hi i have a ford escort xr3i on a Q plate and my insurance company says they need the exact year my car was made iv tryed the dvla and ford uk but they were useless is there any other way i can get proof of which year my car was first registered

 

For build date: http://www.btinternet.com/~madmole/vindecoder.html
Doesn't say when it was first registered.

 

iv tryed that but the vin number on my car is apparantly invalid