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Do You Own Your Car/van?

I think if your the registered keeper and you have possession of that document, it is proof enough as far as any police officer will be concerned. It would be far fetched to imagine that someone had stole a car with keys and docs, then registered it in there name, without the vehicle being reported as stolen by the would be owner.

 
I think if your the registered keeper and you have possession of that document, it is proof enough as far as any police officer will be concerned. It would be far fetched to imagine that someone had stole a car with keys and docs, then registered it in there name, without the vehicle being reported as stolen by the would be owner.
A V5 is a legal document... Look at it another way if It went to court and you were asked to prove proof of ownerships... The V5 wouldn't work after all it clearly states on it thats its not proof of ownership? If the court wont take notice the police wont...

Its like saying your national insurance card is proof of ID, although that also states thats its not. lol

Also the word ''keeper'' refers to who is resposnible for taxing and reg'ing the vehicle

 
The reason the new V5 says not proof of ownership is because the DVDs office got broken into an 1000's of blank v5 stolen and because of there poor management they were not sure which ones were stolen ones. They estimate over 13,000 stolen cars were sold with these blank v5's .

It's also worth mentioning that at the bottom of the front page, the new one tells you if the car has ever been a write off.

Well mine does.

Technically my car belongs to the missus even though my dad bought it and I'm paying him back, we have a receipt

 
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