Aarrrrrggg!!! Registrations Docs????

[annie0000]

Husband trading his car tomorrow - just asked me if he needs to take anything with him. Suggested Keys, Reg Docs and MOT certificate. He has no clue where any of the documents are!!! I've checked the filing cabinet and the vehicle handbook folder thingy. What is likely to be the outcome with the garage if we can't find them? ................and if anyone psychic is looking in, can you point me in the right direction??

[boxtops]

Er - they might not take it off him if he can't prove it's his...?

[ubasses]

Registration docs are vital, they may not worry about MOT as they will probably give it a new one for 12 months before selling it on.

[bednobs]

i doubt anyone will accept a car without the logbook - you could have nicked it.
i predict they are in the spare bedroom, or in the sideboard

[sherrardk]

Are they in the actual car?

[Buenchico]

Did Hubby tax the car online or at the Post Office? If the latter, he will have taken the MOT certificate with him (possibly in a folder also containing the registration document?), so he'll need to think back to that day and try to remember whether he had everything in a folder, in an envelope or whatever (and, of course, what he then did with that folder or envelope!).

[annie0000]

God I could kill him!!! Was only MOT'd at end of March as that was it 3 years old - and the same garage did it - so they will have a record of that. I don't have a sideboard and spare room was just cleared out when we had visitors last week - but I'll give it a go!

I do have the DVLA reminder for the tax for end March this year as I did it on-line - I guess that kind of proves ownership.

[annie0000]

sher - emptied the car yesterday and have checked in the only folder left in there which is the manual and service book etc. We bought the car from new from the dealership and it is another branch of the same dealer that we are trading with, I even found the receipt for the car, so I guess that helps a bit.

Chris- crossed there but did the tax on-line. Well, I did it not him or he'd be driving with no tax either.

[funnygirl]

A while ago we were looking for a new car and found one we were interested in, but the owner explained he did not have a registration doc and we refused to touch it.

I see he is still trying to sell it. I just don't know why he doesn't apply for a new document.

[sherrardk]

My husband does things like this on a regular basis - he is basically crap at looking after official stuff. If ever he needs his passport to prove his identity he has to give it back to me as soon as he comes home. Sometimes it's like having an extra child.

[annie0000]

found them - I keep a basket in the under the table in the livingroom (well two actually) One has all the chargers and batteries in it, the other mainly candles and spare bulbs. I don't know what made me look, but found it at the bottom together with a map of the lake district and 4 Trail magazines!!!! Phewwwww!

[Hopkirk]

Keep the car.

Trade in the husband.

[annie0000]

you are right sher - he volunteered to go to the shops last night for bread and milk, I asked him to get some cooked chicken and Italian salami for the kids sandwiches. I stupidly didn't check what he had bought till I went to make the lunches at 6.30 this morning. I got the bread and milk together with 2 packs of value ham and a huge pack or corned beef!!! No 1 son will eat corned beef but there is too much in the pack for him to eat before it will need chucked and no 2 son doesn't eat either of those so I ended up mixing up tuna mayo at the crack of dawn and being crabbit all day cos I was then behind schedule.

[annie0000]

Hopkirk - the car is definitely the more valuable asset!!

[sara3]

Hopkirk has the answer ;o)

[sherrardk]

Mine's getting worse - he has actually locked one of our children in the car TWICE (and walked off without her) in the last couple of weeks.

[annie0000]

sher, lol!

I am apparently meant to maintain a mental inventory for every item in the house - as well as everyones schedule, everyones likes and dislikes, glasses prescriptions, medical history, library books due date etc etc .........and maintain a full time job and do 80% of the housework, 95% of the shopping, 75% of the childcare and god knows what else! - Just as well I am wonder woman.