I sold my old WRX in October of 2012 to a chap who came down from Devon to collect. A few weeks later I received a letter from his local town council for a parking ticket. I contacted them after trying to contact the buyer (unsuccessfully) and they said it may have taken the DVLA some time to update their records. Again a few months later I received the same letter so this time contacted the DVLA, and found out the buyer had taxed the car using the small green slip . The DVLA had never received my "new owner details" so I ended up having to send a copy of the receipt I got him to sign before he drove it away.
All was forgotten, until today when I got a letter from the council again threatening bailiffs. I know this was unlikely but I just paid it.
I managed to track down the buyer on Facebook, and found several dated pictures of him with the car on the day of purchase, and with the car in several different locations. And eventually a picture of the car in a ditch .
So I messaged him and got all the excuses in the world, but an admittance that he taxed it months later. After x amount of time he basically said he would pay back £20 per month, but I've asked for it back in full as I don't see I should be chasing him about. The car was registered in his Dad's name, and I have all his Dad's details.

It's only £82, but for me it's the principal. I've screenshotted all the pictures and URL's from his facebook page and the transcript of the conversation on FB also.

Would you chalk it up as a bad experience or would you pursue it further?.

 

Chalk it up as a bad experience and move on.

DVLA are useless sometimes.

I always send the V5 back First Class recorded signed for.

Its a common occurrence in the DVLA for docs to go missing.

Happened to me a few times.

Never happens when it's sent recorded though. Strange that.

You could pursue but this guy sounds like a tool anyway so you'll end up most likely wasting so much of your own time and money in the end.

 

My sister lost her licence as the new owner got 6 points within a few days, and my sister swears she didnt get the letters asking for the driver details so it went in her licence, had to go to court and everything.

 

That's awful.

When I sold my last car before the Scoob the guy was adamant he wanted to take the V5 to post off himself just to make sure it gets sent.

Its like I said to him. Its my job to notify the DVLA that I'm not the registered keeper anymore not yours.

The fact though that the OP's V5 was lost is just unlucky.

 

7 Years I owned that blinking car, 6 months after it's written off .

 

Horrendous mate.

I know accidents happen but sometimes you can just see the person buying is going to end up like it.

Ten years ago I wouldn't sell to someone I didn't like the look of as most of the cars were hot hatches etc so attracted certain people. These days i'm glad for the sale.

Such a hard market.

 

Let Karma sort it,,,it will

Bez

 

Looks like it already has by the state of car, not registered so no insurance claim as it will be void insurance.

 

Judging by the owners FB page he goes through a car per 6 months.

 

i have had this happen to me twice now where the dvla have tried to stitch me up thankfully i always take a photocopy of receipt and filled in and singed log book before sending it off, since the dvla have a habit of loosing mail, any document i send to them is sent by special delivery, it costs money but i can prove i posted it and it was received what they choose to do with it then is up to them.

 

When you send the new owner supplement off you should get a receipt within a few weeks. If not contact the DVLA. Copy everything, photograph it if needs must. No excuses really.