transferring number plate registration

Chris_P_2

Hi, I am looking at buying a personalised number plate and am wondering about the transferring of the registration. The comoan yselling the plate offer the service for £30 but reuire me to send off my tax disc amongst other things.

Has anyone done this direct themselves and is it pretty straight forward?

Thanks

wealdroam

Chris_P wrote: »

Hi, I am looking at buying a personalised number plate and am wondering about the transferring of the registration. The comoan yselling the plate offer the service for £30 but reuire me to send off my tax disc amongst other things.

Has anyone done this direct themselves and is it pretty straight forward?

Thanks

Start here.

darich

it's dead easy.

Procedure is something like this...........

company sells you number plate...typically you receve a certificate saying it's yours. Some offer the physical plates too.
you get a form from the post office to tell dvla you're changing the plate (it may even be a section in the V5C document....can quite remember)
With the form you send the MOT, V5C and fee (if applicable - typically the transfer fee of £80 is included in the plate price)
DVLA send you back a new V5C, new MOT and tax disc with new plate on it.
You then send them the tax disc with old plate on it, usually in supplied envelope.
At that point, and not before, you can put the new plates on the car.
And remember to tell your insurance....not like one poster on this thread who forgot and got a lecture from his insurer when he remembered about a month later!!

The above is simplified a bit but that's pretty much it.

To pay someone £30 for that is daft....it's really simple.

Chris_P_2

I thought you had to send the old tax disc first? Also, is it possible to take all the forms to a DVLA office to get the new tax disc?

darich

Chris_P wrote: »

I thought you had to send the old tax disc first? Also, is it possible to take all the forms to a DVLA office to get the new tax disc?

If you send the old tax disc first then you're committing an offence by not displaying a valid tax disc.

To get a tax disc from the post office you need either
the reminder, valid insurance, valid mot and the cash or
mot, insurance, V5 (vehicle log book) and a form to apply for the disc.

Kilty_2

I was asked for a photocopy of the tax disc when I did it

quinns2003

when i bought mine i took it to my local dvla centre and they did everything there and then for me, changed tax disc, mot certificate and the form i had spent 10 mins filling in he said he didnt need , i left thinking what a brilliant service this was as i was expecting to be sending stuff threw the post and waiting weeks

Kilty_2

FYI the process is different depending on whether it's a "new" registration or not - the one I bought belonged to someone else and I had to send my documents to the seller.