Is there a way to buy a car where the owner keeps their plates the same day?

Grumpy_chap

cymruchris said:

CKhalvashi said:

cymruchris said:

Grumpy_chap said:

How far from you is the car?

Could the current owner drive the car to you on current plate, then take the plate off (online), then you leave the car on the drive until the new plate arrives (V5)?

Worcester / Cardiff - and have already sold my previous car - so if he did drive down, he wouldn't be getting back again

I think probably best to hang on - let him take it off - then drive it back once the log book arrives (and don't pay for it until that point)

That'd be what I'd do.

What are you getting Chris, if it's not secret? (Sorry, secret petrolhead is taking over my electrohead (or whatever I can be called now driving an EV) tonight).

Something red..... That's all I'm saying until I've secured it. It could all fall through - so I don't want to jinx it

Good luck 🍀🤞

Norman_Castle

Isn't a replacement number given at the same time the original is removed? Can't the old v5 be used with details of the number change?

AdrianC

Norman_Castle said:

Isn't a replacement number given at the same time the original is removed? Can't the old v5 be used with details of the number change?

Yes, it is if the change is done online.

And a new V5C is generated - which means that the old one is no longer valid. Try to use the docref off it for a keeper change online, it'll be rejected, because the newly-generated V5C has a different docref.

Short version: Seller is an idiot for putting it on sale before it's ready for sale. Buyer is going to have to be patient to accommodate the seller's lack of preparedness.

...and all because the seller is too vain to want to have the standard plates, and insists on their vanity ones...

cymruchris

AdrianC said:

Norman_Castle said:

Isn't a replacement number given at the same time the original is removed? Can't the old v5 be used with details of the number change?

Yes, it is if the change is done online.

And a new V5C is generated - which means that the old one is no longer valid. Try to use the docref off it for a keeper change online, it'll be rejected, because the newly-generated V5C has a different docref.

Short version: Seller is an idiot for putting it on sale before it's ready for sale. Buyer is going to have to be patient to accommodate the seller's lack of preparedness.

...and all because the seller is too vain to want to have the standard plates, and insists on their vanity ones...

That's exactly as I saw it - but no harm to ask in case I was missing something obvious. 

cymruchris

Norman_Castle said:

Isn't a replacement number given at the same time the original is removed? Can't the old v5 be used with details of the number change?

Yes the old number plate is re-assigned immediately - but then as said above you no longer have a valid reference number to do the change of registered keeper until the new V5 arrives. The old V5 is immediately null and void.