What happens to my old number plate? Do I have to pay to retain it so that when I sell my car I don't have to sell it with the personalised plate on?
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Personalised Number Plate
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Jean
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- Location: Maidstone, Kent
Can someone please explain the true cost of getting a personalised number plate? I've spotted one I fancy on the DVLA website and the price quoted includes the £80 transfer fee, but are there any other costs I'm likely to incur?
What happens to my old number plate? Do I have to pay to retain it so that when I sell my car I don't have to sell it with the personalised plate on?
Cheers, my dears
What happens to my old number plate? Do I have to pay to retain it so that when I sell my car I don't have to sell it with the personalised plate on?
Cheers, my dears
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carl
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- Joined: Mon Jun 24, 2002 1:00 am
- Location: East Herts
The DVLA price is "all in". The only other fee you have to pay is to have the plates made up (I recommend http://www.fancyplates.com).
When you come to sell the car, you just pay the assignment fee (£80) to assign it to the new car, and DVLA will issue a new age-related plate for your old car. This new plate will usually be the one it started off with, but it's not guaranteed unless you can show special circumstances -- e.g. you have the windows etched with the original plate.
Note that your local VRO may insist on seeing both the old and new cars, and making sure that the tax discs are valid, etc. But they usually don't.
When you come to sell the car, you just pay the assignment fee (£80) to assign it to the new car, and DVLA will issue a new age-related plate for your old car. This new plate will usually be the one it started off with, but it's not guaranteed unless you can show special circumstances -- e.g. you have the windows etched with the original plate.
Note that your local VRO may insist on seeing both the old and new cars, and making sure that the tax discs are valid, etc. But they usually don't.
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london-99
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- Location: London
The DVLA is the best place to buy a plate from.
There is no other cost to you when you by from the DVLA just the £80 pluss the cost of the plate (reg)
if you buy from there web site it shows the cost of the plate with all cost inc.
All you have to do then is when you get all the paper work, 1 week at most, is take your existing tax disk,log book and your forms (which the DVLA sent you) to your local DVLA office (you can find it on there web site) and they will do the rest for you.
They will print you a new tax disk and give the old one back to (which when you have your new plates on the car you must send back) and they will ask you if you are going to have the plates made up soon, if you are then they will give you a form which you take to the place that is going to make up your plate because the DVLA will take your log book of you and send it away to get a new one with your new reg on.
GOOD LUCK
There is no other cost to you when you by from the DVLA just the £80 pluss the cost of the plate (reg)
if you buy from there web site it shows the cost of the plate with all cost inc.
All you have to do then is when you get all the paper work, 1 week at most, is take your existing tax disk,log book and your forms (which the DVLA sent you) to your local DVLA office (you can find it on there web site) and they will do the rest for you.
They will print you a new tax disk and give the old one back to (which when you have your new plates on the car you must send back) and they will ask you if you are going to have the plates made up soon, if you are then they will give you a form which you take to the place that is going to make up your plate because the DVLA will take your log book of you and send it away to get a new one with your new reg on.
GOOD LUCK
New 53 Plate allure, Blue, one of the first in the UK.
Car has been rejected.
04 plate 1.6s same spec as the Allure.
mods to date:
:Rear lex lights.
:Wind stop.
Car has been rejected.
04 plate 1.6s same spec as the Allure.
mods to date:
:Rear lex lights.
:Wind stop.
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Nicck
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- Location: Wales
Keep the old number plates too. Like carl says you usually get the same registration number back when you transfer your personalised plate to your next car. That way you can stick the old ones back on when you sell it and not have to pay more money to get another set of plates made up.
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