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Donor Car With Private Plate
scootz - 22/1/13 at 04:10 PM

If you were to build a kit using a donor that had a private-reg on it.. would the finished kit be given that number?

Aaaaand... if it were to be given that number, could you thereafter put it on retention and revert back to the donors original number?

loggyboy - 22/1/13 at 04:15 PM

No, it would be given one based on the age, and the old plate would be lost.
You would need to transfer the plate before it lost its Mot (and/or before it had been sorned for more than 12 months IIRC)
Then you could transfer it back to the kit if you wanted once the kit was registered.

rallyingden - 22/1/13 at 04:16 PM

Would have thought that you put it on retention first, build car, get aged related plate, transfer private plate onto car


RD

scootz - 22/1/13 at 04:26 PM

Thanks for the replies guys. I can't go down the pre-build retention route as the car needs an MOT and it's waaaaay beyond saving!

loggyboy - 22/1/13 at 04:27 PM

Plate is lost then, unless you have a friendly Mot man who wont mind taking a punt that you wont try to use the car on the road.

gaz_gaz - 22/1/13 at 04:34 PM

I've never understood why the car needs to have an mot in order to remove your personal plate. Any ideas?

steve m - 22/1/13 at 05:14 PM

"Thanks for the replies guys. I can't go down the pre-build retention route as the car needs an MOT and it's waaaaay beyond saving! "

there are ways of getting an MOT on such a car, devious thoughts required, and some one who has a smilar car you can borrow for a couple of hours

chillis - 22/1/13 at 05:27 PM

Talk to some of the smaller reg transfer companies!

renetom - 22/1/13 at 05:53 PM

Hi
The only way is as per Steve M's way
Then put it on retention .
We had a private plate on retention and
it was put on as first registration.
Don't forget with private plates you cannot make a car look younger.
Good luck.

Also if you get a Q plate you cannot transfer plates, I believe
(not 100 per cent certain on that one)
Sure someone will clarify.

[Edited on 23/1/13 by renetom]

Not Anumber - 22/1/13 at 08:30 PM

Another way could be to find an MOT centre that also does repairs on old bangers - tell them the car needs an MOT just so you dont lose the registration but you want it to stay on their premises under their control until they scrap it - and can keep it's scrap value. That way they know there is no risk to them of the car ever turning up on the road in an unroadworthy state with an MOT. Put the plate on retention, transfer to the 7 job done.

mcerd1 - 22/1/13 at 09:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by gaz_gaz
I've never understood why the car needs to have an mot in order to remove your personal plate. Any ideas?


because folk were buying up scrap cars for silly money and the DVAL wern't seening any of it

at the same time they also stopped you swapping the reg off old tractors etc. onto cars (folk were buying them up and scrapping them, which was upsetting the vintage tractor lot)