Registration Numbers

[housebeautician]

Anyone know how you can register two vehicles with the same no.

I do know its possible as i have seen it, just thought i'd ask here before ringing swansea.

Ta in advance

Tony

[Mark (smokey mow)]

Cloning?

I can't guess how/where you saw to cars with the same reg number But the whole point of our vehicle registrations is that they are unique and therefore not two the same.

[housebeautician]

Mark

It was a telly prog that i saw it on, and it allowed you to have two vehicles registered on the same no to the same person but only one vehicle can be used on the road at any one time.

[Norman Verona]

As mark said . You can put the same index mark on as many cars you want. But only one will be legal and it may not be any with those plates.

ed to say we posted at the same time.

I've never heard of that. I'm sure it must be wrong. An index mark is unique to one vehicle.

[pistonbroke]

IMT1

[Mark (smokey mow)]

I understand that there may be a process in place elsewhere in europe where this is possible, and obviously you are only allowed to use the one car at once but in this country its most definately a no no.

[XTR2Turbo]

I think in Belgium the plate is assigned to a person not the car as such and you keep it for life but not sure you can swap it from car to car as you wish.

[Captain Colonial]

DVLA get quite enough of my money without paying them to give two of my cars the same number and disable one at the same time - why? What's the big advantage? I didn't mind paying $40 for a private plate in California, but prices here are a joke.

[pistonbroke]

I read somewhere the germans did the same with car registration i.e. the owner is registred not the car ?

[simon besant]

The pikeys do it all the time

By two vehicles the same put the same plate on them and hey presto only tax mot and insurance once

We used to see it all the time at mercs

[housebeautician]

Obviously both vehicles have to comply with the rules and have their own insurance etc, but this was without question on cars in this country.

One car that i saw was a Range Rover and i cant remember the other but they were parked side by side.

I will have a word with the DVLA, but tbh it was a long time ago that i saw the programme and had i not seen it ,i would be saying the same as you lot.

If anyone else has thoughts or knowledge of the subject i would like to hear them.

Thanks gents

Tony

[langy]

A few years ago, we had a 9t dumper road legal dumper on site with a number plate, at the weekend (near home) I used to see the same model dumper with the same number plate . I can assure you it wasn't the same vehicle.

[Norman Verona]

Could it have been personal number plates with one "altered" to look the same as the other.

R10STO and R105TO (only an example, I know you can't have 2 letters)

[davidgh]

I read somewhere the germans did the same with car registration i.e. the owner is registred not the car ?

In Germany, you change the registration each time the vehicle is sold -- so each owner/car combination gets a new number. You even have to get a new registration for your existing car if you move house to a different local authority, as all registrations are geographically specific (so, if you move from Düsseldorf to Berlin you trade your "D" plate for a "B" plate) -- and, of course, you pay a small fee each time

I don't actually know of another EU country where a car is "christened for life"!

[tabs23]

The pikeys do it all the time

By two vehicles the same put the same plate on them and hey presto only tax mot and insurance once

We used to see it all the time at mercs

Oddly enough, I did once see two (identical) cars parked next to each other with the same plate - they were Mercs. It was dark and the chaps stood around them looked a bit dodgy, so I didn't stop to quiz them on how and why they did it.