Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Classic Morgans (pre-CX) V5C Model Discrepancy for Plus Four

V5C for my 2018 Roadster just indicates Morgan for marque and Roadster for model so something must have changed in the DVLA registering process.

Well it seems that the DVLA on initial issue of the V5/V5c entered the vehicle type/details how they saw fit. As Graham rightly said they are in effect all 4/4's. Some being classified by their engine size, some by type, sub category or just plain 4/4 and cc rating. They have never shown chassis size or body width deviations etc. and you certainly are not the first to come across the job's worth's over this!

Use a recognised Morgan insurer, google it or if you join MSCC in the monthly mag Miscellany the relevant insurers advertise. If you want to speed things up though ,Gott and Wynn is an excellent starting point. They have a man who specifically deals with Morgan's and he really knows his stuff,, their quote will also be the most competitive that you'll probably get as well!

Morgan have been registering their 4 wheel cars since 1936 so you'd think the DVLA would have got it by now! surely they would have a data base they could refer too! If I were you I wouldn't bother trying to alter anything V5C, wise just get it insured and carry on! to poke the machine who's computers always say NO! is potentially the loss of a years motoring while you battle it out with them trying to explain the impossible!

If DVLA couldn't work out that TVR Tamin was a typo, you have little chance of getting them to recognise a +4!

Shame it wasn't a Jamin

Only 4/4 after World War 2, pre war 4 wheelers were 4-4

Arwyn

My 1991 +4 is on the V5 as Morgan 4/4
Ian Parkinson

The V5 on my 1987 4/4 describes it as a "Motor Caravan". It's been like this from new and despite several requests to DVLA I have never managed to get it changed. I did manage to get the colour changed . It was originally described as 'white' and has now been altered to 'cream' but, again, they refused to acknowledge "Royal Ivory"!

Mine is "cream" too, which has always slightly irritated me. The rest of the V5C is correct though. All Austin 7s were originally documented with an 858cc engine, the size of the Mk1 Mini, rather than the 750cc actually under the bonnet.

If you've restored or imported a vehicle the process to get it registered with authentic information is quite involved, rightly so. Once you have a V5C it seems the DVLA's only concern is matching a registration number to an owner.

According to the DVLA one of HOPMOG's member's 4/4 is a Motorcycle

DVLA only use a limited colour description range. Red covers a range of variants. White the same. You won’t be able to get your exact colour on the V5. Think of all the colour variants available now ! I once queried a Sportage colour on my car. It was a graphite/almost black but listed as grey.