Please help car sold 2 years ago still in my name :(

Tilt

Can't be for "traffic contraventions" then as a private company cannot deal with those. They also cannot be "fines". Must be for parking on private land and as such, they will be invoices which (if not paid) can only be recovered by going through the civil court process.

Personally I would stop worrying about it. The worse can happen is they try and make a claim against you in court. Obviously they will end up with egg on their faces if they do as you should be able to easily defend such a claim.

centretap

MrHarris wrote: »

A private company called newlyn.

It looks like Newlyn are a firm of debt collectors https://www.newlynplc.co.uk

Does it say who they are collecting on behalf of?

It sounds like they are fishing to see who the registered keeper is, if the DVLA say it isn't you then I can't see a problem.

missile

Seems strange. If DVLA have it registered to a.n.other. Where did newlyn get your name?

I would do as DVLA suggests. Get confirmation it is not registered to you and send it to newlyn.

You could ignore newlyn, but they (and others?) will just keep bugging you and I would want to put an end to that.

john_white

I think the dvla just supply the last known keeper if you have sold it to a dealer.

Aretnap

Tilt wrote: »

Can't be for "traffic contraventions" then as a private company cannot deal with those. They also cannot be "fines". Must be for parking on private land and as such, they will be invoices which (if not paid) can only be recovered by going through the civil court process.

Personally I would stop worrying about it. The worse can happen is they try and make a claim against you in court. Obviously they will end up with egg on their faces if they do as you should be able to easily defend such a claim.

Newlyn are a firm of bailiffs and might be acting for a local authority over unpaid parking tickets. Though for that to have happened the OP would have to have missed or ignored quite a few letters already.

What EXACTLY does the letter say?

pvt

MrHarris, Stop worrying. This is an attempt to recover an unpaid parking charge, which it is arguable was ever payable anyway.

The simplest course of action is to do absolutely nothing. However, as missile says, if you're concerned about receiving lots of meaningless letters from them, then you might wish to simply contact newlyn and tell them you weren't the keeper on the date in question. You have no need to to "prove" this to them, just tell them you weren't the keeper and not to write to you again.

Trebor16

pvt wrote: »

MrHarris, Stop worrying. This is an attempt to recover an unpaid parking charge, which it is arguable was ever payable anyway.

The simplest course of action is to do absolutely nothing. However, as missile says, if you're concerned about receiving lots of meaningless letters from them, then you might wish to simply contact newlyn and tell them you weren't the keeper on the date in question. You have no need to to "prove" this to them, just tell them you weren't the keeper and not to write to you again.

This is dreadful advice, given what we have been told by the OP up to now. If it is a parking charge and it was issued by a local authority it would be foolhardy to do nothing and hope it goes away. Even if it was issued by a private parking company the current advice is to appeal to the company and then go to Popla.

always-me

If the car is still in your name then its clear that DVLA have not been notified and it is your legal obligation to notify DVLA what ever it is you have done with the car. If you had sent section 9 of, DVLA are not guaranteed to always get them, this is why they ask you to contact them if you have not had a conformation letter of them within 4 weeks. (don't get me wrong, by 4 weeks I would have forgot all about it as well)

The trader may not have completed anything on collection and taken the whole log book? or you may not have had the log book and he promised to sort all the DVLA paper work out (as they do) then drove it around for a bit or sold it on with not filling anything in, at this point the car would have not been recorded to him in anyway so he wouldn't care, then at some point it was finally registered to someone.

You need to back track and notify DVLA who you sold the car too, almost impossible I know! Or speak with DVLA and hopefully they may be sympathetic?

Hope this helps

specialboy

always-me wrote: »

If the car is still in your name then its clear that DVLA have not been notified and it is your legal obligation to notify DVLA what ever it is you have done with the car. If you had sent section 9 of, DVLA are not guaranteed to always get them, this is why they ask you to contact them if you have not had a conformation letter of them within 4 weeks. (don't get me wrong, by 4 weeks I would have forgot all about it as well)

The trader may not have completed anything on collection and taken the whole log book? or you may not have had the log book and he promised to sort all the DVLA paper work out (as they do) then drove it around for a bit or sold it on with not filling anything in, at this point the car would have not been recorded to him in anyway so he wouldn't care, then at some point it was finally registered to someone.

You need to back track and notify DVLA who you sold the car too, almost impossible I know! Or speak with DVLA and hopefully they may be sympathetic?

Hope this helps

The OP has already stated that the car isn't in their name anymore.