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[mintwhiters]

OK, I'm not after any lectures about rights and wrongs I just want to know if it is actually illegal to re-sell a car vin number, plate and V5C when the rest of the car has been cut up and weighed in.

[Chris 2i]

yes it is, seen it happen a lot on ebay though. Not recently mind, so they probably got wind of it...

[~S1~]

Its actually not illegal as such although the DVLA are within their rights to register as "scrapped" any V5's they see for sale without a vehicle. It only becomes illegal when you try to put the id onto another vehicle.

[bas saph]

second that. V5 is dead when cars dead. can only be used illegally afterwards which makes the seller adding and abetting a criminal Id say

[mintwhiters]

bugger... guess I'll just have to keep it until I want to buy enough parts to replace all of the panels on the car then

[bas saph]

bugger... guess I'll just have to keep it until I want to buy enough parts to replace all of the panels on the car then

I have 4 log books here for cars that have either been stolen or I scrapped never no one or both the stolen ones may turn up all restored and be worth a mint and their mine

[mrorange2]

Is it the VIN and Plate off the FRST mate?

[mintwhiters]

Is it the VIN and Plate off the FRST mate?

Yep the shell was f@@@ed there was rust in places there really shouldn't be to the stage that when I went to jack it up on the chassis rails the jack shot straight up through the floor!! so will keep all the details until I can build a shell from floor parts up. Oh, and the rear quarter repair it had had in a previous life was about to fall off, sill repairs weren't good, all arches had gone, rear panel gone through, boot patched but rust had gone too far in it to save, doors had been bodged with filler so you couldn't fit a lock properly, inner front arches rotten, etc.... was looking really bad after I had taken the kit etc off and we couldn't remove the front suspension due to the bolts all being rusted so badly that even with power tools they were just rounding or snapping so just had to give in in the end, shame but it will cost the same to build a shell from scratch!

[Ford4Life_XR2i]

dont sell old v5s n vins they will just end up on nicked motors

[andymoto]

Don't people re-shell cars? I got told by an mot tester that's the best option when I wanted to put number plates from my old fiesta I scrapped on my current fez...
Weld the chassis number in place of mine, put no. plates on, change engine number on v5c, and cc, fuel etc, tax, mot and then inform insurance company of the changes?
I couldn't be bothered to do it anyway... But i'm sure you can legally do it?

Andy

[andymoto]

Oh and the number plate can't be newer than the car...

[taitrst]

you could swap the id then cut the car up then either take it to the tip bit by bit or weigh it in as light iron? seen that done

[mintwhiters]

you could swap the id then cut the car up then either take it to the tip bit by bit or weigh it in as light iron? seen that done

That is what I was told to do by the bodyshop....

[taitrst]

kool m8 thats what id do, as long as you dont hand over the logbook when taking it in to a scrap yard then declare it sorn swap the id....id say sorted!lol

[muz]

Don't people re-shell cars? I got told by an mot tester that's the best option when I wanted to put number plates from my old fiesta I scrapped on my current fez...
Weld the chassis number in place of mine, put no. plates on, change engine number on v5c, and cc, fuel etc, tax, mot and then inform insurance company of the changes?
I couldn't be bothered to do it anyway... But i'm sure you can legally do it?

Andy

You can re shell a car but the only way you can keep the cars origional ID is to buy a BRAND NEW UNSTAMPED UNREGISTERED shell from the likes of ford and is will have to have a VOSA (or whatever its called) vehicle check. You have to use a certain percentage of the cars origional parts also. You can't just buy a 1.1 Fiesta, put your RST enigne and number plates on and keep it as an RST