StevieB
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 05:08 PM |
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Checking vehicle identity based on VIN?
Hi.
This is a question about a motorbike but I guess it would bequally applicable to cars too.
I'm looking at buying a cheap 125cc bike and most in my price range tend to be field bikes with no V5 present.
While I would obviously make sure a frame and engine number is intact, is there anywhere on the internet I can type in the VIN and check whether the
bike has ever been reported stolen?
I don't want to buy a bike and end up losing it to the rightful owner as soon as I apply for the V5 doc.
Cheers
Steve
PS. Anyone got a DT 125 R tucked away that they don't want anymore? 
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r1_pete
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 05:11 PM |
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Last time I bought a bike with no V5, I needed the registration number to get one, things may have changed in the online world, it is a good few years
ago....
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HowardB
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 05:44 PM |
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my brother had a dt125R nicked, I guess it probably ended up being used by the local youths on the estate,...
I did find somewhere that claimed to check,..
try here
http://www.checkmycar.com/
hope that works for you
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again  and goes zoom)
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Peteff
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 08:24 PM |
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Take the number on the headstock to your bike MOT station and get them to run it through the computer. If it has been registered since the new system
came in it should show up.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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StevieB
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| posted on 23/2/11 at 07:45 PM |
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The budget I'm working with means that very few bikes I'll be looking at will have been registered since the new system was put in place.
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