DVLA and Taxing a vehicle

[MJH2454]

I recently had the letter from DVLA to tax my Spitfire MKIV, it is registered as an historic vehicle on the V5.

The letter quotes the V5C reference number I should use whilst taxing the vehicle which is an 11 digit number.

The DVLA taxing website will only accept 16 Digit V5 numbers

So I can't carry out the request to tax the vehicle, I wrote to the DVLA 2.5 months ago about the anomaly, to date no response

This must be happening to others, any advice?

Many Thanks

[Pete Lewis]

so you do have a current V5 showing historic ???   that shpuld get it taxed at a Post office 

you could go to a post office that does tax  and they  can ring their hot line and maybe get some clues for you how to use the  V5C

thats a bit odd , have you tried phoning dvla for their take on the missing 5 digits ??

Pete

[thescrapman]

I think you are mixing 2 numbers up.

taxing in 1 way needs the 16 digit number on the reminder, other way uses the 11 digit on the V5c.

ISTRvif you have the reminder you can't use the other method?

[MJH2454]

the reminder had the same 11 digit number as the V5

[MJH2454]

Well done guys, I went into the system again and said I didn't have a reminder and that allowed me to tax the vehicle using the 11 digit number