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[hotel21]

It's a pain that the car with the plate on it needs to be MOT'd etc; if I end up scrapping the Nissan I'd really like to get the plate off it (K 2 XTT, could be worth a bob or two to another ZX TT owner) .. but it strikes me that's impossible without getting it MOT'd (which might well require an uneconomical amount of welding!). Boo

I think - not sure! - that as long as the car with the desired plate has had tax on it in the past 6 months then it can be put onto retention.  Best put a personal visit into your local LVLO to be sure.  Oh, and it needs to be registered in your name.... 

It's in my name .. but it hasn't had tax in, erm, getting on for 8 years now  (It's taken me a long time to fit those new cam sprockets ..  )

Ah well, if it turns out unrepairable I'll stop by the closest LVLO and find out if there's any alternative to scrapping the car with the plate on it.

       
In that case, I think you are rubber ducked....   

Unless you get it tested and insured/taxed.  Even then, you would most likely need to get it inspected at the LVLO before they allow you to take the plate onto retention.  Its to save the possibility of a hooky MOT on a rusty pile of once upon a car just so that a plate can be transferred.

Hard to believe but, honestly, it does happen....         

[aaronjb]

Darn.. ah well, maybe I'll get lucky and it won't need any structural welding.. in which case I'll keep it at least a year or two longer - I think it's more sentimental attachment at this point than anything else 

Thanks H21