Lease car written off, private plate off before Copart co
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Our family car is leased from Tesla (yes, yes, I know, sorry..>my< car is a real car) and has a cheap private plate on it.
Due to a pretty minor(!) collision the insurance company are writing it off (shocking... it's literally 2 door panels and maybe some filler!... but).
Insurance co. are very keen to have Copart come and collect it asap (and they seem to text me every couple of hours about it today), which is fine but I need the plate off it 1st and we don't have another car to put it on so will have to put it on retention
As far as I see from the Interwebs I need to
a) fill out a form https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registrati...
b) provide a copy of the v5c (which I'll have to get from the lease company)
c) pay a very "reasonable" fee for the DVLA's time in processing it
d) post it off, using an actual stamp and postbox like a savage
<wait indeterminate amount of time>
e) wait for the lease company to confirm they have a new v5c
f) put the original plates back on the car
f) wait for me to get a new v778
<then allow copart to collect the car and wave goodbye>
Anyone have any idea how long the <indeterminate amount of time> is likely to be? Lease-co are also painfully slow in doing anything in my experience and only contactable via email/voicemail.
Side-note, EV lack-of repairability isn't really helping green-credentials is it?
Due to a pretty minor(!) collision the insurance company are writing it off (shocking... it's literally 2 door panels and maybe some filler!... but).
Insurance co. are very keen to have Copart come and collect it asap (and they seem to text me every couple of hours about it today), which is fine but I need the plate off it 1st and we don't have another car to put it on so will have to put it on retention
As far as I see from the Interwebs I need to
a) fill out a form https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registrati...
b) provide a copy of the v5c (which I'll have to get from the lease company)
c) pay a very "reasonable" fee for the DVLA's time in processing it
d) post it off, using an actual stamp and postbox like a savage
<wait indeterminate amount of time>
e) wait for the lease company to confirm they have a new v5c
f) put the original plates back on the car
f) wait for me to get a new v778
<then allow copart to collect the car and wave goodbye>
Anyone have any idea how long the <indeterminate amount of time> is likely to be? Lease-co are also painfully slow in doing anything in my experience and only contactable via email/voicemail.
Side-note, EV lack-of repairability isn't really helping green-credentials is it?
Yeah but it also says this... and as it's a lease car the V5C has the lease-co's name on it (which is what I assume they mean by not in your name).
"Apply to take off a number
You can apply online or by post. It costs £80. You must have the vehicle’s log book (V5C).
If the vehicle’s not in your name, you have to apply by post."
"Apply to take off a number
You can apply online or by post. It costs £80. You must have the vehicle’s log book (V5C).
If the vehicle’s not in your name, you have to apply by post."
it was 4years ago so memory a bit vague, but I think I had to get a copy of the v5C from the lease co - they sent a print-out I think and confirmed they had the updated V5C when it arrived.
or something like that.
it came with a normal plate, have always had a simple private plate for family bus, mainly to avoid pain at those car-parks where you had to punch the number plate in as we used to swap the car fairly frequently.
or something like that.
it came with a normal plate, have always had a simple private plate for family bus, mainly to avoid pain at those car-parks where you had to punch the number plate in as we used to swap the car fairly frequently.
Regarding your last point, it will almost certainly be repairable. Your insurer have decided it’s better for them financially to pay out on it and auction it off. They are having to consider hire car costs, how long it might take to repair and the like too however. For someone willing to wait or use second hand parts it makes much more economic sense than for them.
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