N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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My dad thinks that you can sell regular reg. plates ie R240 HDH that come with the car as (according to him) thats what ppls do when they buy personalised plates.
He keeps asking me to find out how much the plate on his MX5 is worth, even thought its just a regular plate.
I think he's wrong and that you can't sell them and they aren't worth anything. At least I've never heard of anyone selling theirs.
Who is right?
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
Location: Newport
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You afaik 
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Archie
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Should say on the V5 'Non transferrable registration'
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John
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You can do it.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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You can sell them but most regular ones are not worth a bean.
Only reason you couldn't is that the V5 indicates non-transferable plate, but that is only done under some circumstances. Most won't have that restriction.
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N3CRO
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 At least I'm half right then, thats something 
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leon.
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So what if that car has been a write off an he sells his reg and is given another ?
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Corsa_Sport21
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quote:
Originally posted by leon.
So what if that car has been a write off an he sells his reg and is given another ?
Then the plate will be clear when it goes on another car, and the new plate that goes on the written off car, will show up as being a write off.
Probably goes with the VIN rather than the plate. But when doing checks, the plate is what will bring up the history of the car being checked.
[Edited on 05-04-2012 by Corsa_Sport21]
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Ian
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The categorisation goes with the plate that the car had on at the time, although a full report will also include the VIN and indicate that the plate has been transferred so if you look properly its clear that the current vehicle wasn't the one written off. Typically the plate you get afterwards isn't transferrable so that you don't end up with infinite old (valuable) plates.
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AndyCorsaSport
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Friend bought a written off clio with a private plate, repaired it, and put his own private plate on. When you hpi'd with his private plate on, it still came up that it was a write off. Stays with the car not the plate.
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John
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Stays with the plate as well.
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3CorsaMeal
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Someone bought my mums old fiat 127. Then he sold the plate for more than the car. Was just a normal plate to us, but read Peggy or peg somehow.
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am4nf
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Why does a car have a non transferable reg?
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N3CRO
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quote:
Originally posted by am4nf
Why does a car have a non transferable reg?
Wondering this myself.
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cavmad
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quote:
Originally posted by am4nf
Why does a car have a non transferable reg?
Depends on a couple of things but in the past a pre-1964 car that had donated it's plates and was issued a new number came under this rule. Also I think imports and anything that was written off (before all this Cat A/B/C/D stuff came in) or stolen recovered cars had 'non transferable reg' stamped on the V5.
Nothing to stop anyone selling the 'standard' number plate off their car. Good luck if you can find anyone daft enough to buy it, even private plates struggle unless they're desperately cheap or special.
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AndyCorsaSport
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Stays with the plate as well.
No it doesn't.
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John
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It does because I've both done hpi checks on private regs where it's shown up and been questioned on my own because I wrote a corsa off years ago.
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AndyCorsaSport
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I had my private plate on my Cat C Corsa, shown up on HPI, had it on my 182 and 106 and didn't show anything on them cause neither had been written off.
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John
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Well I've had mine show up on more than one thing. There's also. Been loads of cases on here with people asking the question on cars they are buying because it shows up and always sounds a bit dodgy.
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Ian
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Its both, my L4FFN plate comes back as a write off because of my first Corsa.
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John
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Got an hpi check today, showed it on the reg.
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