I am about to 'inherit' a car which has a personalised reg plate. Is there
any requirement to relinquish the reg number? I don't really want it - but
feel I should hold it for a while if it is easy to do so. Will it just be a
case of completing the usual change of owner bits on the registration
document?

The owner is giving up driving.

"John" gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

I am about to 'inherit' a car which has a personalised reg plate. Is
there any requirement to relinquish the reg number?

No. If the ex-keeper doesn't transfer the plate off the car before the V5
goes to Swansea for the change of keeper, then the plate stays with the
car.

You can then either sell it separately or leave it on the car if/when you
sell it.

Will it just be a case of completing the usual change of owner bits on
the registration document?

Yes.

TAW wrote:
On 08/02/2010 18:23, John wrote:
I am about to 'inherit' a car which has a personalised reg plate. Is
there
any requirement to relinquish the reg number? I don't really want it -
but
feel I should hold it for a while if it is easy to do so. Will it just
be a
case of completing the usual change of owner bits on the registration
document?

The owner is giving up driving.


Its easier to keep it - the car 'owns' the plate, you will have to pay
to put a normal plate on it. It may be worth something to sell on, or
worth nothing.

If it's a NI 'council vanity plate' i.e. MIW or MUI or even worse
GAZ/BAZ/DAZ/MBZ then it's highly likely to actually devalue the car.

--
Pete M - OMF#9

'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 BMW 318is Coupé


"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will **** you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."

In message , TAW
writes
On 08/02/2010 18:23, John wrote:
I am about to 'inherit' a car which has a personalised reg plate. Is there
any requirement to relinquish the reg number? I don't really want it - but
feel I should hold it for a while if it is easy to do so. Will it just be a
case of completing the usual change of owner bits on the registration
document?

The owner is giving up driving.

Its easier to keep it - the car 'owns' the plate, you will have to pay
to put a normal plate on it. It may be worth something to sell on, or
worth nothing.

If it was the one I saw in a local supermarket on a Hummer I'd sell it
on quick: B16 CUN
--
Gordon H
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On 08/02/2010 18:53, Gordon H wrote:


If it was the one I saw in a local supermarket on a Hummer I'd sell it
on quick: B16 CUN

http://www.chavplate.org.uk/

--
Adrian C

On 08/02/2010 18:23, John wrote:
I am about to 'inherit' a car which has a personalised reg plate. Is there
any requirement to relinquish the reg number? I don't really want it - but
feel I should hold it for a while if it is easy to do so. Will it just be a
case of completing the usual change of owner bits on the registration
document?

The owner is giving up driving.


Its easier to keep it - the car 'owns' the plate, you will have to pay
to put a normal plate on it. It may be worth something to sell on, or
worth nothing.

Adrian C wrote:
On 08/02/2010 18:53, Gordon H wrote:


If it was the one I saw in a local supermarket on a Hummer I'd sell it
on quick: B16 CUN

http://www.chavplate.org.uk/

I've just wasted 10 minutes of my life hoping to find one of his
comments even slightly amusing. A whole website dedicated to slagging
people off for having private plates and he blatantly missed the joke
with "10 2 1 ON" - if that doesn't belong to a bookie...

--
Pete M - OMF#9

'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 BMW 318is Coupé


"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will **** you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:42:04 -0000, Pete M
wrote:

Adrian C wrote:
On 08/02/2010 18:53, Gordon H wrote:


If it was the one I saw in a local supermarket on a Hummer I'd sell it
on quick: B16 CUN
http://www.chavplate.org.uk/

I've just wasted 10 minutes of my life hoping to find one of his
comments even slightly amusing. A whole website dedicated to slagging
people off for having private plates and he blatantly missed the joke
with "10 2 1 ON" - if that doesn't belong to a bookie...


Along with "words that aren't in the dictionary", I've not seen many
surnames in the dictionary

On 08/02/2010 19:06, Adrian C wrote:
On 08/02/2010 18:53, Gordon H wrote:


If it was the one I saw in a local supermarket on a Hummer I'd sell it
on quick: B16 CUN

http://www.chavplate.org.uk/

Theres one on there where an Irish plate has been amended - would you
break English law having poor character/space definition on a foreign
plate - or is Irish/English interchangeable?

TAW gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

http://www.chavplate.org.uk/

Theres one on there where an Irish plate has been amended

Just one?

- would you break English law having poor character/space definition on
a foreign plate - or is Irish/English interchangeable?

It's a "British plate". Northern Ireland has a separate registration
authority, but their plates can be transferred to Swansea. The same rules
apply...