Hello
We're in the process of registering our 2000 Eriba Troll GT 530 with CRiS.

We've submitted all the information they require, including a photo of the chassis plate, but they are now asking for a photo of the Vin Plate (We've given them the Vin number.

The caravan is in store at the moment and we don't have access to it until next month - but we can't recall seeing it in the front locker which is where they suggest it is - or anywhere else for that matter.

There is a plate on the outside - near the door but we don't think that has the Vin on it, it's concerned with weights.

We'd be very grateful fo any help or advice - especially form anyone else who has registered an imported Eriba.

Thanks. Mike

VIN number layout wasn't regulated 'til the mid 2000's so before then companies tended to use their own numbering systems. CRIS will be used to handling the now normal internationally agreed standard numbering and anything outside that will be beyond their recent experience.

CRIS is a subsidiary of the NCC which is the UK caravan industry' trade association. All UK caravan makers are members of NCC and a condition of membership is that all their new vans are registered to CRIS.

Continental van companies aren't usually NCC members, though Adria have been for a decade or more. As such if owners wish to register on CRIS they have to organise it themselves.

It's probably true to say that the older a caravan gets the less likely it is to have accurate information about its ownership on the CRIS database as changes of ownership over the years fail to get registered.

Many Thanks to all of you who have responded so quickly.

I can see (in my mind's eye) the plate riveted to the outer skin, near the door.

But I thought that ours only had information about weights on it. I took a photo of it, years ago, ad will have to try and dig that out.

Thanks again everyone.

Cheers. Mike