Taking a Private Plate off
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Helpfully someone can quickly confirm if this is normal or not.
I'm looking at selling my daily drive, so applied online to take the private plate off and put on retention and paid the £80 last Wednesday. The original Reg number was assigned back to the car. They emailed me a 'Number Plate Authorisation Certificate', apparently needed to get plates made up, but I didn't need that as I had the original plates.
I thought I saw in one of the confirmation emails that I should change the plates on the car ASAP, so I changed them the next day.
Took the car to be MOT'd today and the new number isn't recognised, and the old private plate is still valid. Therefore, car has just failed it's MOT.
Is this normal for the changeover to take a while, or do I need to chase with DVLA?
I'm looking at selling my daily drive, so applied online to take the private plate off and put on retention and paid the £80 last Wednesday. The original Reg number was assigned back to the car. They emailed me a 'Number Plate Authorisation Certificate', apparently needed to get plates made up, but I didn't need that as I had the original plates.
I thought I saw in one of the confirmation emails that I should change the plates on the car ASAP, so I changed them the next day.
Took the car to be MOT'd today and the new number isn't recognised, and the old private plate is still valid. Therefore, car has just failed it's MOT.
Is this normal for the changeover to take a while, or do I need to chase with DVLA?
Dingle Dell said:
Helpfully someone can quickly confirm if this is normal or not.
I'm looking at selling my daily drive, so applied online to take the private plate off and put on retention and paid the £80 last Wednesday. The original Reg number was assigned back to the car. They emailed me a 'Number Plate Authorisation Certificate', apparently needed to get plates made up, but I didn't need that as I had the original plates.
I thought I saw in one of the confirmation emails that I should change the plates on the car ASAP, so I changed them the next day.
Took the car to be MOT'd today and the new number isn't recognised, and the old private plate is still valid. Therefore, car has just failed it's MOT.
Is this normal for the changeover to take a while, or do I need to chase with DVLA?
As I understand it, the old private plate isn't valid so you were right to take it off straight away. I got a new V5 through very quickly when I did it (the week before last) so hopefully you'll get the V5 though soon. Car is now showing (on an MoT history check) against its original reg - I applied for the retention on 22 May so only 5 working days ago. I'm looking at selling my daily drive, so applied online to take the private plate off and put on retention and paid the £80 last Wednesday. The original Reg number was assigned back to the car. They emailed me a 'Number Plate Authorisation Certificate', apparently needed to get plates made up, but I didn't need that as I had the original plates.
I thought I saw in one of the confirmation emails that I should change the plates on the car ASAP, so I changed them the next day.
Took the car to be MOT'd today and the new number isn't recognised, and the old private plate is still valid. Therefore, car has just failed it's MOT.
Is this normal for the changeover to take a while, or do I need to chase with DVLA?
If it helps the email I got when I did the plate retention expressly said tax and mot remained valid and they won't send out a new mot certificate, so if the original MoT (on your private plate) hasn't expired then you should be okay.
it should happen quite quickly but it isn't all joined up. DVLA do licences and regs, DVSA do MoTs. 
I hope you don't have the problem I had when I took a number off a TVR Cerbera in 2019, I had to make a complaint, they pointed the finger at each other, it took 5 weeks before the MoT history online was correct. Somebody hadn't pressed the right button it seemed.
I hope you don't have the problem I had when I took a number off a TVR Cerbera in 2019, I had to make a complaint, they pointed the finger at each other, it took 5 weeks before the MoT history online was correct. Somebody hadn't pressed the right button it seemed.
sixor8 said:
it should happen quite quickly but it isn't all joined up. DVLA do licences and regs, DVSA do MoTs.
I hope you don't have the problem I had when I took a number off a TVR Cerbera in 2019, I had to make a complaint, they pointed the finger at each other, it took 5 weeks before the MoT history online was correct. Somebody hadn't pressed the right button it seemed.
Sounds like it may be similar. DVLA says everything is sorted their end and the car is back on the original plate, but DVSA online systems still only show the private plate, and not the one it's now on. After a hour long wait to speak to DVLA earlier in the week, I have now just had the joy of trying to even speak to anyone at DVSA who thinks it is their job to sort out. I hope you don't have the problem I had when I took a number off a TVR Cerbera in 2019, I had to make a complaint, they pointed the finger at each other, it took 5 weeks before the MoT history online was correct. Somebody hadn't pressed the right button it seemed.
I was going to sell the car ASAP via WBAC, but of course I cannot do that at present as the registration the car is currently on, and will be sold with is not on their system.
I would be interested in how you went about making a complaint?
Sorry for the late reply, I hadn't looked at this thread. I used the 'make a complaint' link on one of the DVLA pages. It was 7 years ago so I'm not sure but it'd be complaints@ or similar.
I didn't try to phone, it was impossible to get through, this may help:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver...
I didn't try to phone, it was impossible to get through, this may help:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver...
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