Keeping a reg number?

[spaceship]

Hi folks, was just wondering how easy it is to keep a registration number after you scrap a car? If it's even possible at all?

It's not a private plate, just the one that came with the car when it was registered.

Cheers

[Shaw Tarse]

I'd have though you would need to retain it before scrapping the car? (or at least it would be easier to)
Put it on retention, will generally need a valid MOT.

[b9boy]

Not all numbers can be retained/transferred I think and if youve already scrapped it I think youre goosed sorry.

[andyps]

To transfer a plate the car it is coming off has to have a valid MOT as far as I know.

[b9boy]

andyps said:

To transfer a plate the car it is coming off has to have a valid MOT as far as I know.

Thats true actually thinking about it as the classic Alpina I bought recently had to be MOTd so the guy could get his plate off the car despite the fact the car had been in storage for 9 years!!

[spaceship]

Cool, so as long as the car still has a valid MOT before it's scrapped then that is ok? It hasn't been scrapped yet.

Is it just a case of contacting the DVLA to check if the reg is acceptable and to kick it off?

[Shaw Tarse]

spaceship said:

Cool, so as long as the car still has a valid MOT before it's scrapped then that is ok? It hasn't been scrapped yet.

Is it just a case of contacting the DVLA to check if the reg is acceptable and to kick it off?

Probably

[b9boy]

Yep.

[MrMoonyMan]

Ideally the car will have tax and MOT.

If no tax you can usually get away with it if the tax ran out naturally and the car is on SORN for less than a year.

You will need a V317 from the DVLA website and a cheque for £105.

[rottie102]

and what are the criteria that make it possible to keep or not?

[MrMoonyMan]

You can not take a plate from a military or agricultural vehicle.

You can not move a 'plate from an English retention certificate to an Irish car without first putting it onto an English vehicle.

You can not make a car appear newer than it actually is.

Some 'plates are non-transferable which will show on the V5 log book if so (usually..)

[spaceship]

Thanks for the info.

Basically, the scenario is - gf's Dad has a car which he is going to scrap before next MOT but has reg number which I quite like. So when he scraps his car i'd like to be able to put the plate on my car, which is much newer than the plate.

[Ozzie Osmond]

MrMoonyMan said:

Some 'plates are non-transferable which will show on the V5 log book if so (usually..)

This happens when someone takes an interesting plate off an old car - typically an ageless plate like "ABC 123". When it's removed DVLA issue a new ageless plate like "KTM 593" and state it can't be transferred. Stops people buying an old car and sequentially selling number plates with the DVLA losing out each time. They'd rather sell the plates in their own auctions.

[Sir Bagalot]

MrMoonyMan said:

You can not move a 'plate from an English retention certificate to an Irish car without first putting it onto an English vehicle.

You can't transfer a plate from an English car to an Irish one full stop!

Oh, and you can transfer a plate of a car that isn't MOT'd.... but it did have to have a valid MOT cert in the previous 6 months.

[MrMoonyMan]

Sir Bagalot said:

You can't transfer a plate from an English car to an Irish one full stop!...

Incorrect sir. You can transfer an English plate from an English car to an Irish car.

[Gareth79]

MrMoonyMan said:

Sir Bagalot said:

You can't transfer a plate from an English car to an Irish one full stop!...

Incorrect sir. You can transfer an English plate from an English car to an Irish car.

I think people assume Irish = Republic, not Nothern Ireland where plates can be transferred from.