Keeping Your Licence Plates?

paddedjohn

OP, if you want to retain the number before you scrap/sell the car you must have mot on the car first so dont let it expire before you retain the number if that is indeed what you are planning.
If you just want the number plates to stick in your shed and admire now and again then just get some cheap duplicates made and swap them over before you part with the car.

Baileycat

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Is this a serious question?

Like scotsbob, my garage is decorated with dozens of number plates from cars I've owned in the past and some others that were on the wall when I got the place. They are just pieces of metal or plastic with numbers and letters on.

There is nothing to stop you taking the plates of your car and keeping them when you move it on or even getting some new plates made up with any number that takes your fancy... as long as you don't put them on a motor vehicle and drive it on a public road.

Yes, this is a serious question. It's not something I know much about and thought I'd just ask for some advice.

Thank you for all the helpful info, I think just getting cheap replacements or perhaps asking the scrappy is the best way to go

Baileycat

paddedjohn wrote: »

OP, if you want to retain the number before you scrap/sell the car you must have mot on the car first so dont let it expire before you retain the number if that is indeed what you are planning.
If you just want the number plates to stick in your shed and admire now and again then just get some cheap duplicates made and swap them over before you part with the car.

Again this bit about the MOT being valid isn't something that would've crossed my mind either, so thanks for pointing this out I probably will just keep a hold of them as mementoes, like many have said. I didn't know it was such a common thing to do!

ROY47 wrote: »

wrong

You can pay £80 to transfer the registration number to a newer car if you wish

If you want to keep the registration number to use on a car in a few months (up to 12 ) it will cost ypu £125 to put on retention

If you don't put it on a vehicle within the 12 months it will cost £25 every year to keep it


If on the other hand you just want to keep the number plates fitted on the car to stick on the wall as a momento and not have the same number on any other car you buy

just take the rear off the car the day you take it to a garage to part exchange it and if they ask say it was there when I left home it must have fallen off !:rotfl: :rotfl:

or just have one made for you

such as here

http://www.myshowplates.com/index.asp?gclid=CM-uu4Lslq4CFQlpfAodnT7QLg

Very detailed re the retention prices, I wasn't sure how this would work but you've cleared all of that up for me, thank you I don't think I'd have the nerve to say they'd just fallen off at the garage right enough, I'm such a terrible liar!! :rotfl:

mealone

scotsbob wrote: »

I have the number plates from every car and motorbike I have owned decorating my garage wall.

Before selling or trading a car I just take off the plates, stick them on my wall, get duplicates made from the cheapest dealer on Ebay at the time and stick them on the car.

I don't see any need to involve DVLA or anyone else in form filling.

Same here, we have a full double garage wall of dozens of old plates, we have always had a caravan so we always have at least one spare plate for each vehicle (X2 for mine and his) we have ever owned.

We have had cars whcih have had none tranferable number plates but that dosnt mean we dont have the third plate.

mikey72

If you are selling it as a runner it needs plates.
Any I've scrapped I've took the plates off and kept, the scrapyard has never wanted them when I've offered, as all they're going to do is sell the bits and crush it.

Having said that, I've also got one car I bought in the early eighties, it's been in my garage for over 25 years, now I've put it back on the road. (Ironically, I had to buy new number plates, as I cracked the old ones pushing it out)

Gloomendoom

mealone wrote: »

We have had cars whcih have had none tranferable number plates but that dosnt mean we dont have the third plate.

Slightly OT, but how do you know if a reg number is non transferable?

paddedjohn

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Slightly OT, but how do you know if a reg number is non transferable?

It will say so on the v5/log book;)

Gloomendoom

paddedjohn wrote: »

It will say so on the v5/log book;)

Ta. Where?

Is it in code or plain English?

Iand1

Plain English - at the bottom of the front page. Under the bit about Declared new etc

Gloomendoom

Interesting. I have a car with an age related plate that I assumed was non transferable but it doesn't have anything like that on the V5 at all.