Rs Gus

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taken my private plate of my car and didnt get a inspection

B19-TRB

its a random thing aint it!?

I taken plate of both the escort 7 the cossie & didnt get inspection!

would of like to them inspect the cossie!

SteveB

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They will still check a shell if you crashed or broken it.... I asked when I'd broken my Saff and then thought about the plate

Ginge !

they wont if ya broken it as they only inspect full cars !!!!

i asked em and it needs to be a total car, it dont have to runn but needs a engine, transmision, axels ect

oh and the random check is actually if the cars not been taxed for a long period of time thats when they check em , thats the random check , ya not ment to know though, but they told me after i went fooking mental about my constant random inspections

Rs Gus

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roll on es cossie now

B19-TRB

They didnt know mine was crashed!

Rs Gus

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they dont know mine is stripped

Ginge !

they doint know my orion is stripped either, but i gotta fooking rebuild it now

R4N SS

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what inspection is this then? as i have a private plate on the cossie which i wanna keep when i sell the car

Rs Gus

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nah broke and sold in pices mate

Ginge !

drive to dvla local office and they inspect the car , prove it aint a ringer and ya sorted, but if it is a ringer and ya never knew they Q plate the car and revoke ya rights to the plate

B19-TRB

No sure what the inspect i know it thigns like vin no.s make sure they all match up!

its a totally random thing Ran i.e. they check 1 in 10 cars!

Ginge !

thats bollock the cars they check are the ones that aint had tax for a period of time as there more likly to be rung or bought froma scrappy for a plate ect , thats what i got told at the dvla local office !!!!!!

they check the floor number to see if they are correct and the vin plate too , they aint fooking silly either !!!, did ya know that a floor number aint stamped but is actually pressed as the letters and stamped in and raised letters !!!!, cant do that effect with a punch

Steve200+

Well done Gus I was wondering when I saw the car in bits, thought it was a bit late to say owt though lol

B19 : I've got a plate... just a plate. and a V5, car's long been broken. If I tax it, do you reckon it might be easier to blag?

Ginge !

they check the records toi see if theres any car tax gaps !!!!, tax if for a while and see os all ya can do, i know i have to rebuild my orion due to it though

B19-TRB

recon so m8!

as i calle dup the other day & a car has got to have tax & MOT to swap a plate!

luckil;y i took mine off the car & put it on retention b4 it ran ut of tax!

Ginge !

my orion had tax on it and they wanted to inspect the car randomly as the car had no tax for 4 years then got a mot and tax and they wanted to inspect it, ive been looking into this for a few month now and took this week off work to rebuild the orion and get the fooking plate off it

good luck though

Ginge !

btw the car can be expird no more than 6 months but it has to have a valid mot

Steve200+

There's about a 6year tax gap lol... Oh well, might try it for a year, cheers!

RSKim

So is the hunt on for an esccos no Gus???

Rs Gus

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yes hun it is *cough* may have found one *cough*

RSKim

Already!!!!!!

Good luck mate

B11GNS

Just taken the plate off mine, i was well surprised, it only took 2 weeks to get my new log book and retention certificate No inspection for me either

NUTS RuS

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Swapped mine last month from one of my cars that had no MOT (ran out in December). They never even batted an eye lid. If its had documents in the last 6 months they don't bother... unless your called Lewis from Brizzle

Rs Gus

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mine taken 4 days did it monday dropped through the door today

NUTS RuS

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All plate transfers take a min of 72 hours (3 days) Even if you take all the docs to the local DVLC, they won't process it straight away. 4 days is the norm at less quiet times

Kelv

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ive swapped number plates from cars to retention and direct to other cars about half a dozen times now and the only time they wanted to inspect any of them was when i took my cos plate off my old escort that had been written off!

So i guess its not a compulsary thing!

Fozy

so does the car need tax, MOT and insurance then to change plates then? or cann you do it sorn?

Kelv

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Well, they put my number plate onto retention after they inspected it.

And the Tax had just expired and the Mot had aswell if i remember correctly, had a feeling thats why they wanted to inspect it... just to confirm that all the details, chassis numbers etc matched up....

.... but i could be wrong

NUTS RuS

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The car I took my plate off had no current MOT or insurance, but had been in place within the previous 6 months. They never asked for insurance for either the donor or receiver vehicle. The car they were going on to was taxed, mot's and insured. How long has it been on a SORN Fozy ??

Clare

It IS a random check, 1 in 10 transfers / retentions are checked.

Any the not being taxed recently is rubbish, just ask Keith, his car was taxed when they demanded the inspection!

I do on average 10 / 15 Cherished Transfers & Retentions a month and not one vehicle has been pulled in for inspection in the last 3 years of me doing it! (but this could be beacuse my local DVLA office in Northampton are scared of me since I shouted at them on the phone for being incompetant)

Ginge !

i bet keiths car had a period of time that the car had no tax on though , im telling ya its not bollox as thats what there randon criteria is !!!

i should fucking know as i have had "random" inspections requested on my palte 3 times

oh and all of em have either had no tax or was taxed after a 4 year gap of no tax, ask keith again and i betting his car was restored and the car wasnt taxed when it was being done, oh and look at the out come of it too, thats why thats there criteria

i dont post bollocks, i knopw the answer to this one and dvla wont tell ya the criteria as they tell people its random !!!!!

its not !!!!

Ginge !

, just to see if im right

Phil

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Don't talk to me about them.. After chasing round various places to find it (their old offices were listed in the directory), then to find their rediculous parking arrangement (about 10 spaces for a waiting room bigger than the local A&E) and then queuing up to find out they didn't take cards for the fee and I had to find a cash machine and queue up again (In total about 3 hours in there) Just for them to put a flag against my plate and demand an inspection (it was still MOT'd and the tax had only just ran out)

But the car was in bits across the country by then

One of the most useless days of my life was that!

escort1989uk

do they check engine numbers as well