Historic Vehicle rolling 40 year exemption..

[mike the bike]

I always SORN it for the winter anyway.  I should have my Katana 650 on the road by then to use.

[Spitfire]

I bought my bike in April 1976 so if it goes on date first registered I will have to wait until the following year, so who do you contact at Honda to get a certificate stating when it was manufactured ?

Cheers

Dennis

[Bryanj]

Just Honda UK motorcycle division, dating letter costs about £30 from memory

[Chris400F]

This is the page on the Honda web site with the information:
http://bikes.honda.co.uk/motorcycles/my-bike/year-of-manufacture.html
Even though as far as I can tell my 400/4 is a UK bike I just got a letter saying they were unable to identify my motorcycle
from their archives or computer systems, and return of cheque (£30 is correct). Took about 3 weeks from me sending the letter
to receiving their response.

[Spitfire]

Thank you very much for that, I'll get on it

Cheers

Dennis

[petersy]

I always SORN it for the winter anyway.  I should have my Katana 650 on the road by then to use.

Mike

Why do you SORN through the winter?

If a bike is tax exempt, it should make no difference should it?

Or am I missing something.

[Chris400F]

'Exempt' is something of a misnomer.
You still have to have road tax, it just costs zero.
Of course at zero rate you may as well tax the bike for 12 months of the year rather than maybe
tax for 6 months then SORN it for the other six.

[Bryanj]

I think "Historic" only comes in 12 month types

[mike the bike]

It's not exempt yet, its only 39 and a half.

[Chris400F]

Thanks for the comment Oddjob. If I'd realised that I would maybe have tried again, you live and learn ....
I think I have seen other comments elsewhere about poor service from Honda regarding this sort of enquiry.
In the end I figured that if 400/4s were made from 1975 - 77 then as mine is late in the production run (from
engine and frame numbers) it must be a 77 bike. Put all the information in a letter to the VJMC Dating Service and
got a Dating Letter back which DVLA accepted. Year of manufacture is now recorded by DVLA as 1977, much better
than 1981 as it was shown when I got the bike and hopefully will save me four years of road tax.

[petersy]

Don't accept that response Chris. Do what I did and make a stink over it, even if they can't identify your exact bike they should be able to get a really good idea of which month it was built by using frame numbers near yours. That's the point I made to them and they eventually just said a month but no exact date in that month. Best yet, I didn't pay as they'd already returned my cheque.

Honda Motors returned my £30 cheque too - but they neeedn't have insulted my intelligence by telling me that they were unable to identify the year of manufacture from the frame and engine number.

I would rather them just told me that they couldn't be arsed.

[Johnwebley]

I am surprised at that,

 when I asked HM for a date,they were great,then I realised I had transposed an digit on the engine number,I e-mailed
the lady that signed the letter,she e-mailed me back,and re-did the cert FOC and quickly,

[petersy]

Sent mine here:

Honda UK
Customer Operations
Cain Road
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 1HL

Maybe I should have sent it somewhere else.

[Johnwebley]

Sent mine here:

Honda UK
Customer Operations
Cain Road
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 1HL

Maybe I should have sent it somewhere else.



   same place !!

[Chris400F]

Sent mine there too, that's the address they give on their Year of Manufacture web page.