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I bought my vehicle in January 2025. For my birthday in April my partner bought me a private plate for the car. I changed the plate through DVLA and notified my insurance through the app, put in my card...
I am in the process of buying a car and want to put my private number plate on retention prior to part exchanging my current car. The dealership has advised that, after using the DVLA online retention...
How can I get a private number plate without breaking the bank?
Can I put a private plate on a leased car?
I have owned a personal number plate for forty plus years, I have had an offer to buy the car but want to keep plate on retention. I believe this will cost £80 and then £20 a year to keep it on retention....
Three years ago I bought a car with a private plate after the previous owner died. Her husband gave me the retention certificate in his late wife's name, and I am registered as the current keeper of the...
I’ve had a couple of plates on retention for many years. I have moved house since I got a certificate for retention. I recently tried to re activate them and they say there’s no record of them. What can...
I have a new car on order. When it arrives I would like the dealer to register it with a number (current number at the time) bought from DVLA containing my wife's initials. We did this before with an...
My '55 Registered Audi S4 4.2 Cabriolet was OK for ULEZ on it's original 55 Plate, but having moved it onto an S40 Plate purchased direct from DVLA it is no exempt, how do I fix this?
I have a private reg that I would like to put on a car which already has a private plate on it. When I put my private plate on it will the other private plate be assigned to me on retention?