DVLA Chelmsford office
 

does anyone know if its open on saturdays?

can only see 9-5 on there site but not 100% sure if its up2date

cheers

darc

no it's not mate. have tied going there on a saturday myself.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/contactus...al_office.aspx

cheers

get there for 9am on a week day and you litteraly walk in and get served. I have done this twice now in the past 2 weeks.

ok mate great i might give that ago thur morning :)

darc

Same here, been a couple of times in the last couple of months @ 9am and been in and out in 10 mins

does anyone know the cost of the "swap" over bit at DVLA?

darc

If the assignment is already paid, nothing. Otherwise it's £80 IIRC, £105 to retain inc reassignment with 1 year retention fee. :)

im new to this so forgive me lol.

on the form it states

"THE ASSIGNMENT FEE HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID"

does this mean no Charges at all?

darc

Yep no fees mate :) you only have to pay again to retain it when you take it off.:)

ok stu thanks for the info so far,

once i have been to DVLA in morning can i put the Plate on the car?

darc

If it's a simple swap over with no retention involved they can reissue TAX and MOT in the new reg on the premises. So as soon as you have the tax disc and of course you've informed the insurance, you can swap plates :) For mine, because I was assigning and retaining I had to wait for them to do the transfer and send the new documents by post. Your new V5 will follow in the post but you don't need that to put the plates on the car :)

thanks very much Stu, its a simple Swap, i will get Moley to update the insurance tomo :D

and i have the paper ready to swap the bits FINGER CROSSED it will be on tomo

thanks again mate

darc

Yep just take all the docs they list on the V778 retention certificate, really simple and quick :)

If your name isn't on the certificate as the grantee, make sure the grantee has signed it.

do i fill Section 1 in?

and all i need is the owner before to sign Section 6?

Just section 1 mate IIRC. :) tbh they pretty much instruct you no messin when you get there lol :D I think once it's on your car under your V5 you become the owner anyway. I have always owned the plate on retention so it's slightly different if its a plate you have bought from a private owner as the existing grantee.

Blimey this is not Simple as it seems haha!

he has signed once for sections 3,4,5

but not Section 1 hope thats right lol

if im reading it correct, he has signed for me to fill in the section to be the grantee :wonder: dunno lol

darc

They'll sort you out mate :thumb: