Removing a Private reg

[James-06gep]

Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. I had a good look for the most suitable sub forum and landed on this one.

I’ve recently purchased a car. It’s a sub £1000 bit of fun that came with a 5 character private reg.

Doing a quick check online and speaking to an advisor on the gov website has shown the car had a gap in tax/ sorn. It’s been mot’d and used every year of its life, so I can’t imagine it was anything untoward. The advisor suggested it was probably just when the car was on a forecourt for Sale.

Now to apply for the plate to be removed, I need to send the v5 and the application form off and it says “further checks may be necessary, such as an mot type test”.

Now as this is a bit of fun car to be used on a track, it’s now not really in a great mot-able condition.

Does anyone have any experience with this process? Are they likely to just wave the application through or will they likely ask to see the car for a test?

Many thanks for any insight.

[chrisch77]

I have always been under the impression that you can’t remove a plate from a non roadworthy (I.e. mot’d) car so you may have a problem if it has been ‘off the road’ for a significant amount of time.

[James-06gep]

It’s got currant tax, mot and insurance so it’s ok in that respect.

[centralscot]

As you probably know by now you can't do it online due to the tax/sorn gap,send it all off by post and it will return back ok,they won't be doing other checks on it at the moment,it will just take a fair bit longer to come back.

[James-06gep]

centralscot said:

As you probably know by now you can't do it online due to the tax/sorn gap,send it all off by post and it will return back ok,they won't be doing other checks on it at the moment,it will just take a fair bit longer to come back.

Thanks a lot

[sandman77]

Someone else on here had the same issue a few weeks ago when he was selling his car. He sent the paperwork off to the the DVLA and it was all done within a week.