DVLA TARGETS ENGINE CHANGES

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gosnell

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See December edition of Practical Classics, claiming that the DVLA are refusing the issue of V5C forms regading any engine that has been changed without any paper trail!!! of its history. Principle OK but in practice bad news


John
 
Yeah they've been doing this for a while now, you need receipts or letter from Garage to confirm engine fitted. Of course this means loads of people just won't bother notifying the DVLA of a change.... :roll:
 
i've not round to telling them i've put a new engine in PAE yet - second hand engine i got from chris w... should i be worried?

Rich.
 
Potentially, scanning through PC they say "Classic car owners will now have to give details of the engine's supplier, along with full details of the car that it came from."

I'm sure I read that you had to supply a receipt from the supplier (e.g. the scrap yard you got the engine from), or from the garage that did the swap, but with the DVLA you never know.

How many of us have checked that the engine number matches the V5 ? Cue mad dash to the garage.... :LOL:
 
I did inform them of the temporary 2000SC I put in the 2200TC & had to get a letter from my MoT station to confirm the fitting. That was in 2007. Personally I wouldn't lose any sleep if I accidently overlooked informing them in the future if I changed an engine to one which you couldn't possibly know the provenance of for various reasons.
 
I'll try and change it soon. Any trouble and i'll write to my MP - a note from them sorts most matters...

rich.
 
This is all ridiculous, all that's going to happen is it will encourage people to change engine numbers instead. They won't stop any illegal behaviour by enforcing this, more than likely they'll create more!
 
indeed - turning law abidingish citizens into criminals effectively. If they want to save cash maybe they should stop this particular job creation scheme...
 
we have just changed the engine in our austin 1300 wrote to dvla informing them of the engine change and also colour change

Vehicle was sorned at time and pre MOT

new V5 issued with all changes No questions or problems?
 
Probably another example of the DVLA's less than optimal operation ! You would have thought that engine number and colour change at the same time would have made somebody look twice as that sounds a lot like a ringer... :LOL:
 
I agree this is stupid bureauocracy gone mad. :x Jobs for the boys recording changes unnecessarily :!: Maybe it came from an EU directive :!:

The only time the DVLA should need to know is surely when a different size engine is fitted or if as Colnerov says when the car is relatively new. This certainly should not apply to classic cars unless a larger or smaller engine is fitted.

Oh dear, I guess if one leave ones car window open tonight and the car goes up in a bang when a rocket enters it from a nearby fireworks party that the insurance assessor will now use this as an excuse to search under the bonnet for the engine number and if the one found is not the one registered with the DVLA the insurer will refuse to pay out!! :cry:

Best wishes

Tony Bunting
 
rockdemon said:
i've not round to telling them i've put a new engine in PAE yet - second hand engine i got from chris w... should i be worried?

Rich.
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If you need it, I think I've got copies of the V5 and a Heritage Cert from the Estate, which is where that engine came from.. I'll be back in the country in a few weeks, if you want to remind me. That should cover the paper trail.
 
Thanks Chris that'd be much appreciated :)

PAE's off the road until i've done the welding now so it's not like i'm going to get stopped or anything silly in the meantime :)

Rich.
 
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