I've just got the V5 and it has a couple of discrepancies, inevitably the previous owner couldn't be arsed to tell them the recon engine number so I'll have to do it for him as it seems the MOT is getting very picky, but my question is do they do two tone colours on the V5 i.e. mine is nearly as much white as it is green yet the V5 just says green. I know they don't do arty colours as they give the example of lavender being listed as purple, but they say nowt about two tone, any one seen two colours listed on a V5? Greg
V5 questions
Aug 18, 2006
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Yep mine says green/black
They seen to just go for the basic colour, or use "multicolour" - I put Leapoard Skin on the form for The Brand New Leopardskin Pillbox Hat 88in, but it came back "Multicoloured" - boring sods ;-)
Richard
Thanks very much, I'll tell them Green/white as well as the new engine number. Greg
Mine is listed as cream on the V5 though there is a fair amount of green on it now. On the new computerised MOT it is listed as cream, didn't give me any trouble.
On or around Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:41:02 +0100, "Larry" enlightened us thusly:
mine's listed as blue, despite being purple. I think they may be able to change it when they MOT it.
My vehicles have been through MOT's without hassle without engine numbers on the v5
Yes mine has a lot of blank spaces too and they can't fail on that, but it does have an out of date engine number and from what I've read in various places the new computerised MOT asks the tester to enter this and the chassis number, and won't procede if they're wrong.
Apparently the database also has the wrong weights for a lot of Land Rovers (3499kg) so they get rejected as that weight is a class 7 MOT not the class
4 that normal stations can do, here's more detail:
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So it's worth checking the V5 well before the test is due as you have to get it corrected.
Greg
Only reg and chassis number are entered and if they don't match you can proceed only the vehicle will need a VIC next time it needs taxing or so I was informed everyone I tested matched
a class 7 is a commercial vehicle over 3000kg so if it's got seats in the back it's a class 4
I took mine and there was no problem so I wonder if it's just the testers being funny
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