Anyone ever requested copy of what DVLA holds on your car?

It used to be possible to fill in a form V888 and get copies of previous V5s and other documents, and that was very interesting because you could see where it had been in the past - I've got the info for both my Vauxhalls, and I have the original registration application form and all V5s, albeit very poor copies of some of them. However they've stopped doing that now for "data protection" reasons - their argument being that all the previous owners didn't specifically give their permission for their details to be passed on, so they can't do it.

These days people who fill the form in need to specify a "Good Reason" for having the information, and just being interested in the history of your own car isn't a good enough one. Search on V888 and I'm sure there are other threads on this topic on here.

I did. Have all my Rx2’s history. All previous owners etc. One thing I never expected,(and no, it’s not a sexist remark, I am neither sexist,nor Racist, I hate every body else equally🤣🤣) ,was that the majority of the owners when still fairly new, were women. Never expected that. Got a lot of information, but realistically,I timed it perfectly,just before the whole information act bull took place. Doubt you get sweet fanny Adams now 👎🏻 I got about 30 pages of information 

Yikes, as in you have decided to go for a BIVA or the DVLA have asked you to go for one?

I decided to go down the BIVA route for future peace of mind (building a car for wifey and then giving the advice that she would need to be aware of possible issues didn't seem advisable...). The DVLA history was a disjointed collection of different reg numbers and descriptions that really made little sense. Given one of the names that occurred three times I suspected shenanigans...