Dealer registering car as wrong trim level - advice please!!

sunilm92

Hi all,

I would be very grateful for some advice in my situation.

I bought a car from motorpoint around a year ago. I have fallen out of live with the car and am wanting to sell it at the moment.

The car is registered as 2.0T Sport on the DVLA and this is what comes up on car buying websites when I search my car registration. My car is actually 2.0T Sport Multimedia - it has the extra multimedia package which is a derivative of the car which is manually selectable through car buying websites DVLA, HPI etc.

Resultantly the difference in prices being quoted to me is actually over 1000£ which seems crazy. When I went to take my car in to sell it I was told that I couldn't get the price of the multimedia pack unless I have it changed by the DVLA - this is fine but it will take around 4 weeks from what I have read.

I think it is unfair that the price of my vehicle may well go down in the time not to mention that my plans have been delayed and this will end up costing me a lot more now due to a mistake made by the dealer during the vehicle registration process.

Any thoughts re: plan going forward/possibility to sell as 'multimedia' without changing with DVLA, getting the original dealer to foot the difference if there is any loss?

Thank you! :j

Tothepoint.

So you've know for a year it was registered wrong?

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Advertise it as a 2.0T Sport "with Multimedia Pack". When potential buyers come to view, they will see for themselves.

sunilm92

Thanks for your quick reply!

I was hoping to sell it through a car buying website - not really keen on selling it through autotrader.

In the medical profession and going on a fellowship abroad for a couple of years in Jan! Worried that car won't shift if I put it on autotrader

sunilm92

I have only just realised as I began selling research 2 days ago

Tothepoint.

sunilm92 wrote: »

I have only just realised as I began selling research 2 days ago

Log book won't mean a lot if you sell the car to someone that actually knows about cars. You'll get a similar deal if you sell it back to the trade without using the Internet sharks. Take it back where you bought it.

sunilm92

Tothepoint. wrote: »

Log book won't mean a lot if you sell the car to someone that actually knows about cars. You'll get a similar deal if you sell it back to the trade without using the Internet sharks. Take it back where you bought it.

I hope you're right! Taking it to Evans Halshaw tomorrow and will see what happens..

Mercdriver

I wasn't aware that DVLA registered special editions in the log book with a car. My wife's X5 is a 2011 40D SE with M pack and Multimedia. DVLA lists it as a 40D SE. That is the basic model of the car. Anything else is marketing and it isn't DVLA's job to promote your car for you. You have to do your job and tell the dealer that it has factory fitted extras, and provide the paperwork for it. If you want top dollar for it, you need to work harder for it.

Use the valuation tool for a basic quote and decide how much extra you want for the factory fitted pack, and do your negotiations.

AdrianC

Mercdriver wrote: »

I wasn't aware that DVLA registered special editions in the log book with a car.

They don't always. It's entirely down to the picklist of car models that the manufacturer furnish them with. Then it's down to which the dealer picked when they registered it.

If the manufacturer listed Sport and Sport Multimedia as different entries, then the dealer could have picked either. It doesn't change the car, and any half-way competent WBAC-type service should be able to override what the reg search comes back with.

foxy-stoat

sunilm92 wrote: »

I was hoping to sell it through a car buying website - not really keen on selling it through autotrader.

I won't worry about it too much, you will be losing far more than £1000 by selling via webuyanycarforafractionoftheprice.com than selling privately through ebay or autotrader.