Is there an easier way to do this? (number plate question)

[Homer-Simpson]

I recently bought a new car and it had a personalised plate on, the owner asked me to transfer it back to him after the v5 had come back in my name.

I now have the v5, all details etc are correct. The issue is I have a private plate I want to put on my vehicle, is there any easy way to transfer the current plate off into someone elses name and put my plate on? At the moment I am looking at taking the plate off the car using the V317 form, waiting for the v5 to come back again and then putting my new registration plate on. If there is a way to do it all at once it would just save time.

When I spoke to the DVLA the woman suggested that I can do all this from the V317 but after reading it the form suggests I can only remove a plate OR put a plate on.

 

[Homer-Simpson]

As far as I can remember you can send off 2 forms at the same time. That's how I did it on my old car which had a plate on the owner wanted to keep. Filled out the details for my old car transferring it to the new, and filled out a retention form for the plate on the car. Sent them both off and a couple weeks later jobs a gud un.

Thanks, will give it a go and see what happens

He should have done it himself online easily before he sold the car. Why do people do this? Transfer your plate THEN sell your car, it is unreasonable to expect the new owner to do, well, anything at all once he has bought the car...

I did suggest it at the time but he was worried it would slow down the process of selling the car although at the time I would have waited. He did acknowledge that if I wanted to be evil I could keep the plate as technically it would be mine after the sale. It's a good job I am honest

Wait, you're not paying his fees are you to transfer it back to him?

He's already transferred the money to cover the cost of it all and my old number plate was on retention already.

Agree with Fox as well though, it's a real ball ache with 2 sets of fees and documentations Yo u have to worry about getting right. Didn't know you could do it online though?

Yup, did it online to take my old plate off, only took 3 days to come through. It's just a shame that you can't put the plate in someone elses name when doing it online.

 

[Homer-Simpson]

https://www.gov.uk/keep-registration-number