Reg change for MOT

[A6Avant]

Unsure what to do so hoping someone here can help me out.

Bought a car last Monday which had an MOT booked for tomorrow. The MOT was booked on the cars original reg however when i bought the car, i transferred my personal reg on. I now have to take the car to get MOT’d tomorrow but the paperwork has the old reg on. Do i need to remove my personal plate and replace it with the old reg to get it through MOT or will they accept the car with a different reg on it? My insurance covers me for my personal reg but unsure how insurance will work if i remove that reg and put on a different plate, even if it is just for test purposes.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Boksic]

They'll check the chassis number and you should be fine mate

 

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

Go early and speak to office staff, provide the new v5 or whatever paperwork you have to verify the reg, they can change it. Couple possibly even do it by phone

 

[A6Avant]

Called early this morning and spoke to someone who advised i needed to use the plates that matched the documentation and the details they had on the computer. Screwed the old plates on before i went to the test centre and took them back off when i got home

 

[bigsigh]

Good to know , I avoided doing my transfer till after the MOT as I wasn't sure how it would work, but glad to have it confirmed

 

[NickR]

Maybe I'm missing something here...

You put your personal reg on a car via DVLA, which should effectively tell you to display the new reg immediately (if done online).

DVA have then advised you to display a reg that technically shouldn't be on the car anymore for the purpose of a MOT test?

Surely they could of ran it by the chassis number? Will that now update the records for the correct reg that should be on the car?

 

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

Called early this morning and spoke to someone who advised i needed to use the plates that matched the documentation and the details they had on the computer. Screwed the old plates on before i went to the test centre and took them back off when i got home

WTAF. Whoever you spoke too needs a boot in the balls!!

 

[KevM]

We had a similar one to that.
We had to put the old cherished plate back on to a car that it had been removed off, to 'satisfy the MOT tester' at the time. The balls up it caused, was unreal. The cherished reg was on a different car, it messed up the MOT date on the car the reg was on and didnt show our car as having an MOT at all. We had to submit Chassis details and copies of the V5C to the DVTANI so that they could figure it all out and fix it.

Melt

 

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

If anyone has this experience again for God's sake ask to speak to a manager. Its very simple to change the reg on the system but needs to be done before the day of the test in the office

 

[andy9eleven]

I can confirm 100% that you will fail if the plate does match that which it was booked under.

Mine failed tonight for exactly this.

 

[bigsigh]

That's so ridiculous, more glad by the minute now that I left the transfer till the MOT was done and dusted.

 

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

I can confirm 100% that you will fail if the plate does match that which it was booked under.

Mine failed tonight for exactly this.

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And you had the correct V5 with you? And no other faults?

 

[andy9eleven]

And you had the correct V5 with you? And no other faults?

No, the V5 had not been received in the mail yet as I only did the plate transfer a few days ago.

Yes there were other faults, but the plate was specifically listed as a fail point, and he faffed about for long enough at the start of the test discussing the plate with a colleague, then asked me why I had done a transfer, and then told me at the end he had no idea how to book a re-test given it was on the "incorrect" plates.