Number Plate Transfer Help
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@Mike23864 is this potentially an advert or are you asking about the sale process?
Thanks. My mum has become too infirm to drive. She’s sold her car but we’ve put the plate on retention and she’s decided to sell it on.
I’m just seeing if anyone’s done this before and whether they did it through Facebook, Gumtree or a plate dealer.
It’s 37 JHW by the way.
I’m just seeing if anyone’s done this before and whether they did it through Facebook, Gumtree or a plate dealer.
It’s 37 JHW by the way.
You can sell it yourself via facebook, forums etc then transfer via the DVLA or go with a plate seller.
A plate seller should give you a value then it's up to you if you use them or sell privately.
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A plate seller should give you a value then it's up to you if you use them or sell privately.
Private (personalised) number plates
Buy a private (personalised) number plate, assign it or transfer it to a vehicle - renew or update your entitlement certificate.
Many thanks. I’ll check out a few places.
Hi,
Quite a long question here for hopefully quite a simple scenario!
I have a new VW on order and when this arrived I need to do a number plate shuffle as we are keeping my car, it will become the wife's and getting rid of hers. In summary this is what we have, reg numbers refer to first two letters only, and what we want to end up with.
If I move the registration, current personliased NP, from my wife's old car to my current car, will I then get to put my personalised plate on retention? Or do I need to first retain my existing personalised plate (HP) revert it back to its original plate (SY) and then transfer on my wife's personalised plate (NP) putting hers back on the original GX plate? I am looking to do this in the quickest, most efficient and importantly cheapest way without loosing entitlement to any of the reg numbers!
Thanks for any help you can give....
Nigel
Quite a long question here for hopefully quite a simple scenario!
I have a new VW on order and when this arrived I need to do a number plate shuffle as we are keeping my car, it will become the wife's and getting rid of hers. In summary this is what we have, reg numbers refer to first two letters only, and what we want to end up with.
| Car | Wife's Car | My Car | New Car |
| Original Reg | GX | SY | Want to register on HP |
| Current Reg | NP | HP | - |
| New Reg | Back to GX | NP | - |
If I move the registration, current personliased NP, from my wife's old car to my current car, will I then get to put my personalised plate on retention? Or do I need to first retain my existing personalised plate (HP) revert it back to its original plate (SY) and then transfer on my wife's personalised plate (NP) putting hers back on the original GX plate? I am looking to do this in the quickest, most efficient and importantly cheapest way without loosing entitlement to any of the reg numbers!
Thanks for any help you can give....
Nigel
You'll need to retain HP first
Firstly retain the numbers that you want to keep. I assume those are HP and NP. The retention fee includes the transfer costs.
Your wife's car will go back to GX and yours to SY straight away, but you'll need to wait for the new V5s before you can do anything else. Presumably the dealer will want the V5 with GX on it in order to be able to sell that car.
You'll need both the V5 with HP on it along with the retention certificate for NP before you can put NP on your car. You need document numbers off both.
The supplying dealer of the new car will need the retention certificate for HP in order to register that one.
Someone here a while back transferred a new plate onto a vehicle that already had a private plate on that he intended to keep. By doing this, his original private plate went into the DVLA ether. Luckily after much effort, then sent it him back. The upshot of this was always retain what you want to keep.
Your wife's car will go back to GX and yours to SY straight away, but you'll need to wait for the new V5s before you can do anything else. Presumably the dealer will want the V5 with GX on it in order to be able to sell that car.
You'll need both the V5 with HP on it along with the retention certificate for NP before you can put NP on your car. You need document numbers off both.
The supplying dealer of the new car will need the retention certificate for HP in order to register that one.
Someone here a while back transferred a new plate onto a vehicle that already had a private plate on that he intended to keep. By doing this, his original private plate went into the DVLA ether. Luckily after much effort, then sent it him back. The upshot of this was always retain what you want to keep.
@Tourershine hasn’t been the same since..
I wanted to avoid having to wait for new V5s and having to tell the insurance company about changing number plates multiple times as I think that I get charged each time (multicar policy), hence looking for an easy option. Considering now getting the new one registered as a 73plate and then put HP on it later on that way if I sell it later I have plates ready to go back on it…. GX is probably going private sale or Motorway/WBAC depending on timescales and whether I get any interest in it so not too concerned about that one
I remember reading the post about the lost plate…hence my reason to be cautious.
