Private number plate advice 13 February 2015 at 6:12PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Motoring 37 replies 3.8K views

Gloomendoom

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

And people with ADHD were naughty little bar stewards.

They still are!

Dr._Shoe

I'm thinking of changing my name to Valerie Annette Parsons just so I can have a personalised plate at a fraction of the cost.

I'm a hardcore MSEr me!

Spicy_McHaggis

Dr._Shoe wrote: »

I'm thinking of changing my name to Valerie Annette Parsons just so I can have a personalised plate at a fraction of the cost.

I'm a hardcore MSEr me!

Be even cheaper to to find a plate DRS.

bery_451

Ok so http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/ is the only website where I will be the owner?

Iceweasel

bery_451 wrote: »

Ok so http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/ is the only website where I will be the owner?

No - As I said in an earlier post no-one owns any numbers - they all belong to the DVLA.

What you will have is the right to display it no matter where you obtain it from.

Buying a number from the DVLA is no different from buying from anywhere else.

If I had a number for sale and you bought the right to display it from me your rights would be exactly the same as if you had bought it from the DVLA.

xHannahx

It's cheapest to buy new direct from DVLA, but DVLA dont do second hand registrations. So if you want one that someone else has had you can only get from one of the companies that add loads extra on.

Iceweasel

xHannahx wrote: »

It's cheapest to buy new direct from DVLA, but DVLA dont do second hand registrations. So if you want one that someone else has had you can only get from one of the companies that add loads extra on.

Of course - the DVLA only sell brand new, never before issued, numbers.

But you can buy an existing number direct from a private individual who is advertising/selling it - no need for any middle-men or companies at all.