My car has a birthday

[mickt]

Today my car is 20 years old

[volvosneverdie]

I hope you got it something nice dude.

[filthyjohn]

I'm not entirely sure how old any of mine are. I know I was gutted when the main dealer parts troll told me my blue 3dr was a '90.
*edit* though some of the relays are dated 11/89

[MJ]

John, just go to http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/index.jsp, click on Vehicle Enquiry, slap in the Reg and make and it'll give you the date it was registered

[filthyjohn]

Cheers MJ, forgot about the vehicle enquiry.

The enquiry is complete
The vehicle details for G542 AHK are:

Date of Liability 01 10 2009
Date of First Registration 24 11 1989
Year of Manufacture 1989
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1397CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status SORN Not Due
Vehicle Colour BLUE
Vehicle Type Approval null
The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry.
Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle
6 Months Rate £66.00
12 Months Rate £120.00

[volvosneverdie]

The enquiry is complete

The vehicle details for B56 NLP are:

Date of Liability 01 01 2010
Date of First Registration 01 01 1985
Year of Manufacture 1985
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1397CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour GREEN
Vehicle Type Approval null
The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry.
Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle
6 Months Rate £66.00
12 Months Rate £120.00

mine was apparently done on new years day.
Wasnt that a bank holiday in the eighties?

[filthyjohn]

Someone was getting paid overtime!

[volvosneverdie]

Thats probly why I got a colour coated filler cap.
Some disgruntled, hungover employee loloping round sticking random option parts on GLs because hes the only one in the fctory on new years day.

[filthyjohn]

He's the one who deleted the radio!

[volvosneverdie]

yeah, the scrote.
double timed it out the side door with me wireless.

i should complain.
john, you read the daily mail. how does one go about lodging a spurious timewasting complaint on a national scale?

[OapEM]

The enquiry is complete
The vehicle details for A244 AJR are:

Date of Liability 01 06 2009
Date of First Registration 01 02 1984
Year of Manufacture 1984
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1986CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour SILVER
Vehicle Type Approval null
The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry.
Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle
6 Months Rate £101.75
12 Months Rate £185.00

Wonder if they are anything like Nissans and sit around for months after being built lol
No such thing as a 'new' car there a lot of the time!

[filthyjohn]

Same at every car factory, the customer (dealer network) order in bulk, and you can only get 5/6 on a transporter. Plus there's all the foreign-built crap we sell, brought in by ship and sat in our compounds (£6 per day per car apparently).

[OapEM]

Plus there's all the foreign-built crap we sell, brought in by ship and sat in our compounds

Here's one that never made it off the boat lol I done this when I had the dubious pleasure of working down the P.O.T for a bit

BMW only build to order IIRC, but that's a different league to NMUK lol

[volvosneverdie]

good shot that man!

[OapEM]

Yeah, very tired/tuning on radio = BANG flol

Man you could have a laugh there, brand new V6/V8 Infiniti's / 350z's and all the secondhand JDM imports. Anything drifts on a ship, even FWD