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Originally Posted by Adrian E
I used that piece of info from brasiliangringo's post as I know he has HPI access which is where I assume it will have flagged it.
On the v5c it should state in section 3 'declared new at first registration'
In section 4b the dates should be the same if it's an official UK car - if it's a parallel import from Germany it will depend if it was registered in Germany for a period of time before coming here, or was bought to be registered as new in the UK. Some imports are just vehicles sourced for forces members overseas.
I don't think it makes much difference in any case at this age - the main reason it might have an influence on value is if the spec was far short of standard UK which is doubtful on something like an A8 - more of an issue on a Golf where a UK spec car would have climate control as standard on many models, but an import might just get manual a/c or none at all.
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Ideal that is awesome information there. I'll grab the documents down tomorrow and have a look now that I know what I'm searching for, and then I'll let you guys know although as with the case of my old Evo9 the two were so close in spec bar the paperwork and these ****ty plastic plaques for the exterior door panels, that in fact the club ended up on a poll being almost an even split. doesn't appear from what you say it makes a great deal of difference here either. I remember there being some suggestion that the number plate mount wreaks of import... I did wonder about the German writing on it, but I used to sell early smarts and the German written on them everywhere and still is on the current model released on the 3rd. I simply kept it on as I found it an original part of the car, German car and German holder, Keep it... I gave it little more thought than that.
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