Buying a trike without getting mislead

This guide is designed to help you out if your thinking of buying a trike and to hopefully point you in the right direction.Basically if you buy a trike it has to have paperwork saying that it is a trike from DVLA, (unless its an unfinished project which will then need an MSVA inspection). The v5 must state that it is registered as a tricycle, for it to be legally allowed on the roads. Some trikes, offered for sale, are being offered as trikes but are registered as Reliant tricycles with Reliant V5's, these are strictly not Trikes.New guidelines, for Trike MOT inspectors, state that what is on the DVLA database, must be what is presented for an MOT or it must be refused a test and as far as I am aware DVLA will be notified. Therefore, for a reliant Tricycle to pass an MOT the chassis must be how it was when it left the Reliant factory and not be tubular frame carrying the vin from a Reliant. If you present one like this for an MOT it SHOULD be refused a test. More and more folks with "Reliant" trikes are now finding out the hard way. There are no so called 'Grandfather rules' here either, where vehicles registered or customised before a specific date are exempt from the ruling. There are a few out there that are correctly registered using DVLA's points system, which allows the builder to keep the identity of the donor vehicle, but if the chassis is altered in any way then it won't have accrued enough points, to keep the original identity. So please bare this in mind, do your homework and dont get caught out.There are also a number of tricycles, that are currently on the market, with incorrect documentation. They are not registered with the DVLA as motorcycle derived tricycles, but are still registered as the donnor vehicle. (A

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