Dvla messed up

[mmfhater]

Hi all

I brought a car the other week and have just got the log book back and the idiots have put it in the previous owners name with my address

 

I phoned them.up and according to them I didn't put my name on the v5 that got sent back

 

If I didn't put my name on it how did they get my address !!!

 

I must have used the pen that had invisible ink in it

[king12345]

DVLA messing up???

They're usually so efficient and never make mistakes!

(As you can see I have mastered the art of sarcasm )

[sameagle]

DVLA are now fully computerised, and so can never go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, //4¥%%%%% go wrong!

[martin2006]

Simply return the v5 with the correct info and a new one will be sent out, hopefully correct

[mmfhater]

Yes that's what I'm going to do and hopefully they will correct it without adding to the amount of keepers the car has had

[SabreSheep]

kepe proof of postage this time

[martin2006]

You can always add a short letter to that effect

[Tony P]

You can always add a short letter to that effect

 

I would strongly recommend that. This could become quite a muddle and DVLA will only see it as a cash generating opportunity.

 

If they treated it as a Change of RK, instead of address, they would have cancelled the tax or SORN of the previous owner. No doubt he also cancelled is own insurance.

 

What you don't tell us is if you carried out your own Tax/SORN and insurance at the time you bought the car.

 

Any gaps (retrospective or current) in continuity of Tax/SORN and insurance will make DVLA swing into action far more efficiently that they deal with 'customers'.