Transfer private plate

missile

Hi,
Buying a second hand vehicle for my wife. Trading in her old car wants to keep her private number. I am sure many others will have been through this process and I would hope to learn from your experience. I want to drive in her old car transfer number and drive out in new. Is this possible?

I know I can apply to have number on retention and transferred online. Per https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registration-numbers/keep-or-assign

• a used vehicle you just bought - wait for DVLA to send you a new V5C in your name before you apply online or by post
  
• a new log book (V5C) - it can take 4 to 6 weeks to arrive

I appears that I must pay VED and insure vehicle I purchase on it's existing number, then wait for V5 before transfer. Is that correct?
This will involve two changes and admin charges to my insurance.
What happens to VED paid on existing number? I believe it is transferred when I transfer to private number. Hopefully, I do not have to cancel then reapply.

JamoLew

As far as I am aware in your scenario - you will have to:
1) put the plate on retention, put the old plates back on the car (assuming they are reassigned to it)
2) Wait for the ammended V5
3) Do the trade/exchange/purchase
4) Wait to receive the V5 for the new vehicle
5) Apply the plate to the new vehicle
VED should automatically get transferred as it's based on chassis number
Yes you will have to pay (if required) 2 lots of insurance Admin (some offer number plate changes free)
Sadly -- all the price of vanity

AdrianC

missile said:
I want to drive in her old car transfer number and drive out in new. Is this possible? 

Transfer plate online - old V5C becomes invalid. Can't use it to transfer keepership.

The risk is that the plate gets transferred with the keepership.

missile

I am meeting with dealer on Friday, perhaps he can offer a quicker / easier option.

Grumpy_chap

You have asked for advice.
People who know have given you advice.
You choose to ignore that now.  Hope you don't lose the number.

AdrianC

missile said:

I am meeting with dealer on Friday, perhaps he can offer a quicker / easier option.

There are costs involved with a vanity plate, and perhaps the safest way to retain it is for your wife to suffer the utter ignominy of driving around anonymously for a few days...

V5Cs come through within a week or so from online changes, routinely.

missile

Grumpy_chap said:

You have asked for advice.
People who know have given you advice.
You choose to ignore that now.  Hope you don't lose the number.

Are you really one of the seven dwarfs?
I have thanked them both for their advice. Where did I say that I was ignoring it?

Jack_Cork

AdrianC said:

missile said:

I am meeting with dealer on Friday, perhaps he can offer a quicker / easier option.

There are costs involved with a vanity plate, and perhaps the safest way to retain it is for your wife to suffer the utter ignominy of driving around anonymously for a few days...

V5Cs come through within a week or so from online changes, routinely.

Vanity plate? The DVLA website calls them 'Personalised Registrations', you're just jealous as you'd love 'Ade 1'

You could have AA19 ADE for £399, but I think you have to get a newer car as well

AdrianC

Jack_Cork said:

AdrianC said:

missile said:

I am meeting with dealer on Friday, perhaps he can offer a quicker / easier option.

There are costs involved with a vanity plate, and perhaps the safest way to retain it is for your wife to suffer the utter ignominy of driving around anonymously for a few days...

V5Cs come through within a week or so from online changes, routinely.

Vanity plate? The DVLA website calls them 'Personalised Registrations'

...whilst trying to flog them to the gullible...

They also call them "private", which they clearly aren't, since they're laminated onto large hi-vis slabs of plastic on either end of the car.
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/
They also cheerfully sell plates which are utterly pointless without being illegally mis-displayed.

I'm quite happy for people to contribute to this kind of voluntary tax on vanity, because it means that the DVLA budget is met more easily with reduced or no fees for other things.

"Vanity" seems a perfectly apposite term for being willing to pay hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of pounds to have a tenuous representation of your name on either end of the car.

you're just jealous as you'd love 'Ade 1'

Trust me on this... no.

lcc86

JamoLew said:

As far as I am aware in your scenario - you will have to:
1) put the plate on retention, put the old plates back on the car (assuming they are reassigned to it)
2) Wait for the ammended V5
3) Do the trade/exchange/purchase
4) Wait to receive the V5 for the new vehicle
5) Apply the plate to the new vehicle
VED should automatically get transferred as it's based on chassis number
Yes you will have to pay (if required) 2 lots of insurance Admin (some offer number plate changes free)
Sadly -- all the price of vanity

This is the way you have to do it or risk losing your wife's private plate. I would do it via the dvla today to get the process started, when I put mine on my new car earlier this year it only took a week for the new V5 to come through (yes I am one of those tacky enough to have a vanity plate  )