Date of last V5C (logbook) issued ......incorrect?

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Bigbananafeet

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Checking on the vehicle enquiry service UK.gov website for my defender and it shows the date of the last issued V5C as 27July2018. I have been the registered owner keeper since 2011 and have never requested a replacement.

I can't get through the DVLA on either phone, webchat or email due to the Coronavirus crisis to ask them about this. Is this something I should be concerned about? vehicle cloning or something?
 
Can you provide a link so we can check our vehicless in the same way, for comparison?
 
Its at the bottom of the page where you check the Tax/MOT status of a vehicle on the uk gov website.

I've just realised this might be me just being a little paranoid/stupid. I moved house a few years ago and have had the address updated. The date on my v5c is just for the "date acquired", I guess the date on the website will be when I asked them to update my address?
 
Yeah, that's the page I was using.
I suppose them sending me a new bit of paper with the new address would constitute a new V5C being issued. I never thought about the address change as getting a new V5C, more as just having the existing one updated.
I saw the incorrect date, then couldn't get a hold of anyone at DVLA to check and panicked.

I feel a bit silly now! Sorry for wasting your time.
 
Sign of the times. Since the advent of the internet, there are crimes we never even realised could exist.
But cloning must have been around since cars have had number plates.
Obtaining of V5cs by deception is not beyond the bounds of possibility. So a scrote or a bunch of em could clone a Landy they have nicked, get the V5c for it by claiming to have moved and then sell it on to some poor unsuspecting owner. Still can't believe it is possible to change the ownership of a car over a mobile phone in seconds.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Sign of the times. Since the advent of the internet, there are crimes we never even realised could exist.
But cloning must have been around since cars have had number plates.
Obtaining of V5cs by deception is not beyond the bounds of possibility. So a scrote or a bunch of em could clone a Landy they have nicked, get the V5c for it by claiming to have moved and then sell it on to some poor unsuspecting owner. Still can't believe it is possible to change the ownership of a car over a mobile phone in seconds.
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He lives in Hamilton ffs lol we used to kick about Strathy park back in the day full of all sorts of stolen cloned motors. o_O
 
Shippers said:
Before internet one of the crimes me and my mates did was to apply for a lost driving licence...so if needed had a spare if we had ours tempoarily suspended only one of us needed it though...and it wasn't me by the way...
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Yes judge im a pillar of the community pmsl :D
 
Shippers said:
Before internet one of the crimes me and my mates did was to apply for a lost driving licence...so if needed had a spare if we had ours tempoarily suspended only one of us needed it though...and it wasn't me by the way...
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Her's a funny one.
I was living with my dad and my bruv, when he and I wer in late teens. I took a phone call one day from BSM wanting to talk to my bruv about a forthcoming driving lesson. He already had a full licence, so I assumed it was a mistake so we conversed about it and the BSM guy told me stuff about my bruv and my mum that only he would know. So the conv ended. Bruv came home he swore he knew nothing about it. Turned out he had applied for a job as a rep and he wanted a clean licence, his had a coupla endorsements on it. So he applied for a provisional licence same name same address as his existing licence! They sent him one!
He intended to take a test and thus get another full licence. And just to be sure he'd pass he'd even decided to do a few lessons! (Crazy, he always was a good driver!)
Anyway, after this conversation he gave up on it all.
Wish now I'd checked his new driver number, lol!
I was left thinking that he could have ended up with two perfectly legit licences, only they wouldn't be.
Biggest irony is he ended up as a bus driver for most of his working life and his licence went clean and stayed clean too.
Wonder if it would be possible today what with computers anorl.
 
kevstar said:
Oh aye ive got some skills I used to be a part time locksmith...:D
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Didn't really need to be a locksmith in the old days. I remember when Fords had about 5 keys:rolleyes:. But all could be opened with a piece of packing tape! Had to open my new-to-me V8 with a stiff plastic bag last year when its batt went flat and I discovered none of the keys opened the door, just the fob, :rolleyes:. Fun to see I hadn't lost the touch! (Was always locking my key in my car when I was a rep, used to keep a bit of packing tape behing the rear number plate!) But modern stuff, me, no chance!
 
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