Selling A Private Plate

[speno 239 2 Cars]

Basically the deal is I have been offered first dibs on this car ( that 944 ) It has a private plate on it which I have looked up with two company's one value it £2500 and one at £3800

Has any one sold a private plate before and how long does it take ( im guessing it all depends on how good the plate is )

Other question is , can I put it straight onto retention without mot n tax ie do I just need the log book ( its currently sorned )

 

The 944 is a 2.7 in case anyone wants to buy it from me

64k one owner

[omega 82]

dont think you can do anything with it until the car is mot and taxed

[1 FAT PUG 39]

Needs to have mot and tax to be able to do anything with it

[speno 239 2 Cars]

I know its not been on the road for at least 5 years

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

Bent mot , put plate on retention, bin the mot then sell car with no mot or break it up blah

[speno 239 2 Cars]

Tut Tut ^^, do cars in Worksop have MOT's ;o)

[u47sb2 27 2 Cars]

I've found these companies vastly over estimate the value of some plates. I got a distinctive E plate with a now written-off 205 that's on retention and despite promises and 'enquiries from buyers' it's been a waste of time trying to sell that way. Beware of the value!

[harryskid 193]

Private plates are only worth what some big headed tosser wants to pay for it.!

[speno 239 2 Cars]

Yeah i kinda thought that my self and it could take an age to sell too

I have one on my Corrado.... F1 SPEN ( I always thought folk with private plates where knobs ha ha)

Private plates are only worth what some big headed tosser wants to pay for it.!

Folk with too much money ^^

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Plates are only as much as someone is willing to pay for it.
I had one 'valued' at £1800 (3 letters 3 numbers) by a plate specialist, advertised for 3 years no joy.
Stuck it on here for much less and it sold within days.

Car needs Mot, then stick plate on retention.
Then when selling you need to appoint another person (can't remember the technical term). Once that person has the plate and is assigned onto the new owners car it becomes theirs.
It's a very confusing way of doing things.

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

A mate of mine is selling a plate on retention its D12 DOG and is asking a grand it went for more than that on ebay 2 years ago but he had a 2 grand reserve on it cos he was being greedy at the time. When i said bent mot i meant a know a man who can for a drink mot'r, not a photocopy and fill in the blanks lol

[Leet205 48]

Bent MOT is a bad idea if your going to plate rape a car! as its been off the road 5 years and a change of owner theres a good chance they will call it in for inspection.

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

Thats why i said bin it after the retention and sell the car with no mot

[Leet205 48]

The inspection bit comes before you can put it on retention.

[Phil H 16]

Will need MOT for sure and if the last tax disc was cashed in, then it will need taxing and insuring. If the tax naturally expired, then just an MOT should suffice, but if it needs inspecting, it has to be trailered to VRO if not taxed and insured. That was the rules when I bought a 205 with rust and a seized engine for the plate.

[GTI6BOY 29]

I'm sure the car has to be insured also. I sent my private plate to the scrap heap as taxing/mot/insurance was more than the plate cost

[speno 239 2 Cars]

Cheers for the input folks , So as i read it I need to tax mot and insure it but they still might call me up to inspect the car due to the number of years its been off the road to clarify that i did not ring the car ...

[GTI6BOY 29]

Sounds right yes

[CosKev 16]

As above,prices quoted by those companys are way over the odds.

 

Also they don't buy them off you,just advertise them and take a massive % cut.

 

I had one which was R1* EVO,valued at similar to yours above,sold for £580 in the end!

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

I think you can release a plate without tax or an MOT but only if the car has been written off. I know my brother had a bit of fun getting his PIL 2052 off a written off Miami and onto his CTI, but managed it in the end.

 

Step 1 is to get it onto a piece of paper - you need an MOT and even then they can come and inspect the car

Step 2 is to advertise it (perhaps just list it on ebay if you want a quick sale without a dealers cut)

Step 3 is to pay the £80 assignment fee onto another car once sold.

 

Short three letter, three number plates or less tend to be worth something if the numbers match a current car or the initials are popular. I have seen PUG 106 go for £12k and now you wouldn't bother paying anywhere near that now! My money is on Irish plates with popular Chinese initials now and lots of 8's in them (as they deem that as lucky) eg YCZ 8 would be worth a lot now where it was not before. You heard it first here!!

 

My plates (H/K/R 70RKE) are worth nothing financially as they are too personal but I like seeing pics of the various cars over my lifetime which will have had them on. My kids will inherit them too at some point They were only about £200 each (bar the H) so not a fortune.

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

My plates (H/K/R 70RKE) . My kids will inherit them too at some point

 

Didn't think that one through H did you, Hector, Keith and Rachel would have been more appropriate than Sophie, Oliver and Felix!!!!!