Taxing a car just after private plate removed

[OneEyedJack01]

Hi,

Thanks for any help / advice.

I have just bought a car that had a private plate on it.

The transfer has been made on line but the seller has no v5c yet

My new keeper doc is for the private plate

The car IS though showing up on the GOV site on the normal plate now as taxed by the original owner.

I cant seem to tax it yet as the new keeper form on the private plate doeskin work and i have no V5C

I am just wondering what i can do?

I presume i have to tax it in my name even though it is currently taxed in his.

All i want to do is be legal so i can drive it

I am a bit concerned it might not be driveable for week or two you see.

Any help here by those that know better would be really appreciated!

Thanks

Simon

[Scrump]

I doubt you are currently the registered keeper of the car as the green slip you have is for a V5C which is no longer valid.
When the seller receives the new V5C with the ‘normal’ registration then they can inform DVLA of a change of keeper and give you the green slip at that point.

Currently the car is showing as taxed because there has been no change in registered keeper, this will change once DVLA are notified of change of keeper.

Recent experience is that if a reg is transferred online then the new V5 c comes through within a week, so hopefully not long for you to wait.

[MKnight702]

Holy thread resurrection Batman.

I want to ask for advice.

I bought a new (to me) car. The owner had a private plate on the car but as I didn't want it he agreed to take it off. I went to collect the car and the new V5 hadn't arrived yet, collected the car anyway. A couple of days later I get contacted by the old owner because the DVLA c(w)ouldn't remove the private plate as the car didn't have an MOT (the fact that the car is exempt from an MOT is by the by). I MOT'd the car so the plate could be removed. In the meantime the old owner posted the V5 off to transfer ownership.

So now the car sits in the garage and I can't drive it. It's insured under the original plate, I am still waiting for the new V5 in my name so I can transfer the reg to retention and send it back to the original owner. My problem is this, when the new V5 comes through I want to transfer the reg, however, if I do that how then can I tax the car under the old reg to match the insurance, do I have to wait for yet another V5 to come through?

Potentially, I could contact the insurers and change the registration number to the private plate, tax the car, then phone the insurers and re-change the number plate to the original plate but this could cost me two "admin fees".

Alternatively, and this is what I don't know, can I take the private plate off and still use the V5 to tax the car on the original plate the same as you would if you had purchased the car?

The final option, and my least favourite, is to get the new V5, transfer the private plate to retention online, wait another couple of weeks for the updated V5 then tax the vehicle, all whilst the car sits in the garage unused.

The best bit, it's free to tax.

[MKnight702]

Typical,

I post this then a couple of hours later the V5 arrives in the post. I managed to tax the car immediately then tried to transfer the registration. And the DVLA struck again. As the car is over 40 years old I cannot transfer the plates to retention even though I do have a current MOT. So I have to post the V317 form, V5 and MOT certificate to them and wait 4 weeks or so until they complete the transfer that could have been done in 5 minutes online.

I will have to bite the bullet and swap the reg on the insurance then put the private plates back on the car until the DVLA manage to catch up with the 21st Century.