Could somebody help me here? This was the sort of thing my ex wife organised and my mind just seems to go blank trying to understand this kind of stuff.
I have today bought a used car. So the log book has gone off to the DVLA to be updated with my details. I want to purchase a personalised registration plate from the DVLA website. Then of course I assume I have to notify the DVLA of the change of registration, plus get new plates, plus notify my insurance company. Also will I have to re-tax the vehicle under the new registration and cancel the previous road fund licence? Could somebody who has done this possibly describe the steps I need to go through? Thanks in advance.
When your number plate purchase is complete, the DLVA will send you a V750. Take the V750 to a number plate shop and get them to make you physical plates. You can get plates made online without proof of ownership, but to pass an MOT a number plate needs the number plate shop postcode and the BS AU145d code.
Once you get the V5c back in your name, you can fill in and sign the portion on each form relevant to swapping the registration to your private plate. It explains it on the V750, simple enough.
Don't worry about the tax, the DVLA use an 11 digit number to identify every car in UK, irrespective of the registration. So when they do the transfer the car will remain taxed. Even in the olden days with paper discs, they would send you a new disc with the remainder of the tax left, along with the new V5.
When you receive your new V5c, you will be instructed to swap over the physical plates at that point. You can also use the V5c as proof of number plate to get plates made at this stage also.
If you had the V750 in your posession prior to sending the V5c in the first time, you can do it all in one hit
Each time you send you send the V5c in it should be back to you in 5-10 working days
