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Getting a number plate from a different region

This might be a bit of a strange question, but I've got a friend who wants to buy a new car for delivery early Sept to get the new '62' registration plate, BUT - she lives in Leeds but wants the new car registered in London so that the registration plate will start with an 'L' (the London local memory tag). Apparently it's a good-luck/positive energy thing unlike the 'Y' for Yorkshire which isn't (I did say it was a strange one!)

Other than my advice to just do the deal through a London based dealer... is there any reason why her local dealer in Leeds couldn't register her new car through a London DVLA office by post?

Or could the dealer supply her with the paperwork so that she can register the car at the London Stanmore DVLA Office herself?

Asked on 4 August 2012 by romford4

Answered by Honest John
Dealers now self register cars online and are allocated local numbers, so the only way for her to get an L is to buy the car from a dealer in the L reg zone.

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