Personalised number plates

venomx

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

Grumpy_chap

IMO, this is more hassle than it's worth, especially for anyone who has a dislike of admin (like me).  It's just more to organise that I can just avoid the bother.

facade

venomx said:

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

dot gov pages are famous for errors

You buy the plate from DVLA. This gives you a certificate that is the right to use it. (machine generated, so only a few days to arrive)

You can give the certificate away, or sell it, or use it. (It expires after a few years, but you can renew it for ££ it is called having the number "on retention")

You assign the number to your car online with the number on the certificate. This updates the DVLA records and gives you a chitty to take to your motorfactor to get the numberplates made. You swap the plates over, and keep the originals safe.

You tell your insurer that you have changed the number, and they charge you an admin fee, and likely an addition to the policy cost as a personal plate attracts vandals so the risk changed. A V5 with the private number on arrives in a few days.

It is possible to assign the number at the point of purchase, in which case you won't get the certificate, but you will get that chitty to make the 'plates.

Before you sell the car, you transfer the private plate back onto a retention certificate (more ££ to the treasury) and replace the original plates that you kept safe. Then change the insurance wait for the updated V5 and you can sell the car.

Actually you can sell the car when you like, but the V5 is cancelled by the 'plate change, so you can't change the keeper. Some dealers will sort it all out for you- if you believe them.  If you transfer ownership using the V5 with the private number on, the new owner gets the number.

Car_54

facade said:

venomx said:

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

Before you sell the car, you transfer the private plate back onto a retention certificate (more ££ to the treasury) and replace the original plates that you kept safe. Then change the insurance wait for the updated V5 and you can sell the car.

The ££ doesn't go to the Treasury. DVLA collect taxes on behalf of the Treasury, but all their other charges simply go to cover their costs.

motorguy

venomx said:

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

Its relatively simple when you buy the plate, as per facades comment, you get a certificate and as soon as you assign it to a car you get an authorisation slip your local motor factors can use to make up the reg plates.  Keep the original plates for when you resell the car.

All quite simple really.

Come resale of the car time, its easiest just to transfer it back on to a retention cert before you attempt to sell it.  The reg for the car will be the original reg so just screw the old plates back on once thats been confirmed.

motorguy

facade said:

venomx said:

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

dot gov pages are famous for errors

You buy the plate from DVLA. This gives you a certificate that is the right to use it. (machine generated, so only a few days to arrive)

You can give the certificate away, or sell it, or use it. (It expires after a few years, but you can renew it for ££ it is called having the number "on retention")

You assign the number to your car online with the number on the certificate. This updates the DVLA records and gives you a chitty to take to your motorfactor to get the numberplates made. You swap the plates over, and keep the originals safe.

You tell your insurer that you have changed the number, and they charge you an admin fee, and likely an addition to the policy cost as a personal plate attracts vandals so the risk changed. A V5 with the private number on arrives in a few days.

It is possible to assign the number at the point of purchase, in which case you won't get the certificate, but you will get that chitty to make the 'plates.

Before you sell the car, you transfer the private plate back onto a retention certificate (more ££ to the treasury) and replace the original plates that you kept safe. Then change the insurance wait for the updated V5 and you can sell the car.

Actually you can sell the car when you like, but the V5 is cancelled by the 'plate change, so you can't change the keeper. Some dealers will sort it all out for you- if you believe them.  If you transfer ownership using the V5 with the private number on, the new owner gets the number.

Any of the online insurance companies generally allow you to do the reg update to your policy online and some (most?) wont charge you an admin fee for doing it.

I've never had any premium increase because i've had a personal plate on my car and i've had them on maybe 30 different cars over the last 30 years or so.

facade

Car_54 said:

facade said:

venomx said:

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

Before you sell the car, you transfer the private plate back onto a retention certificate (more ££ to the treasury) and replace the original plates that you kept safe. Then change the insurance wait for the updated V5 and you can sell the car.

The ££ doesn't go to the Treasury. DVLA collect taxes on behalf of the Treasury, but all their other charges simply go to cover their costs.

Their computer time and printer paper must be the most expensive in the world then

Car_54

facade said:

Car_54 said:

facade said:

venomx said:

Looking at getting a personalised plate.
There are various websites like this...
https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

Once you have "bought" it, what happens next ? I've done some Googling but can't can't a clear answer 

One thing I do know is that you cannot make the car appear newer than it is

Here..
https://www.gov.uk/get-personalised-private-number-plate

It says to assign the plate to the vehicle,  then buy the new plate. Surely you should buy the plate first then assign it once its been delivered? 

Before you sell the car, you transfer the private plate back onto a retention certificate (more ££ to the treasury) and replace the original plates that you kept safe. Then change the insurance wait for the updated V5 and you can sell the car.

The ££ doesn't go to the Treasury. DVLA collect taxes on behalf of the Treasury, but all their other charges simply go to cover their costs.

Their computer time and printer paper must be the most expensive in the world then

5,000 employees to pay ...

motorguy

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Sorry you have a chip on your shoulder about what complete strangers chose to spend their money on.

venomx

Looking at the prices for cheap ones are about £250. Then add the cost of buying the physical plate is about £30. Plus any additional costs from my insurer.

Considering £300 is about two months worth of fuel for my car, I think I'll give it a miss. However thanks for the information as I now know how the process works.

grandadgolfer

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If I had the money to waste on a personalised number plate it would be an expensive one instantly recognizable not one of those cheapo £200 efforts where you have to make a 5 look like an S / B like an 8 / 1 like an L or move the number plate screw head covers etc. The amount of times I see a car with a cheap plate and have no idea what the persons name is