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colour change on taxbook
Hi all, i wrapped my partners car white a few months back changing it from silver, her mot is next month so my question is does the taxbook need changed for the colour? ive read some people saying no because its a temp colour change and not permanent but wanted to check here
thanks
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As far as I understand:
V5 – no, permanent colours only.
Insurance – yes…in the event of a claim I’m sure they’ll get out of paying out.
I suppose the same goes for vans that get full wraps..V5 stays the same, but your insurance may go loopy if you don’t let them know about significant changes tot he appearance.
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Cheers Dave, i never actually thought about insurance…
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just for info, i spoke to my insurance company about 3 weeks ago regarding branding up my car, in fairness to the guy in the call centre, he spoke to the underwritters and called be back straight away:
Its fine to brand your vehicle but they would want to know the cost of the work. Under £250 he said would be no problem, over £250 it would need to be reffered to the underwritters.
I appreciate the OP was asking about wraps, but it may well be similar with other insurers (i’m with Direct Line).
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good to know james, i did this as a labour of love so i can value it at £250 🙂
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funnily enough my work came in at £249.99… 😀
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funnily enough my work came in at £249.99… 😀
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I think the registered colour is more to do with identification of the vehicle rather than the cost incurred in branding etc. Therefore I would think DVLA may be the best place to check what is legal or not.
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I let my clients know that they need to let they insurance know.
Ive done that with my car and its in right now with the insurance bodyshop getting repaired and revinyled, they had it for 3 weeks now, had a lady reverse into it
I would do it myself but too busy wrapping other people cars
My cars gone through two mots since its been wrapped and had no problems with it not being on the v5
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When I spoke with DVLA about this a few years ago I was told that it was a temporary change & they didn’t need to be informed or the V5 altered, long as it was removable.
Never been a problem for me with MOt’s over the years either.
Insurance is another ball game altogether, depends on the company but always tell them & get something in writing. Some companies will just include it, some will charge an extra premium for it & some companies won’t cover it at all so if you have a repair done you would have to pay for any replaced signage/wrap yourself.I always ask now when I am looking around for a quote not that it makes a lot of difference to me the age & state of most of the vehicles I drive 🙄 🙄
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