Track down previous car owners in UK?

[teamcamber]

Hi,

I'm woundering if I can track down previous car owers from a car in UK?

The car is here in Sweden now with no history at all, I have a few papers for oil changes in gearbox and engine but thats petty much it.
Car look fine but becouse its missing the service book and only has a oil change paper fram 3 moths ago thats not enogh for me.


The car is a Nissan GT-R from 2009, and is imported to Sweden about 2 months ago.
Registration plate in uk: R2TGL
Vin number: JN1AR54F99M250111

Found another paper in the car from acorn cars UK, and I think its a sales paper, from 2019.
Tried to track down acorn cars but with no luck.

Anyone that can help me with this?

[andrewcliffe]

R2TGL
Nissan Unknown
Silver
Petrol
3799 cc

Date registered in UK - 4 September 2008

Last MoT - 19/12/2019, 30,597 miles
no previous mot's which is odd, so hasn't been on the road since it was registered.

[AlexRS2782]

Either the DVLA haven't processed the export paperwork yet (possible given CV delays), or whoever sold / exported it hasn't declared it as it still shows up on the DVLA online check as "Export Marker - No". Last V5 was also issued on 8th June '20.

The plate listed above has the format of a private one, but could have possibly been issued to the car when registered, but even so there should be more history under either that or a previous plate. Weird there isn't because DVLA / Cazana are normally pretty good at catching / tieing those in. The fact the plate still shows on the DVLA checker suggests it hasn't been put on retention before export.

I only say that as i know both the previous Caterham R300 & Exige S i owned were exported after i sold them, and both still show on the DVLA with history from both the original / private plates and have Yes on the export marker.

Another anomaly on the DVLA site is that the car evidently has a g/km emissions rating of zero. Isn't that what normally gets logged on the V5 against Jap imports that come over but get given a base rate at import / registration rather than the UK calculated rate? Could it have been an import originally hence missing history / MOT's?

[samoht]

Yeah, must be an import if it was registered here in Sept 2008 I think.

https://uk.nissannews.com/en-GB/releases/release-1...
"First deliveries expected March 2009"

Edit: according to http://gtr-registry.com/en-r35-gtr-vin-ranges.php , that VIN is USA/Canada/Middle East (3rd row in the table). Is it LHD?

Edited by samoht on Friday 2nd October 23:55

[teamcamber]

Thanks for the responds.

The car is a GT-R, thats was build with USA spec, but ended up in UK instead.

The seller here in Sweden says the car was owned by Nissan UK for the first maybe 7 year, but is should still have the service logg book if Nissan them self owned the car.

Then a private person boght the car from Nissan, thats what I been told, but I have no paper of anything.

Worth buying a car with so much missing history?

[teamcamber]

samoht said:

Yeah, must be an import if it was registered here in Sept 2008 I think.

https://uk.nissannews.com/en-GB/releases/release-1...
"First deliveries expected March 2009"

Edit: according to http://gtr-registry.com/en-r35-gtr-vin-ranges.php , that VIN is USA/Canada/Middle East (3rd row in the table). Is it LHD?

Edited by samoht on Friday 2nd October 23:55

The car is LHD,

[samoht]

Interesting. All I can say is that I don't remember any LHD cars being used for magazine road tests back in 2008-09, it seems quite curious to me for Nissan UK to bring in a USA spec car, I would have expected a UK spec one or before they were available perhaps a JDM one.

You could try posting on https://www.gtr.co.uk/forums/ , seems quite active, if it's been owned by Nissan then someone might know something, also as being LHD it might have stuck in someone's memory I guess.