MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: omeydz on March 31, 2016, 09:53:41 pm
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Hi all.
Hope you had a nice Easter break :smiley:
So I already have a personal plate but I am eyeing up another one to replace it.
My question is can I transfer my new reg onto my Golf and have my old personal plate put on retention (for selling later) all in the £80 fee I pay when buying my new reg?
Can't clearly find the answer anywhere.. Advice available are for putting a personal reg for the first time or returning to originally assigned reg.
Help me please :chicken:
Cheers, Omar
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The £80 is just a transfer fee to put it on your car. You will have to pay £120 I think it is to put your old plate on retention which includes the £80 transfer fee to put it on another vehicle.
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I think it will be £80 to put your reg on retention. Then a fee to apply your new reg. As they will normally just send your old reg documents.
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2 seperate transactions.
£80 to remove your plate and that plate goes on retention for 10 years (£25 a year renention fee has now gone), they issue a replacemnt plate and then after you've got all that you can put your new cherished plate on, another £80. Or at least that's what I did for my father's car a few months back when swapping his cherished plates over.......complete faff and a money making scam IMHO.
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2 seperate transactions.
£80 to remove your plate and that plate goes on retention for 10 years (£25 a year renention fee has now gone), they issue a replacemnt plate and then after you've got all that you can put your new cherished plate on, another £80. Or at least that's what I did for my father's car a few months back when swapping his cherished plates over.......complete faff and a money making scam IMHO.
Yes, it will require two steps, and two £80 payments.
It has improved with the £25 fee now disappearing, as above, and you can do the retention / transfer online now in seconds, once you have a log book in your name. Sequential process....pay £80 to take the old number off, and replacement log book and retention certificate will arrive within a week; then with the new retention certificate for the new number, do it online =another £80 fee; and another new log book.
Remember to inform insurance too as soon as it's done (and pay their admin fee - circa £20). You may get away with one fee for the insurers if you tell then what you are planning to do, or if your insurance renewal is due soon, you might want to wait and do it at renewal within the admin period, and no fee should be charged then (cos they want your continued business).
Another tip, if you keep your old plates, the DVLA usually put the car back on its original registration number if you ever take off the new registration/s - save you buying more number plates from Halfords, or wherever.
With the old, pre-online service, it would have taken months to do this, so the new online way is much better, but still money for old rope!
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As above, but it is s very quick process now and the v5 comes back in a couple of days.
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Cheers everyone :love: message received
Yeah its a money making scheme but hopefully make that back on selling my old personal plate..
Anyone know anyone called Omar looking for a plate? :ashamed: :grin:
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If you buy a number plate off new reg or dvla personalised number plates, then the £80 is included,
So...number plate on the car now(Numberplate1) costs £80 to remove and put on retention for 10yrs, all can be done online, dvla will give you another number plate instantly, new v5 will arrive 3-5 days later, and retention certificate will also arrive within days too...
You buy a new number plate (Numberplate2) from new reg or similar, included in that total price is the £80 fee to attach to your car, this takes around a week or so to come through, so when the new V5 with replacement reg comes through, you go back online and allocate (numberplate2) to your car, dvla will then send you ANOTHER replacement V5 through
Hope this helps :happy2:
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Perfect. The echo is 2x £80 in the greater scheme of things.. no other way around it so hey ho
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Do you think I can do it in one go rather than to and fro twice?
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No. Has to be sequential - IMO