Changes in DVSA recording chassis numbers

Bill Silcock has told us that the DVSA recording system has been modified and now will not accept the ‘/‘ character as part of the chassis number, so on your MoT certificate your chassis number will appear without this character.
Further, the letters that sometimes appear after the chassis number (Bill’s chassis number includes ‘EXLU’ as the car was repatriated from the States) get lost, and he received a letter from DVSA asking for clarification because the chassis number recorded at the MoT testing station did not agree with that on the V5 document.
Bill contacted the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs’ DVSA liaison Officer and sorted the issue out, so the DVSA record for his car is now as it should be but without the ‘/‘.
If anyone else runs into a difficulty like this please let the T Register Secretary know so that we can help sort out the issue for you.