Registering bike with USA title document.

[AshimotoK0]

Pretty familiar with registering via dating cert. route but anyone know what the procedure is if you have an original USA title document? I have three bikes with USA titles and need to get them registered.

[SteveW]

DVLA still want a dating certificate. If you send the original title you won’t get it back.

[Bryanj]

When i did it they accepted the title as date proof but does it show the correct year?
Yes you dont get it back, in theory it is sent back to the country of issue telling them its no longer there.
Personaly Ash i would get dating letters and put the titles in the file for the bike

[heli_madken]

I got a Title document with my CBX import. The problem was that although the bike was built in 1981 the title showed first registration as 1983 and the VJMC dating service wanted to use this date which would have delayed the historic taxation class for a few years. So I 'misplaced' the Title and sent photos of the VIN Plate to VJMC for the dating certificate. Worked a treat so I agree with Bryanj's comment, dont use it.

[Seabeowner]

That's why I ended up with a J plate. Kept the title and sent a dating cert based on manufacture date (7/71). Actually would have preferred a K for my 500K0. But I think you should be OK with the title, keep a copy.

[AshimotoK0]

Mine are both 3/71 and I would be peed off if I didnt get a J plate on both of them.

[SteveD CB500K0]

Mine’s a J.
The V5 says 1st April 1971. That’s either a joke or lazy (default to 1st of the month).


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[Bryanj]

I think dvla take it as january of year of manufacture

[AshimotoK0]

Two of the bikes are not that significant .. will just colour scan the titles and use them to register. The third is my 3/71 500K0 so will go to HOC for dating cert on that one. Find VJMC expensive as non member and very picky.

[SteveW]

Two of the bikes are not that significant .. will just colour scan the titles and use them to register. The third is my 3/71 500K0 so will go to HOC for dating cert on that one. Find VJMC expensive as non member and very picky.

DVLA will not accept scans, photocopies of anything.

[Sesman]

Not sure that’s entirely true. I used a colour scan of mine. Perhaps it went undetected by DVLA!

[Laverdaroo]

I’ve sent a few colour copies in my time and never had any issue but I suppose that depends on the integrity of the letter opener and the quality of the print??


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[AshimotoK0]

Two of the bikes are not that significant .. will just colour scan the titles and use them to register. The third is my 3/71 500K0 so will go to HOC for dating cert on that one. Find VJMC expensive as non member and very picky.

DVLA will not accept scans, photocopies of anything.

Didnt mean that . Sending Originals to DVLA..always knew that they dont return ioriginal Docs

[Sesman]

Yes, my colour scans were sent innocently, I didn’t realise at the time they had to be ‘originals’.

[Bryanj]

They say they wont but have done in the past, probably becausethey didnt realise. Scanners and printers are a lot better than a few years back and even repo watermarks