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DVLA registrations have long been a great way to personalise your vehicle - find out everything you needed to know about DVLA registrations, from the numerous ways to buy and sell number plates including buying at a DVLA auction, to retention certificates and certificates of entitlement. Also learn more about having acrylic number plates made for your vehicle.
The following articles contain information on all aspects of buying and selling DVLA private number plates including how to search for your ideal registration, how to buy from a number plate dealer as...
Five times a year, DVLA hold what are termed "Classic Auctions". The auctions are held at various venues throughout the country and are spread over 3 days. They typically feature...
Registrations can be "stored" on a certificate, allowing the vehicle keeper to sell on the vehicle. The articles below explain the retention regulations.
Selected personalised number plates are available on DVLA certificates (a V750 document). The range includes certain registration marks held back by the DVLA when various year letter identifier...
This article explains the process of transferring registration plates from car to car, along with the DVLA regulations currently in place for transferring number plates. The process is very easy to...
This section explains the legal regulations governing the manufacture and display of your registration mark. Also outlined is how and where to have your acrylic plates made.
You can use the charts below to quickly identify the original year of issue for the three main registration formats. Please remember when choosing a registration that you can only assign it to a...
Cherished, Prefix, Q Plate, VIN, Reverse Dateless... all these number plate terms and more are explained in this glossary of terms.
Identifying foreign number plates on UK roads is easy to achieve, as the UK has established patterns for registration formats (suffix, prefix, dateless, Northern Irish or millennium) which foreign...