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[miniweights]

Now I have finished giving my Mini its new colour, I thought it would be a good time to send off the V5 and have the details changed while it’s off the road. Thing is, I’ve noticed some Minis with a different colour roof are down as multi colour. Mine is now blue with a white roof, but being that it’s mostly blue, I was thinking I should just tell them it’s blue.

Just wondered what you guys would tell the DVLA?

[firefox]

Just had mine MOT'd bud and the guy has put down red and white as you can guess red with white roof

[alex-95]

I thought you just put blue down as it is the higher percentage of the colour of the car?

Edited by alex-95, 21 September 2012 - 05:42 PM.

[dreadster]

I need to update mine has its been sprayed surf blue (was charcoal grey). It did and still has a white roof. The current V5 says 'black' so I'm just going to change it to "blue'.

[AVV IT]

Coopers with contrasting coloured roofs (both Rover & the current BMW & versions) tend to be registered in the main body colour when new at first registration. So as far as I'm aware you declare the primary colour of the car (i.e. the the colour that covers the majority of the car). You only need to declare the car as multi coloured if you cannot truly distinguish any one colour as the primary colour (i.e.it's rainbow coloured!!)

Mine is white with a black roof, on the V5c it is registered as "white"

Edited by AVV IT, 21 September 2012 - 06:05 PM.

[miniweights]

Just had mine MOT'd bud and the guy has put down red and white as you can guess red with white roof

I thought you can only enter one colour?

[firefox]

Just had mine MOT'd bud and the guy has put down red and white as you can guess red with white roof

I thought you can only enter one colour?

well that is what he has put on the MOT certificate

[miniweights]

Coopers with contrasting coloured roofs (both Rover & the current BMW & versions) tend to be registered in the main body colour when new at first registration. So as far as I'm aware you declare the primary colour of the car (i.e. the the colour that covers the majority of the car). You only need to declare the car as multi coloured if you cannot truly distinguish any one colour as the primary colour (i.e.it's rainbow coloured!!)

That's what I was thinking. Cheers bud

[Bungle]

my cooper was registered as red/white

[miniweights]

That's interesting

[AVV IT]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the individual dealer that registers a new car with the DVLA between you buying it and picking it up. So variances are probably down to however the individual dealer declared the colour to be when they registered it......& in bungles case, a dealer in Cornwall is bound to do something a bit odd!!!

[CMXCVIII]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the individual dealer that registers a new car with the DVLA between you buying it and picking it up. So variances are probably down to however the individual dealer declared the colour to be when they registered it......& in bungles case, a dealer in Cornwall is bound to do something a bit odd!!!

I don't know about the old buff logbook days of the Mk1 Mini, but certainly since the 1970s the manufacturer printed the V55 Registration Document that identified the car, model and colour and the dealer only wrote in the new owner's details and the Registration Number [which came separately from the DVLA as a special Government document V53 ... that was a little typewritten sticky label!].

So any funny Mini colours came straight from funny Longbridge!

FWIW, my red-with-white-roof is one of those down as 'multicoloured'.

[Mini Cheddars]

My '79 is listed as just 'red' but has a white roof as well.

[twink]

Mine is down as multi

[Minimad_Diver]

I put java green with white roof when I told the dvla years ago and the v5 came back with just 'green'.