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Mark.W
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2nd Dec 11 at 16:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Been told by a mate that if you have a private plate on your car and it gets wrote off you can't get it back and lose the plate.

Can anyone shed any light on this whether its true or not?
Fro
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2nd Dec 11 at 16:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yes i believe you can lose it.
Graeme
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2nd Dec 11 at 16:17   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No you need to write to the insurance company and basically say you want it back.

They will not want it so will send you documents to take it off them etc. long winded process but you can get it back.
John
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2nd Dec 11 at 16:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've got private plates off a couple of cars with no problems after they've been written off.
Ben J
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2nd Dec 11 at 16:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
WTF Surely not!!!!
Woody
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2nd Dec 11 at 16:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Not if you report it to the dvla before
baza31
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3rd Dec 11 at 10:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It's true. They took mine when I was 18 and wrote off my corsa. I backdated a retention application and sent off log book . I told insurance who wanted log book that I've sent it to dvla and it just prolonged getting sorted. It belongs to the car inless on a current retention cert
Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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3rd Dec 11 at 12:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It's false, I wrote my first car off and got the plate back.

Still shows up in HPI now that I had a crash in 1997, so I have to keep it on cars newer than that to avoid any confusion
Archie
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3rd Dec 11 at 17:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My mate lost R17VTS off his Saxo when he wrote it off because he didnt take my advice and send away the logbook etc the day after the accident.
Mark.W
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3rd Dec 11 at 20:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
So to make sure its not lost you need to send the logbook to the dvla straight away then.

Do you just attach a note to the log book explaining whats happened or just send the logbook of to have the plate put on retention?
Ian
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3rd Dec 11 at 20:24   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I didn't do anything special, just sent off the form as normal.
Mark.W
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3rd Dec 11 at 20:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Did you wait until you got word it was a write off before you sent it off Ian?
Ian
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3rd Dec 11 at 20:56   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah confirmed that the insurer wasn't willing to repair.
Jed D
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3rd Dec 11 at 21:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
surly to god if you binned the car at least one of the reg plates would be broken
Mark.W
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3rd Dec 11 at 23:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ok thanks Ian it's good to know there is a way around it if the worst did happen.

 
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