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I phoned Paddocks and gave them my axle numbers. They told me they were off a Discovery 1
I feel a Johnny Cash song coming on ...
I phoned Paddocks and gave them my axle numbers. They told me they were off a Discovery 1
I feel a Johnny Cash song coming on ...
The police have been round and are happy its not stolen, but it is not a series 3. I am assuming I just have to update the V5 with the DVLA now
To me it's surprising the plods didn't take a bit more interest, but then maybe they weren't specialists.
But best of luck trying to get them (DVLA) to do anything at the moment as they arerunning on empty!Fuckin useless.
There's something still there, looks like some paint or dinitrol is concealing it
To me it's surprising the plods didn't take a bit more interest, but then maybe they weren't specialists.
When building and registering kti cars, the plods, (specialists from "traffic") invariably came round and expressed "not happy" with anything that didn't have a Q on it. But then, once they examined them and banged the numbers and letters (VIN) into the chassis, and ffed off, I took the paperwork into the office that used to exist in Bournemuff and they always got to retain their original number.
Then came SVA which made things more difficult, then IVA, which is total sh!te.
So if the plods have told you just to update the DVLA then I'd do it "one piece at a time", i.e. engine, then months later, chassis, etc. I think you can stamp your own number into the chassis but the number has to be acceptable to them so you'd need to contact them to get them to tell you/approve an appropriate number. Ditto engine number, if you cannot find an original one. Can't believe the luck you had with those plods.
But best of luck trying to get them (DVLA) to do anything at the moment as they are running on empty!
Q plate is only issued on first registration.Funny enough wondering if this may end up a Q plate with the mismatch
Hopefully the OP can just get it changed on the V5
I don't think there is anything "clear" about this.He didn't say the plod said anything about it being 'correctly registered'. They just said it wasn't nicked. If they weren't specialists then they probably just ran the plate and maybe checked the last month of local stolen vehicles.
It's clearly a stolen 90 300tdi that's been given the log book from a presumably scrapped series 3
back as far as 2005/6......To the OP
Have a look back at the MOTs. You should be able to tell how long it’s had the wrong plate on by the mileage changes .
number plate...I can't see anything remotely series 3 anywhere
Better pics
is it grindy marks or just scrubby scratchy marks?I don't know if it’s been mentioned, but there looks to be grinding marks where you've cleaned the paint, which suggests the chassis number has been ground off.
is it grindy marks or just scrubby scratchy marks?
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