Unwanted Private Reg. on Potential Purchase
Discussion
Hi Chaps,
Looking at a potential purchase, advertised as having a private plate that will 'come with the car'. Is there any reason why the dealer can't return it to its original registration number prior to sale? Is it relatively straightforward to do this myself post-purchase - even though I'm not the original 'owner' of the plate?
Looking at a potential purchase, advertised as having a private plate that will 'come with the car'. Is there any reason why the dealer can't return it to its original registration number prior to sale? Is it relatively straightforward to do this myself post-purchase - even though I'm not the original 'owner' of the plate?
280E said:
even though I'm not the original 'owner' of the plate?
If you've got a V5C with your name and that plate on, then you're the owner of that plate. There's no separate registry of "personal" plates...If you want to remove a plate from your car, then you can just do that via the usual method and £80.
I might be wrong, but I don't know of a way to just change the plate without retaining it - the official logic is "Well, it's just some letters and numbers, why would you be bothered, if not to move/retain it?". The only obvious exception to that is if you're in GB and have an NI plate, or vice-versa.
Once the V5 is in your name if you don't want to keep or retain the number then you can request DVLA to scrap the number which is free of charge and your vehicle will obtain an age related number usually the original one...
Note.. once a number has been scrapped it's gone forever it can never be issued again..
Note.. once a number has been scrapped it's gone forever it can never be issued again..
cuprabob said:
shakotan said:
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.
Unless it was first registered on the private plate, in which case it will be assigned a new age related number.TooMany2cvs said:
Put the current plate into cazana, and it'll show you what the original plate was, together with any other plates it's worn.
You have to be careful with Cazana as sometimes it gets confused if you have had the private plate on several cars and gives numbers off the other cars that were never on the car in question.CRA1G said:
shakotan said:
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.
It does the majority of the time but not guaranteed.. and the new /originalcan never be transferred or retained again..
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