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Reg spotting!

Posted By : Richard Webster, 10-Jan-2003, 08:59pm

To find out whether a reg is still on dvl records try going on the "more than" (car insurance) website. It tells you if the reg is still reconised.

Happy hunting!

Rich

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Reg spotting!

Posted By : Mathew Roberts, 11-Jan-2003, 06:36pm

Tried to! How?
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  Posted By : Richard Webster, 12-Jan-2003, 03:25pm
  
  Go to car insurance, you will have to put your name, occupation in etc but about the third page in it asks for your car reg number and then it will bring your car details up if still registered!
  
  Sounds a bit complicated but it's not when you've done it once!! Then you can keep going back and forwards with all your old cars putting their different regs in.
  
  Good luck
  
  Rich
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    Posted By : Mathew Roberts, 13-Jan-2003, 08:27pm
    
    Many thanks, got there in the end. One problem, put in a Spitfire 1500 reg. One I owned and wrote off. This is a known write off from 1997 which I registered as dismantled. The details came up as to what car, but no record of the write off! Best to pay before buying to check car's credit and current details?
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      Posted By : Ian Aston, 05-Nov-2003, 09:45pm
      
      I don't think that this cross refers to DVLA records - more likely its an insurers database.
      
      I've checked lots of cars that have been in our family over the last 30 years (including one I wrote off in 1985!) and all the post 1970 cars match up, including a few others that can't possibly be on the road any more!
      
      I also checked a couple of 1969 Vitesses that I've looked at in the last week, they were both recognised as Triumphs but with no further detail.
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        Posted By : Colin Wake, 08-Nov-2003, 04:24pm
        
        I would suspect it is a cumlative database bought from the DVLA. Will show any Reg. No. that has ever been on the computer. Could be a good way of finding out if a car is on the DVLA database. Save the trips to the local office with the old tax discs and number plates to ask!
        
        Time to experiment later with a couple I know the history of me thinks....