Buying a car with a private plate

[leeboy]

Evening

Ive currently got a car lined up to view/buy but it currently has a private plate on the car. The owner is about to do the retention paperwork for the plate. I have absolute no interest in his plate as I have my eon to go on, but does this mean I'm going to have to wait around three weeks before I can actually take the car?

Or is there some way of being able to take the car under the agreement that as I have no need for his plate and that when his paperwork arrives I can get the new registration on the car?

Cheers chaps!

 

[Goose]

I'm pretty sure you can go directly to dvla Swansea and get it done same day?

Might be incorrect though!

 

[H2XBY]

I used to go into my local dvla office but I'm pretty sure they have all closed now, anyway this is how I used to work it,


You can sign the log book as normal into the new keepers name and address, then fill in a V317 which is just the retention application form but fill in the original owners details as a nominee then you sign that form because you technically own the plate because you're the new keeper of the car, you'll need the tax disc number £105 and the mot certificate. Then the new keeper gets the log book back in the post and the old owner will get his plate on retention.

Thats how I used to do it in the office! Guess you'll just have to do it thru the post now tho. Sure someone will correct me if I've said it wrong

 

[leeboy]

So as I'll be the new keeper, Can I drive the car away on his plate until the retention paperwork comes through and then swap the plates? As I don't want to be waiting up to 6 weeks as it says it can on the dvla site!

 

[Gez]

Should be able to drive it buddy, they give an allocated amount of time

 

[H2XBY]

Yeah as Gez says you can drive it ofcourse, you'll get the original reg thru in the post and that's when you take the private reg off

 

[leeboy]

So I could drive his car away, with his plate, without him being left in fear that I will take his plate? Which I'm not going to do, but you can't trust anyone now days can you!

 

[Rotoryboy]

When I sold mine, I did all the paperwork and told the new owner the plate was coming off. He paid cash and drive off. After a few weeks I text him with the new reg, posted him the new tax disc and he got himself a new reg plate.

 

[leeboy]

So what happens with the v5? Fill it out that I'm the new owner and send that off at the same? And dvla sort the rest?

 

[Mentalpen]

Make sure it has lots of tax and MOT or it can be a right farce and you may end up not been able to drive it till it's sorted.