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[dubber36]

We've had our dealer transfer our private plates (mine and the wife's) for the last 4 cars with no issues and no on cost to me. It was part of my negotiations that the cherished plate gets transferred onto both new cars at 100 their cost.

I'm sure that they wouldn't do it for no cost at all. It would be foolish of them to pay for the reg transfer, as that is your responsibly to ensure that you retain ownership of the mark. They may imply that they are doing it for you, but I would suspect that you would have paid for it somewhere along the line, even if it was a further £100 discount off the deal that wasn't shown on the invoice.

[Jimble]

All he'll be "sorting out" is making sure the new car gets registered with your plate on it providing you provide him with all the paperwork for him to take to the DVLA office.

You still have to pay £105 to take the plate off you current car in order for it to remain your property, as opposed to staying with the car and becoming the property of the next owner. There is no other way round it. You have to do it. You are not having to pay to have the new car registered twice. As I said before the first registration fee is included in the ORT charge. That registers the car with DVLA and issues any old registration number. The only difference in your case is, the dealer will go to DVLA and register the car as normal, but ask them to use your number plate instead.

When i say register it twice i meant my current car, i've paid the OTR price for it already which as you say includes first registration but now i'll have to pay again to keep my number and assign another one, it's just annoying when there was originally no mention of this additional cost, espescially as i'll be paying for GAP, extra years warranty and service plan! I'd better be getting some kind of discount!

[dubber36]

James, you are not paying twice. Your otr charge includes registering the car as new with dvla. You would automatically be asigned AB13 CDE or somthing similar as a  matter of course. What you are having to pay for on top of the standard charge  is the transfer fee of your number plate from your old car to the new one. You'd have to pay it if you were transfering it onto a used car, putting it on the new one is no different.

[CraigW]

I'll tell you what I won't be happy about is if they advertise their dealership on my private plate. I'll be specifically requesting no advertising of any sort on the car

[Bill_the_Bear]

Even going through cashback sites Direct Line were a joke as were Aviva. They dont seem to be very competitive at all for me.

Aviva are sh!t.  I think I made some lengthy utterances on the matter in another thread, though which one it was escapes me now.

The short version was: under no circumstances use Aviva, they are bastards.