Will transferring car to my wife increase the number of registered keepers?

Participant · 16 Oct 2019 at 18:11

Hi

We just bought a car and the lovely people at the dealership registered it in my name instead of my wife's.

It doesn't matter to me, but my wife's insistent that it be transferred to her name. Not sure how it will achieve anything apart from increase the number of registered keepers by one, but we've had that conversation and I've given up. She probably thinks it'll help her get the car in the event that we get divorced

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Anyway is there a way to do this without increasing the number of keepers, or does it make no difference in the eyes of the DVLA?

Thanks.

tom_e · 16 Oct 2019 at 18:17

It'll increase by one, every v5 transfer will effect it.

paradigm · 16 Oct 2019 at 19:58

arfoll said:
If you want pain tell the DVLA it was a mistake on your V5C and you want it corrected without changing registered keeper count. Good luck

I had the DVLA do this in 2003 when Citroen Stockport registered my Saxo VTR in my father's name. The insurance offer from Citroen themselves would only give the registered keeper the 1 years free insurance, so we got the dealership to get amended without incrementing the registered keepers.

However, this was in the days of regional DVLA offices that you could just pop into and speak to a human, so who knows these days.

233 · 16 Oct 2019 at 20:00

speak to the dealership and ask them to deal with DVLA and resolve it

Ahleckz · 17 Oct 2019 at 12:54

233 said:
speak to the dealership and ask them to deal with DVLA and resolve it

This, happens all the time. However, does depend on how you paid for it. Generally speaking, if the finance is secured against the car then it needs to be registered in the same name as the person taking out the finance.
If it was cash/personal loan then obviously that doesn't matter.

Source - sitting in an administration office at a dealership right now.

Minstadave · 17 Oct 2019 at 12:56

Participant said:
We just bought a car and the lovely people at the dealership registered it in my name instead of my wife.

#everydaysexism - Twitter would love this.

In the real world however I'd knock it back to the dealer to sort.

Participant · 17 Oct 2019 at 13:31

Thanks all. Paid via bank transfer so no finance admin to worry about. Have emailed dealership, but based on their approach to selling the car, I don't hold out too much hope that they'll want to bother with this!

Next step would be a whinge to VWUK I guess.

a1ex2001 · 17 Oct 2019 at 21:45

Participant said:
Thanks all. Paid via bank transfer so no finance admin to worry about. Have emailed dealership, but based on their approach to selling the car, I don't hold out too much hope that they'll want to bother with this!

Next step would be a whinge to VWUK I guess.

Good luck getting anywhere with VWUK when I made a complaint about a local dealer trying to give my wife an MOT failure as a courtesy car they basically did nothing.

Drumroll · 17 Oct 2019 at 21:53

Does as in fact it's what is happening.
Done before from my partner to my name.

Peerzy · 18 Oct 2019 at 21:44

A dealer did this to me once, I informed them when the V5 arrived and they sorted it. New V5 with my name and no extra registered keeper added, this was about 8-9 years ago but shows it can be done.