Anybody disposing of a car or keeping an old shed for stripping needs to be careful with the introduction of the new V5 regstration document.
If the vehicle has an old style form with the scrapping section, you can carry on as you were and inform the DVLA with this when its weighed in for scrap.
However, if you get a car with the new red fronted V5 you cannot simply hand the carcass to the pikeys and post the form off.
Nope, you need to take the chassis, complete with readable VIN to an Authorised Treatment Facility (Licenced Pikeys) and get a certificate of destruction and send that off.
All the time you have the Chassis, it must be sorned, if you dont sorn it a VED arrears bill will arrive.
So dont let it out of your sight unless you have the paperwork.
The DVLA version is here
Scrapping your vehicle
You must take your vehicle to an authorised treatment facility who will make sure that it’s dismantled in an environmentally friendly way.The vehicles you can take are:
cars
light vans
three-wheeled motor vehicles - excluding motor tricycles
Authorised treatment facilitiesThe ATF will give you a Certificate of Destruction (CoD) straight away if they agree to take your vehicle. They’ll also tell DVLA that you’re no longer responsible for the vehicle. Keep the certificate as proof that the vehicle has been destroyed and you’re no longer responsible for it.
If you have a vehicle other than those already mentioned, you still need to take your vehicle to an ATF to ensure it’s destroyed to environmental standards. They’ll arrange for the vehicle record at DVLA, to be updated with a Notification of Destruction.
Find your nearest authorised treatment facility Opens new window Telling DVLA you no longer have the vehicle
If you’re not given a CoD or your vehicle is not being destroyed, then you should complete the V5C/3 ‘Notification of sale or transfer’ section of your vehicle registration certificate (V5C), and send it to DVLA, Swansea, SA99 1BD.
You should get a letter confirming that you’re no longer responsible for the vehicle. If you don’t get this letter within four weeks, phone 0300 790 6802 for further advice. Text phone users can phone 0300 123 1279.
If you have broken up the vehicle yourself, you must either continue to tax it or tell the DVLA that you are keeping it off the public road. You can do this by making a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification). You will need to make a SORN every year until you have taken it to an ATF, or told DVLA that you longer have it.