Plates on Exocets

[jleigh5]

Hi all,

My IVA is coming up very soon and have been looking into potentially putting a private plate on it once road legal as there are quite a few that will suit the car for not much money. (Letter, Number, EXO for example all seem to be £250-£500).

Whilst browsing, I noticed that the rule for which plates you can put on is:
You can’t put an age related plate on a car if the age on the plate is newer than the date that the car has been ‘registered as new’.
In other words, you can’t make a car look newer than its Registered date.  After looking into it further, I can’t find any other stipulation to prevent this other than that one statement.

I seem to remember speaking to someone a while ago about this, as he was building his own kit car, and he had managed to put a ‘new’ plate on his car, even though he was provided with a plate that had the age of the donor car on.

My question is how do Exocets get registered; are they ‘registered as new’ from the date of registration or do they get ‘registered as old’ from that date?

If it doesn’t need an MOT for 3 years, I assume it must be registered as new..?

If it is registered as new, does that mean I can put a new 69 plate on it?

Has anyone tried to put a new plate on an Exocet before?  If so, what was the outcome?

Thanks

[martinw]

In general terms, the rule you quote is correct - you can't put a cherished plate on a car if it would make it look younger than the original plate. So, if a kit car has, for arguments sake, an X reg age related plate you can't then put on a nn69nnn plate, or anything later than an X reg.

Kit cars can be registered in number of different ways; it could be a Q reg (where it is impossible to transfer a number on at all) if the parts of the car have come from multiple sources...ie multiple different vehicles; it could be an age related plate - and that plate will be of the same age but not the actual plate from the donor vehicle (that is in the circs where the vehicle is made up of a chassis / body from the kit car company, a specific number of original major components from a single donor, and other new parts); it could be a new registration (as in age related registration, but all parts MUST be new other than an allowance for one major component which can be reconditioned). Loads more detail here: DVLA - registering a vehicle

My guess is that normally Exocets will be on age related plates. There was much more scope for vehicles like Sonics and Rockets to be on new plates because a lot less actually comes from a donor.

Best bet is to get an age related plate, and then buy an appropriate plate from DVLA which is the same age or older.

In my case, my Sonic has been on the road since 2011, and is on an X reg age related plate, and I have an appropriate S reg plate which includes the number 7 and MEV. Only cost me £250....jobs a good'un.

Martin

[jleigh5]

Oct 5, 2019 17:22:03 GMT martinw said:

In general terms, the rule you quote is correct - you can't put a cherished plate on a car if it would make it look younger than the original plate. So, if a kit car has, for arguments sake, an X reg age related plate you can't then put on a nn69nnn plate, or anything later than an X reg.

Kit cars can be registered in number of different ways; it could be a Q reg (where it is impossible to transfer a number on at all) if the parts of the car have come from multiple sources...ie multiple different vehicles; it could be an age related plate - and that plate will be of the same age but not the actual plate from the donor vehicle (that is in the circs where the vehicle is made up of a chassis / body from the kit car company, a specific number of original major components from a single donor, and other new parts); it could be a new registration (as in age related registration, but all parts MUST be new other than an allowance for one major component which can be reconditioned). Loads more detail here: DVLA - registering a vehicle

My guess is that normally Exocets will be on age related plates. There was much more scope for vehicles like Sonics and Rockets to be on new plates because a lot less actually comes from a donor.

Best bet is to get an age related plate, and then buy an appropriate plate from DVLA which is the same age or older.

In my case, my Sonic has been on the road since 2011, and is on an X reg age related plate, and I have an appropriate S reg plate which includes the number 7 and MEV. Only cost me £250....jobs a good'un.

Martin

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your explanations.

I believe a big percentage of Exocets get an age related place because so much of the MX5 is used in the kit.

What has always been strange to me is why we get an old age related plate, but still get the 3 years of not having to have an MOT, like a new car.

Is there a distinction between ‘registering a car’ and ‘registering a car as new’?

If not, although the kits get age related plates based on the donor , there should be nothing wrong with replacing it with a 69 plate, according to the current DVLA rules.

Although I’d be happy with any plate, I’m inclined to test this out just to see, as a 69 plate would improve the look of the car in my opinion.

If anyone has tried this, it would be good to know if you were successful as I feel it might be a waste of money if not, as there isn’t a huge market for the brand new plates as there are only limited cars who can have them!!

Thanks

[ciaoberto]

Hello,

I had an Exocet registered with an age related L (1994) registration and successfully transferred my private registration number onto the car. The private reg 'age' was considerably 'newer' than that of the age related plate ... but not newer than the first registration of the car (2018).

In short, the reg you transfer onto the car cannot make it appear newer than the date of its first registration shown on the V5. Hope that makes sense.

I called the DVLA to ask if it was okay and the lady told me the easiest way to find out is to try it, so I did it online and there was no issue.