notify the DVLA of colour change?

[yankeedoodle]

i fancy respraying my most recent purchase (a 1986 honda xr 250)

do I have to tell the dvla about the colour change? Im assuming I do as colour is noted on the logbook. If i do, how do I do it.

Cheers

[MattEMulsion]

Yep you should inform them by rights. To do this you just fill in the relevant section on the log book (V5) and send it off.
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[damz]

you'l have to tell your insurance ppl too i beleive

[yankeedoodle]

wicked thanks
its a cheap tatter so I thought about doing a nice cheap, crap matt black spray.

[st3v3]

Mine is listed as white, never been asked about it when pulled by the police, been pulled a few times too. As per my avatar it's clearly red.
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[Hetzer]

I wouldn't bother. My Repsol is down as blue on the V5.
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[Cigaro]

May as well tell them - it's free of charge and they won't need to see it or anything. Just send the logbook with the colour box filled in and they'll send you out a new one.

Had to do it for my old van and it only took a week for the new one to arrive - think that's the fastest the DVLA have ever acted!

[Itchy]

I wonder where they use the coloured bit to define its colour? ,

my CBR is noted down as red , but only the tank and top fairing is red , the rest is blue
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[Cigaro]

Itchy, technically you should list every colour, so if it's red white and blue then you should put that on the registration document I think.

[rossidude46]

I would notify , if only not to get pulled over by traffic police who i think now days can check such details about your bike and if they saw a blue bike that was supposed to be red they might think is was stolen.

my 400 had a Nastro paint job when i got it from the dealers but when the V5 arrived in my name it showed red/white/blue which were the original colours, so i wrote to them explaining in detail the various colours and got the V5 back showing Multi Colour, so id i ever tire of that paint job can change it to what ever i feel like without having to do anything

[jacqui]

My CBR was red, white and blue (american import) on the log book it says red/multi.

It went for its MOT last friday, the tester said as it is now black, i would have to tell DVLA of the change of colour.

He also said that if i was stopped by the police for any reason, and they wanted to be alkward, i could be fined £19 for it having the wrong colour on the log book. I know £19 isn't much, but its better in my pocket than theirs, and changing the colour on the log book only costs the price of a stamp.
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[stinkwheel]

I've notified the DVLA twice that my Jawa is now green and not black. They just sent the V5 back unaltered so I figure if they want to think it's black that badly, it's no skin off my nose.
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[map]

I have a plan should I be unlucky enough to damage the plastics on my bike.

That is to get the bits in any colour from breakers and/or eBay.
Then simply put them on the bike.

Sort of create, for want of a better phrase, a 'united colours of benetton' effect.
My inspiration for this comes from this image...
https://www.my-mc.com/messages/31335/46386.jpg

Don't know what that'd come under with the DVLA though

TBH, one panel needs replacing anyhow but as it's only the one I'm trying to get matching colour.


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[jacqui]

Uugh! Thats hideous! I'm sticking to black.
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