Replacing number plate - document mix-up

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Regards, Graham L

Simply put, your other address is wrong, it's not your address any more. The correct thing to do is update the DVLA document with your new (current) address. You can still keep the car at the old address, just that any reminders / summons would be sent to the place where you actually live.

Apparently >What do I need to get a new number plate in this situation:

Sales! wrote:

If I change the address of the vehicle to be where I usually live then I imagine the insurance company will get confused and rate that car for a different area than the one where the car is kept.

How do I overcome this potential follow-on problem?

You're not changing the address though, they're reporting that you who live at the one address have a bought a number plate for a car registered at a different address.

Go to a shop with less morals. There are plenty around.

In practice, they do not report the transaction to the DVLA. They just have to keep a record.

They are obliged to prove that you are entitled to the plate (hence seeing the V5) and that you are who you say you are (hence the driving licence).

I can think of no good reason why the two should differ if they are both up-to-date.

Having said that, they may accept additional ID proving you also own/work from the V5 address.

Talk to them and explain the problem.

Your driving licence is where you live, the vehicle is registered where it's kept. Personally these are two different places.

I think Lordy gave the best advice -go to anothe place where they are less fussy. Stuart

The DVLA want the address of the registered keeper, even if that is different to the address where the vehicle is kept. Sending a reminder to 'waste land opposite the Crown' is not going to work very well.

You should notify the change of address to DVLA and your insurer, and tell your insurer where the vehicle is normally kept, if that is not your new home address. If they have an on-line quote engine, see how much the change might cost you.

by completing you insurance proposal accurately, truthfully and completely

informing the insurer that the vehicle is stored at the location it is stored at!

The addresses need not be the same: "The purchaser of a plate does not have to be the registered keeper."

MrCheerful

You could try this place in Ireland, they say they don't require documentation. Never used them, so can't give a recomendation.