Transfering Number Plate when selling car

[gwatson]

Morning all,

Quick question, I am in the process of selling my car, but work\live in Norway. The car currently ahas private number plate on it. So, how do I sell the car, but keep the number plate?

I am hoping to have some viewers the weekend I go home, but the car will still have the private number plate on the offical documents. If the new owners signs the document they will be signing to buy it with my personal number plate.. is there anyway around this? Can the DVLA sort everything out in one go?

Thanks in advance.

G

[HiAsAKite]

You need to transfer the plate/put it on retention before selling the car... otherwise the plate will change ownership with the car

Whatever you do, do not sign the V5 over to someone else with the plate you want to keep...


I believe the DVLA are not able to transfer the plate from a car and transfer ownership of the car at the same time...

I'm currently in the process of buying a car with a private plate, which the owner wishes to keep- so he's having to get the plate put on retention before he can sign the car over to me

[DSM2]

Before you sell the car you need to put the private plate on retention, when your car will be given a regular number from the year it was new.

Then you sell it.

Your private plate is then on retention for you and it will need renewing every year till you put it on another car.

When you buy another car, it will, of course have a reg number, which you change to your PP.

All the info is on the DVLA website.

Hope this helps.

[RS-Dog]

Your plate must go onto retention BEFORE you sell the car. I have sold and bought cars on a gentlemans agreement that the plate on the car I was selling would come back to me once the documentation was through ( didnt have time to put it on retention before the lad bought the car) and on the car I bought I agreed to transfer the plate back to the vendor once the V5 was back.

If putting the plate on retention you are not permitted to sell the car until you have recieved the V5 back with the new registration details on it.

Rich

[g_attrill]

I am reminded of a thread on moneysavingexpert - the lady had an £8k "log book loan" secured against her car (value £16k), she didn't keep up the repayments and it was seized and sold before she could transfer off the private plate (value she said was £17k). Amazingly the car raised something like £30k at auction, but the amount owed had spiraled and she still owed several thousand.

edit: The legality of the whole loan was questioned, but the lenders managed to get an order for the car to be seized.

Edited by g_attrill on Monday 18th February 02:23

[Toady1]

Dragging up an old thread here via a search......

Do you have to pay the £80 transfer fee to put your plate on retention? Or do you just put the plate on retention then when you have another vehicle to transfer it to, 'then' you pay the £80 fee?

I'm swapping cars this weekend with my mother, yet mine has my PP on. If I transfer the car into her name with my plate before changing the plate to its originals, she will technically own the plate. I don't want to transfer my plate to her car as I'm only keeping hers to sell it on. Is she able to do the paperwork when I've got myself the next car I want to transfer it back to me? Or should I do the paperwork this week to put it on retention? How does this work/what is the best way of going about this?

Thanks!

[LuS1fer]

With the proliferation of private plates, why can't the DVLA set up a faster and more straightforward system for changing the tax disc/MOT/plate in a single and quick hit? It's a giant pain when you want to sell a car because if it doesn't sell, you have wasted £80 and have to go through the stuopid process twice.

[randlemarcus]

Toady1 said:

Dragging up an old thread here via a search......

Do you have to pay the £80 transfer fee to put your plate on retention? Or do you just put the plate on retention then when you have another vehicle to transfer it to, 'then' you pay the £80 fee?

I'm swapping cars this weekend with my mother, yet mine has my PP on. If I transfer the car into her name with my plate before changing the plate to its originals, she will technically own the plate. I don't want to transfer my plate to her car as I'm only keeping hers to sell it on. Is she able to do the paperwork when I've got myself the next car I want to transfer it back to me? Or should I do the paperwork this week to put it on retention? How does this work/what is the best way of going about this?

Thanks!

Put your plate on retention today. When you get new V5 etc, transfer ownership formally. You may not want to register yourself on her V5, as it adds yet another owner for no real benefit.

[A13]

Need to do this at the moment as my car is up for sale - they're more hassle than their worth tbh!

Bloody expensive to retain/transfer, take weeks to sort out, and insurers try and charge you the admin fee everytime you need to change the registration on the policy once its all been sorted.

[Toady1]

A13 said:

Need to do this at the moment as my car is up for sale - they're more hassle than their worth tbh!

Bloody expensive to retain/transfer, take weeks to sort out, and insurers try and charge you the admin fee everytime you need to change the registration on the policy once its all been sorted.

yes I know annoying huh! Well my friend has told me he has just put his on retention at a cost of £105! I think I'll just leave it on the car for her to change to me once I'm sorted!

[gazchap]

It costs £25 to put a number on retention, and £80 to assign the number to a vehicle.

When you put the number on retention, you can opt to pay the £80 assignment fee there and then, to save you having to pay it when you're ready to put the number back on a vehicle. That's the £105.

You can put it on retention for £25 if you wish.

[Toady1]

Ah right I see thanks.