Private Plate - Withdrawing Right to Use?
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Hi All
Not sure if this is the right forum to post this, but:
Bought a personalised plate from DVLA 5yrs ago. Fitted to girlfriends car. Now split up (after getting married/divorced). Will she need any documents to transfer the plate to another car from me? Or worded differently, any way I can withdraw the right for her to use the plate at some point in the future? It's not desperate if I'm not able to, just thinking out loud!
Thanks
Not sure if this is the right forum to post this, but:
Bought a personalised plate from DVLA 5yrs ago. Fitted to girlfriends car. Now split up (after getting married/divorced). Will she need any documents to transfer the plate to another car from me? Or worded differently, any way I can withdraw the right for her to use the plate at some point in the future? It's not desperate if I'm not able to, just thinking out loud!
Thanks
elise2000 said:
Ok, so it never defaults to who bought it/who's name in was originally in? Strange. Never mind.
A plate is a plate is a plate is a plate.It doesn't matter if it's A1, F1, a bog-standard vanilla AB18CDE, or if it's been brutally mangled in a vain attempt to spell out somebody's middle name. It's just a sequence of letters and numbers allocated to a vehicle registered to somebody - unless it's been moved to a retention.
It might be "private" to you, but if you flog the car and it's still on the V5C, then it's gone with the car. Even if it was worth a hundred times what you flogged the car for.
SteveR1979 said:
Not strange at all, its obvious.
How would second hand plate or car sales work if this happened??
Strange in as much that as when the plate is purchased you have to show entitlement to have the physical plates made up. Then if put on a vehicle owned by someone else their entitlement to use is then life long, without any future proof of entitlement having to be shown when transferring to another vehicle etc. How would second hand plate or car sales work if this happened??
With 2nd hand sales, I believe (and may be wrong) that the number plate is put on retention/transferred to another vehicle and the vehicle is sold with its original plates?
I'm not an expert in this, obviously, hence asking the questions!
Edited by elise2000 on Thursday 3rd May 12:59
Edited by elise2000 on Thursday 3rd May 13:00
TooMany2cvs said:
A plate is a plate is a plate is a plate.
It doesn't matter if it's A1, F1, a bog-standard vanilla AB18CDE, or if it's been brutally mangled in a vain attempt to spell out somebody's middle name. It's just a sequence of letters and numbers allocated to a vehicle registered to somebody - unless it's been moved to a retention.
It might be "private" to you, but if you flog the car and it's still on the V5C, then it's gone with the car. Even if it was worth a hundred times what you flogged the car for.
So, am I right in thinking it's a plate?!It doesn't matter if it's A1, F1, a bog-standard vanilla AB18CDE, or if it's been brutally mangled in a vain attempt to spell out somebody's middle name. It's just a sequence of letters and numbers allocated to a vehicle registered to somebody - unless it's been moved to a retention.
It might be "private" to you, but if you flog the car and it's still on the V5C, then it's gone with the car. Even if it was worth a hundred times what you flogged the car for.
Yep, I get all of that. The question in a roundabout way was asking if the plate (that's what it is, right?), is now always under the ownership of the person who owned the vehicle it was originally put on (even if that's not the person who purchased it/who's name was on the certificate etc).
elise2000 said:
Strange in as much that as when the plate is purchased you have to show entitlement to have the physical plates made up
Same as any plate. You need to show proof when you get plates made up. Normally, that's the V5C. Before that comes through, you get the V750. Same with a freshly-registered import.elise2000 said:
and that this entitlement is then life long, without any future proof of entitlement having to be shown when transferring to another vehicle etc.
The entitlement is the V5C in your name with the plate on it.elise2000 said:
With 2nd hand sales, I believe (and may be wrong) that the number plate is put on retention/transferred to another vehicle and the vehicle is sold with its original plates?
You can do that, whatever the plate. But if you don't, that's the plate that's on the car when it goes.It's very simple. If the V5C isn't in your name, it's not your plate...
It seems a bit petty. It was a gift.Tyre Smoke said:
More importantly is the plate of any significant value?
Or are you being a deliberate a
hole?
And of course, the usual....this thread is useless without pictures of the ex wife
Value? Depends on definition of significant. But not overly. Or are you being a deliberate a
hole?And of course, the usual....this thread is useless without pictures of the ex wife
Not being an a
hole, just asking a question out of interest! Like stated, not bothered. elise2000 said:
So, am I right in thinking it's a plate?!
Yep, I get all of that. The question in a roundabout way was asking if the plate (that's what it is, right?), is now always under the ownership of the person who owned the vehicle it was originally put on (even if that's not the person who purchased it/who's name was on the certificate etc).
Technically you never own the plate. A number is allocated to a vehicle by the DVLA and if you sell the vehicle, the plate goes with it. To avoid that, if you want to keep the plate from a car that you intend to sell, you should put it on retention first.Yep, I get all of that. The question in a roundabout way was asking if the plate (that's what it is, right?), is now always under the ownership of the person who owned the vehicle it was originally put on (even if that's not the person who purchased it/who's name was on the certificate etc).
In respect of your own plate, the DVLA will consider it to be associated with the car it is currently on. To put it on retention to transfer to another car or to someone else, the DVLA will accept such a request from the registered keeper of the car it is currently associated with.
At no point does anyone 'own' the plate, just the rights to be able to move it around.
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