Getting an English No Plate

[carbold]

Hi guys
got a bureaucratic problem here...This mate has brought his Ducati 750 Supersport from Italy and he now wants to get an English number plate to sell it. We swapped the speedo, went to DVLA and it looked like you only need insurance, MOT and a Certificate of Conformity. Now the problem is this certificate: apparently its only purpose is to state that the very same model was actually sold in the UK. This certificate can be issued by a Ducati Club but we couldn't find any club willing to do it...The alternative would be an SVA but we'd rather avoid it. Has anybody got any experience on this issue?

Cheers
Carlo

 

[Tarka]

I`ve done a personal import before,but not had a problem with that certificate.

I do know of people who`ve registered former motocross/enduro bikes,and they`ve had the certificates direct from the manufacturer...try that.

 

[Manni]

You can ask Ducati in Italy to issue it, usually for a nominal cost. It's a European Certificate of conformity and it's issued by the manufacturer of the country the bike was bought in originally. When I imported my 1150GS recently (or my 1100R 6 years ago) BMW France issued it. It shouldn't be a problem....

 

[carbold]

Yeah it shouldn't be a problem but France is not Italy and I hate to say this right now before the final but French are much more organized than Italians. Did try that route and emailed Ducati Italia they said they don't do it.
Thanks guys I will try again it still seems the most obvious way.

 

[emjay]

Did try that route and emailed Ducati Italia they said they don't do it.

Just a thought, could you sort it through Ducati in the UK

Avebury House 201-249
Avebury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
Tel.: +44 845 1 222996
Fax: +44 845 1 222748
E-mail: [email protected]

 

[wessie]

I recommend posting your query on the usenet forum uk.rec.motorcycles. Several of the regular posters are Ducati officianados and might be able to direct you to the resource you require.

If you do not have access to a newsgroup (nntp) server then you can access the group via google groups. The url is http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles?lnk=li

 

[carbold]

Tried Ducati UK they said to refer to Ducati Italy
Funny thing is I'm pretty sure DVLA would be happy with anything coming from Ducati, a club or probably even a dealer but the dealers we contacted won't do it. We'll prob end up forking out £70 for the SVA...bugger

 

[Crapaud]

I had this problem when I moved from Jersey to UK. Even though bike wa ssupplied by BMW UK they couldn't/wouldn't help. It depends on the age of the vehicle. If is older than about 10 years its easy and if its less then 5 years its OK but the problem is between the 2 ie 5 to 10 years old. After exactly one year of being p'd about and various agencies losing stuff in th epost I had to take the SVA test. Thats when I had by infamous problem with TKC 80s. You should be alright as I doubt you run knobblies on a Ducati

 

[franco]

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Yeah it shouldn't be a problem but France is not Italy and I hate to say this right now before the final but French are much more organized than Italians. Did try that route and emailed Ducati Italia they said they don't do it.
Thanks guys I will try again it still seems the most obvious way.

You've obviously never lived in France then? I brought my mother-in-laws old Golf down from the UK. Wrote to VW France to get a certificate de conformite in order to register it France. It's got a UK issued 'EU' logbook, but that's not enough. So after forking out 113 euros and waiting 6 weeks, we get a ceritificat de conformite PARTIELLE or nearly conforming. Turns out the chassis plate doesn't have the gross and unladen weights in kgs stamped on it, so I've got to fork out another 100 euros to go to the control centre 100kms from the house, who only open two days a week and only accept vehicules who've made appointments by telephone, you can't even make an appointment if you turn up. They give me the details, then I've got to go to somewhere to get it stamped (my wife went to two different VW garages, and they didn't have a clue), so I'll take it to a Mr Minute type place to get done, then go back to the centre to verify, then off to the prefecture with a ream of documentatio to pay another 135 euros to get the car registered.
French? Organised? That'll be shining bright.

 

[givitsum]

UK plate---

Just brought an airhead in from the States Franco---all I did was get her MoT'd to show that she conformed to UK standards and they issued a registration number no bother.

1. You will need Insurance certificate, in my case it was issued on the Vin number.
2. MoT certificate.
3. Original title showing when the bike was first sold or registered so that they can issue the correct letter for the year of manufacture.
4. I also had a letter from the Customs & Excise at the port of entry stating that all duties had been paid.

Took all this to the local DVLA office in Shrewsbury and they issued me with the correct registration number, starting with 'H' in my case plus my first twelve month's road tax.

Total cost; road Tax £62.00
Registration; £38.00

good luck

givit

 

[carbold]

Just brought an airhead in from the States Franco---all I did was get her MoT'd to show that she conformed to UK standards and they issued a registration number no bother.

1. You will need Insurance certificate, in my case it was issued on the Vin number.
2. MoT certificate.
3. Original title showing when the bike was first sold or registered so that they can issue the correct letter for the year of manufacture.
4. I also had a letter from the Customs & Excise at the port of entry stating that all duties had been paid.

Took all this to the local DVLA office in Shrewsbury and they issued me with the correct registration number, starting with 'H' in my case plus my first twelve month's road tax.

Total cost; road Tax £62.00
Registration; £38.00

good luck

givit

I really don't understand, it seems like every DVLA office applies different rules! We went to DVLA Sheffield with the insurance certificate and MOT (both issued with the chassis number) plus the Italian logbook but they wanted this bloody Certificate of Comformity.