DVLA providing a new registration - timescales?

[sherbertdip]

The Gauge said:

Maybe the problem is the seller? Are they genuine do you think?

As sure as I can be without travelling a couple of hundred miles to see him and the car, had video calls, numerous photos of car on request at his house. He's high up in a major bank, bit of a car collector.

[sherbertdip]

Just to put this thread to bed, I managed to speak to a DVLA person this morning, they confirmed that even an on-line action can still take 5 working days, they checked the reg and said it was in progress.

10 minutes later it was live on the data base, coincidence?

[MustangGT]

caziques said:

The car will have been issued with a normal numberplate when first put on the road, which sits there until a private plate is transferred off.

If another private plate is put on and taken off, the original number is then reactivated.

I do not believe this is the case. We have had two brand new cars initially registered with a private plate from new. There is no record of any other plate being applied to that car anywhere that I can find. Normally you can see any other registration mark associated with a car in various places.

[LunarOne]

MustangGT said:

caziques said:

The car will have been issued with a normal numberplate when first put on the road, which sits there until a private plate is transferred off.

If another private plate is put on and taken off, the original number is then reactivated.

I do not believe this is the case. We have had two brand new cars initially registered with a private plate from new. There is no record of any other plate being applied to that car anywhere that I can find. Normally you can see any other registration mark associated with a car in various places.

I had a private plate put onto a car which was registered new. It never had a regular dated plate assigned. When I took the private plate off the car and put it on retention, a date-correct number had to be assigned.

[Steve-B]

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Edited by Steve-B on Monday 20th May 16:07

[solo2]

If the car has a personalised plate from new DVLA will issue an age related plate from their pool upon the personalised plate being retained. The transfer is immediate online and the new V5C and retention document normally follows in the post around 5 working days later.

The age related plate now on the car tends to show up on databases around two weeks later as these are not updated in real time unlike the DVLA site. If you wanted to insure the car you just need to give the insurer the details of the personalised plate so they can pull up the correct car but you must then tell them that plate has been removed and what the age related plate now is so the car is insured under the correct mark.