Hi all, selling my Polo soon and was hoping to get hold of some more history to bulk up the paperwork going with the car (looks good to justify what i'm asking). Got the manual, two sets of keys, service guide with a few stamps in it, a few MOTs and old tax discs but was wondering what I might be able to get hold of through the DVLA. I know you can write to them and with a good explanation get hold of the names of the previous registered keepers- I was going to do this and see if I couldn't track some of them down and ask if they've happened to keep any old paperwork tucked away (original bill of sale, MOTs or whatever). Apart from this, what else could I do? Can you get reprints of old MOTs, seeing as they're registered on a central database to some extent?

Any comments or suggestions would be much appreciated, PM me if you like, cheers

You can get a Vehicle Certificate deed from Volkswagen

http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/index.php?id=288&L=1

Click on certificate generator.

Eur 50,- so you need a good selling price.

I know you can write to them and with a good explanation get hold of the names of the previous registered keepers- I was going to do this and see if I couldn't track some of them down and ask if they've happened to keep any old paperwork tucked away (original bill of sale, MOTs or whatever).

I did exactly this for that reason and apparently the first owner had passed away just a week before I wrote to him. I got a phone call from one of his relatives saying that he had never thrown out any paperwork so there was a good chance he had the paperwork for my car from his period of ownership (he never passed it onto the second owner for some reason). I also found out that it had a private number plate on it when it was brand new.

Here is the V888 form you need to fill out.

you can get MOT details here http://www.ukmot.com/checkMOT.asp but only back to 2005