Bought a car, V5 not signed?

lhwjud

A friend of mine just bought a second hand car from a dealer and came to realise that the V5 was not signed by the previous registered keeper. Is it ok to send off the V5 to DVLA without the signature of the previous keeper? Is it a common practise that no previous keeper's signature if the car is traded through a dealer?

Any help would be appreciated.

Silk

Hi,
Yes it's not unusual at all and no problem sending it off. It may be the case that the DVLA may possibly write to the former keeper to check but doubt they will bother.
Tell your friend not to worry and carry on regardless as normal

lhwjud

Silk wrote: »

Hi,
Yes it's not unusual at all and no problem sending it off. It may be the case that the DVLA may possibly write to the former keeper to check but doubt they will bother.
Tell your friend not to worry and carry on regardless as normal

Do you mean the V5 should be just sent off without the previous keeper's signature?

Silk

Yes just carry on it won't be a problem

scbk

Or just stick their initals on it

Keith

The dealer should be sending off the V5c, your friend should have the new keepers supplement which they retain until the new V5c arrives. The DVLA must be busy at the moment as I'm on my 3rd week watiing for a new V5

lhwjud

Sent the V5 unsigned and received it back a couple of days ago. Thanks for all the input.

scorpiolady

lhwjud wrote: »

Sent the V5 unsigned and received it back a couple of days ago. Thanks for all the input.

Do you mean youve received a new one in your name or the original one back

btw ive been waiting 3 weeks for mine too and was told there was nothing on their system

my son in laws took a week

Silk

scorpiolady wrote: »

Do you mean youve received a new one in your name or the original one back

btw ive been waiting 3 weeks for mine too and was told there was nothing on their system

my son in laws took a week

Hi Scorpio,
I think your problem is different because you only have the garages word that they sent it off and as they didn't ask you to sign it and you didn't see it I doubt they had it.
They are probably waiting to get it themselves first or they have done and now sent it off
If theres nothing in the system you need to apply yourself and charge the garage back for the cost.

lhwjud

scorpiolady wrote: »

Do you mean youve received a new one in your name or the original one back

btw ive been waiting 3 weeks for mine too and was told there was nothing on their system

my son in laws took a week

My friend has received a new one in his name.

TangledMemories_2

Just a quick note guys (ex-DVLA employee)
DVLA are inundated with V5 changes due to the reduction in cost of cherished numbers and are taking up to 7 weeks for new V5s to be issued.

One more thing:
Even though they spent thousands of pounds redesigning the V5s to have that nicely coloured illumious red section at the bottom saying that you MUST have it signed by new keeper and previous when notifying change in keeper....YOU DON'T. IT'S UNENFORCEABLE.