Q plate Dt125 worth restoring?
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Hi guys, new here to the forum.
Just wanted to pick your brains, I have a Dt125 on a Q plate, registered in 2017 but its effectively a 1989 model. not much wrong with it apart from needing a good tidy up. Purchased for my son to learn how to ride on and now he wants his own bike, so I'm left with what to do with it. I was just curious to know if it's worth my time restoring a Q plate? some folks don't mind them, and others do so I'm torn
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@H22dan welcome bud. A q plate will never be the sought after classic that a genuine 1989 registered DT is. If you are going to restore it I would start by looking for an 89 frame and v5, you'll get one for around £500. Other than that just give it the light tidy up. That's only my opinion, others may say different. Did you by it from the Cardiff area? Just that I've seen a q plate DT around and there can't be many.
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@H22dan Why is it on a Q Plate? If you can prove the vehicles age you can get that removed. DTRs never came on Q Plates and it's usually when applying for a log book but unable to prove the vehicles age? I presume it has no frame numbers? But then that doesn't make sense as that would be a ringer?
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@Calum I don't really know tbh , my dad owned the bike before me and the guy he bought it from said it was q plated due to not being able to confirm the age. I haven't done any investigating into it anymore. it has logbook, mot and insures fine so never really thought to do much looking into it until now
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@H22dan
Hi Dan a Q plate bike will never make as much money if your doing it up, least not one on a standard reg plate due to the stigma of possibly being stolen and recovered. Years ago a mate of mine bought a Suzuki X7 from the insurance company/ police sales it was stolen and recovered and all the numbers had been ground off. The feds identified the bike allegedly by x raying the frame. And the insurance company paid out on it. He new all the old numbers and owner etc but it couldn’t be put back on the road with those numbers or the reg plate. So he then stamped his door number and post code on the casings and frame and registered it with DVLA once it was MOTd. Showing my age now but back in the early 80’s a Q plate was rather popular what with all the 250-350lc’s making it on the tracks for production racing and then being put back on the road. With that in mind they are a lot of trikes out there on Q plates that were home built with the back end of a VW Beetle. All legit just the front end will have numbers from a chopped up bike and not match.
