Buying a RV

[StevieB]

Hi there,We are looking to buy an rv,and need info please.The year of registration in uk may not be the year of manufacture in usa is that correct.
Thank`s for help. SB

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HI

Yes this can be the case, always check on the chassis plate to see the year of manufacture.

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[Jay & Elle]

Hi Stevie,

The current British registration system will show you the date on which the vehicle was first registered - in whatever country that may be. We bought our vehicles in April 2010, and that's that date of their "first registration", so they have plates showing 10, rather than the date we brought them into the UK or registered them which would have been 11.

If you're dealing with a vehicle which has a registration before the current system (back to the days of letters as prefixes) I'm not certain what the deal was. I seem to recall that when I brought my car in as a young Squaddie returning from a tour in Cyprus, the number plate I received was for the current year in the UK, but that recollection may well be inaccurate due to the large amount of Cyprus Brandy which was still in my blood stream at the time.

One other thing to mention is that the US manufacturers released their "2012 models" in about August or September 2011 - yeah, go figure. So that's an area where confusion abounds easily.

Also, the date of manufacture of the chassis may not be the same as the date of manufacture of the RV. When we registered our Winnebago in the US, we had to send the documents back to be re-done, because the clerk in the Department of Motor Vehicles had taken the date of manufacture of the Ford chassis (which was 2009) rather than the date of manufacture of the motorhome which was 2010. Having two pieces of paper with different dates on them must have been too much for them to deal with.

Hope that helps,

Jay & Elle

[StevieB]

Hi and thanks for the reply,say a rv was built in year 2000 and shipped to uk in 2005 would it have year 2000 reg or 2005 reg in uk.
All the adverts for rv sales say first reg in xxxx year. thanks again .SB the above dates are just an example.

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It would be reg. as W/X reg. In reg doc it would say date of first reg (i.e date manufactured) then below it date of first reg in UK (i.e 05)

So it should be advertised with year of motorhome not registered date. if it was built in 2000, and sold in 2001, you could say it was a 2001 model, but there becomes a point were that date is stretched to far!
tom