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[Sir Tigger KC]

A few years ago my mate in Scotland had his Arctic Cat350 quadbike nicked from outside his house. He reported it to the police, got the crime number and that was about it. 

Anyway, yesterday he checked the Reg no to find that it now comes up as a Honda TRX 475 quadbike and the online records show that it has an export marker.

Now presumably the original quadbike is long gone and is either rounding up sheep in Ireland or has been broken for parts, but given that it has been reported as stolen, would DVLA reallocate the reg number? 

What's the export marker all about?    They could only do that if they had the V5. They didn't have the original, and surely couldn't get a new one from DVLA for a stolen vehicle?     Unless McPlod were extremely slow at marking it as a stolen vehicle, if they even bothered? 

 A mystery....   

[STEMO]

Reallocation of the reg number is the only explanation I can think of.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Reallocation of the reg number is the only explanation I can think of.

Yes there must be a time limit with stolen vehicles where the reg no is reallocated if the vehicle is not recovered. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Unless it was registered using documents obtained under false pretences and the reg then transferred onto the new vehicle