mattlumley · Mar 17, 2015

i might be getting some personalised plates for my 21st as it is just about the only thing i fancy other than a landrover which i cant afford. I just wonder what the process is etc in terms of getting them on my car etc etc.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Optimus Prime · Mar 17, 2015

buy from dvla

wait for certificate of entitlement to display
buy plates and fit
send logbook and mot to dvla to be updated

mattlumley · Mar 17, 2015

Awesome thank you! Any idea (roughly) how long it takes? Also would i not need to send off mot/log book before i can drive with them on?

livers · Mar 17, 2015

If you can't afford a Landy "What you really want" go for tools, tools, garage equipment, tools, tools, sundry stuff like sealants, gasket goo, loy metals, tools, tools, diagnostic stuuf.

Did I mention tools?

Unless you are woolfie and sell your tools.................guess what he'll need next week

mattlumley · Mar 17, 2015

livers said:
If you can't afford a Landy "What you really want" go for tools, tools, garage equipment, tools, tools, sundry stuff like sealants, gasket goo, loy metals, tools, tools, diagnostic stuuf.

Did I mention tools?

Unless you are woolfie and sell your tools.................guess what he'll need next week

Haha i did think of tools but i dont have anywhere to keep them at the moment. Currently live in a smallish flat in manchester (while still at uni) but am moving back home with parents for a few months post uni while i look for a place down south

Id really like a 90 or a 110 to satisfy my need to fiddle with stuff and fix stuff but cant justify/afford it at the moment...give it 6 months to a year [emoji14]

Optimus Prime · Mar 17, 2015

when I bought one for my works van, the whole thing was about 2 weeks start to finish

mattlumley · Mar 17, 2015

Optimus Prime said:
when I bought one for my works van, the whole thing was about 2 weeks start to finish

Ah spot on thank you!!

donk56 · Mar 17, 2015

Private plates are a waste of bloody money. You have to pay to transfer them each time or put them on retention. It won't alter how old your vehicle.
save your money and spend it on something you really need.

mattlumley · Mar 17, 2015

Optimus Prime said:
when I bought one for my works van, the whole thing was about 2 weeks start to finish

Sorry, another question, how do you put the original plates on the car if you want to sell it on? Do you keep the old plates/reg no. Even if they arent in use while you have the custom plates on?

FlyingPete · Mar 17, 2015

I think that the original registration becomes available for use as a personalised number. If it's still available and you sell the vehicle on, it goes back to the original vehicle. If it's in use elsewhere, I'd assume you'd get a different age-related registration instead.

mattlumley · Mar 22, 2015

Optimus Prime said:
buy from dvla

wait for certificate of entitlement to display
buy plates and fit
send logbook and mot to dvla to be updated

Optimus Prime said:
when I bought one for my works van, the whole thing was about 2 weeks start to finish

FlyingPete said:
I think that the original registration becomes available for use as a personalised number. If it's still available and you sell the vehicle on, it goes back to the original vehicle. If it's in use elsewhere, I'd assume you'd get a different age-related registration instead.

Thanks guys, one last question. I think, but i need to check, my car is registered in my mums name (even though i paid for it - just at the time it was easier for whatever reason). Does this provide an issue? Would the plates be in her name?

easye1 · Mar 22, 2015

mattlumley said:
Thanks guys, one last question. I think, but i need to check, my car is registered in my mums name (even though i paid for it - just at the time it was easier for whatever reason). Does this provide an issue? Would the plates be in her name?

oh yes.....
as is all the documentation...

quick story..
I got a young`ish neighbour who`s a jack the lad builder / doorman at one of our many holiday camp onsite clubs.
had his builders van white striped and bumpers colour coded and thought he was the bollox with his ewly aquired personal plates that read muscle MU51 something...
always tearing about until one night coming home from work got pulled for his non legal plates...being 3am in a builders van never went down well either as his van was searched...
nobby was a bodybuilder and had a bag of bodybuilding enhancer drugs in the van...
he never got home that night, but some many hours later....
punching the copper who tried to put handcuffs on him made him marked even more....

the van was traded for a more lowley transit connect shortly after without his stupid muscle man type rego...

not sure his court appearance date though....

mattlumley · Mar 22, 2015

easye1 said:
oh yes.....
as is all the documentation...

quick story..
I got a young`ish neighbour who`s a jack the lad builder / doorman at one of our many holiday camp onsite clubs.
had his builders van white striped and bumpers colour coded and thought he was the bollox with his ewly aquired personal plates that read muscle MU51 something...
always tearing about until one night coming home from work got pulled for his non legal plates...being 3am in a builders van never went down well either as his van was searched...
nobby was a bodybuilder and had a bag of bodybuilding enhancer drugs in the van...
he never got home that night, but some many hours later....
punching the copper who tried to put handcuffs on him made him marked even more....
the van was traded for a more lowley transit connect shortly after without his stupid muscle man type rego...

not sure his court appearance date though....

Haha sounds like an unlucky lad and not my sort of guy. I am a strongman (different from body building haha) competitor but dont take any performance enhancing drugs so that shouldn't be a problem.

Would i be best then to get the car transfered to my name before getting the plates?

dogsbody · Mar 22, 2015

mattlumley said:
Haha sounds like an unlucky lad and not my sort of guy. I am a strongman (different from body building haha) competitor but dont take any performance enhancing drugs so that shouldn't be a problem.

Would i be best then to get the car transfered to my name before getting the plates?

Doesn't make a blind bit of difference as the number becomes part of the car once DVLA do their bit. You can then sell or transfer the vehicle with your personal plate as you would with any other number. The number isn't 'yours' it belongs to that vehicle.
If you want to change vehicles but keep the number you've got to apply to DVLA (and pay) for them to transfer it to another vehicle, or put it on retention to you, and issue another number to the vehicle that you're selling.

laracroft · Mar 22, 2015

Good luck getting insurance on a 110 when you're still 20. I'm 23 and previously insurance pretty much laughed in my face when searching for 110. However. A 90 is more affordable for us with our lives still ahead of us. So a 90 I bought.
You'll find with a Landy nothing is as fast or as planned out as you like. Take the same attitude with the new plates, it'll happen when it happens. You can't rely on the competency of yourself or a DVLA employee to do everything in quick time.

mattlumley · Mar 22, 2015

laracroft said:
Good luck getting insurance on a 110 when you're still 20. I'm 23 and previously insurance pretty much laughed in my face when searching for 110. However. A 90 is more affordable for us with our lives still ahead of us. So a 90 I bought.
You'll find with a Landy nothing is as fast or as planned out as you like. Take the same attitude with the new plates, it'll happen when it happens. You can't rely on the competency of yourself or a DVLA employee to do everything in quick time.

I think I'd prefer a 90 aswell, have looked at insurance and it isnt awful. Going to run the corsa at least another year and see where i am at then. Im not too fussed about the speed of it all. Not in a rush...

dogsbody said:
Doesn't make a blind bit of difference as the number becomes part of the car once DVLA do their bit. You can then sell or transfer the vehicle with your personal plate as you would with any other number. The number isn't 'yours' it belongs to that vehicle.
If you want to change vehicles but keep the number you've got to apply to DVLA (and pay) for them to transfer it to another vehicle, or put it on retention to you, and issue another number to the vehicle that you're selling.

Thats good to know thank you. So what we will probably do is buy the plates and then later on sort out swapping the car to my name with the plates on it. Cheers dogsbody

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