Can you put a numberplate on retention and sell a car in one hit?! Help!
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I have someone coming over Saturday to look at my DC5, with the hope of him driving it home if we can get a deal. Problem is it still has my private plate on there.
Can I presume that if he buys it he signs the V5, I and I then fill in this form (Section 2 & 4), pay the £105 and send it all off together?
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum.../dg_069390.pdf
So he will then receive his logbook with the new (or original) numberplate on and the private plate is on retention still in my name?
Anyone done this before?
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Can I presume that if he buys it he signs the V5, I and I then fill in this form (Section 2 & 4), pay the £105 and send it all off together?
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum.../dg_069390.pdf
So he will then receive his logbook with the new (or original) numberplate on and the private plate is on retention still in my name?
Anyone done this before?
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He will have to insure the car on its present plate and then change it once the new registration comes through, however it is my understanding that there can be around 7-10 days during change over where that particular actually has no registration so it is not allowed to be driven on the road. I only know this as my father in law fell foul when he sold his car.
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Ok cool to be honest i'm more worried about the legal ownership of the plate (a friend 'trusted' a buyer and got stitched up). Filling in section 4 of the above link and paying the £105 means the certificate will come to me?
Also do I presume that the original plate will go back on the car?
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Also do I presume that the original plate will go back on the car?
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Photocopy your paperwork, etc then pop down to your local VRO with your docs. They send the paperwork off to have the plate put on retention. The car your taking the plate off will, or should be allocated the number previously on it.
I've recently done a retention. The V5 took under two weeks to come back and the retention certificate about a week. From memory the new mot and tax disc were back a few days after I submitted the retention form.
Unless you know the buyer or can 100% trust them, I wouldn't take the chance of selling the car (on paper) before it's been retained/transfered. I'm sure it was Phil aka Boschman or whatever his name is now, that got bit on the arse for this recently and lost a plate. Once you have the V5 back with the new reg nunber, then do the new keeper bit and register them.
It only takes someone in the know to keep the plate and there's FA you'll be able to do about it.
Edited to state the V5 was back a week later
I've recently done a retention. The V5 took under two weeks to come back and the retention certificate about a week. From memory the new mot and tax disc were back a few days after I submitted the retention form.
Unless you know the buyer or can 100% trust them, I wouldn't take the chance of selling the car (on paper) before it's been retained/transfered. I'm sure it was Phil aka Boschman or whatever his name is now, that got bit on the arse for this recently and lost a plate. Once you have the V5 back with the new reg nunber, then do the new keeper bit and register them.
It only takes someone in the know to keep the plate and there's FA you'll be able to do about it.
Edited to state the V5 was back a week later
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Thanks guys, problem is he wants to come Saturday to look, and I imagine he will want to see the original V5 if he is giving me the readies (I certainly would if it were me). I don't know the chap so won't trust him. I'll call the DVLA this morning, from reading that form in the link above I think I can do it all one hit, fill in registered keeper and send off the thin green slip with new keeper details as well as putting the grantee of the numberplate address on the same form?! Bloody confusing, my local DVLA office are blimmin useless as well!!
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rather than by mail but in person you can do it all in the same day, 2 mates of mine recently sold a focus rs with a private plate and both drove to our local borehamwood office the plate was taken off the focus and relocated onto his new car and the focus buyer was relocated its OE plate all in under an hour and that included new tax discs as they already had the number plates made up
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Just spoken to DVLA who have confirmed that it can be all done in one hit, on the above form he has to say he is the registered keeper in section 2, then section 4 the plate details are my details. I then enclose the logbook filled out but have to include the small green slip on the right hand side with his details.
It cannot be done over the counter, has to be posted off so whether I drop it off by hand to Chelmsford DVLA or post it it makes no odds, usually 10 days!
It cannot be done over the counter, has to be posted off so whether I drop it off by hand to Chelmsford DVLA or post it it makes no odds, usually 10 days!
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you can take a deposit from the buyer, then arrange transfer of the plate immediately after and then allow him to collect once the original plate and tax disc are back in your possession.
how valuable is the plate?
how valuable is the plate?
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I think he wants to take the car there and then if he decides to buy it. The DVLA did say as well the its between the buyer and seller and not them as to who the legal owner of the plate is as well. I'll just give him the old set of plates or offer to make him a new set if the reg number changes
Value wise probably not a great deal but its the missus plate and she's had it for a long time!
Value wise probably not a great deal but its the missus plate and she's had it for a long time!
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I think he wants to take the car there and then if he decides to buy it. The DVLA did say as well the its between the buyer and seller and not them as to who the legal owner of the plate is as well. I'll just give him the old set of plates or offer to make him a new set if the reg number changes
Value wise probably not a great deal but its the missus plate and she's had it for a long time!
Value wise probably not a great deal but its the missus plate and she's had it for a long time!
i would recommend you hold this guy off until you have your plate on retention and the original plate back on the car if you dont know him from adam
or....if you need the money asap take the gamble!
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