Registration In a field

chrisnic0

chrisnic0

chrisnic0

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Hi guys, quick question ive spotted a reg in a field on a shed of a car overgrown with weeds etc near my house.
Question is how exactly do I get the reg from that car onto my own?
Ive spoke to the farmer and he said give him £20 and hes happy. But he has no V5 or Mot etc etc?
Any ideas?

Cheers

Chris
 
You need the V5.
The car you are transferring the reg from needs to have both tax and MOT.
Some historic registrations are not transferable.

What I'm saying is, you cannot really use the reg of a rotting hulk in a field.
 
Lopéz said:
Some historic registrations are not transferable.
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What are the rules surrounding this?

I'd guess (assuming you can transfer the reg freely) i would go about it like this;

1) Apply for ownership of vehicle with DVLA to get a V5, wait for that to come through ok.
2) Pay farmer £20, and physically have vehicle removed to my premesis.
3) Obtain an "mot" for the car through a friendly MOT tester.
4) Day insure the vehicle
5) Tax the vehicle for 6 months.
6) Arrange plate transfers
7) Cash in tax once plate is on retention and new one has been applied to vehicle
8) Call a scrap yard and scrap said vehicle
 
You may actually find, that if you allowed said MOT tester to keep hold of the car once he's MOTed it, and then scrap it, he might just do it for you. It would have to be a very easy going tester though, depending on what the car is like.
 
Captain_Slick said:
All to get a reg plate.

I wouldn't bother.
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That's like saying you wouldn't shag a fatty for money. Depends how much fat and how much money.

I'm suprised by the way that a MOT is required for plate transfers. DVLA could make money from allowing old reg's from scrapped cars to be transferred as private.
 
an old 3 or 4 digit plate can easily fetch 5 figures if the combination of numbers makes it something readable (like 1 HOT or whatever)
 
MrLOL said:
an old 3 or 4 digit plate can easily fetch 5 figures if the combination of numbers makes it something readable (like 1 HOT or whatever)
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Which is probably one of the reasons the DVLA require an MOT - they make a lot of money selling these kinds of plates and if the market was suddenly flooded with loads of vintage numbers in private hands then the bottom would fall out of their own sales.
 
I don't think DVLA has records of every single car registration ever issued.
So every barn find (or field find) like this one needs work to prove it was at one time genuine.
I've heard of DVLA granting an old plate for historic reasons where there was no MoT'd vehicle to transfer it from, but they couldn't do it as a general policy. They have a hard enough time managing to do the everyday stuff.
That reminds me, I must chase them up about the recorded delivery letter and enclosures I sent them back in April, about my car tax being in the wrong band. Hope they haven't lost it or anything!
 
Jez said:
What are the rules surrounding this?

I'd guess (assuming you can transfer the reg freely) i would go about it like this;

1) Apply for ownership of vehicle with DVLA to get a V5, wait for that to come through ok.
2) Pay farmer £20, and physically have vehicle removed to my premesis.
3) Obtain an "mot" for the car through a friendly MOT tester.
4) Day insure the vehicle
5) Tax the vehicle for 6 months.
6) Arrange plate transfers
7) Cash in tax once plate is on retention and new one has been applied to vehicle
8) Call a scrap yard and scrap said vehicle
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For some transfers the DVLA will insist that you bring both vehicles to one of their offices for inspection in order to prevent stuff like this.

I would imagine that attempting to transfer an old registration from a car which has only just been put back on the road after such a long time will almost certainly set off the appropriate alarms for them to ask you to do this.
 
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