Swapping a private plate to a new car and selling the old ca

[glasgowrob]

Bought the wife a new car and done a deal to sell her old one to a good friend

What's the easiest way to sell the car tommorow then get her private plate back and. Onto the new car?


New car is new so no logbook for a couple of weeks

Friend needs car asap

[Magic919]

Put it on retention.

[outnumbered]

Magic919 said:

Put it on retention.

Which will take a couple of weeks.

Once you sell the car, officially you have lost the plate as it goes with the car.

If you trust the buyer enough to let you have it back afterwards, that's up to you...

[glasgowrob]

buyer is a very good friend of mine,

will it work this way?

sell car to mate,
wait till he gets his logbook back in his name
get him to fill out a V317 and send both logbooks off to dvla

wait 2 weeks and get our logbooks back with the correct reg nos ?

[solo2]

On the 23rd (so they say, only open tot trade currently!) DVLA go live on a system whereby you can put a number plate on retention via an online application. Can't give you a link to it yet as they've not made it live to the www yet.

Not sure that actually helps you but if only people would learn to remove their number plates the moment they decide to replace their car rather than waiting till it's sold and needs doing asap! Bain of my life

Flame me if you wish but I have a valid point.