Lease car company - want me to post ACTUAL Driving Licence

[Deleted User]

Is this normal?

They want me to send them the ACTUAL driving licence. Right PITA. Especially if they lose it.

Penelopa.Pitstop

One dealer wanted to see my original driving licence when signing lease documents. They sent it back next day without the issue. Other companies were happy with the scan/photo.

Unless you're going abroad, it shouldn't be huge problem if document is lost. You would be able to get another copy quickly and ask lease company to pay for it.

AdrianC

Photocard, or old-school paper?

[Deleted User]

AdrianC wrote: »

Photocard, or old-school paper?

PHotocard I guess they need.

AdrianC

[quote=[Deleted User];75634824]PHotocard I guess they need.[/QUOTE]It's not down to which "they need". It's down to which you have.


If you have a photocard, then providing the card does nothing that checking the driver number online won't do. The card itself does a lot less than checking online, because it doesn't have any details on current validity or endorsements. Remember, the paper counterpart ceased to exist nearly four years ago - and everybody should have binned theirs. There's no point whatsoever in them insisting to see your actual physical licence - it adds nothing to whatever ID checks they've already done for the finance...



If you still have a paper licence, because your licence is unchanged in all ways in the last two decades (no address change, no renewal at age 70, no category changes), then it may well be that the licence status can't be reliably checked online, so there is actual point in them needing to see the licence.

[Deleted User]

Penelopa.Pitstop wrote: »

One dealer wanted to see my original driving licence when signing lease documents. They sent it back next day without the issue. Other companies were happy with the scan/photo.

Unless you're going abroad, it shouldn't be huge problem if document is lost. You would be able to get another copy quickly and ask lease company to pay for it.

Or hiring a car

DoaM

As said above, an ID check with DVLA should be all they need if all you have is a photocard version. You still haven't answered that specific question - do you have a photocard licence or the old paper licence? (Not what do they need, what do you have?)

Penelopa.Pitstop

Driving licence might be used for proof of address, so DVLA check won't be enough for leasing company.

shaun_from_Africa

Penelopa.Pitstop wrote: »

Driving licence might be used for proof of address, so DVLA check won't be enough for leasing company.

The DVLA check shows the address that they currently have on record for the licence holder so if anything, it could be more up to date than the one shown on the licence itself.

Jumblebumble

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

The DVLA check shows the address that they currently have on record for the licence holder so if anything, it could be more up to date than the one shown on the licence itself.

I just ran a check using the check code and there seemed to be no address
I agree that checking your own licence shows ones address but DVLA state

"You should only use this service to view or share your own driving licence.
Use a different service if you want to check someone else’s driving licence information."

I doubt the lease company would want to go against this instruction

AdrianC

A lease company or insurer has different access - they can see anybody's licence, with the driver number, without a check code.