Haters please refrain 🙂
My wife has a cherished plate and we are trading her car in for a brand new one next week. We want to keep the cherished plate and would ideally drive to the dealers in the old car, and drive away in the new one, with the same plate on it.
Looking at the DVLA site, it looks like as soon as I do the online forms, the plate immediately goes to retention once I pay the £80 admin fee. I then get a certificate which I guess I give to the dealer which lets him register the car, tax it, make up plates etc ?
So if I was to do that today, say, and we're getting the car in a week, do I need to get new plates made up for the old car, with the original AB 12 XYZ reassigned details on it ? Would prefer to avoid the hassle of going to Halfords, paying for plates, attaching them, changing details with Insurance, all for 3 or 4 days.
It's nearly 7 yrs since we last changed and I'm sure we drove in with one and away with the other, both with same plates on them.
Any advice from those in the know ?
Thanks
original AB 12 XYZ
Not exactly a scintillating plate is it?
aye, very good 🙂
probably worth a bit though !
ANA1?
no not Ana, nor Louise ... 🙂
Haters please refrain
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It's a pain in the arse to get dealers to do it now since they closed the local DVLA office.
They used to take all the paperwork to the DVLA local office and get it all done on the spot but now there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing waiting for replacement V5's with the amended registration marks to arrive in the post from Swansea.
Talk to the dealer and get them to clearly explain what's required and the timescales.
Took about a week for mine the last time.
When next I change my car I'll put the plate on retention first , swap the cars and then swap the registrations myself.
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Why thankyou Jamie 🙂
I am expecting flak, it's all good.
But I know that the answer will come..... STW will not fail !
perchy - thanks - that rings a bell, last time the sales guy went into the DVLA office in Bothwell St and sorted it.
Will call the guy at the garage tomorrow and ask
Took about a week for mine the last time.
You've sold it? 🙁
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😀 It was murder on the speedbumps.
Clue. It's not Ana.
11ANS HO ?
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jamj1974 - Member
Clue. It's not Ana.
^^ really ? 😯
how iainc feels right now.....
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^^^ LOL 🙂
aye, DVLA website is not very helpful, tried phoning them and gave up after 10 minutes of pressing option keys !
Will see what dealers says in morn..
Cherished? wtf?
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Cherished? wtf?
Well do you know what Nico,she is.
Iainc can't remember a time when he didn't love and cherish her more than anything.
Some relationhsips are just like that.
Don't judge them because of the way Lou Reed treated you. 😛
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Ignore the haters Iain. Spend your money on what gives you pleasure.
Similar to nico, what the flip is a 'cherished plate'?
Euphemism for 'massive waste of cash'?
Same as a vanity plate.Similar to nico, what the flip is a 'cherished plate'?
what the flip is a 'cherished plate'?
I cherish both of mine.
I've even had this printed on the bottom of them in tiny letters.....
"I despise the poor"
aye, pretty much the only issue i have with this thread, mon tae buggery! 😆Nico - Member
Cherished? wtf?
Similar to nico, what the flip is a 'cherished plate'?
It is what people with [b][i]vanity[/i][/b] plates call vanity plates
I thought they were called 'private plates', despite the fact that they are very public.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
Slightly daft question but why would you need to get plates made? Surely you have the original plates the car was registered with? Put those back on, your existing plates will surely just then fit on the new car once the transfer is done...or is that to obvious?
Slightly daft question but why would you need to get plates made?
You won't. Almost all dealers will swap the plates on any cars they sell for ones which feature their own logo and details.
They will also stick stickers on your car and expect you to drive around giving them more free advertising.
This is a particular pet peeve of mine.
so having got a helpful chap on the phone at the DVLA I got the answers, so thought I'd update here, plus give some more ribbing potential for a quiet Tuesday evening.... 🙂
Why 'cherished' ? Good question, the phrase was in my head from a web search I'd been doing pre the OP and I didn't really think twice about it. Interesting though - a number plate can't really be private, or you'd keep it covered up, so maybe cherished, meaning something that you like/want is an ok name ? I dunno...
Why do i need to get plates made up ? Well, the current car, which we got 6 or so yrs back came with 'wife's plate' already fitted by dealer, so I never actually had the original 'public' ones. As we are buying a new car and trading this one in, the V5 for the trade in car has to have the original reg number on it; if we hand it over with the 'wife's plate' on the V5 we would lose ownership of it. Secondly, the car dealer, will, as perchy says, want to install his own plates, with his logo's etc on it.
So the 'wife's plate' is now on a retention document, the dealer has the details of said document and will register the new car with them and will make up and fit the plates. Once I get the paper V5 for the trade in car, in 3-5 days, I take it, with the car, to the dealer and do the vehicle change.
I went to Halfords on way home,with the paperwork from the DVLA retention stuff, got a set of original plates made up for the car we are trading in, and called Insurance Co and advised them of change, and stuck the plates on the car.
So yes, a bit of a palava for a vain number plate, yes, but whatever rocks folks boats is fine 🙂
I just wish to hell I was buying a T5 to put the plate on, what a thread that would make .... 😆