Non transferable registration mark

[muckymotor]

I've recently bought a car which came with a cheap private plate on it, the type you can buy from the DVLA for around £250. I don't intend doing anything with the plate as it suits the car which is a Volvo T5 and the plate has T5 in it.

The interesting thing is that on the log book it states "Non transferable registration mark". Obviously someone has bought the plate for the car at some point so why is it now non transferable?

Just interested if anyone knows why?

[littleandy0410]

Someone has had a different plate removed from it, and this one has been issued by the DVLA as a replacement.

[muckymotor]

Seems a strange plate to issue, surely it could have been sold.

[johnnyBv8]

muckymotor said:

Seems a strange plate to issue, surely it could have been sold.

It was probably supplied with the car when new, then the car got put on a private plate, then original T5 plate reassigned when the private plate came off...hence non-transferrable as others have said. Is it a T reg car?

[muckymotor]

It's a 2000 car so would have been on an X plate.

I've just had a look at the HPI report and the car was registered new with a different private plate. This was removed and it reverted to an X plate. This was then replaced with the T5 plate which was eventually replaced by a third private plate. This third private plate was removed and the T5 plate replaced it which is where we are now.

Did you follow that

[sebhaque]

Happened to a car of mine in the past, from memory it's when a private plate gets applied to a car already on a private plate. If the owner doesn't retain the old plate, it stays in limbo until the new plate's removed, at which point it's put back on the old car and assigned to it.

[muckymotor]

That sounds like it could be the reason. I'm suprised the DVLA don't put unclaimed plates back up for sale though.

[graham22]

It's probably the original plate re-alocated. I think DVLA do this otherwise people will be taking off private plates, leaving them on the DVLA system FoC instead of paying retention charges.

I had this with a previous car, R47HUH, could be interesting to someone but not me. I put on my own plate, when I came to sell the car, DVLA gave back R47 as non-transferrable. If wanted to retain R47 to sell/use elsewhere I would have had to put it on retention at £105 and £25 each year.