Unwanted Private Reg. on Potential Purchase

Unwanted Private Reg. on Potential Purchase

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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Hi Chaps,

Looking at a potential purchase, advertised as having a private plate that will 'come with the car'. Is there any reason why the dealer can't return it to its original registration number prior to sale? Is it relatively straightforward to do this myself post-purchase - even though I'm not the original 'owner' of the plate?

richs2891

895 posts

252 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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The dealer could but, is it not worth you keeping it, and selling it, you may get some beer tokens for it,
or simply sticking the private plate on retention, its free now I believe. You would be issued then with an age appropriate plate

cuprabob

14,421 posts

213 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Although it's free to keep a plate on retention it costs you £80 to put it on retention.

You can then put it on a car for no additional cost in the future or sell it on or hand the plate back to DVLA and get your £80 refunded.

86DA

224 posts

126 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Not free, £80 to transfer or put on retention certificate, they last 10 years now. So nothing further to pay for 10 years.


TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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280E said:
even though I'm not the original 'owner' of the plate?
If you've got a V5C with your name and that plate on, then you're the owner of that plate. There's no separate registry of "personal" plates...

If you want to remove a plate from your car, then you can just do that via the usual method and £80.

I might be wrong, but I don't know of a way to just change the plate without retaining it - the official logic is "Well, it's just some letters and numbers, why would you be bothered, if not to move/retain it?". The only obvious exception to that is if you're in GB and have an NI plate, or vice-versa.

InitialDave

11,856 posts

118 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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You could ask the dealer to do so, but if you think the plate might be worth more than £80, you may as well do it yourself.

Any particular reason you actively don't want it? Are you thinking the dealer is bumping their price for this "benefit"?

S9JTO

1,913 posts

85 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Let me guess, it's one of those ugly 'current style' personal plates (e.g. AB12CDE) but is of course older than the actual car and/or says something stupid with the last three characters.

Roger Irrelevant

2,899 posts

112 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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That's uncanny - I was wondering this exact same thing just yesterday as I'd seen a car I might buy that had a private plate I wouldn't want, so thanks for asking 280E! I'd happily pay £80 to get rid too so that's good.

5678

6,146 posts

226 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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AB16COK?

CRA1G

6,501 posts

194 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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Once the V5 is in your name if you don't want to keep or retain the number then you can request DVLA to scrap the number which is free of charge and your vehicle will obtain an age related number usually the original one...

Note.. once a number has been scrapped it's gone forever it can never be issued again..

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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richs2891 said:
You would be issued then with an age appropriate plate
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.

The original plate doesn't disappear or go back into the pot if you apply a 'private' plate, it just goes into limbo on that vehicle's file.

cuprabob

14,421 posts

213 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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shakotan said:
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.
Unless it was first registered on the private plate, in which case it will be assigned a new age related number.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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cuprabob said:
shakotan said:
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.
Unless it was first registered on the private plate, in which case it will be assigned a new age related number.
Put the current plate into cazana, and it'll show you what the original plate was, together with any other plates it's worn.

CRA1G

6,501 posts

194 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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shakotan said:
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.
It does the majority of the time but not guaranteed.. and the new /original
can never be transferred or retained again..

cuprabob

14,421 posts

213 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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TooMany2cvs said:
Put the current plate into cazana, and it'll show you what the original plate was, together with any other plates it's worn.
You have to be careful with Cazana as sometimes it gets confused if you have had the private plate on several cars and gives numbers off the other cars that were never on the car in question.

graham22

3,293 posts

204 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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What is the private plate on it?

Motoring forum, may appeal to someone here who'd be happy with a £100 plate covering your costs.

CRA1G

6,501 posts

194 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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CRA1G said:
shakotan said:
It will revert back to the original VRM it was registered with.
It does the majority of the time but not guaranteed.. and the new /original
can never be transferred or retained again..
One of the best known DVLA replacement numbers which is none transferable is " 1 AN " which is stuck on a Morris 1000.... and after many many attempts to transfer it all of which have failed... it still resides on the famous Moggy...!

Nickp82

3,165 posts

92 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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graham22 said:
What is the private plate on it?

Motoring forum, may appeal to someone here who'd be happy with a £100 plate covering your costs.
This!

daydotz

1,741 posts

160 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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also curious

StevenB

777 posts

196 months

Friday 24th November 2017
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If you change it after buying the car you will probably find the insurance will want an admin fee to change their records