i am ment to be selling a car to someone in germany but not sure if to sell it to him or not he wants me to email him a copy of the log book for his insurance he says its for. is the normal way when sending a car abroad and what do you do with the log book

 

I sold an mr2 turbo to a lad in germany. He had the car picked up on a trailer by a private company. I just filled out the relevant part for selling the car abroad and gave that part to the driver and just sent away the normal part to say I was no longer the owner in the uk. Never heard of having to photocopy/email the v5 before but that could have changed in the 5 years since I sold the car. Can't imagine an insurance company like dealing with photocopys tho as its not a valid document surely.

Cheers,
Melly

 

just rang dvla and they said i only have to send the export piece of with a cover letter saying where the cars gone to and the rest goes with the buyer

 

It's normal for a German buyer to want to see the logbook as they need info from it so that they can organise export papers.

 

I agree, its perfectly normal for the buyer to ask for this

My last two scoobs went abroad...

 

Yup, nothing fishy here. It quite normal for foreign buyer to need a copy of the log book to arrange insurance. There has been several threads about this on SN and they have resulted in successful sales.