Not really a zed related question but someone here is bound to know....

 

My Jap import was (according to the log book) registered in 2003 though it was built in 1992

 

Date of first registration 05/2003

Date of first registration in the UK 05/2003

 

Does that mean I can put any plate on the car that I like, up to an xx53xxx registration?

 

Rich

No you cant. cos that would make the car appear newer than it is which the DVLA rules wont allow.

92 manufacture... thats the youngest plate you can put on it. You can make it look older ... thats Ok or use an Irish "dateless plate" like mine.

Does your v5 say it was manufactured in 92?

On my V5 it says (exactly)

 

B. Date of first registration 01/05/2003

[b.1] Date of first registration in the UK 01/05/2003

 

 

The only place it mentions the manufacture date at all is on the tear off part 10 of the V5 which I am supposed to give to the new keeper if I sell it - not return to DVLA (New Keepers Details V5C/2)

 

Here it says Date of first registration 01/05/2003 (DECL/D MANUF 1992)

 

One reason I wondered is because in the early 90s I used to own a BMW 320i that was an irish import. On the V5 it said date of manufacture was 1977 but I bought it on an xxx 123Y plate (1982/3) because the date of first/uk registration was after that - 1986

 

The car already had the Y plate when I bought it.

The question is then, what year letter did DVLA allocate your car upon first registration in the UK?

 

If, as is normal for a 1992 manufacture, DVLA gave it (say) a J plate; then you cannot legally assign the car with a registration newer than that - eg a J plate - just like Pete says....

 

Richard:cool3:

yes it does have a J plate

 

but what would happen if I put it ono an irish plate and then onto another?

yes it does have a J plate

 

but what would happen if I put it ono an irish plate and then onto another?

 

In that case, a J plate is the 'newest' plate you can have, regardless of what you change it to meanwhile. So in summary, Pete's #2 post is your answer and we've all just been wibbling!

 

(Unless your J plate is a private plate and the original plate on import was a '53 reg. Unlikely, but we have seen various zeds on later spec plates which have been incorrectly registered by the dvla)

Edited October 24, 201213 yr by Joely P

I was wondering the same thing actually, my Zed is a 93 K plate but was imported in 2001 and V5 says 2001 as date of first registration as well...

 

Does that mean I can get personalised plates up to a K plate, or up to a 51 plate?

From https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registration-numbers/assigning-a-personalised-number-to-a-vehicle

Conditions for assigning a personalised registration number

You can’t:

 

put a personalised registration number onto a vehicle displaying a ‘Q’ number plate

make the vehicle look newer than it actually is

And you need to send the V5C so the age of the car on the V5C is the one they will use, not the first registered date.

If i sent in my V5 that would only say first registered 2003 so now im more confused. It only mentions decld manuf 1992 on the transfer to new owner slip

they scan the barcode of the V5(if it has one) and it bring the details up on the system, or just enter your car details on their database

 

your logbook doesn't show all the info, their computer database will have all the details when it was registered and what the manufacturing date it is, hiding that new owner slip from them won't do anything

 

only way an old car can get registered as a newer car is if the shell of the car was never assigned a VIN... which will almost never happen

 

I only remember one time there was a MK1 Golf shell for sale which was unregistered and was not assigned a VIN, I only heard rumours it was then registered as a kit car or what not and assigned a 2009 plate once it was made roadworthy and went through the stringent IVA test by VOSA