DVLA Personalised Registrations

Grumpy_chap

[Deleted User] said:

@Grumpy_chap You do realise that anybody that cares about the age of your care only needs to type your new private reg into one of many different government or commercial websites to instantly see the true age of your car?

Thanks - that is totally true.
Do people do that though?

I mean, I see people arrive on a site in a brand new car and people will comment.
Do those same people check the number plate of everyone online?
An older number plate is just not as ostentatious and "in-yer-face".

HillStreetBlues

Grumpy_chap said:

Thanks - that is totally true.
Do people do that though?

I mean, I see people arrive on a site in a brand new car and people will comment.
Do those same people check the number plate of everyone online?
An older number plate is just not as ostentatious and "in-yer-face".

If someone did check there are two ways of looking at it.
First, the person isn't ostentatious as hiding it's a brand new car.
Second, the person is very ostentatious as new car and private plate.

[Deleted User]

Grumpy_chap said:

[Deleted User] said:

@Grumpy_chap You do realise that anybody that cares about the age of your care only needs to type your new private reg into one of many different government or commercial websites to instantly see the true age of your car?

Thanks - that is totally true.
Do people do that though?

I mean, I see people arrive on a site in a brand new car and people will comment.
Do those same people check the number plate of everyone online?
An older number plate is just not as ostentatious and "in-yer-face".

Depends on who you are trying to hide the age of your car from and why?

Some people can't actually read the year from a number plate, especially the 5x, 6x, 7x ranges. Some people don't even notice you've got a new car unless it is a different colour from the last one.

For sake of argument, you could be in a £50k 2nd hand 2016 Tesla X or a £50k new 2023 Tesla Y, and most people won't know either the difference or price anyway - just see a Tesla and assume £££ anyway.

Car people will know straight away, especially Tesla fans, and are likely to notice the plate doesn't match the model and the fact it has that new car look and smell - those are the ones that search the reg, done it myself when it doesn't look right.

I think it is a bit of an old-fashioned view that a brand-new car is "ostentatious" as you say, it isn't hard to finance a new car on a monthly basis with no deposit for somebody that isn't wealthy.

HillStreetBlues

[Deleted User] said:

I think it is a bit of an old-fashioned view that a brand-new car is "ostentatious" as you say, it isn't hard to finance a new car on a monthly basis with no deposit for somebody that isn't wealthy.

Ostentatious and wealth are totally separate.
There will be some that struggle to keep up monthly payments because they are ostentatious.

[Deleted User] said:

Some people can't actually read the year from a number plate, especially the 5x, 6x, 7x ranges. Some people don't even notice you've got a new car unless it is a different colour from the last one.

I haven't a clue, I lost track after 2001 when the prefix letter stopped.

Grumpy_chap

[Deleted User] said:

Car people will know straight away, especially Tesla fans, and are likely to notice the plate doesn't match the model and the fact it has that new car look and smell - those are the ones that search the reg, done it myself when it doesn't look right.

HaHa - that takes me back to when I had my MG Metro and then I saw a brand new Metro on the new plate of whatever letter, except it was the old shape that had been discontinued so made no sense to me.  I went away to see what it was all about and found that a number of old shape one were still being produced as auto-boxes for Motability only.

As for why to hide the year?
I work as a consultant and a new car will attract negative response around charging too much by way of fees.  I've even known people lose contracts for this reason - and the car does not have to be that flash.  One of the people I know once had a Peugeot coupe (406?) and lost a live contract over it.
Just not having the brand new number plate is enough to detract from the casual observer, or even the non-observer.  You are often referring to whoever books parking spaces or whatever so they don't even need to see the car to see the "23" plate or the "16" plate or whatever.

There are also those that will "key" a brand new car just because...

WellKnownSid

Grumpy_chap said:

As for why to hide the year?
I work as a consultant and a new car will attract negative response around charging too much by way of fees.

From direct experience, these are also the clients that experience the greatest difficulty searching their business for a suitable biro with which to sign the cheque...

Grumpy_chap

WellKnownSid said:

From direct experience, these are also the clients that experience the greatest difficulty searching their business for a suitable biro with which to sign the cheque...

I always carry my own biro or two for exactly this reason. 
As an over-paid consultant it is the kind of extravagance I can tolerate

Grumpy_chap

WellKnownSid said:

Yes - I used the .gov site.  Prices include transfer fee and VAT which are never included in the other sites so they are cheaper.

When I last ordered one in 2021 - I ordered in the morning and the V750 arrived in the post the following day so I could get the plates made.

Transfer was done online and immediate - literally pressed the button and 'you can now change the number plate'.

WellKnownSid said:

Herzlos said:
So you'd need to pick it up registered to the 23 plate and transfer it over, but you should in theory be able to do that online from the car park before you drive it home. 

I guess you will need the V5 which probably won't arrive in the post for at least 24 hours

OK, so I am scheduled to collect the car on Friday morning with the "23" plate.  
That works well as I will be away until Monday.

So, if I buy the plate, I should have the V750 by the end of this week, if all goes well.
If I then have the V5C by Monday, I can switch the plates straight away and no-one will have seen the "23"
However, the supplying Dealer has said the V5C will take 2 weeks to arrive.  I can't hide the car for that long.

If I am going to have to reveal the "23" plate, there is no point in having the DVLA Personalised Registration.

WellKnownSid

Grumpy_chap said:

So, if I buy the plate, I should have the V750 by the end of this week, if all goes well.
If I then have the V5C by Monday, I can switch the plates straight away and no-one will have seen the "23"
However, the supplying Dealer has said the V5C will take 2 weeks to arrive.  I can't hide the car for that long.

If I am going to have to reveal the "23" plate, there is no point in having the DVLA Personalised Registration.

Over the last 20 years, every time I have collected a new car on a Saturday, I have always received the V5C without fail by the Monday.  I am presuming that the dealer is simply covering themselves to set expectations and avoid people querying if it takes a couple of days due to post.  I cannot see them letting you drive away in an unregistered car, and I doubt they're just popping a form into a post box down the road... so they will be pushing the button before you leave and I guess a few minutes later the V5C is already in the post?

I would chance it if it were me.  FWIW I'm hoping to collect my new car in October (long lead times and all that) and have my eye on a 14 plate instead of a 73 plate for similar reasons...

RobM99

Who gives a monkey's?   Why not put a sticker on the back with "THIS IS NOT NEW" on it?