How much have you spent on number plate transfers?

[mk2_craig]

This might be one for Ask A Shiter but let's start it here in the main forum.

How much, cumulatively, have you paid to DVLA for the transfer of registration plates? 

As opposed to A. How much you spent on buying one or more registration marks, and B. How much you have cumulatively spent on the actual plates themselves.

In my case I managed to own cars in mainland UK for almost a decade without doing any transfers, though I came close to putting a mark on retention for eventual sale.  Total spend therefore £0, though I knew of someone who managed to assign one mark onto seven different vehicles in the space of a single year!

[Metal Guru]

My wife and I both have wanker plates.

Mine has been on 3 cars, hers on 8, so 11 total , £80? a time, so £880. Sounds a lot but over 30 years, so not bad really , other than begrudging giving the government money for nothing.

[JJ0063]

£1280 so far 🤢

 

Currently own 4 plates, 2 on vehicles, 2 on retention.

[Split_Pin]

Good question, I hate to think though, let's see:

L80 YVO: Mini>Spaceship Civic>Brown Saab 9-3>MK1 TT>Red A4>Grey A4 =£400

K50 LNS Roffle Audi 80 Cab>red Saab 9-3>E60>E46 £320

K500 LNS Rover 75>forum bike A8>Red A4>Saab 9-5 £240

K7 BLS Transferred from my dad's car when he died onto my 75 £80

£1040. Shit.

That is since 2020 though. I do like my vanity plates though, I think it makes the car, each to their own though. 

[sdkrc]

£80 in 2012 and I regret it. 

[barefoot]

6 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

£80 in 2012 and I regret it. 

Me too, in 96.

[EyesWeldedShut]

 2 x £80 - 2018 or so, still got the two cars so that's it for the time being

[fatharris]

£0, because it's cheaper to change name by deed poll to match the car I currently have.

Yours cordially,

J128TKV Harris, Cornwall.

[Imhotep]

£400 total, I think…

N16LEM from a Saxo to a Mondeo, then a Mondeo to a BMW 1 series, 1 series to a 9-3, and then a 9-3 to a 3 series. Then 3 series to retention. 
 

Not sure the plate is worth £400. N16LEM has zero resemblance to my name or anything significant to me, but I like the plate.

[Bmwdumptruck]

We have 4 M100 plates, our three initials on the wifes car and my van, a combination of our initials on the moho and my initial and first two letters of surname on my Tenere. 
two transfers on my van plate, four for the wifes, but the moho and bike are original still.  
I have been pondering one for my Fabia runabout, but the old Astra estate that replaced had HST140X on it, previous owners business connection which he’d long since sold so wasn’t bothered leaving it. So I’ll probably just transfer that onto the Fabia at some point.  The only other M100 plate I fancy is BDT for my forum initials, but that would be best on a bike as thats where i frequent most forums until finding you guys here. 

[Bear]

Some. But I remember when it was £80 transfer, £25 retention fee that had to be renewed, and I had to drive to a VRO just outside Edinburgh to do it with handfuls of paperwork and a cheque.

I'm hoping to do something brave and get a plate in a DVLA auction this year.

[Jazoli]

Probably a grand or so, I have sold cars with plates on as I didn’t want to pay the £80 or was too skint, currently have 4 plates on 4 cars, and hopefully no costs this year.

[horriblemercedes]

£0 so far 

[captain_70s]

£0

I like keeping the old shit on their original plates and the "modern" cars I've had I've not really been fussed about.

I did nearly buy a Leyland Princess with a fair amount of my last name in the reg, but that was more of an amusing novelty than a selling point.

[LightBulbFun]

surely the more Autoshite question is "how much have you spent on V62 forms" because at this end of the market a vehicle being sold with a current V5 is a rare optional extra  (or how much have you paid for duplicate logbooks for lost ones etc)

[Mrs6C]

12 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

This might be one for Ask A Shiter but let's start it here in the main forum.

This main forum is visible to anyone on the internet... if you or any other contributor to this thread want the general public to be able to find out your financial decisions and amounts spent on numberplates, this thread can be left on the main forum. If you'd prefer this information to be restricted to AS members only, we can move it to the Open Forum or 'Ask a Shiter'.

Your call!

[reb]

I've only retained my private plate once, since I seem to have a sixth sense for when a car is only going to last a few months.

I do have two plates though, because I bought one to go on the 205 when it goes back on the road. Helpfully when I was putting the plate on the Volvo that was the only retention certificate I could find, which was less than helpful since not only was it not the plate I wanted on it but it wasn't the plate I had physical plates for!

[MiniMinorMk3]

In the last 20 years I have had 4 plates that have moved about.

1. DVLA Vanity plate that has been on 5 cars now, so 4 transfers. £320

2. DVLA Vanity plate that has been on three cars, so 2 transfers. £160

3. DVLA Auction plate that has been on two cars and is currently on retention, so 2 transfers. £160

4. DVLA Auction plate that was sold for a profit that offsets almost 50% of my transfer fees. -£300.

[NorthernMonkey]

Far too much. I have six or seven currently that have been across multiple vehicles and I’m still on the lookout for a nice 2x3 or 3x3 non age related for the SC L322.

I’m not adding them all up as it’ll only upset me! 

[Missy Charm]

£10 or £20, some years ago.  During a journey, the stick-on front number plate of my Citroen Xantia transferred itself from the bumper to the road and was dashed to pieces under the wheels of the car it had just fallen off.  I was then forced to go to the car-spares place and have a new set of plates made up.  They were transferred to the car at the cost of whatever screws with coloured caps cost, my time and a bit of electricity to run a power drill.  

Aesthetics over function in the design department plus modern corner cutting in not screwing the plate on in the first place equalled frustration for me!  

[DavieW]

I've lost count. I originally bought my plate to try ans stop me changing cars so regularly but it hasn't worked. 

8 times at least I"ve swapped the plate. 

[Macscrooge]

I think about £1,200 over 23 years. I own 4 plates - currently two in use, two on retention. Had a third on motor homes and campers. The plates cost me £250 each. No regrets. I gave one of my plates to my dad for a few years to use on what turned out to be his last car. He was thrilled with it. 

[M'coli]

Fuck all, Deed Poll is cheaper.
signed
N232 KTM.

[stuboy]

once only

[Rustybullethole]

1 hour ago, M'coli said:

Fuck all, Deed Poll is cheaper.
signed
N232 KTM.

That will be worth loads to the orange motorbike gang. 

Nowt here. Was quite tempted to see if i could keep the one off my transit BD08 as it kind of looked like BOOB though have nothing new enough to put it on.

[M'coli]

14 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

That will be worth loads to the orange motorbike gang. 

Nowt here. Was quite tempted to see if i could keep the one off my transit BD08 as it kind of looked like BOOB though have nothing new enough to put it on.

Fuuuuccckkk - don't tell me stuff like that or I'll have to get the ZX estate AS bike MOT't!