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Old 19-09-2007, 05:58 PM
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Default Q plate cars lots of Qusetion need to no all wellcome

right why would a car be on a Q plate is ther a list of resons why and is ther ay legal proceding to take to remove the Q plate any info on Q plate and who issue them and reson ect would be great or any links to info thank you :top:
Old 19-09-2007, 06:00 PM
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Q's can never be removed afaik.
Old 19-09-2007, 06:01 PM
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as said,you cant put private plates on them or anything,gotta be Q.
Old 19-09-2007, 06:14 PM
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Q plater are usually reshelled cars I think, or a certain percent of the original vehicle (certain items) has been replaced.

May also be that for some reason the original id cannot be put back on the car, ie stolen and all the id has been cut out, so can't be replaced.

Always worth a chunk less than a normal example, and will be harder to sell.

If it was a car that you are going to keep, is in good condition and cheap then it's ok, and you don't mind the Q
Old 19-09-2007, 06:16 PM
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there 2 resons i know of why there on a Q
1 its be stolen and lost its ID and put back on the road
2 its been built from a bear shell with out ID
Old 19-09-2007, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan s1
There are 2 reasons I know of why they're on a Q
1 Its been stolen and lost its ID and put back on the road
2 Its been built from a bare shell with out ID
Or the Shell has been modified and it's been through SVA.
There are thousands of cars on the road with modified shells that should be SVA'd and should be a Q, for example all the cars with 4 x 4 floorpans grafted into them.

If the proposed review of modified cars goes ahead all these will get caught up and will end up on Q along with thousands of other modified cars.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring...le/DG_10014199

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Old 19-09-2007, 07:17 PM
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Could have been built on Scrapheap Challenge?

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Old 20-09-2007, 06:48 AM
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Undefined year or origin, very simple.
Q cannot ever be removed.
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Old 20-09-2007, 07:28 AM
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I bought a Ducati 748SPS that turned out was stolen in Europe and cloned with a legit UK bike. The original ID couldn't be traced so it was 'Q'plated.

The value of the bike plummeted by half, so expect similar on a 'Q' plated car.

As already said, once 'Q' plated, always 'Q' plated. They wouldn't even let me pick the rest of the letters and numbers!
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