Hi, it's Marcus here from CarVeto. So, this quick video is to explain how to notify DVLA
when you sell or transfer your car to a new person. So, this is the old style V5C logbook
whenever you sell your car or transfer it to somebody in your family, you need to notify
DVLA.
If you're selling privately or transferring to a family member, you will complete this
section here and include the new keeper's name and address, the date of sale or transfer
and you can also include the date of sale as well, that's really best practice so I
would suggest you do that. Then you both sign the logbook at the bottom in this green section
section here. This will enable the new keeper to tax the car which they'll need to do right
away or declare it as SORN, and you will send the rest of the entire logbook to the DVLA.
They'll change the details and send the new logbook to the new keeper.
If you're selling to trade it's slightly different. You don't complete any of this section if
you're selling to trade. Instead, you complete section 9 'selling, transferring or part-exchanging
to a motor dealer. You will complete their business name, address, their VAT registration
number and the date when you have sold the car to them. The next step is that you will
send just this yellow slip to the DVLA. This generally is overlooked by private car buyers.
buyer.
Now, this is the old style V5C. The DVLA has since brought out a new style V5C logbook.
I'm going to hop onto the laptop now and show you what to do if you've got the new style
V5C.
Okay, so coming online we can see this is a digital copy of the new style V5C logbook.
It is very similar but there are a few small changes so I'm going to run through those
quickly now so you know what to do if and when you sell your car and you need to notify
DVLA.
So, obviously, this is the front of the logbook and this is the back. So, if we scroll down
to the important sections and just enlarge this slightly. Okay, so now we can see. So
if you are going to sell your car and you need to notify DVLA you will complete section
two. Again, it's the same green colour in section two, so you include the new keeper's
name, address, their postcode, the driver's license number is an option but the date of
sale or transfer is mandatory, and the mileage is optional as well but we always like to
include mileage as it helps the overall system for reducing the number of clocked cars on
the road today.
So, once you have completed this section, you will provide this section, section six,
to the new keeper. They will retain section six, this will allow them to tax the vehicle
or declare it as SORN and you will send the rest of the logbook off to the DVLA.
Okay, so if you're selling to trade, instead of the old section nine it's section four,
selling transferring or part-exchanging this vehicle to a motor trader. You will complete
the dealer's name, address, VAT registration number, mandatory date of sale, the mileage
is optional but please include that as best practice, and you will send the yellow slip
here to the DVLA and the dealer themselves will retain the rest of the logbook so they
can go on and resell the vehicle.
So, when we are talking about a dealer, we are talking about anybody in the motor trade,
so if you sell to a car buying service or going into a car auction or anything like
that then you will complete the yellow section four that always enables the new keeper to
keep the logbook.
If you are planning to sell your car and haven't done so yet, we've created the latest new
guide just here, all about selling a car and the different options available to you. We
discuss in detail about Motorway, they compare prices and they are a car selling comparison
website. So, they are very good. You'd input a reg here and get an instant, online valuation
that tends to be better prices than that of a single-car buying service like We Buy Any
Car.
There's links below this video about the sources spoken about in this video. If you have any
questions or comments, please leave them below and we'll always get back to you.