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Conundrum! If a vehicle was built in 1996, first registered in april 2003. Is currently wearing a P registration plate. What should it actually have?
Edited by Pugugly on 01/10/2009 at 17:32
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What circumstances led to this?
On first glance, it should be an 03 plate, however it would have no emissions data that such a plate would demand, so it may not be that simple...
What is it?
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a P plate
or if unlucky
a Q plate
If it had say a 53 plate someone might use to it to take an advantage somehow say if it was a fiesta and it fell down a mine shaft and lots of rubble fell on top of it so its unidentifiable and an insurance claim was made on the v5 log book 53 bit
know what i mean guv? pssssssst wanna buy a watch............
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It's a Mitsubishi Challenger. Seen it up for sale as a 2003. Bit of research on the dvla site shows although first registered then it was actually built in 96. The P plate presumably just confuses issues.
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you are confusing first registered with first registered in the uk
two very different things
remember
it might have been a taliban front line combat vehicle in its earlier life
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Is this an import? In which case it takes the year from when it was built, or approximated if uncertain.
For non-imports, the year the vehicle was built usually makes no difference. That's how we get the situation of having cars sitting around in air-fields for months or years, and then appearing on the roads with a brand new reg.
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TheOilBurner, what possible kind of car could be sat in fields for years then registered as new?
its impossible
;0)
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The fact that it's referred to as a Challenger suggests an import. It is known as that in Japan but in the UK would have been a Shogun of some sort. And in the rest of Europe Pajero.
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In the "Old Days" Morris Minor estates were built for 2 weeks a year and then stored in the open until needed at a dealer. Maybe not stored for years but for a lot of months!
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According to dvla. It falls under old tax rules so must be being recognised as a 96 and not when it was registered in 03
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It's an import. Otherwise it would be called a Shogun Sport. It will have been imported from Japan in 2003.
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its only possibly an import from japan,it could be a back door import from the emirates or cyprus
:-0
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It would have been a Pajero in Cyprus though.
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Sometimes the licensing office gets it wrong and an import is given a current-year plate instead of age-related.
I know of a couple of these!
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>It's an import. Otherwise it would be called a Shogun Sport.
I have a vague memory of Mitsubishi selling a Challenger model in the UK in the 90s, a bit like the Outlander in today's range. A quick Google shows adverts for 90s models with a 2.5TD engine, which doesn't seem likely for an import from Japan.
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