to be amazed that my dh sold my car ....

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without the garage seeing/speaking to me.

And even though the log book was in my name, they have transferred the money to his bank account

As I pointed out to my dh, they have no idea of the circumstances, we could have had a falling out and he could have just taken it and signed he transfer.

I am gob smacked , this is a national company, not some back street garage!

That is ridiculous. Please go to the garage tomorrow and ask them where your car is, it was stolen yesterday and the DVLC have just called and told you someone from there is trying to have the logbook changed. Then say you were on the way to the police station to tell them, as you'd reported it stolen when it vanished from the drive, but thought you'd call in en route just in case it was all a silly mistake/someone playing a prank on you.

I did agree to him selling it.
He couldn't actually see the problem with what had occurred until I pointed it out to him

That's shocking.
Do what PomBear said.
I'd be interested to know what would happen if it was the other way round and you were selling DH's car.

She's happy the car is sold. Just the legalese was not right. No need to say it was "stolen"

The registration document is not proof of ownership, it says that on it. That being said when DH sold my car the dealership phoned to speak with me to confirm it was my signature on the V5 before finalising the deal.

Mine sold my car a couple of years ago in similar circumstances. I was out of the country at the time and the first I knew about it was when he called me 2 days later to tell me he had sold mine and bought a new one for himself.

I never did get a letter or a call from the garage or did the DVLA question it at all. I did wonder how he did it as my car was registered in my maiden name which is not away close to my married name. Didnt he have to sign for something?

Who signed the form?
My husband sold his car a couple of years ago, however it was previously registered in my name and we never got round to saw the point in re-registering it. I had to sign the documents.

happens all the time

That is scary that any one can sell your car. I am shocked

I'm quite surprised that they can do this, but then on second thoughts I suppose that as a married couple, you should be ale to do that sort of thing for each other.

Feck

The name on the V5 document is not the owner it is the registered keeper which is totally different. Just because the V5 document is in your name doesn't mean you have any ownership of the car.

I would so do what pombear suggested. Just to see the look on their faces

I assume that she does in fact own the car, since it would be fairly daft to post about this if the car is actually owned by her husband!

So how do you prove ownership of a car?

Proof that you paid for the car. A receipt, the money coming out of your bank account, proof that the finance for it is in your name if it's a car loan, etc.

You provide evidence you bought it - receipt, invoice with your name, bank statement showing the transaction where you paid x amount to person/garage.

Oops. X-post.

But it's also true that a husband/wife could sell just about any other item from the home, which could be worth the same or more than a car, without having to 'prove' ownership or who actually paid for it.

And also surely if you really expected the garage to need to see you, would you not have gone along to?
You told your dh to sell your car, you happily let him drive it alone to the garage... I am a little confused about the issue here.
The name on the reg document isn't an issue btw. Thinking about all the cars we've ever run, we've sometimes had dh and sometime my name on the reg document- its really quite random.

Surely, irrespective of who the actual "owner" is, the registered keeper of the car has to sign the V5 (or whatever it is) to allow the new owner to register the car in their name? Who signed that??