motorman116 wrote:duvet wrote:Ken B wrote:You can blame the EU for this not DVLA. It was them who told the UK government our old ones didn't have all the info required by EU law on it.
I thought it was cos someone walked out of Ty Glas with 150000 blank V5s................. but you can blame the EU if it make you happy.
Yes it is because of the stolen blank V5s
That was 6 years ago. The stolen documents were easy enough to spot as they were all printed incorrectly and a wrong colour on one page, hence why they were sent for destruction, where they were stolen. But like everything else in life no one bothered to read the warning that were issued at the time, and as less than 1000 of the docs turned up anyway, hardly constitutes issuing 20 million + new documents does it.
They were changed this time around as the new ones have space for the extra info concerning type approval required by the EU, and not to mention the way you scrap vehicles has changed BY LAW. If you look there is no self scrapping section now as technically you cannot do that. (thats another argument for another thread).
That's what I like about forums, when some one knows something for fact, you get everyone else dispute it cos they heard different down the pub.
To the OP,Your other V888 method may work, but if you've already spoken or written to DVLA, there may possibly already be a marker on the system which may or may not flag up. But its worth a try. Failing that I suggest you find a "friendly" policeman to do a check.
