OhcrapOhcrapOhcrap vehicle reg issue

Loads have different year makes to registration years.
MAny, many folk on here have re-registered their buses to one or even two years earlier using a VW Birth cert to take advantage of the tax cut off.
I'd not be worried at all until you've got the V5, the fact that you MOT'd it means that it's very likely to be correct.

 

I don't think it’s been MOT’d for 8 years – and I wouldn’t try until the original V5c is found or a replacement is obtained. If the MOT man sees it first it’s too late to correct any errors if the VIN doesn’t match the V5c.

But there’s probably nothing wrong; buying from eBay, sight unseen, without checking the documents.

 

Would you like to borrow a set of number/letter punches.

 

My bus was bult October 1973 as on its Birth Certificate and registered March 1975 as on V5.

It probably spent a while at Sidmouth being hacked into a Devon then probably in a dealers somewhere in the middle of the 1973 Oil Crisis and its aftermath.

1973 is when Quality carpentry died and Weetabix slabs took over at Devon.

 

Unfortunately, they continued to drill holes with a blunt spoon...

 

Much ado about nothing

 

This ^^^

Remember the carefree days when you bought the van ??
Remember how you just took it to be MOT`d and didn`t care ??
Remember the days when you couldn`t check the vin details at the push of a button

Too much worrying done - especially as you can`t find the V5 ....
It probably is - as other have said - a `79 not registered until `80 .

If you`re interested mine`s a `75 on a `V` (79) plate - turns out it`s an ex Dutch postal van brought over here , converted into a camper and registered . Oh .... and i got the engine rebuilt last year but it`s different to the one i gave to be sorted out so the engine number needs changing - when i get around to it

 

Never tell the DVLC your new engine number. Two days after posting the form, the engine will blow up. I'm about 3 engines behind...

 

Wise words - i`m printing this off as my `get out of jail free` card ...

 

My statement is not legally binding...

 

FTFY

 

Those were heady days indeed. I am a natural-born-worrier, but also a bit of a sh*t-magnet. It would be perfectly in keeping if I spent a fortune bringing her back to life, only for her to be taken away at the last moment.

 

No such thing as a sh*t-magnet - it's an illusion

FWIW, mine was made in 78 but has a 79 registration. It took Devon a year to bodge, sorry build, the interior.

 

I suppose most of them have fairly colourful pasts. I was probably getting in a tizzy for no reason.

 

try to chill out and enjoy life and your van, its a classic to be enjoyed. worrying never did anyone any good.

 

If the worst comes to the worst, you can get something with an engine., lights and brakes etc attached and working in the right places through the SVA route to registration.
Just like all the Brazilian Kombis that Danbury were importing. At least your bus was type approved in the UK at some time in the past so it will be relatively easy to get it back into the system.



My bus is also at least three engines behind the V5. I was about to get a signed letter from a garage to tell the DVLA the engine number when the tag fell off the Vege recon engine. Then I blew it up. At least the current 1979 AS engine has original VW stamping on the block, and is six years younger than the bus..

 

an engine number is a small thing, a chassis number is a major issue

 

I know you're all on the edge of your seats waiting for me together in the loft and find the V5c, etc. I have battled spiders, cobwebs and some weird substance that has leaked out of something or other, but eventually I got it.
The VIN/chassis number is (fanfare), The Same as the V5!

This seems like pretty good news.

Thanks to everyone who posted advice above, including those who told me to relax etc. I might well start trying to do that from now on.

 

Now you just have to address the small issue of the front being a t2 and the back being a t25.

I'm not sure anyone's gonna notice.

 

panic over.