Selling Uk Plates

dryadssaddle

I recently purchased a car which was on UK plates and have since changed the plates over to an irish registration number.
The previous owner maintained the UK Plates on the car were valued at £500.
Has anyone got any information regarding selling these plates and what procedure I should take if i am able to do so?
Thanks for any help.

TheBigGreen

are they personalised plates?

Anan1

It's too late - you would have had to put the plate on retention before reregistering the car. If it's any comfort, the plate was probably close to worthless anyway.

Tigger

I think you have to sell them before changing to Irish

This seems to say you should have put it on a cert and then Sell the cert

If your registration mark is on a vehicle:

In order to comply with the regulations of the government Cherished Registration Mark Transfer Scheme, all vehicles must be taxed (or tax exempt) have a current MOT (if of the required age) and be easily identifiable from their chassis numbers.

You must be the Keeper of the vehicle or be acting with the complete consent of the Keeper in order to use this service.

Check your Vehicle Registration Document (V5C or V5NI) does not say 'Non-transferable registration mark'. If it does, then unfortunately your vehicle registration mark cannot be sold or transferred.

If your registration mark is held on a government certificate:

The certificate must be currently valid ie within its expiry date and you must be recorded as the Grantee, the Purchaser or be acting with the complete consent of the Grantee or Purchaser in order to use this service.

But ring one of the sites and ask
https://www.plates4less.co.uk/sell-your-number-plate/

dryadssaddle

Tigger wrote: »

I think you have to sell them before changing to Irish

This seems to say you should have put it on a cert and then Sell the cert



But ring one of the sites and ask
https://www.plates4less.co.uk/sell-your-number-plate/

I wouldn't say it's personalised, i think it just naturally ending up spelling a word. I assumed it'd be invalid once i had swapped over plates but it's worth a try asking i guess. Thanks for all the replies folks

biko

I'm curious as to what reg number would be worth 500 pounds.
Maybe 5EX1 BO1 ?

guttenberg

biko wrote: »

I'm curious as to what reg number would be worth 500 pounds.
Maybe 5EX1 BO1 ?

Something like that could well fetch 4 figures if not 5. Type your name/initials etc. into here:

http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/

Mad money involved for some vanity plates that are less obvious.

Anan1

If I had a euro for every time I've read 'plate worth £500' in a UK ad..

bazz26

If they were worth £500 why didn't the previous owner keep them and sell them themselves?

galwaytt

dryadssaddle wrote: »

I recently purchased a car which was on UK plates and have since changed the plates over to an irish registration number.
The previous owner maintained the UK Plates on the car were valued at £500.
Has anyone got any information regarding selling these plates and what procedure I should take if i am able to do so?
Thanks for any help.

Too late, I made the same mistake before, and have the 'cherished' UK plate now on my wall as an ornament.

Once the car is re-registered here, DVLA get notified and the number is retired or put back into the pool. Not yours to sell any more.

If only you (& I ) had the nous to sell the number just before re-reging here and you (we)'d have been elected.

And yep Anan, I was offered £500 for it by an agency. It's only when we went to do the paperwork I found out...........sigh.

H13 LTR ' Hi 3 Litre'

Or, as one guy asked me: why would you want a reference to this guy on your number plate !! :eek:

Anan1

It is a bit of work too - you have to register the car to a UK address in your own name, transfer the reg off the car and onto retention, then get a new reg onto the car before importing it. I've never done it, but I suspect that when you then try to sell the plate the £500 will turn out to have been a grossly inflated estimate. As bazz26 said, if it was really worth money then they'd most likely have sold it themselves.

dryadssaddle

Anan1 wrote: »

It is a bit of work too - you have to register the car to a UK address in your own name, transfer the reg off the car and onto retention, then get a new reg onto the car before importing it. I've never done it, but I suspect that when you then try to sell the plate the £500 will turn out to have been a grossly inflated estimate. As bazz26 said, if it was really worth money then they'd most likely have sold it themselves.

The number plate was "YNK88S" which looks slightly like "YANKEES". obviously, you see what you want to see but i can see that might have appealed to people with old classic american muscle cars etc. ah well, i had an idea before i swapped over that i'd loose them but just wanted to get the vrt out of the way.

colm_mcm

Is your car on zv plates? Ive seen it cruising around i think (red cortina?) could have sworn it was ie plates

dryadssaddle

colm_mcm wrote: »

Is your car on zv plates? Ive seen it cruising around i think (red cortina?) could have sworn it was ie plates

ya, it's red but it's still on english plates, i've zv plates ordered so it'll soon be on them.