Plate Transfer

[jezt]

I've got a CLK with a plate of M82CLK and car tax to the end of Jan.

I've part exchanging the CLK against a CLS55 on Thursday, but want to know how to put the plate on retention and cash in the rad tax.

Cheers,
Jez.

 

[greekCL]

You will need to contact DVLA and notify them that you want to removed the number plate from the car... then they will issue you a number plate for the old car you remove the number plate....

I am afraid they say it can take up to 3 weeks. Until then you can do nothing with the old car...

It is a painful process....

The fee is something like £70ish ....

 

[peterg1965]

If you are going through a trader they should be able to do it for you. If not look on the DVLA website, it is not a quick process though and may involve a trip to your local DVLA office.

 

[flango]

Just doing this on my Volvo been at it since March as the DVLA are so incompetent.

If you are going from car to car then its relatively simple and the trader dealer can do it for you in about 3 weeks. If you want to take it off the car and put it on a retention certificate until you get a new car then you need to fill in a V317 HERE

Fee to retain for one year is £105 this includes the transfer onto the new car.

Normally 2 x 3 week transactions mine has now been 15 weeks and still not sorted.

Good Luck

 

[JumboBeef]

Normally 2 x 3 week transactions mine has now been 15 weeks and still not sorted.

Two things:

1/ Take the documents into the DVLA office personally (and be nice to whoever you deal with): do not post them. For my last transfer onto retention, I took the documents in on a Tuesday and had all the paperwork back on the Friday. The time before that, they did it there and then, while I waited.

2/ Do not try to do a transfer towards the end of the month, it is always their busiest time.

 

[bpsorrel]

When I transferred the plate from my Volvo to my S211, the dealer did it for me, I paid the transfer fee which was £80 if I remember correctly and it took about 3 weeks for the plate to transfer and the new tax disc to arrive.

 

[flango]

Two things:

1/ Take the documents into the DVLA office personally (and be nice to whoever you deal with): do not post them. For my last transfer onto retention, I took the documents in on a Tuesday and had all the paperwork back on the Friday. The time before that, they did it there and then, while I waited.

2/ Do not try to do a transfer towards the end of the month, it is always their busiest time.

Reason I have problems is I had the initial problem of getting the V5 when I bought the car that took an eternity, then there have been other little things that have slowed it down, like the DVLA sending the retention certificate to someone in Liverpool instead of me, so that had to be rectified. DVLA and efficiency not 2 words you would use in the same sentance.

I agree about the local dvla office took my wifes paperwork in there to put the plate on retention when we sold the Puma and they did the paperwork exchange there and then gave me the new tax disc & MOT ammendement and it went back on its old original plate, short and sweet. In hindsight I should have done the same with mine but was working overseas at the time so thought it best done by post. We all make mistakes, trick is not to repeat them