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V5 - is it neccessary?

  • 12-06-2005 10:17pm
    #1
    zod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭


    I'm thinking of buying a car in the UK for which the V5 is not available.

    Anyone know if its neccessary to register the car over here .. in fact the doco thats is neccessary would be great!

    thanks


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  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The V5 is the registration paper so if you're importing a car then I'd say yes.
    In fact if the car does'nt have one I would'nt buy it in the first instance.

    Mike.


  • #3
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,268 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    zod wrote:
    I'm thinking of buying a car in the UK for which the V5 is not available.

    Anyone know if its neccessary to register the car over here .. in fact the doco thats is neccessary would be great!

    thanks

    If there are no registration documents with the car then walk away.

    How do you know the person selling the car is the owner? This sounds very dodgy, the car could be stolen or a cut n shut job.


  • #4
    xtrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭xtrac


    As the folks said, It might be safer to walk away.

    I've brought in cars from the UK with no V5, and all you have to do is print off a doc form the uk site and fill in the details and they issue a new one so you can import it over here. Can take some time though, i;ve had one in 1 weeks and still waiting on another (4 weeks now) its for a 93 civic 16 VTEC SiR saloon, nice clean car, with some small mods, its for sale as soon as I get it VRT'd and NCT'd pm me if interested, revs to 9500 :-D

    -Xtrac


  • #5
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,328 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    One reason for it not to be present could be that it has been written off by an insurance company. In order to prevent writeoffs being put back on the road without proper repair, the V5 is only reissiued after an engineers inspection.


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