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Reg transfers

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:22 pm
by mckenzie
hi is there any way I can check if the registration is transferable on a car I have bought have`nt had logbook yet
Thanks
Tony

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:41 pm
by rob.hardy1
I dont know how but what's the reg. There are some very knowledgable people on this site. :D

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:14 pm
by rayofleamington
if it is 6 digits and the leters are #AS then very unlikely to be transefferable as most of those are age-related (non transferable) numbers asigned when someone sold the original number.

If the car was off the road in the 70's then it may have had the original number re-assigned to the car when it was put back on the road much later, but these will also be non transferrable.

Everything else will be transferable.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:19 pm
by PSL184
There are many non transferable numbers - not just those with ?AS in them. The only way to know is to either phone and ask DVLA (in leiu of log book arriving) or wait until log book (V5) arrives and it will say at the bottom of the cover page "Non Transferable" if it cannot be. If it does not say these words then the number is transferable.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:29 pm
by rayofleamington
There are many non transferable numbers - not just those with ?AS in them
True, but I've seen shed loads of #AS and none were original.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:31 pm
by PSL184
rayofleamington wrote:
There are many non transferable numbers - not just those with ?AS in them
True, but I've seen shed loads of #AS and none were original.
....and ?SL's ;-)

Most of the "assigned" numbers were from areas which didn't register many cars and use up their allocation so if it's a Scottish or Welsh reg (for example) from a remote region it would be reassigned after a transfer and would then be non transferable....

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:58 pm
by Sidney'61
Any with UX# will be non-transferable aswell, that seems a common one.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:59 pm
by mckenzie
the plate is wae 403 and also have odg ###

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:00 pm
by bpr81a
Our traveller is ASL - but the V5 doesn't say Non-Transferable

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:31 pm
by plastic_orange
Mine's *** *UD and V5 doesn't say non transferable, and I know for sure it had a number transfer just before I bought it.

Pete

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:43 pm
by Sidney'61
No not all replacement plates are non-transferable, my car is on it's third plate as the previous two were both sold on and transfered.

Does anyone know what actually qualifies a plate to be non-transferable or not?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:22 am
by IaininTenbury
mckenzie wrote:the plate is wae 403 and also have odg ###
Both of those look like original type registrations, rather than a reissued age related plate, so unless they've been retained as non transferable, Ie: the car has been off the road for many years and the original reg has been applied to be kept and aallocated as non transferable, in which case it would state this on the V5c they will be trasnsferable.

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:30 pm
by rayofleamington
Does anyone know what actually qualifies a plate to be non-transferable or not?
What should be non transferrable =
age-related (non transferable) numbers asigned when someone sold the original number.

If the car was off the road in the 70's then it may have had the original number re-assigned to the car when it was put back on the road much later, but these will also be non transferrable.
However i've heard a few cases where the age related plate has been transferred - I'd guess it's just a mstake from DVLA where the 'non-transferrable' flag has been missed off the records.