Private plate transfer while selling cars advice

[Crispy]

Hi All,

I'd appreciate some advice on the following scenario, trying to clarify things before taking action to keep it as simple as possible.

I am the registered keeper of Vehicle A which has a private plate. The tax expires 31st December 16. I have just bought another vehicle which I shall be picking up this week and as such, will not be using Vehicle A beyond 31st December 16.

I plan to sell Vehicle A privately. However, I want to transfer the private plate to another family members car, Vehicle B.

I so far understand I can fill out a V317 form to transfer the plate from A to B. In that process A should then be issued a new registration. Should I continue to tax A into January with the new registration, or should I declare a SORN for it? It will not be used again.

Appreciate any advice
Thanks

 

[Graham]

Just stick the reg on retention asap and then transfer to new.car at leisure, could.even be done online

 

[Crispy]

Cheers Graham, though I'm no intention of keeping the plate on my vehicle of use. The family member can have it, they've more interest in it than I do!

 

[chris_b]

As Graham says just do all online and transfer across to family members vehicle now.

 

[Graham]

The only ballix online is that if either car has had a break.in their tax in the last 5 yrs the system wont process and you have to do.it the old paper way, happened to me with the skoda as it was on sorn at some point before my ownership

 

[Crispy]

Yea I've tried to do it online but it says I'll need to do it by post, bugger.

 

[Brennan]

The online system is useless, if that car was out of tax at any time regardless if you owned it or not at the time then it won't let you transfer online.

What is the plate, out of interest?

 

[Crispy]

YIB 171

 

[Brennan]

YIB 171

That's why lol it's probably worth at least 400 quid

 

[Crispy]

That's why lol it's probably worth at least 400 quid

Sell you it for £390 haha

 

[Brennan]

Sell you it for £390 haha

I already have 2 personal plates ha

 

[Crispy]

Lol, giving it back to the brother as I have no interest.

I was also trying to tax Vehicle A by direct debit for January since unlikely to be sold until then, but even the stupid website won't allow me to do that with the Reminder letter reference number. Load of crap.

 

[Crispy]

On a similar note, Vehicle A has a private plate and was MOTed in Scotland this month. With re-registering it, is it going to be easy enough to get a replacement MOT certificate from an MOT centre in N.I, without being retested?

 

[Crispy]

In case anyone finds it useful in future when coming across this thread...

Transferred the registrations via post since online didn't work for me. Took about two weeks to get the new logbooks back, but that time included the New Year holiday. Still haven't seen them cash my £80 cheque yet though...

In this case, my car didn't revert to its previous registration (which was English reg) and instead was assigned a new NI plate.