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Transfer reg to new car.

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Hello,

How do I go about transfering my current car reg plate to a car I am buying?

The car dealer says when I arrange my insurance to include my current (plate A)reg on the new car. He says to get my insurance certificate plus a cover note for him to use for the transfer with the new plate on them.

Will this work? Can I then drive my new(used)car from the dealer complete with the new plate already installed?

OR, do I have to take the new(used) car with its current reg, and then transfer afterwards?

Thanks, Wayne.

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  • Put the current plate from the old car onto retention and the DVLA will issue the old car with a new plate.

    Then give the retention to the car dealer to have it put on the new car?
  • Take possession of your new car, and then transfer your registration from your old car if you still own it. If you are Part exchanging your old car, you will have to keep it until the transfer is done and then hand it over to the dealer. The dealer probably won't pay you for it until you deliver it to him.

    That's how I did mine last year.

    I think it costs more to do as LeeUK suggests than to do a straight swop.

    Unfortunately, since the DVLA stopped transfers being done while you wait at DVLA offices, we have to go through this ritual.
    "There are not enough superlatives in the English language to describe a 'Princess Coronation' locomotive in full cry. We shall never see their like again". O S Nock
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