Urgent Help - Personalised Reg!

Luke40885

Hi all,

After some urgent help please..

Got a new personal plate for xmas, so as my car is on lease decided today to retain my current number plate to put back on the car once the lease is up and then put my new personal reg on.

Well when i done the retention i recieved the certificate but also a new number plate?!
Its asking me to make up plates for a plate i didn't even chose?

Now when i go to put the new personal plate on it cant find the vehichle details presumably because a new v5 has also been issues? What on earth am i meant to do in them meantime with dvla close!

Help pleaseeeeee

Muscle750

Wait till theyre open its hardly a "critical situation" and get ready to pay the insurance a admin fee for change of details as well as well as the lease company

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Luke40885 wrote: »

Hi all,


Well when i done the retention i recieved the certificate but also a new number plate?!
Its asking me to make up plates for a plate i didn't even chose?

You put the original plate off the car onto retention, so they issued the car with a "new" age related plate.

You now use the certificate you got for christmas to transfer your Christmas number plate onto the vehicle that has a "new" plate, and the "new" plate disappears (back to the unallocated stock probably)

If you didn't do things in this order then something won't work, and you will have to wait until you can speak to the DVLA.

In the mean time, to drive your car, you will need the "new" number plate fitted, and change your insurance to the "new" plate, then do it again for the Christmas plate.


Probably would have been better to do all this when the DVLA aren't on holiday

AdrianC

facade wrote: »

You put the original plate off the car onto retention, so they issued the car with a "new" age related plate.

You now use the certificate you got for christmas to transfer your Christmas number plate onto the vehicle that has a "new" plate, and the "new" plate disappears (back to the unallocated stock probably)

It's probably the plate the car was allocated when new, before the previous vanity plate was put on. It won't be reallocated - they never are.

OP - what did you expect to happen between your old vanity plate being removed and the new one transferred on? A car has to have a registration allocated. It won't just sit on DVLA's records as "<No reg allocated, awaiting transfer>".

dannyrst

I can't understand what your actually saying the situation is...

AdrianC

dannyrst wrote: »

I can't understand what your actually saying the situation is...

AIUI, he's taken VP1 off the car, and is soon to be allocating VP2 to it. In the meantime, he's surprised that he's been told the car is now registered AB12CDE, doesn't see why he should spend £20 on a pair of plates, and is wanting to know what he can do about it...

dannyrst

AdrianC wrote: »

AIUI, he's taken VP1 off the car, and is soon to be allocating VP2 to it. In the meantime, he's surprised that he's been told the car is now registered AB12CDE, doesn't see why he should spend £20 on a pair of plates, and is wanting to know what he can do about it...

Can't you apply to put VP2 on the car and put VP1 on retention without the need for it going back to the original plate?

Obviously too late in this instance.

AdrianC

dannyrst wrote: »

Can't you apply to put VP2 on the car and put VP1 on retention without the need for it going back to the original plate?

Yes, you can.

dannyrst

AdrianC wrote: »

Yes, you can.

:rotfl: excellent.

Rain_Shadow

I thought the car was currently on AB12CDE and he wanted to put that on retention in order to put it back on at the end of the lease. Meanwhile he has been issued with FG12HJK.

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That was my interpretation. He put AB12 CDE on retention first, so they issued/allocated FG12 HJK to that car .
Now he can't put XMA 5 onto AB12 CDE as it doesn't exist as a vehicle (it is on retention, so he doesn't want to replace it anyway), or FG12 HJK as he needs the doc ref off the V5 for FG12 HJK and he hasn't got it yet.

He didn't do the transfer & retention in one go.