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Just dug out the cars V5, i know it is due an MOT about now just not sure if march or april...
Anyway, i just noticed it states my car is a 5 Door, i believe i can count, and can only see 3? Does this discrepancy actually matter??? Is it going to cause any problems further down the line?
Not got last years mot to see when it was done last?
That's an MOT fail - car must have as many doors as it says on the V5. If you're missing two doors, get down to a scrappy and salvage some. YOu can put them on the roof when you go for the MOT.
Has huge implications should the insurance companies ever become involved.
Tell the DVLA now!
Makes me wonder if the vehicle is the one that belongs to that V5.
I would be checking chassis numbers very carefully.
Mrmo has bought a ringer....
Get it on gumtree quick ..
Me i would be bricking it ...
DVLA are notorious for having the wrong information on the V5 trouble is its probably isn't their fault as this info is provided by the dealer at point of sale.
get it rectified as your insurance company may not pay out.
you have to a get a letter from the manufacturer with a code number that DVLA will then action and produce a new V5 for you..
can't remember what the code is called, but a quick phone call to the DVLA will put you straight...
i had a similar thing where the V5 had the wrong model of car on it!!
LOL @ Stoner!
thank you, shall have a word with the dealer who sold me the car, bought not quite new and its an ex VW car, you would have thought VW would know how many doors their own cars have....
Oh well.
You'll probably have to get the certificate of conformity from the manufacturer for DVLA to change it.
If you need to find out the mot renewal date you can now do it online
If its an ex dealer car it was probably registered on a different plate original and been adjusted since.
My old Astra as registered in the petrol co2 emmisions range instead of the diesel, on further investigation its origanal plate was H8 VXL,which i did by the end of my owner ship.
The V5 for my Skoda had the wrong engine on it, dealer sorted it out.
Just to add caution.
My wife bought a car, someone cocked up the V5, not sure if it was the garage or the DVLA, but the V5 came back with the address a bit wrong. We didn't notice mainly because you don't expect it to happen.
Post office knocked back the VED renewal 6 months later, six weeks without a car.
My CCM was 5 years old before the computerised MOT pointed out that the V5 had the wrong number. Why ? Because CCM's VIN's only had 11 digits and the V5 and hence MOT computer needed 12 to work.
(maybe it was 12 and 13 but you get the point)
I spent a few years importing used motorbikes from Japan. The error rate on the V5s when I registered them was apalling, close to 50%. Errors ranged from simple typos to wrong colours, wrong chassis numbers. One even came back registered as a Toyota Starlet but with everything else correct for the bike.