Transfer registration when selling a car
Transfer registration when selling a car
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AM-BM

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261 posts

231 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Hi, advice appreciated.

Can I fill out the V317 and send them the V5 with the new owner filled in.
Give the new owner the V5C. They can drive the car on my personal plate until a new one comes through.
I will be sending off payment and the V5 with my name filled out on the form.

Hopefully they will assign the mark to my new car(already purchsed) and send the new owner a new V5 and reg documents?

Cheers.

B'stard Child

31,175 posts

277 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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AM-BM said:
Hi, advice appreciated.

Can I fill out the V317 and send them the V5 with the new owner filled in.
Give the new owner the V5C. They can drive the car on my personal plate until a new one comes through.
I will be sending off payment and the V5 with my name filled out on the form.

Hopefully they will assign the mark to my new car(already purchsed) and send the new owner a new V5 and reg documents?

Cheers.
Safe and std way if you have already bought the new car is to send all the relevant docs to DVLA to have the plate transferred from old car to new and to have the original/previous reg restored to your old car.

Then sell the old car

Anything else has risk.

Mopar440

410 posts

143 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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AM-BM said:
They can drive the car on my personal plate until a new one comes through.
They will end up owning "your" plate!

groundcontrol

1,539 posts

222 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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They won't end up owning your plate, but when you buy the car one half of the V317 does need to be filled in by the new keeper. You'll need to retain their V5C/2 and MOT cert to send off to the DVLA, along with a V62 that you have both completed. The new owner can keep the V5/C as proof of ownership if they really want.

Just did this myself and it only took a couple of weeks. Retention is £105 and the transfer fee is only £80 so worth getting someone to fill in a couple of forms for £25.

g7jhp

7,035 posts

269 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Remove the plate first (with a V317).

Get new plates and sell car.

Move your plate from the retention document to your new car.

ianwayne

8,658 posts

299 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Some people want to save £25 by going car to car but I know someone came a cropper when the new owner wouldn't sign the document.

Only safe way is to take it off first but the problem is, because it all has to go to Swansea now, that if you are part-exing it, you have no V5C. Dealers can get twitchy about it.

B'stard Child

31,175 posts

277 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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groundcontrol said:
They won't end up owning your plate
Tell that to this guy

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...



Matt UK

18,084 posts

231 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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B'stard Child said:
Safe and std way if you have already bought the new car is to send all the relevant docs to DVLA to have the plate transferred from old car to new and to have the original/previous reg restored to your old car.

Then sell the old car

Anything else has risk.
Agreed, sort your admin first, anything else is a ballache for you and will put off buyers when selling your car.