by VampireTigger » Tue May 25, 2021 7:33 am
The COC is to do with type approval, which came in around 1987. Vivas don’t have them as the cars predate this.
The worst one I had was when I had an application to first register a Lotus 3-Eleven thrown out because it was not listed as the VAT having been paid on the HM Revenue & Customs NOVA system. This is deigned to ensure HMRC gets its slice of VAT on personal imports, when I talked to HMRC they almost fell over laughing as they had the sense to realise the car was not an import. I even included a copy of the invoice from Lotus Cars for the purchase of the car stating all the required VAT elements and it was still rejected by some script follower who went no NOVA = reject despite the car being a brand new Norfolk built car being supplied to a Lotus main dealer……..
Eventually we managed to talk to someone at DVLA, these were the days before Covid and the strikes, who had some common sense and we sent the application for a third time to them personally and it got sorted.
There are way too many “Computer says no” at DVLA
Adrian Miller
(the Bournemouth one!)
South East Region Rep
Bouncing between Surrey & Dorset