Private Plates

I'm thinking of selling my private plates, would I be able to get the originals ones back or do you get what ever DVLA issue you?

These days they try to give you back the old plate the car had before.

Thanks Paul,  would you happen to know how long it take to tranfer a reg?

This I know is a daft question but how much do you think A19 OVW would be worth?

I have no idea, I've never been into private plates myself. Best answered by someone else, hopefully someone who has done it can advise.

James

I just got my transfer through yesterday, depends how busy they are they can take anything from 5 days to 3 weeks.

I think they have opened up offices though, that you can take all your paperwork into and they do it there and then. In Edinburgh my mate just done it like that last month, I used to do it that way but they shut it about 5 years ago but obviously they have changed their mind.

Just check with the DVLA online for info.

Cheers Chris

you will get your original plates back if there still available, otherwise it will be an age related alternative, for instance if you took of a1 mst and replaced it with a personal plate a1 vvw then in the mean time i saw a1 mst (my initials) and brought it then it would no longer be available so you will get any old a reg. and if you go into your local dvla they will do it there and then and then after 14 days (i think) its complete

I just did a transfer onto my golf, and it took about 10 working days, usually about that, just make sure you send the documentation to your dvla local office, never swansea…check on their website…..you will always get back your original plate nowadays mate, I have done this A LOT over the past 20 years and always get back the original plate….as for value of your plate, difficult one, try getting a valuation from somewhere like reg transfers…but realistically if you could sell it I would say £99 to £199…………

that custom plate would be perfect for my car as it has just been bored out to a 1.9 and it is a w reg aswell!!! i see it as a 1.9 old vw

I like the original reg too much to change it though.

But the private plate is an A prefix reg, not a W suffix reg. You won't be able to transfer a plate if its newer than the car.

oh right. i thought it would be ok as the W is on the same side;
 KJD 237W
 A19 OVW
I dont get how it all works.
i'm guessing it is because the letter is next to the numbers?
never mind eh?
Good luck with selling it James!

golf1980 said

oh right. i thought it would be ok as the W is on the same side;
 KJD 237W
 A19 OVW
I dont get how it all works.
i'm guessing it is because the letter is next to the numbers?
never mind eh?
Good luck with selling it James!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom

The prefix (A) or suffix (W) in this case denotes the year that the car was registered.

Therefore, if the car was registered on a W plate - 1980/1 and A was registered on a 1983/4 by trying to put an A registration on a W reg car, it could be seen as you trying to pass the car as a younger vehicle. That is commonly called 'ringing' in its most basic terms.

You can't put a plate thats 'younger' or 'newer' on an older car.

Does that help?

Dano, I don't think that's what they mean by ringing. I always thought ringing was transferring the ID of a bona-fide car to a stolen one, to disguise its being stolen?

Its just that its not allowed by DVLA because it would be misrepresentation of the car's age, due to all number plates having some kind of age identifier.

Dano said

The prefix (A) or suffix (W) in this case denotes the year that the car was registered.

Therefore, if the car was registered on a W plate - 1980/1 and A was registered on a 1983/4 by trying to put an A registration on a W reg car, it could be seen as you trying to pass the car as a younger vehicle. That is commonly called 'ringing' in its most basic terms.

You can't put a plate thats 'younger' or 'newer' on an older car.

Does that help?

But sometime there is mistakes

Sometimes it can get VERY confusing!:

And this is before you get into the issues of people using naughty numbers / letters on personalised number plates (See the google example below from a scooby forum, entitles "new splitter and illegal number plate" hahahahaha)

http://i751.photobucket.com/albums/xx158/graham190279/IMG_3206.jpg

Some cars can have smaller plates.....

Really? I thought that they all had to be a VERY specific size, like the lettering and such? (Saying that, the CLio I'm in right now has a thinner plate, so that it doesnt hang below the front bumper, letters are legal size + spacing, but its as it you've sanded the top and bottom off of a normal reg plate)

Further details would be cool - as I said, I always assumed they had to be the same size?

Dan

Nope! If the car is a personal import and doesn't have european type approval, it can have a slightly smaller plate. So the Subaru might fit the criteria……don't think the place can be THAT small though!

oh wow - this post, combined with google / wiki digging has literally opened my eyes, hahahaha, 6 posts in and I'm already learning new stuff (I see this being a good move joining this forum )

Dan