ULEZ registration#

Fri May 10 19:17:31 2024

Result, indeed. My fuel-injected CBR600F (2001 and later years) meets the ULEZ standard for Euro 3 NOx emissions despite not being officially a Euro 3 vehicle, but you have to do some paperwork to get it registered as such.

1. Get the Certificate of Conformity from Honda. This is free if no previous owner has applied for it already: in my case it was sent by DHL from Bosch in Seville, causing much puzzlement when I got the SMS notification of a package. "Don't remember ordering anything from Bosch, what can that be?". Took about four or five days https://www.honda.co.uk/motorcycles/owners/documentation/certificate-of-conformity.html

2. The TfL process is all done on the internet https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/compliance-registration/before-you-start and requires scans of the CoC and the V5C. I attempted on the day I collected the bike (Saturday of May Bank Holiday weekend), not yet having the V5C, to register using the new keeper slip, the CoC and a copy of the purchase receipt ...

3. and had a response from them by email on the next working day (Tuesday) saying they needed the full four page V5C. My subsequent attempt to persuade them otherwise (I was polite) was unsuccessful.

4. Today the V5C arrived in the post, so I scanned it, attached it to the email thread and sent it to them, and had a reply before the end of the day saying my application was successful.

Overall the process was pretty painless, faster than I'd feared it might be, and cheaper than taking the bike to one of the approved testing stations. I'm out £25 for the two days I rode in the ULEZ zone while paperwork was pending (can't claim that back) but that was the only cost involved.