S550 Need for Green - logbook said "maroon"

[overheadmanifoldsprocket]

I recently became the owner of a 2019 GT in Need for Green. When I was purchasing the car, a check showed up that it was "red". Looking it over carefully, it was obvious that it had never had a colour change, so I thought little of it. When completing the paperwork at the dealership, I noticed that their invoice stated that the car was "Maroon". A subsequent chat with a previous owner revealed that when they had come to trade in the car, it was noticed that the log book stated it was red, so a request was made with the DVLA to correct it (it had taken 2 owners and 5 years for this to be noticed apparently).

Anyway, the point of this thread is that today I was randomly browsing old Mustang reviews from 2019 and I spotted another Need for Green car in an article's photos. Just out of interest (because I'm keen to know how many UK NfG cars are around) I thought I'd do a vehicle lookup on this one - and guess what - it came up as "Maroon" on the check!

Does anyone have any insight into why this might be? Any other NfG owners with a similar story? It seems to me to be unlikely that it's just first dealer error if there is more than one of them; and the online car was registered in a different part of the country to mine.

I'm prepared to accept that it might just be a big coincidence, as another 2 NfG cars that I found photos of and checked both came up as green (unless the owners had had their logbooks corrected...).

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[GR11M]

Seems odd when the colours in the name. Maybe the colour on the order was changed from royal crimson and it ended up as a mistake when they registered it. My Ford dealer registered my guard Mustang with the DVLA as grey because they had never seen one before.

 

[overheadmanifoldsprocket]

Actually, one thing I should have mentioned is that I believe that the car was a demonstrator for 5 months or so - so I would think that a changed order (by the dealer themselves) might be less likely?

Also strange how it, and the other one, were registered as "maroon" rather than just "red". I thought that the DVLA only accepted the basic colour names (hence yours being "grey").

 

[GR11M]

Also strange how it, and the other one, were registered as "maroon" rather than just "red". I thought that the DVLA only accepted the basic colour names (hence yours being "grey").

guard is green not grey

Maroon looks to be on the list of basic DVLA colours

 

[overheadmanifoldsprocket]

"guard is green not grey" - sorry, I was getting confused with Magnetic .

"Maroon looks to be on the list of basic DVLA colours" - I had no idea; what a strange list of colours, I mean"cream"?? Not that different to white...

 

[WD Pro]

I seem to recall there being a similar issue on the green they used on the pumas ?

WD

 

[jonny10buds]

I’ve worked in dealerships, this happens a lot, admin girls more interested in Argos Online than the job in hand, I’ve handed over many a 5 door 3 door or silver black car, the ball-ache of changing it with DVLA is great so it gets left, and likewise by subsequent owners, I’d probably ignore it.

 

[WD Pro]

I seem to recall there being a similar issue on the green they used on the pumas ?

WD

Have a look here :

https://www.pumaforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=689

There is a number and email in that thread that may be of use to you

WD

 

[escossie]

I had the incorrect colour problem back in 2022 - Carbonised Gray Mustang registered on V5 as red.

I had to email - [email protected] - asking for written confirmation of the colour as built.

Once the confirmation was posted to me I then sent the following to DVLA -

I have recently purchased a brand new car Reg. xxxxxx & have just received the V5C but the colour has been recorded incorrectly.
The car is Grey but has been recorded as red – this is not a colour change, it has been set up in error.
Please can you change the colour to Grey & issue a new V5C as soon as possible.

The Mustang was brand new when I did this but hopefully this will work for you

 

[overheadmanifoldsprocket]

Have a look here :

https://www.pumaforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=689

There is a number and email in that thread that may be of use to you

WD

Thanks for that - I think this most likely explains what happened. I've got to admit, I'm a little bit disappointed, I was hoping for some kind of intriguing Ford backstory that would make the colour that bit more special .

 

[overheadmanifoldsprocket]

I had the incorrect colour problem back in 2022 - Carbonised Gray Mustang registered on V5 as red.

I had to email - [email protected] - asking for written confirmation of the colour as built.

Once the confirmation was posted to me I then sent the following to DVLA -

I have recently purchased a brand new car Reg. xxxxxx & have just received the V5C but the colour has been recorded incorrectly.
The car is Grey but has been recorded as red – this is not a colour change, it has been set up in error.
Please can you change the colour to Grey & issue a new V5C as soon as possible.

The Mustang was brand new when I did this but hopefully this will work for you

Thanks - this would be a big help, however the previous owner already had the logbook changed. It's just the dealer document that's still wrong (they have no excuse, they made the previous owner get it corrected when they bought the car from them
). It's not so much that it's a problem, just that when I found that other car with the same issue I was interested as to why it had happened.

 

[GR11M]

I’ve worked in dealerships, this happens a lot, admin girls more interested in Argos Online than the job in hand, I’ve handed over many a 5 door 3 door or silver black car, the ball-ache of changing it with DVLA is great so it gets left, and likewise by subsequent owners, I’d probably ignore it.

Mine still says grey.

 

[Tinpot]

My car is gray and the log book says silver….

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