Ideally without getting spammed to death...
We've just bought a car and it's got a private plate on it. I'm not a fan of them anyway but obviously it means nothing to me. I want to flog it and get an age related plate on it. What's the best way to go about selling the plate please? I have no experience of this sort of thing.
but obviously it means nothing to me.
V13 NNA?
First apply to put it on retention, you'll get your normal plate details straight away as well as the electronic form that you'll need to get the new plates made up.
https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registration-numbers/take-private-number-off
Not this then OP ?
MR51KLE
Ignore it? If there's a monetary value, it would presumably still have the same value when you sell the vehicle?
I stuck my dads plate on Ebay. Got an online valuation from some of the websites and priced it a bit lower. Sold relatively quickly. That was a few yrs ago though.
You don't need to sell it. Just put it on retention in order to get the normal registration. The private plate if on retention for a certain number of years is forfeited if not used.
You could sell it to a private registration company like the ones that used to be listed in the back of car magazines, but if it was not worth keeping for the previous owner, probably it worth much.
V13 NNA
Beautifully done sir!
Ignore it? If there's a monetary value, it would presumably still have the same value when you sell the vehicle?
But then he'd be driving around looking like a right wally. I was stuck with one on a car I bought for a while, luckily as it was a new to me car no one would have recognised me. Still felt a right plonker with it though. Fortunately the previous owner wanted to keep it and did all the paperwork, which is no help to the OP
But then he'd be driving around looking like a right wally.
Funny what some people find to get worked up about.
20 years ago I sold one via Regtransfers. Like the OP I got a 'new to me' car with a personalised plate. It was a NI plate with the prefix 'GIL'...
Regtransfers valued the plate. I agreed and asked them to sell it. In the meantime I followed the process above to 'take the number off' and got assigned an age appropriate reg.
Some time later it hadn't been sold, regtransfers got in touch suggested the price be lowered. It got sold I made a couple of hundred quid.
I bought mine* on eBay for £1 + registration fee, just get it onto a retention certificate via the DVLA & they will issue you an age related plate - most likely the one the car was first registered with.
* No stupid combo, just 6 digit of the right age designation so I could have a legal small no plate for my bike
The Merc I bought has J7XDE. Anyone want it? Valued at £500 or something like that by Regtransfers but could be bothered at the time. Still on the car but it doesn't bother me.
The Porsche 911 had NKZ 911 and the bloke I bought it from called Nick told me it read "Nick's 911" I told him it didn't. RegTransfers told me it was worth £2,500 so I put it up with them but heard nothing for 3 months. Then, while parked at the side of the road with a puncture, a bloke in another 911 pulled up and asked me if I wanted to sell the plate as he was looking for a present for his wife. I didn't think he was serious and said "Yeah, 2 grand". A week later the transfer had completed. I wish I had remembered the correct price when he asked.
But then he'd be driving around looking like a right wally. I was stuck with one on a car I bought for a while,
Well... so what? Who cares? You drove past a complete stranger the other day who you'll probably never see again, they thought you were a wally based solely on your number plate and then the car exploded?
It's worth selling if it's a prestige plate worth more than the cost of transferring it.
There's a popular Facebook group for private reg sales and others for spotting which I read occasionally. Always entertaining, if only for the location of the "4R", which is on a Toyota Verso that gets about a bit.
With the apparent increase in vehicle cloning, is it an advantage to have a private plate? Less likely to be the target of cloning? Or no difference at all?
Parents bought me a private plate for my 21st - had no say in the matter but I don't mind it. Bought one for the van cos it was dirt cheap (£100 IIRC). Mrs a11y inherited her dad's 4-digit plate with his car when he passed away. Couldn't give a shit what anyone thinks of them but I'm conscious they make the vehicles more rememberable, not that I drive like a twunt anyway.
There's a popular Facebook group for private reg sales and others for spotting which I read occasionally. Always entertaining
There's one near here with the (illegally spaced) registration "U P10NKR". Not on a yellow Reliant, sadly.
