Im re-shelling my rst, my orrignal car has been off the road since 2003
how do i get my private plate off it and put it on the new car?
dont want to lose that plate, as its means alot to me and also worth £££

I think you dont sorry mate must have MOt etc. And on car that generally over ten years old you will need to drive to the DVLA office so they will look at the car.

so i cant take the plate off if i scrap the shell?

No mate. Its a nightmare, and a lot of people have lost plates because of this very situation.

get an identical car, stick your id on it mot it tax it and get the plate transfer done...if its valuable enough to bother doing

needs a current MOT & Tax to take a private plate off

they're usually just held on with a couple of self tapping screws

dont help for the inspection though which if its 10 years old it WILL be requied

its a pain in the arse i lost a good plate because it wason a rolling shell

I was waiting for that.

LHD 220turbo is right though mate, how much is it worth to you- enough to get your car moving and legal so you can have your plate back???

transfered various plates on cars over 10yrs old inc transfer onto a scooby on a monday and took it back off and onto another scooby the following mondayand have never once had to have an inspection

ive had 3 inspections done

That's because they know you

i've got a 89 pug 205 with my private plate on even though the car is still taxed and mot'ed i've got to get it inspected on thursday to transfer the plate

I heard this problem once, someone bought a scrap car with a private plate on. got a mate to do an MOT , and applied to transfer it, got a letter back from DVLA saying since there was a break between tax running out and sorn declared, it had to be taxed, so forked out £101 for 6 months tax, and sent everythign back off again, a week or so later got an appointment through saying they wanted to inspect the donor vehicle!!! obviously couldnt do this as the car had already been crushed, so not wanting to loose the plate and transfer fee etc, repoted the car stolen. got the £80 transfer fee refunded, and got refund of duty on the tax. Had to wait 12 months to get the plate transfered, as DVLA rules state once a vehicle is stolen with a plate you have to either wait 12 months, or until the vehicle is recovered, whichever is the sooner before you can use the plate again.

Is a mess on, but better than loosing the plate.

Hyperthetically speaking of course

and your point is??????????????? theres usually some doris comes out of the office...checks the reg doc matches the vin plate no plates and colour

everyone does it to get numbers off of old scrappers

Bloopeta, not really the sort of thing you want to be telling the world in public is it?!

Hope you didn't have it insured at the time and claim too as a Brucey bonus

[quote=PhilM;3542644Hope you didn't have it insured at the time and claim too as a Brucey bonus [/quote]

Of course not, that would be a bit dodgy!

why not? im only speaking hyperthetically ofourse.