Use this guide when you are selling, scrapping or changing a car that has a private number, or want to put a number you own onto a vehicle. Have the V5C logbooks for both vehicles, any V750 or V778 certificate, your DVLA reference numbers and insurance details ready.
Step by step
Check both vehicles are eligible
To take a number off or put one on a vehicle, it normally needs to be registered with the DVLA, able to move under its own power, and either taxed or declared off road with a SORN, with a valid MOT if it needs one. Check the details on the V5C match the vehicle. You cannot use a registration that would make a vehicle appear newer than it is, so check the age identifier on the number.
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