Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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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?
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Yes i believe you can lose it.
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
Location: Northampton
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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.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I've got private plates off a couple of cars with no problems after they've been written off.
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Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Cheshire
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WTF Surely not!!!!
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Woody
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Registered: 7th Aug 10
Location: Fareham
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Not if you report it to the dvla before
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baza31
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Registered: 19th Apr 03
Location: yorkshire
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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
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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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
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Archie
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Registered: 18th Dec 07
Location: South Ayrshire
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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.
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Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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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?
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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I didn't do anything special, just sent off the form as normal.
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Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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Did you wait until you got word it was a write off before you sent it off Ian?
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Yeah confirmed that the insurer wasn't willing to repair.
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Jed D
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Registered: 15th Mar 11
Location: Durham
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surly to god if you binned the car at least one of the reg plates would be broken
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Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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Ok thanks Ian it's good to know there is a way around it if the worst did happen.
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