Personalised registration process help
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My girlfriend is currently driving her dad’s old car. It has a personalised registration on it, which is essentially valueless but she’d like to keep it for sentimental reasons.
She’ll be selling the old car soon, and wishes to transfer the plate to another car, but the car which has the plate on it currently needs to remain road legal continuously.
I believe the DVLA will assign a new registration to the car vice the personalised number, but I won’t be able to have new plates made for the old car until I know what this new registration is.
I’ve got to this step in the process (and the new registration hasn’t yet been shown) and I’m worried that the instant I make a payment, the cars registration will be ‘officially’ removed, rendering the car illegal to use on the road, until I can get the plates made, but to get the plates made I imagine we’ll need to wait for a document from the DVLA in the post, which may take some time.
Has anyone done this before? Do you know if I’ll be able to choose the date when the registration is switched on, after payment is made, or is is instant?
She’ll be selling the old car soon, and wishes to transfer the plate to another car, but the car which has the plate on it currently needs to remain road legal continuously.
I believe the DVLA will assign a new registration to the car vice the personalised number, but I won’t be able to have new plates made for the old car until I know what this new registration is.
I’ve got to this step in the process (and the new registration hasn’t yet been shown) and I’m worried that the instant I make a payment, the cars registration will be ‘officially’ removed, rendering the car illegal to use on the road, until I can get the plates made, but to get the plates made I imagine we’ll need to wait for a document from the DVLA in the post, which may take some time.
Has anyone done this before? Do you know if I’ll be able to choose the date when the registration is switched on, after payment is made, or is is instant?
You will be able to continue using the car with the personalised reg whilst you wait to get the new plates made up. There seems to be no defined period, but I have done it many times and had no issues even taking up to a week to get the physical plates swapped.
The document you need to!get new plates made is sent by email, so no waiting for it, assuming you do the transfer online
The document you need to!get new plates made is sent by email, so no waiting for it, assuming you do the transfer online
there are a few plates making places that don't need to see the v5c - https://proplates.co.uk/ is one of those.
i dont think the car becomes illegal to drive as soon as the old reg is removed - just keep it on the car until the new plates come through, then swap them over.
awaiting someone with more concrete evidence...
i dont think the car becomes illegal to drive as soon as the old reg is removed - just keep it on the car until the new plates come through, then swap them over.
awaiting someone with more concrete evidence...
The added complication is that apparently it can be switched straight to another car, which is the ideal outcome, rather than putting it on retention than paying a fee to assign to the other car soon after.
If the process allows an effective date to be determined, new plates once the new registration is assigned for the old car could be made in readiness, but I don’t know if this is possible until we pay.
If the process allows an effective date to be determined, new plates once the new registration is assigned for the old car could be made in readiness, but I don’t know if this is possible until we pay.
Make sure you do online and then they will send you a certificate for the new "old" plates to be made up -this is valid for 3 days -but I have never had an issue if not done within that time.
If you are worried then just have a copy of the transactions on your phone to show anyone in the unlikely event of being stopped.
The new V5 will arrive by post within usually 5-10 days and a retention certificate for the retained plate the same.
When you have retained the plate make sure you also tell your Insurers.
If you are worried then just have a copy of the transactions on your phone to show anyone in the unlikely event of being stopped.
The new V5 will arrive by post within usually 5-10 days and a retention certificate for the retained plate the same.
When you have retained the plate make sure you also tell your Insurers.
alscar said:
Make sure you do online and then they will send you a certificate for the new "old" plates to be made up -this is valid for 3 days -but I have never had an issue if not done within that time.
If you are worried then just have a copy of the transactions on your phone to show anyone in the unlikely event of being stopped.
The new V5 will arrive by post within usually 5-10 days and a retention certificate for the retained plate the same.
When you have retained the plate make sure you also tell your Insurers.
That’s great, can go ahead with it now. Thanks If you are worried then just have a copy of the transactions on your phone to show anyone in the unlikely event of being stopped.
The new V5 will arrive by post within usually 5-10 days and a retention certificate for the retained plate the same.
When you have retained the plate make sure you also tell your Insurers.
Gareth1974 said:
The added complication is that apparently it can be switched straight to another car, which is the ideal outcome, rather than putting it on retention than paying a fee to assign to the other car soon after.
If the process allows an effective date to be determined, new plates once the new registration is assigned for the old car could be made in readiness, but I don’t know if this is possible until we pay.
Either way you won't avoid paying £80.If the process allows an effective date to be determined, new plates once the new registration is assigned for the old car could be made in readiness, but I don’t know if this is possible until we pay.
Boringvolvodriver said:
I could be wrong but I don’t think you have to pay a fee now to take a registration number off retention and out it on another vehicle.
It is all very quick now - I put my plate onto retention on a Saturday and by Wednesday I had the new V5.
Unless they have changed the rules in the last 12 months, I think you are ( sadly ) wrong.It is all very quick now - I put my plate onto retention on a Saturday and by Wednesday I had the new V5.
DVLA won't be giving up that cash cow anytime soon.
I was in a similar situation when I last changed my car.
I did the online DVLA application to take the reg off the old car 2 weeks before I was due to pick up the new car, to allow sufficient time for the updated V5 to come through.
DVLA processed the change of reg instantly, and I was able to download a certificate of entitlement so that I could get new plates made for the original reg on the old car. The new V5 duly arrived in the post a week later.
However, I just kept the private reg on the old car for the 2 week period, while keeping the DVLA paperwork with me in case of a police stop.
I notified my insurer of the date of change of car in advance, and phoned them to confirm activation of the new car details, once I has swapped cars at the dealer.
I did the online DVLA application to take the reg off the old car 2 weeks before I was due to pick up the new car, to allow sufficient time for the updated V5 to come through.
DVLA processed the change of reg instantly, and I was able to download a certificate of entitlement so that I could get new plates made for the original reg on the old car. The new V5 duly arrived in the post a week later.
However, I just kept the private reg on the old car for the 2 week period, while keeping the DVLA paperwork with me in case of a police stop.
I notified my insurer of the date of change of car in advance, and phoned them to confirm activation of the new car details, once I has swapped cars at the dealer.
Gareth1974 said:
The added complication is that apparently it can be switched straight to another car, which is the ideal outcome, rather than putting it on retention than paying a fee to assign to the other car soon after.
If the process allows an effective date to be determined, new plates once the new registration is assigned for the old car could be made in readiness, but I don’t know if this is possible until we pay.
You pay a fee to remove it, not to put it on.If the process allows an effective date to be determined, new plates once the new registration is assigned for the old car could be made in readiness, but I don’t know if this is possible until we pay.
Taking it off will assign the new number immediately, changing the actual plate should be timed to coincide with informing the insurance company, not really relevant to DVLA at all.
alscar said:
When you have retained the plate make sure you also tell your Insurers.
Vital! The MoT will follow the VIN to your new registration, but your insurers only have the reg number. To them a new reg is a different car unless you tell them otherwise......and cross their palms with plastic.
MustangGT said:
You pay a fee to remove it, not to put it on.
Taking it off will assign the new number immediately, changing the actual plate should be timed to coincide with informing the insurance company, not really relevant to DVLA at all.
As Mustang said, you now only pay the one off £80 fee to remove the plate and for it to go on retention for up to 10 years, you used to have pay an additional £25 fee to put it on retention.Taking it off will assign the new number immediately, changing the actual plate should be timed to coincide with informing the insurance company, not really relevant to DVLA at all.
Once the plate has been removed they usually return it to its original registration number... time to hunt round in the garage to see where you put the number plates you removed and kept in a safe 'just in case' place...
66HFM said:
As Mustang said, you now only pay the one off £80 fee to remove the plate and for it to go on retention for up to 10 years, you used to have pay an additional £25 fee to put it on retention.
Once the plate has been removed they usually return it to its original registration number... time to hunt round in the garage to see where you put the number plates you removed and kept in a safe 'just in case' place...
Or not if you managed to buy your new car and put the private plate on at first registration! We had that issue with a car - had no plates so had to drive to garage to part ex on private plate (no issues).Once the plate has been removed they usually return it to its original registration number... time to hunt round in the garage to see where you put the number plates you removed and kept in a safe 'just in case' place...
I have a collection of number plates in the garage both private and normal ones for various cars that I don’t have!
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