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Originally Posted by donnysoutherner
I have also been told (Sheffield Office) that the car needs to be complete. in fact, more than that it needs to have been MoT'd before the car can be inspected. Having looked throught all the stuff on the DVLA website, I think unfortunately that the Sheffield office is right and applying the rules correctly.
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The MOT station should rightly refuse to MOT a vehicle that obviously doesn't match the V5C, as a rebodied vehicle would.
The DVLA/VOSA as an organisation are a complete shambles.
I registered an electric motorcycle conversion and they asked for a reciept from the company that performed the conversion. I took a piece of paper from my bag and wrote one. I was then told I wasn't a company. 'Sole Trader' was my reply. They then insisted I had to be VAT registered and I asked to see the relevant regulation. Eventually they admited that no requirement existed and booked me an inspection because I was changing the tax class (fair enough). When I turned up at the inspection site I spent half an hour convincing the inspector that the long number starting DGM was NOT the frame number, but instead the type approval code for the model. This is a mistake they've been making on Italian bikes for about 30 years. Then as we were winding up I noticed he'd not actually confirmed on the form that it complied with the new tax class!
I find that Zen like patience combined with a complete refusal to move until the situation is sorted usually works.
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