tracing where my nova came form

[14nova]

hi im in n.ireland and on my tax book is said previously registered in GB so i went to the dvlani and asked to get the old plate. they were able to give me the plate but not were it was originally sold from.

is there any way of finding out where it was sold from originally so i can possibly get the correct dealer stickers

old plate:
j494 ktn

[Andy]

by the last 3 letters you could find out the town/city there was a list somewhere on here not so long back

[dannymcc]

TN is Newcastle upon Tyne.

[Rysee]

Newcastle upon Tyne mate



<Edit>I R SLOW

[14nova]

thanks

is there still a dealers in newcastle upon tyne?

[Rysee]

I'd imagine so it isn't exactly a village

[14nova]

must consult google

[14nova]

seems to be coming to a dead end. according to the dealers the registrations where generated randomly and ktn doesnt mean newcastle upon tyne

back in 1992 where there many vauxhall dealers in england?

edit just of phone to yet another dealer. he has searched chassis no through various systems and no luck. but says it is a north eastern region car by the registration. still no further though :(

[Spudly]

The way that reg system works means your car will have been registered in Newcastle, j494 ktn

The J is the registration year, in this case late 1991 - early 1992
The numbers are just the number in sequential order starting from 1 up to 999
The k is just random
And the last two tn are the denominators for the area/county it was registered in.

Hope that makes sense bud.

[Trendall]

so spudly your telling me my old number plate of h568 lpa means it is registered in the H year 568 would mean either random or the registared number of car's and the lpa would be the area post code letters if this is the case then wow tracking car's back to there origin would be alot easyer

[amggsi]

Can you not get a list of previous owners from the DVLA if you are the current owner, should give you a clue where it was sold from when new.........

[Spudly]

so spudly your telling me my old number plate of h568 lpa means it is registered in the H year 568 would mean either random or the registared number of car's and the lpa would be the area post code letters if this is the case then wow tracking car's back to there origin would be alot easyer



Basically yes, but it just the last two letters that relate to where it was registered, there are usually a few variations for each registering area, for example Hull had three originally..

KH
RH
AT

And i think AG was also East Yorkshire area aswell, so in that case the saloon that burgo now has, is originally from my area, and Scott Parkers Passat is a Hull car too:thumb:

[MattBrown]

Spud, the letters you arenusing are from
The old style plates so I believe.

FM is a Chester number, etc!

[Spudly]

Spud, the letters you arenusing are from
The old style plates so I believe.




Yes i knows this, seen as how all novas are registerd on prefix plates and not the new style ones, and the op was wanting to know where his nova is from, i kind of figured this would be more relevant, rather than explaining how the XX51 XXX plates work:roll:

[Trendall]

can i be a pain and have you try to explain the xx51 xxx plate to me please :)

edit: might help people in the future

[14nova]

iv can apply using a v888 forum and £5 to try and get the original dealer or owners details. but they have said they might or might not give out details for privacy reasons

[AlexW]

Sorry to sound like a dick but lot of effort to find out feck all? Whats so special?

[Spudly]

Probably the fact that the car is now in Ireland and he would like to know where abouts it came from:thumb:


Easiest way to explain the new type is the two beginning letters are where it is registered i.e. YY51 XXX

The YY is where it was registered, in this case Yorkshire
51 is obviously the year and month it was registered, the 5th month of 2001
And the last three letters XXX are just a random combination to make the plate up.

Hope that makes sense to you Trendall lol

[Trendall]

That helps alot cheers mate +rep

[Keif]

51 is obviously the year and month it was registered, the 5th month of 2001

Nope 51 means it was registered from September 2001 to the end of February 2002.

Their is no reference to the month the car was registered in the new style plates.

[Southie]

;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/British_car_registration_plate_labels.svg/551px-British_car_registration_plate_labels.svg.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/British_car_registration_plate_labels.svg)

[Balley]

last 5 months then

[amggsi]

last 5 months then

Not exactly, there are 2 6 month periods with the regs,

01 would have ran from March 01 to September 01, 51 would have ran from September 01 through to March 02.

If was my car, and you wanted a dealer sticker, I'd find one within the area it was registered and throw it on, who is going to know the difference!!

[moffat]

there isnt a 01 iirc started on 51

[amggsi]

there isnt a 01 iirc started on 51

Was only using that as an example really, same thing applies for each year.:thumb:

[14nova]

Not exactly, there are 2 6 month periods with the regs,

01 would have ran from March 01 to September 01, 51 would have ran from September 01 through to March 02.

If was my car, and you wanted a dealer sticker, I'd find one within the area it was registered and throw it on, who is going to know the difference!!


ive townparks on it at the minute as it came to me with their number plates on so must of went through it at some stage. i think but they dont have a peroid one