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[minisilverbullet]

Well yesterday i was overtaken and then severely cut up by a car with UK plates (i am in Sweden). Really pissed me off, but i got over it!

ANyway i went to the supermarket and the car happened to be there, easily spotted as it was parked like it had been abandoned at the front to the store where you cant park! So clearly driven by an complete tool! Any way it got the miss marple in me brewing and I took down the reg number.

I just checked it on the DVLA page and it comes back as the vehicle status being Unlicensed, what does that mean!

[richw911]

No road tax

[R1minimagic]

And possiblt stolen haha!

[joakwin]

dont DVLA from the main land not talk to DVLA in england?

[Black.Ghost]

Did it have an export marker next to it? If so, there are reasons it could still be on a Uk plate. British forces in Germany have to export their car, and it is reregistered as a BFG car, and still has a UK plate, of the same date as the UK plate. So my 92 Mini will still have a K plate. It could be a soldier on holiday in Sweden etc. we don't have to pay car tax and it therefore goes as unlicensed.

Alternatively, it could be a scroat that has just taken it to Sweden and not bothered doing it properly. Or stolen

[Black.Ghost]

Actually, if the soldier scenario is the case, it means they haven't put the new plates on, which means they can't be done for speeding offences etc. it's also illegal.

[Dan]

It could just be any old driver who has gone to Sweden for a few weeks or months and cashed in his UK road tax thinking he doesn't need it. Although as I understand it the EU temporary import agreements require that all cars be taxed or whatever the equivalent is in their home country so it's not legal unless he has whatever the Swedish equivalent is.

dont DVLA from the main land not talk to DVLA in england?

Not quite sure what you mean by this but DVLA is a UK agency, they speak to England.

[chipmongrel360]

another possible reason is that he's not from the mainland. My car's on an english plate and comes up as unlicensed on the dvla website because here in N.I. we have the dva ( the dvla and the dva don't really communicate too well).As far as the dvla is concerned my car's not taxed or even on the road anymore...

[joakwin]

dont DVLA from the main land not talk to DVLA in england?

Not quite sure what you mean by this but DVLA is a UK agency, they speak to England.

ok then, let me put it way you can understand,

the Sweden version of DVLA or department of motor vehicles or whatever they call it, not sure what they call it over there, and i don't really care but you get my point now

but im saying is the Uk dvla probably dont speak to well to them?

and i know DVLA is a UK Agency and i know they speak english, thank you

[minisilverbullet]

another possible reason is that he's not from the mainland. My car's on an english plate and comes up as unlicensed on the dvla website because here in N.I. we have the dva ( the dvla and the dva don't really communicate too well).As far as the dvla is concerned my car's not taxed or even on the road anymore...

Hold the press! maybe he was on an NI plate. If memory serves me correctly they only have 6 digits (as did the plonker i speak of)?

[Black.Ghost]

I think it's either 3 letters and then four numbers, or 4 numbers and then 3 letters. I have seen a lot of these from soldiers who have imported cars from NI. Not sure if they have a 3 and 3 split though.