GTD Insurance quote

[dubber36]

You need to pay £105 to DVLA to take the number off your current car. That includes the £25 for a years retention certificate. That means that you can assign the number plate onto another car with no additional charge within 12 months.

When the dealer goes to register your new car, he can do it using your retention certificate, meaning the new car will have your number on it from day 1. There will be no money to come back from him as the vehicles first registration fee (part of the OTR charges) have nothing to do with the allocation of a personal number plate.

I would ask Direct Line if they would amend your current policy to take into account your plate change for free. After all, all they have to do is type in the new reg number (when you get it from DVLA) an email the amended certificate of insurance to you.

Whilst your thinking about swapping your number plates, it may also be a good time to think about putting the original lights back on. 

[Gryzor]

I guess I'll hit all of this in a few years when I come to change my Mk7.  I am assuming that I would have to pay £125 to take the number off my current car and put into retention, then a fee on top of that to get my current car re-registered.  Works out quite spendy if you swap cars regularly!

[Jimble]

You need to pay £105 to DVLA to take the number off your current car. That includes the £25 for a years retention certificate. That means that you can assign the number plate onto another car with no additional charge within 12 months.

When the dealer goes to register your new car, he can do it using your retention certificate, meaning the new car will have your number on it from day 1. There will be no money to come back from him as the vehicles first registration fee (part of the OTR charges) have nothing to do with the allocation of a personal number plate.

I would ask Direct Line if they would amend your current policy to take into account your plate change for free. After all, all they have to do is type in the new reg number (when you get it from DVLA) an email the amended certificate of insurance to you.

Whilst your thinking about swapping your number plates, it may also be a good time to think about putting the original lights back on.

Thats how i understand it, however when i ordered the car i asked what to do about the plate and his words were "don't worry, i'll sort all that out". I don't see why i should have to pay to register this car twice when he said it he would sort it out? 

[dubber36]

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.

[mcmaddy]

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

[Sootchucker]

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.

All I needed to do was provide the logbook for my current car in advance and they did all the rest.

[monkeyhanger]

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

They're not competitive at all for the North East. When I was living in Southampton Direct Line were hands down cheapest

[CraigW]

I was told £85 to transfer my private plate which I didn't think was too bad

[dubber36]

I'm sure it is £80 to transfer it straight onto another car, but I prefer to pay the extra £25 for a years retention. DVLA can take quite a long time to issue the replacement registration number for the old car and send out the replacement V5 and MOT certificate, so if you are selling privately, you can't really let the car go until that is sorted. Dealers also prefer to take the cars in with all the documentation in order, otherwise it could hold up a potential quick sale for them.

It just makes the whole process so much easier to do it this way in plenty of time. I'm sure people wouldn't want to take delivery of their new car without their private plate on it for the sake of being held up by DVLA.

[p3asa]

Yeah my A1 got held up with this for at least 10 days!!  They posted all the stuff to the DVLA whereas any other dealer I have dealt with have went to the local office and done it there and then!!