Registration Transfer - SORTED

[The Revenant]

EDIT: Ignore, unless done by post, there is no 'cut the corner' method.

I probably know the answer already. In fact I'm sure I do but this place is full of knowledge, so...

Have a private plate on the car and want to swap i for another private plate. Procedure I expect: from DVLA online

Take plate off
Assigned original plate back on
Drive around
Wait for V5 and retention cert etc
New V5 arrives
Other plate swap online
Crack on
V5 arrives

The only pain is changing insurance (and numbers) twice for what really is usually a 5 day turnaround process.

What I'm asking, is there any way to go from one to another without the original one in the middle?

 

[moonstone]

If the other plate isn’t already assigned to a car then you can swap from one private plate directly to any other. There’s no need to swap to the original plate first.

If it’s on a car then it needs to come off that car first before you can put it on another.

 

[The Revenant]

If the other plate isn’t already assigned to a car then you can swap from one private plate directly to any other. There’s no need to swap to the original plate first.

If it’s on a car then it needs to come off that car first before you can put it on another.

You can't mate, that was my point.

Private off onto retention (REV 1) / replacement provided (AB69 ABC )/ new V5 issued (AB69ABC), alongside retention cert for one removed (REV 1) / new plate (REV 2) can then be added with revised V5 and retention cert held for new one.

ONLY way to do what I wanted/you suggested is to use postal service, which is slower.

 

[moonstone]

It wasn’t clear from your first post. Do you want to take a private plate off one car and put it onto another or do you want to replace a private plate on one car with one that’s already on retention?

 

[The Revenant]

It wasn’t clear from your first post. Do you want to take a private plate off one car and put it onto another or do you want to replace a private plate on one car with one that’s already on retention?

Option 2 - remove private and put a different private on same car.

To retain the registration currently on the car, you have to accept the registration they provide to replace.

New V5 arrives - dig out your retention cert for new reg and do the process again.

£80 to retain old, nothing to put new one on.

Well, for the online service that's the case.

 

[moonstone]

I was under the impression you’d get the old reg back on retention but I suppose it makes sense that wouldn’t happen. As the DVLA only keep the original reg associated with the car, not the one you put on originally. What a royal pain in the arse that is!

 

[The Revenant]

I was under the impression you’d get the old reg back on retention but I suppose it makes sense that wouldn’t happen. As the DVLA only keep the original reg associated with the car, not the one you put on originally. What a royal pain in the arse that is!

Agreed!

Me typing it confused me, but someone wants to buy the reg on the car and I have others, so taking it off and retaining it (to keep or sell) immediately assigns a reg number - usually the 69 one the car was first registered with - but unusually I have a completely new 69 number. I thought I would be putting the original plates back on, but now need to get the new ones made up for probably a week. Assume this is because I have swapped original/private/original/private, but don't really know. The original reg was PE prefix (which is the dealers location) and the number assigned today is my local area prefix.

Sorted the insurance swap and he's a broker, so all good with it, but the insurer charges a tenner a change, so that's another twenty quid.

Once the V5 arrives, I just go online and assign my other number, swap plates, inform insurance. You also have to remember to sort congestion website and similar, toll tag, warranty, dealer, finance, GAP , connected drive, tracker and a gazillion other folk I can't remember.

Plus, I'm bound to face problems when trying to assign the previously on the car private reg...

 

[The Revenant]

For all my worry and moaning, the new registration is now on the vehicle.

Online application to remove the current private registration was last Thursday. Issued random number immediately. New V5 with random number arrived by post on Monday, which allowed second private registration change to be completed online and now on the car. Final V5, along with retention certificate for previous reg will follow.

Informed everyone who needed to be informed and put the one I took off for sale.

Good work DVLA!