V5C - Is this the log book.

Kilty_2

Apples2 wrote: »

So that you can't transfer your brand new cars reg No onto your old 5year old same model car and flog it fooling people it is brand new.

Not like a Personal plate which can be transferred.

But you can't transfer a reg onto an older car anyway?

I guess it's just to stop people getting a decent reg by chance on a new car and selling it on?

scragend

If you transfer a registration mark from a car and that car is then given a new, previously unissued registration, then the new registration is not transferable.

For example, new car is registered with AB57 CDE. A couple of years later the owner decides to sell the car but his name just so happens to be AB57 CDE so he decides to keep the registration mark to put on his new car. He transfers it off the car and puts it on retention. The car is then allocated a new registration - let's say CD57 EFG, which had never been issued before, by DVLA. This new registration cannot be transferred from that car and the V5C would have that stated on it.

If a car is on a Q plate it would also state "non transferable" on the V5C.

saver6

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

if he borrowed money against the car the seller had passed possetion to the loan company, probably would of shown on hpi plus with some hpi company's the assure details are correct if found not to be then can offer services.

what you experienced was a different situation to ownership where by the seller wasnt the owner and not legally allowed to sell it. the police wouldnt of got involved its civil matter and to get you money back would of been a court action again the person to whom sold it you.

We had done an HPI check against the car 2 days prior to picking it up. It came back clear. The log book loan company's contract says the loan was taken out the day before we picked it up, proving that the guy did it fraudulently. We phoned HPI and they said that it can sometimes take a couple of days for fuinance against the car to show up.

We did consider taking the chap to civil court, but the stress we were under at the time, and looking more into the guy's background, we realised this guy would never have paid the money, even if we had won in court. I hated doing it at the time, but we decided against doing so, and taking away the valuable lesson instead.

Lum

When a new reg is issued after the cars original reg is sold, the new reg is marked non transferable.

Otherwise someone with a car old enough to require a dateless plate could just use it as a factory for generating new dateless plates to sell for people to slap on their Audi A3s

merlie

So Ive just test driven a focus TDCi... the seller is not named on the V5 as he has just bought it from the leasing company.
I guess he doesnt want to add another name to the number of owners of the car.
He shows me a signature on the V5 which he says shows ownership has passed over to him .... is this ok ?
I need to move fast as its a very competitive price .

Incyder

cons are always competetively priced.

ring the leasing company and ask them the situation with it.

Flyboy152

The last time I had a car that had a proper log book (an actual book with stamps in them), was about nineteen seventy-one.