Transferring private reg from midweek car on to Z

[Dean26390]

I wanted to have my private reg on the z in time for Sundays meet but just found out it can no longer be done in one day as dvla have closed all their local offices and it now takes 4 weeks to process!! Bloody hell :x (awaiting someone to tell me quick way of doing so)

 

[pvr]

Mine took less than a week via the post, I did that a couple of weeks ago.

 

[TrickyDicky]

I wanted to have my private reg on the z in time for Sundays meet but just found out it can no longer be done in one day as dvla have closed all their local offices and it now takes 4 weeks to process!! Bloody hell :x (awaiting someone to tell me quick way of doing so)

No shortcuts I'm afraid, just going through the long drawn out process with another member who bought my Z4

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[Anonymous]

I've always found it a really quick and easy process

Only real shortcut is to find a garage that can make the plates first so they are ready to go

 

[the cueball]

I recently did a 3 plate, 2 car and a bike swop.... was a bit nervous about sending everything away, but all got done correctly within a few weeks... I was pleasantly surprised TBH...

still not as quick as with a local office mind you

 

[Yorkie Z]

Just put the plate on your car lol

 

[Angie4m]

That's been the case since July last year. If you have both V5's you can send it all off at the same time with you £80 and I think it will only take the week as they are very quick at removing plates from vehicles. The slow part comes when you buy a new car, you need to apply to put the plate on retention, that takes about a week and then wait on the new V5 before you can send off the docs to have the plates changed. That's takes weeks to get the V5 but the changing of plates takes a week at the most.

If you had to do the latter as a two step you have to pay £105, which is a joke because you only have to do that because of the dvla office closures.

I bought my car spur of the moment so hadn't taken the plate off the car........what a right hassle. Got the car 18th January, docs all sent off and got my retention certificate back 28th January, then took until 19 February to get the new cars V5 and then sent that off and the plate was on car 28 February. I already had the plates and checked the DVLA vehicle enquiry to see when the change had taken place so I could get the plate on ASAP. The docs to confirm they had changed the plate arrived over a week later, glad it can now be checked online