July 10, 2020 Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 DVLA aren’t all bad 😁 I once changed address owning the car previously for probably just over a year, when the V5 come back at my new address it said I had owned the car for some 7 yrs. When I sold the car having owned it for 4 yrs it showed 10yrs of ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red rocket Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 Mrs R just got her licence renewed in 3 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVO Chris Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, red rocket said: Mrs R just got her licence renewed in 3 days. drink driving again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red rocket Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 15 minutes ago, EVO Chris said: drink driving again? That'll be the day! She's virtually teetotal, which is actually quite useful. Never have to disuss who's driving home from the pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowbos Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 34 minutes ago, red rocket said: That'll be the day! She's virtually teetotal, which is actually quite useful. Never have to disuss who's driving home from the pub. Sounds like Mrs R, however she doesn't like driving as much as she doesn't like drinking so that's no help to me at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
½cwt Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 3 hours ago, red rocket said: That'll be the day! She's virtually teetotal, which is actually quite useful. Never have to disuss who's driving home from the pub. Its great isn't it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubaregs Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 4 hours ago, rowbos said: Sounds like Mrs R, however she doesn't like driving as much as she doesn't like drinking so that's no help to me at all! This is just poor/lazy training mate. Had you put in a bit of work at the beginning of the marriage you would be reaping the dividends now instead of having a thumb shaped indentation on your napper. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowbos Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, Scubaregs said: This is just poor/lazy training mate. Had you put in a bit of work at the beginning of the marriage you would be reaping the dividends now instead of having a thumb shaped indentation on your napper. 😉 The last time I tried training her in a car (she was driving) she stopped at a set of traffic lights, got out of the car, shut the door and just walked off with me sat in the passenger seat and a bunch of cars sounding their horns behind me. I gave up on her driving at this point 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubaregs Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, rowbos said: The last time I tried training her in a car (she was driving) she stopped at a set of traffic lights, got out of the car, shut the door and just walked off with me sat in the passenger seat and a bunch of cars sounding their horns behind me. I gave up on her driving at this point 😬 I was referring to general training. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowbos Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Scubaregs said: I was referring to general training. 😂 Yeah, didn't really have much luck with that either mate, I feel a complete failure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubaregs Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 Just now, rowbos said: Yeah, didn't really have much luck with that either mate, I feel a complete failure... Happens to many my friend, some even several times. 😪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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