ditchlewis
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 09:20 AM |
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How Long did you wait?
Hi Guys
How long is it before the DVLA get in touch with you after you submit your V55?
I sent off all the paperwork to register the car about 2 weeks ago and I was wondering how long it would be before some one would get in touch with me
to do the inspections and issue the reg documents.
Ditch
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nib1980
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 09:29 AM |
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I went down the local office and it was done next day, I know thats not a lot of help, but I guess the big central office will get loads so a few
weeks is to be expected.
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 10:40 AM |
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We've got to wait until after Christmas for our inspection..
Apparently the person who does them in our area is on paternity leave - what's involved anyway? And why can't it be done by the VOSA
person at SVA??
Chris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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RazMan
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 10:43 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrsgrain
Apparently the person who does them in our area is on paternity leave - what's involved anyway?
You have a kid then take a holiday
I got mine done in 2 days as I had to wait for an inspection date. If you go and feed them all the paperwork in person I think it gets done much
quicker.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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ditchlewis
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 11:08 AM |
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do you think i should phone them and give them a gentle nudge?
I can be quite polite when i want to be
ditch
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BenB
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 12:57 PM |
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Yes. Definitely. 100%.
The people who do inspections are always on holiday / annual leave / sick leave..... Or rather the lazy feckless idiots who have to ask them to do the
inspection are always making up excuses why they shouldn't get off their arses and do the job we pay them to do...
I'd certainly give them a gentle reminder. Most DVLA offices are useless and unless you continuously harass them they'll happily sit on
their BFA all day doing diddly squat.
The person who did my inspection said he'd send in the report two days later. Two weeks later the DVLA office said they still hadn't
received it and they had no way of contacting him until he came back in to work in "around"! 10 days time. I suggested surely he
wasn't having another holiday (they'd done nothing for the first two weeks after I sent in the V55 as apparently he was on holiday then as
well). They just said no, they had no way of contacting him. So I gave them his mobile phone number (which I had from when he rang to organize the
inspection).... They ran out of excuses at that point....
I think the best thing to do is to ring them up, take them by the hand (metaphorically of course) and walk them through a car registration
(discounting their numerous attempts to avoid doing their job by pale and rather unbelievable excuses) should do the trick 
Either that or just put in an official complaint. My experience is they're lazy rather than obstructive and if they realise they'll end
up doing more work  filling out all the paperwork for an offical complaint than by doing the car registration they'll likely do the reg and
ask you to withdraw the complaint (worked for me anyway)...
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iank
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 02:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrsgrain
...And why can't it be done by the VOSA person at SVA??
Chris
You seriously expect two different government departments to be prepared to work together?
Obviously the DVLA couldn't expect a VOSA employee to correctly and honestly check the VIN plate is correct.
</sarcasm>
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 04:45 PM |
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I'm detecting some pent up anger here...
quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Yes. Definitely. 100%.
The people who do inspections are always on holiday / annual leave / sick leave..... Or rather the lazy feckless idiots who have to ask them to do the
inspection are always making up excuses why they shouldn't get off their arses and do the job we pay them to do...
I'd certainly give them a gentle reminder. Most DVLA offices are useless and unless you continuously harass them they'll happily sit on
their BFA all day doing diddly squat.
The person who did my inspection said he'd send in the report two days later. Two weeks later the DVLA office said they still hadn't
received it and they had no way of contacting him until he came back in to work in "around"! 10 days time. I suggested surely he
wasn't having another holiday (they'd done nothing for the first two weeks after I sent in the V55 as apparently he was on holiday then as
well). They just said no, they had no way of contacting him. So I gave them his mobile phone number (which I had from when he rang to organize the
inspection).... They ran out of excuses at that point....
I think the best thing to do is to ring them up, take them by the hand (metaphorically of course) and walk them through a car registration
(discounting their numerous attempts to avoid doing their job by pale and rather unbelievable excuses) should do the trick
Either that or just put in an official complaint. My experience is they're lazy rather than obstructive and if they realise they'll end
up doing more work filling out all the paperwork for an offical complaint than by doing the car registration they'll likely do the reg and
ask you to withdraw the complaint (worked for me anyway)...
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