Hi all, I have a private plate on my daily driver and want to remove it ready for my new car.
how can i do this,i have sold my car,but i have to take the plate off so new owner can have the car etc.
but i want the plate ready for my new car which will be here next weekend.
how do i do it ?
how long will it take.
please help,advice.any phone numbers out there so i can get it started now ?
thanks in advance
matt.

 

Hi. Take a look here. Should tell you all you need to know.
http://www.dvlaregistrations.co.uk/h...R#reg_transfer
Regards,

Nick

 

Go to your local DVLA office with all the relevent paperwork and put it on retention. The process can take up to 6 weeks but in my experience its been about a fortnight.

 

You have to put your current number plate on Retention. This will cost you Ł105. Any post office or local DVLA will have the necessary forms. But the car you are taking the number plate off MUST have in date Tax and an in date MoT. And you will need copies of both when you submit the form for rentention. Most importantly you will need the serial numbers off your tax disc.

By LAW the DVLA HAVE to complete the retention process within a period of ten days at the most. But if they arent that busy it can be done as quickly as 24 hours.

 

fooking hell ! I have sold the car lol
well i still have it but deposit has been taken and he is hoping to have it this week.
we have a local office in cardiff so i am planning on going down in the morning to put it on retention for now.can i still sell the car and pass on all the new docs as and when they return to me ?

 

maria..............thanks for the info.
i will take all the paper work for the car which i am still using so yes it has mot,tax and insurance and the plate hgas been moved before but i never had to do it.
thanks again for the help guys ! ! !!

 

No you need to keep the V5 document!!! as they will need to change the details on this. theoretically i guess you can sell the car, but you still need to keep all the documentation.

 

I had the same dilemma when I sold my last EsCos. I had an expensive plate (COS5Y) that wasn't included in the sale price. I put the plated on retention and sold the car with COS5Y still on it and the new owner returned the plate to me once the replacement reg was issued.