If you are buying a car that has a private reg, but the plate is NOT being included, how do you go about it??

Going on the basis that I dont want to wait for the DVLA to get round to sending back the V5 to the seller before I buy the car, what is the procedure??

Ta
Matt

 

you can still buy the car as long as you both agree the plate will be removed. the seller just goes along to the local dvla office and fills all the paperwork out, you then still get the green slip to say you own the vehicle and the new tax disc and mot etc all comes to you as opposed to the original owner. you can still take the car straight away. no probs

 

as above is correct!

 

The seller will need to do the transfer or at the least either transfer/retain it.

Once that's done and they have allocated a new reg number to the vehicle, DVLA then send the log book off to them.

The seller then does the log book in the normal way to new owner (matt), with the new reg number and then send it off for your details to go on it.

If as the OP states and wants the log book ASAP, then that won't happen and could take a fair few weeks to come back in his name....

 

Still a little confused lo!!

From experience when you go to the DVLA, they take the logo book off you, and give you a new mot and tax disc there and then on surrender of the old ones, but send the V5 off to be returned to you at a later date.

If he does this there will be no V5 until it returns to him? and the dval wont let him keep the green slip to give to me as they would I guess want the whole thing?

If he lets me take the car before doing this, he wont have the mot and tax disc to give them as I will have them? and guess the dvla wont issue new ones without getting the old ones back?

My brain hurts??

 

i would get him to take it to the local DVLA office and have the plate taken off BEFORE you buy the car. i once bought one where the previous owner had to take his plate off and he messed around, and i waited months for the docs.

although i have sold a car myself which still had my plate on it, and there wasnt time for it to be took off so he took the car and agreed to wait for the docs (he knew me so knew i wasnt pulling a flanker, i gave him photocopies of the docs). only took about 2 weeks then i got the proper docs and posted them to him (recorded delivery).

i had already given him the original number plates of the car ready to swap over when it was all ready (so he didnt have to go and spend £20 on new plates).

if you both know/trust each other its fine but beware some people will fook you about and not send the forms off for ages.

if the car doesnt have much tax left on it, tell him to fook off and sort the plate out now or you will end up with a car with no tax and no way of taxing it for months (thats what happened to me, grrr!)

 

Buy the car then fuck off with his plate and sell it

 

cheers peeps, think I will tell him to sort the plate, don't know him so can't trust him to be punctual with the doc.

If it goes it goes but dont fancy leaving a deposit on it as I hate the though of someone driving a car they have sold for a few weeks and spanking it. Or worse, like in the case of my sister, her car got written off after a deposit had been left as we waited for the plates!!

Poor bloke had waited two weeks only to be told he will have to have his deposit back and start searching again.

 

I sold mine to a main dealer i went to the dvla swapped the plate to my new car and the dealer took a small deposit off me while the logbook for the old car came back with the original registration on, Soon as it came back i took the logbook and transferred it in the normal way and got my deposit back
Dvla took the whole logbook as leaving you with the green slip is no pointless as it will have the wrong reg on it!