Personalised Plate Turnover Time?

[Geertsen]

Hello,

I have been given a personalised number plate on retention in someone else’s name and want the retention document in my name.

I intend to put the plate on my car and remove it again as soon as possible to save changing the physical plates or informing insurance etc. I only use the car about once a week. Is this long enough to put the plate on my car and then back off onto a new retention document between driving the car? Anyone ever done this?

Thank you

[s94wht]

You'll need the new V5 number to take the plate off. If that comes in a week, great, but if it doesn't, then you're out of luck. I'm still waiting on mine (just taken a plate off) and I did it on the 11th

[Dave Hedgehog]

insurance may not pay out with a differnet plate

my insurance didnt charge me to change the plate twice online within a month

[Geertsen]

s94wht said:

You'll need the new V5 number to take the plate off. If that comes in a week, great, but if it doesn't, then you're out of luck. I'm still waiting on mine (just taken a plate off) and I did it on the 11th

Thank you for the info. That’s Very helpful to know.

[Geertsen]

Dave Hedgehog said:

insurance may not pay out with a differnet plate

my insurance didnt charge me to change the plate twice online within a month

Thank you for this. The insurance was the main reason I wanted it off the car a.s.a.p and hoped it could be done quickly. The car is kept off the road so was just hoping it would save extra steps if done quickly.

[Jazoli]

You have the document and the ref number, there's no real need to change it to your name unless the seller copied the document.

[F355GTS]

Geertsen said:

Hello,

I have been given a personalised number plate on retention in someone else’s name and want the retention document in my name.

I intend to put the plate on my car and remove it again as soon as possible to save changing the physical plates or informing insurance etc. I only use the car about once a week. Is this long enough to put the plate on my car and then back off onto a new retention document between driving the car? Anyone ever done this?

Thank you

If you put it on your car and take it off again it'll cost you the transfer fee, £80 IIRC

[Sir Bagalot]

You'll be fine.

Run old plates until new V5 arrives. Do online transfer.

No need to change plates or insurance. Just ensure you have copies of emails etc in case of a tug

[Geertsen]

F355GTS said:

If you put it on your car and take it off again it'll cost you the transfer fee, £80 IIRC

Thank you. I am happy to pay the £80 fee to guarantee the plate is exclusively registered to me. (reading that back sounds like some bars from a rap song).

[Geertsen]

Sir Bagalot said:

You'll be fine.

Run old plates until new V5 arrives. Do online transfer.

No need to change plates or insurance. Just ensure you have copies of emails etc in case of a tug

Actually, you’re probably a good person to ask, do you have any first hand experience of timescales for receiving the new V5C?

[LooneyTunes]

I’ve done this several times when buying plates (they go onto my station car, which runs on standard/original plates, then off onto retention until I have something/decide what to put them on). Just follow the approach suggested by Sir B.

Can’t recall a V5C taking more than a week when the transfers have been done online.

[LuS1fer]

You can transfer the retention document to a new grantee without having to put it on a car, iirc. There is a time limit on retention of 10 years.

[Jamescrs]

Put a private plate on my own car recently, I think the V5 took about 10 days to come after I did the transfer online

[bobtail4x4]

I did mine a week ago,
new V5 and retention cert came today,

[Sir Bagalot]

Geertsen said:

Sir Bagalot said:

You'll be fine.

Run old plates until new V5 arrives. Do online transfer.

No need to change plates or insurance. Just ensure you have copies of emails etc in case of a tug

Actually, you’re probably a good person to ask, do you have any first hand experience of timescales for receiving the new V5C?

I transferred plates earlier this year. Transferred old personal plate off Tuesday early evening, V5 received Friday back on original plates. Then did transfer to new plates, V 5 received Wednesday. I kept the old personal plates on the car until Friday, then moved straight to new personal plate.

Edited by Sir Bagalot on Sunday 24th August 17:00

[PRO5T]

One thing to watch out for, mine got caught out as the car didn't have continuous "taxed" status. The car was periodically kept outside the UK and not SORN so if there's any history of that the online system spits out an error and you need to do it by post. Took me a couple of weeks to get it back and was a bit worrying considering I was removing a valuable cherrished plate.

[Geertsen]

UPDATE:

Thank you all for the replies, it was very helpful.

I transferred the plate onto the car on 26th August at 2pm and the new V5C arrived today 1st September.

6 full days or 4 working days.

So the DVLA’s suggestion of 3-5 days at the time when I did the application was very accurate.

[s94wht]

Geertsen said:

UPDATE:

Thank you all for the replies, it was very helpful.

I transferred the plate onto the car on 26th August at 2pm and the new V5C arrived today 1st September.

6 full days or 4 working days.

So the DVLA’s suggestion of 3-5 days at the time when I did the application was very accurate.

Lucky you! Mine was 10 or 11 days, but it's come through now. Then I got charged thirty-five Great British pounds by the insurer to update it! Con artists.