Great, just hauled my car to the test centre at Watnall just north of Nottingham (85 mile round trip) for the THIRD time this afternoon.

First two were sva and sva retest, no problems at all.

At the retest the DVLA inspector was present at the station, and as he was unoccupied for an hour or so I asked if he could inspect my car, but without going into all the detail, basically thje answer was no.

I took out insurance, went to the VRO office, sorted the paperwork with them, and they told me I had a two week wait for the DVLA inspection.

Well, just had that, and, as predicted, it took about 2 minutes, and amazingly, einstein decided I needed a Q plate, well that was a great surprise!!!

I now have to wait until "some time next week" to get my reg (actually a phone call to tell me its ready for collection) and how do i predict that the phone call won't happen, I have no way of contacting them and will have to brave the swansea switchboard again.

I eventually cajoled the inpector into phoning me with my reg number, which i now have, but no tax and not actually registered yet, plus no paperwork.

I can get plates made no problem, tomorrow morning, but I guess I'm still not technically legal to drive it!!!

Count yourself lucky - took me a month just to get the reg!!!

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ye gods ........ i can't believe the hassle, next time send your misses in with the car, bound to get a better service!

(does this mean i can have my harneses back? )

I can't understand it - They were pretty good leading up to the inspection for me but they have been useless since - Still nothing in the post today and they've told me it's sat on a desk ready! What is so difficult about updatng a computer, picking a reg no., filling in a tax disk and one form and then putting it in an envelope?...

peterborough has a great guy, came out to see me for a chassis number then made apt to come to the office waited 30 mins walked away with tax disk and paperwork to get plates made

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Originally posted by MikeR
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ye gods ........ i can't believe the hassle, next time send your misses in with the car, bound to get a better service!

(does this mean i can have my harneses back? )

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..........they have a reg for me!!!

yippee!!!!!!!

And I now have plates and a tax disc...........................................shame I'm ill, have to go and have 2 fillings and its raining, but never mind...........................

The danger is about to hit the road

ye gods, i've seen him drive sideways ........

lock up your daughters / cars / motorbikes

watch out roundabouts / global warming / tyre suppliers

(congratulations!)

Have fun Nat I know you will

Ahhh DVLA's ineptitude and incompetence know no bounds!!!!!!

Just got my V5, and hey presto, they have got both the make and the VIN incorrect on it, genius!!!

More calls to the incompetent twats!!