Dear all, can someone please assist .??
I recently purchased a Sub and with it came a lovely personalised plate...
The car was sold with the Private Plate on the Bill of sale.
I realise that the Number does not belong to me but the DVLA/Treasury, but in the future , if I choose to sell the Present Car , will I be given the opportunity to retain the registration plate for further cars..hence reverting the present car to its original Number with me retaining the Personal Plate and hence being able to put on a new car.!!
Hope this makes sense...to me it makes a lot more sense than the reply I got from the DVLA, when I queried..Ive read it 6 times and still can't understand it.!!

 

In short

Yes you can retain the plate in the future

 

If the car was sold to you with the private plate on and you now have a v5 in your name with the private plate on then you now own that registration

If you sell the car on in future you can either transfer the plate to another vehichle (£80) or you can put it on a certificate for 1 2 or 3 years

What's the private reg out on interest

 

Its called putting the plate on retention and is about £25 yrly. That enables you to retain ownership whilst not using it. Your car will either return to its original plate or be assigned a new by dvla which is correct to the yr of first registration.

 

Assuming this is a transferable number ? Check your v5 in the special notes section. It may say non - transferable reg.

 

It's a 100 to keep on retention for a year I think

 

£105 to retain for 12 months, £80 to transfer

 

As hawky says, it's £25 per year. After the initial £105 !!

 

For a max of 3 years

 

I've had a reg on retention for the past 7 years. As long As you pay your £25 every year it's all good !!

 

are you sure about that i had my plate on retention for 7 years before putting it on a vehicle.

 

It may have changed, used to be three years!!

I haven't retained one for a while!

 

3 years is the most you can pay for in one go , then yearly after

 

If it is an imported car and was registered on the plate it will be non-transferable, I enquired about one a year or so back.

 

Ahh thats what I might be thinking of then

It'll say on the V5 if its non-transferable (section 3 - special notes) my Zafira has a non-transferrable registration mark!

 

I tried to buy S8 ECC when it was sold on a car a couple of years back but as it was originally registered on the car when it came to the UK there was no other plate that the DVLA would allocate to it, My car has had more private plates than owners, lol

 

was that plate not on a t25 ?

 

It was on a blue V8 Spec-C cant remember if it was a t25 variant or not was a while back now, I think the car has been sold on again since i enquired though

 

yes I was going to buy it about 18montgs ago
it was a spec c t25

 

It was a nice plate for the car, I was looking for one for a while but got i`ve something different instead now, lol D:

 

It is £25 per year

I have had one on retention for ten years now and another one for 3years

You can pay in advance for up to 3years if you can't be bothered to send a chq once a year