Old car number plate

Savvy_Sue

We have an old car number plate for a car we don't have any more - used to use it on the bike holder but failed to pass it on when we sold the car.

I was thinking of freecycling it or even offering it for sale at a table top sale I'm doing in a few days: it's a nice smooth bit of plastic, could be useful for all sorts of things (apart from illegal purposes, that is!)

But would that be breaking the law?

chirpy007

Do you just mean the plate itself or that you own the actual registration.

pavlovs_dog

its always a bit awkward with license plates. when we had ours stolen :mad: :rolleyes: (why anyone would want one, never mind both :rolleyes: )

turns out it was a good job we reported it to the police - a few days later they were used in a petrol snatch and grab thingy :eek:

do you have a friendly neighbourhood bobby you could check with? or perhaps the dvla might be able to help?

Savvy_Sue

chirpy007 wrote:

Do you just mean the plate itself or that you own the actual registration.

It's the plate itself. We don't own the registration, and the car it goes with may not even still be on the road!

Savvy_Sue

pavlovs_dog wrote:

its always a bit awkward with license plates. when we had ours stolen :mad: :rolleyes: (why anyone would want one, never mind both :rolleyes: )

turns out it was a good job we reported it to the police - a few days later they were used in a petrol snatch and grab thingy :eek:

do you have a friendly neighbourhood bobby you could check with? or perhaps the dvla might be able to help?

That's my worry, that it might end up in the 'wrong' hands. Don't ever see a policeman round here to speak to, can't face the DVLA. Could phone the garage where we've had them made up in the past (not for that car, you understand, but for subsequent cars) and see what they say.

kiranj

You should destroy the plate. The DVLA specifically states you should destroy it, to prevent it being used fraudulently.

K

Savvy_Sue

kiranj wrote:

You should destroy the plate. The DVLA specifically states you should destroy it, to prevent it being used fraudulently.

K

I now have no idea what I've done with it, but I think it ended up in the landfill bin ... :rotfl: