hi all as my old x300 has personal plates on it and in its second year of sorn but now scrapping it my self, is there anyway i can transfer them to current car? DVLA say car i am taking plates off has to be taxed , what do you think as would like to keep plates

 

cant you put them on retention as number plate traders do?

 

The current application form V317 - Application to transfer or retain a vehicle registration number is available for download from:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum.../dg_069390.pdf

The Guidance Notes on the form detail the VED (tax) requirements:



As you can see, the tax must not have expired more than 12 months before the transfer application is made.

Depending on how attached you are to the number or its value, taxing could be worthwhile as you will be able to refund the disc at the completion of the transfer and only lose one month.

To tax the vehicle, it must of course have an MoT which could cause you additional problems.

Graham

 

yes thats the problem graham cost far to much to MOT its on my old x300 which i am scrapping at home its because its on 2nd year of SORN first year would have been fine could have put it retention then, still we lean by our mistakes
fred

 

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what does the car need for MOT?

 

floor pannals ,chassis gone, front and rear subframes gone, all in all quoted £2000 just to for welding before any thing that might be found, so not viable, that is far to much. if i had put number plate on retetion in first year of sorn i could have saved plate as explained by local DVLA, but into second year of sorn cannot do, dvla say that is the law and the plate goes back to dvla that to me is legal robbery and yes sick plate cost me a lot money 3 letter 3 number plate

 

As per Sean I guess.

If the plate is valuable or is to you, why not do the basic repairs to get it through the MOT?

No paint work or anything fancy, simply necessary repairs, and then sort out your plates, followed by flog the car for spares/repair without reg docs.

It will take a little while, cost you some, but you keep the plates, get the tax refunded, and recoup some of the repair cost.

Depends on the value of the Reg.

 

its 2 grand just to do weld work then suspention bushes as you can imagine a lot of brass just for basic and thats a price a garage owner friend at basic cost who happens to own a pre he xjs 4.oltr