lost log book

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dangerousdave

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like a clown it appears i've lost my log book. does anyone else have any experience of this? and can i get another one for free? (n.b. i've had a look on the dvla website and it says it should cost me 25 quid, but i'm hoping there's a trick someone else knows)

ta in advance
 
Lucy

Lucy

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Is it one of the new style red ones? If not, they're re-issuing log books automatically at the moment.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
No easy way out that I know of. I recently had to pay £25 for one myself.
Do you not have the green slip part from when you bought it? If so you can send that in and say you never received yours and it would be free - but that's the only way I know
 
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pollyannapatch

Alison
I got my new red one the other day - if it's not urgent probably best to hang on for the new ones to be issued. They're being re- issued due to the theft of some blue ones...I wonder how many were taken - must be quite a few to force the re-issue of all log books!
 
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dangerousdave

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winner, i'm not looking at getting rid of the motor anytime soon, so i'll just wait for the new style. and they were probably looking to update the log books to make them less easy to counterfit anyway, the theft of some proably just forced the issue
 
wizzard

wizzard

Well-Known Forumite
Yes that's what the letter said, they'd had a lot of blank blue ones go missing that's why the new red one was released :)
 
Lucy

Lucy

Well-Known Forumite
I have a read one, I got it when I bought my car in 2010, so I thought they were just updating them.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
As luck would have it, I have just had two new V5s as a results of SORNing a couple of vehicles and the enclosed notes explain the V5 renewal programme.

DVLA said:
We will issue a new red V5C for all vehicles by November 2012.
Click to expand...

So, you can just hang on for the new one, if you're in no rush. You don't need to return the old one, just destroy it, they say...
 
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