Advice on selling number plate and how to transfer

cat64

I recently bought a car which has a number plate that I think may be worth selling (hope to recoup some of the £500 quid its cost me to get through the mot, nearly more than car is worth:rolleyes:). My old car was uneconomical to repair and is waiting to go for scrap, still has some mot left on it. It is the same year as my current car, would I be able to transfer the registration over and if so does anybody know how to go about it?

Can anyone recommend the best way to go about selling the reg in order to make the most money? Ebay or one of the cherished number plate sites? Be grateful for any advice......

harveybobbles

DVLA/broker/ebay will take money off you which ever way you get rid. Best thing to do if forget it. This last few months we've had quite a few px cars with porivate reg's left on them cos the customer just couldnt be arsed going thru the whole process or removing it yet again...

emmell

You need to go to your local vehicle licensing office with the documents for both vehicles to transfer from one to the other, or put the old number on retention to either changeover or sell at a later date. You will of course have to pay.
My suggestion is you ring them first and they will explain it over the phone. (don't forget it is the local vehicle licensing office you ring not DVLA).
ML.

Lum

It costs £105 to put the plate on retention. At the same time as you do this you can also nominate one person to have rights to the plate. To nominate that person later, or change the nomination costs £30 or £35, I forget which.

When you do this, you'll have to hand in your logbook and MOT certificate. You will be given a new tax disc and MOT and a "number plate authorisation certificate" which you need to get new plates made up. The new plates will cost you at least 20 quid, more if you go to Halfrauds, more still if you pay someone else to fit them for you. Once the new plates are fitted you have to also put in the new tax disc and send the old one back. If you don't send it back they'll probably bill you for the remaining tax. 4-6 weeks later you'll get a new logbook in the post.

So you're looking at a minimum of £125 in costs just to sell the plate, and that only works if you find someone who will agree to buy and then wait while you go through all that hassle.

Doozergirl

If you're selling the plate though you don't pay for new ones, the buyer would?

Plus if you sell it without putting it onto retention then it costs £80 to transfer it straight onto another vehicle. I don't think you need a nominee because it's not going on retention, it's going on a car? My number plate has been transferred onto my new cars before I've actually owned the car, on two occasions.

Lum

To do it that way, don't you need to bring both logbooks to the DVLA at the same time, which would be difficult to arrange if you're selling on the internet.

When I sold mine, it was to a guy in Newcastle, so this really wasn't an option.

And I meant the new plates for your existing car, not new plates for the buyers car. I just gave him my old ones along with the certificate with his name as the nominee.

harveybobbles

Just refer back to post #2...