finding out who owns a car

joesab

theres a car been parked outside my parents house for about six months. Its not moved and we havent seen anyone attending to it. Its taxed and MOT'd. We are curious to know who it belongs to so i was going to apply to dvla but my parents are a bit on edge about this in case it belongs to one of the local feral family - will dvla query show name of who has requested details?

forgotmyname

You need a good reason and £5 to get a keepers details.

Taxed and MOT'd then probably not abandoned.

theoretica

You could try reporting it to the council as abandoned and see if they will do anything. It could after all be a stolen vehicle dumped. Wouldn't satisfy your curiosity, but might get it moved eventually.

RichardD1970

Taxed, MOT'ed, parked legally. Insured?

None of your business.

stator

If your parents were thinking of getting a skip or scaffolding or were having some trees pruned or some other reason to maybe know who the car belonged to then it would be fair to pay the fee and get the registered keeper's address from the DVLA

joesab

Thanks - see what you mean Richard - its one of those things though, if you knew who it belonged to you would probably knock on the door. Its on a narrow terraced street where everyone parks with two wheels on the kerb. This is a good ten inches from the kerb, so not really in the road enough to be classed as an obstruction but theres things like on bin day, the van has to go half way up the road then go round the block to do the other end of the road. Its also quite a busy road - my mum has been out and folded the wing mirror in because its such a squeeze to get past if the neighbour over the road has parked outside his house.
But thats not really a reason enough for DVLA I would assume - the fire service have once knocked on the door of the opposite neighbour and told him not to park opposite it . I would think they would have been able to ask the police to tow it if was enough of an obstruction

z1a

DVLA could only tell you who the keeper is, not the owner.

Warwick_Hunt

stator wrote: »

If your parents were thinking of getting a skip or scaffolding or were having some trees pruned or some other reason to maybe know who the car belonged to then it would be fair to pay the fee and get the registered keeper's address from the DVLA

Would it?

Can’t see any of that being a legitimate reason.

Marvel1

https://www.gov.uk/request-information-from-dvla

Do not lie about the reasons why you want the information as suggested.

sevenhills

joesab wrote: »

theres a car been parked outside my parents house for about six months. Its not moved and we havent seen anyone attending to it. Its taxed and MOT'd. We are curious to know who it belongs to so i was going to apply to dvla but my parents are a bit on edge about this in case it belongs to one of the local feral family - will dvla query show name of who has requested details?

Six months is a long time, it could be stolen or on duplicated plates; ask the police who is the keeper because its oddly parked.

debtdebt

Being nosey isn't a valid reason on the V888 to obtain registered keeper details.