p20ele
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Just bought a new car but got the garage to sort out the transfer of my private plate onto it, went in and signed the documents and paid the fee last wednesday and they were posted out the same afternoon.....
how long should it take for the documents to come back? the guy at the garage said three full working days and its been over a week now 
anyone here done the same? how long before your docs came back??
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c20let
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Registered: 25th Jun 05
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ive done this a few times, can take up to 2 weeks usually.
i went in on tuesday to take my private plate off my car and got told about 10 working days
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JM_16v
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yeah will take a while.... how much it cost to take it off and put it on retention c20let?
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c20let
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105 quid 
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JM_16v
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fook!
i gotta do this, but oh well
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c20let
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its free if you transfer straight onto another car i think.
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p20ele
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quote: Originally posted by c20let
its free if you transfer straight onto another car i think.
£80 to get it transferred
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p20ele
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phoned the garage to day to see if it'd been delivered to them instead, but no joy there. pi55ed off with gettin up at half 9 every mornin to wait for the postie!! im meant to be on holiday!
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scotish~sport
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can take 3 t 4 weeks u should have just transfered plate would have been stamped with new reg then changed it in t ur name thats what i do
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Jules S
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quote: Originally posted by c20let
its free if you transfer straight onto another car i think.
I was told that too.
My docs took 1 week, they did the MOT on the spot when I went to collect them
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scotish~sport
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na 80 buck like
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c20let
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so if i buy a reg plate inc. all fees, then 2 weeks later i go to transfer it straight onto another car, i have to pay the fee again?
surely the first fee covers you for a year or something?
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p20ele
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quote: Originally posted by scotish~sport
can take 3 t 4 weeks u should have just transfered plate would have been stamped with new reg then changed it in t ur name thats what i do
transferred it straight onto the new car?? thats what im doing
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p20ele
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quote: Originally posted by c20let
so if i buy a reg plate inc. all fees, then 2 weeks later i go to transfer it straight onto another car, i have to pay the fee again?
surely the first fee covers you for a year or something?
no idea how it works tbh, all i know is that they stung me £80 to get it changed over
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scotish~sport
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u should o got garage to pay it only payed to change mine once well not really put it on retention always good deal breaker with garages
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p20ele
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ah well, its paid now anyway
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scotish~sport
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fit u gettin any way?
sold the sport yet
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p20ele
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traded it in for an MG ZR+, wee yellow 1.8 thing
they offered me £1750 for the corsa in part exchange so i went for it
do i know u??
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scotish~sport
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lol
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scotish~sport
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norm
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p20ele
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oh hello!!!! didnt realise it was u!
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John
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Transferring from car to car costs 80 quid every single time, no matter when you bought the plate.
It is NOT free.
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p20ele
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quote: Originally posted by John
Transferring from car to car costs 80 quid every single time, no matter when you bought the plate.
It is NOT free.
thank you, thought i'd been conned!
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bubble
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postal strike?
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Little Vik
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The DVLA are taking ages to do these at the moment, its causing me a nightmare!!
Some local offices are taking 10-14 days to do the transfers.
Then its another couple of weeks to get your log book back im afraid
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