Given up trying to understand the DVLA site - It is late and I cannot work it out for love or money!

Can someone please put in plain English the steps I need to take to transfer my personalised registration bought recently, onto my Scoob (which is currently on an 06 plate)?

i.e. Forms required, place to go, how long to transfer etc.

Thanks Scoobynetters!

 

Jesus, don@t want much do ya, just nip along toyour local DVLA centre and take your log book, tax disc and MOT cert along with the details of the new plate fill out a form and hey presto they will do the rest

What the form is i have no idea as i can't remember but im sure a sn'tter will know it

 

Go to the DVLA offices in Llanishen (just after M&S) they will explain it to you. It's easy

 

This is from personal experience a few years back:

Get new plates made up (if you can, you'll have to take your retention cert in to Halfords or wherever - back when I did this, they'd make up any old plate, no proof required!!!) , ensure you can switch them over, take tools with you! Make sure plastic plate retaining screws will not break apart when you take old plates off in street (don't ask me how I know this).

Take car reg V5 document, retention certificate, cheque book and insurance document to DVLA office nearest you.

Wait ages in queue, fill in forms on knee while you wait (additional forms will be in a leaflet rack in the DVLA office).

Get served, part with your money, they'll print you up a new tax disc there and then.

Leave office, switch your plates over and phone your insurance co to advise (unless you already did that)

Your new V5 comes in the post. Your old plate no. is history, when you transfer the plate off again, you won't get it back normally.


Apologies if process has changed, but - hey - no one else posted a response yet! (edit - Oh, now thay have!!! I forgot the MOT bit too!

 

Cheers - Why do they alway make these things sound more complicated than they are?

 

DVLA told us that 99% of the time the original plate IS returned... Mrs spec'c' has had 2 cars where the original was returned also my dad had just had the same...

 

Correct. Same number has always gone back on the 7 cars I've had on cherished numbers