Selling my car abroad

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Urgent, Urgent , Urgent.

I have a Guy sitting in my house wanting to buy my car and take it home tonight.

I am happy with the Transaction etc, but I have a  problem that the engine number does not match the V5 by one digit. This gives them a problem with registering the car in Belgium.

Do I tell the DVLA I am exporting the car or or inform them I have sold the car to a  person who is going to take it to Belgium.

Any quick help would be appreciated.

Tony

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Bump,

Hurry up I am desperate

Tony

[Rab (bombero) Reid]

Tony

You might not want to hear this but I would be cautious about selling the car knowing that not all the paperwork was in order.

If the car was to become involved in anything to breach law or by-law, it may land back in your lap.

You however, have some instinct if you've got the guy in front of you and he checks out ok ie passport, driving licence, etc. If the person presents a Belgian address then how do you plan on informing the DVLA that "you've sold the car to someone, who's taking it to Belguim" compared to "the car is being exported" (which is actually a section on the V5) ..  

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Bombero,

The guy has a company in the UK and he was wondering if i could transfer the car to his UK company and that would leave me just having to do the normal transfer on the V5. He would then have the engine number changed to the correct number before exporting the car officially.

That would leave me in the clear as the car would be officially his and it would be his problem if anything went wrong.

Why is life so complicated?

Tony

[samcooke]

Too late now, but :

As it says on the reg doc the fact that you are the registered keeper has nothing to do with who is the legal owner. So long as you have a receipt of when the car was sold to him, it doesn't matter what the V5 says, it's his, not yours.

If you've gone down the route of registering it to him there's a box on the V5C to make amendments to the vehicle, it should come back in his name with the no. corrected.

They occasionally want to see the car, but probably not when it's an obvious typo like this.

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Thanks Samcooke

I have not done the deal yet, he is coming back this morning. I would prefer to do the right thing on the V5 by transferring it to him or his company and leaving him to sort it out the new V5 when he get it back from the DVLC.

It would be safer for him also in the long term

I will obviously get a signed bill of sale dated and timed to state I have sold the car to him.

Tony

[samcooke]

He won't need to sort another one, just write the correct number on the current one along with his details in the new onwer bit - all sorted in one go.

[Rab (bombero) Reid]

On hindsight, I tend to agree with your course of action. However, I would transfer it to him at his home address and let him inform the DVLA of 'his change of circumstances' regarding a company name and any other V5 corrections .. as samcooke says, it's his car by then anyway  

[samcooke]

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I would transfer it to him at his home address and let him inform the DVLA of 'his change of circumstances' regarding a company name and any other V5 corrections

Why?

[Rab (bombero) Reid]

I would transfer it to him at his home address and let him inform the DVLA of 'his change of circumstances' regarding a company name and any other V5 corrections

Why?

. . . less hassle, I guess    Call me a Doubting Thomas ( ) but I once got a little grief from the DVLA when I bought my MKI XR2, previously company registered, years ago. I thought it was straightforward but when registered with a company, it no longer was a private car but became a 'company asset' and they wanted ME to explain it's past history and how I came to own it.

Freekin nightmare as companies are always selling off fleet cars. I possibly had a DVLA jobsworth on my case at the time  

Just my thoughts ..

[samcooke]

I can't see how that's similar, the OP is changing the car out of his name, so any hassle going forward won't be his.