Doing these whilst driving could result in a Fine
When it comes to the law and driving most of us think we know the do’s and dont’s of what you can do whilst driving, however there are some things that not all of us know and these can be illegal when driving, so here is a list of things you might not know are illegal when driving..
Using your mobile phone as a sat nav in an unfixed position. Whilst we all know that it is an offence to use your phone (calling/texting) whilst driving, some use it as a sat nav, but it is illegal if it is not fixed on your windscreen or dashboard, the phone needs to be in clear sight and not with you holding it. Due to a recent law change if you are caught breaching this you will receive six points on your licence and a £200 fine, you could also face a driving ban if you have had your license for less than 2 years.
Lots of us motorists will flash other motorists to let them know of speed cameras however you could face a minimum of a £30 fine, you are only supposed to flash your lights at other motorists to warn them of your presence.
Eating or drinking, applying makeup, changing a CD in your car could land you a fine of £100 and up to three to nine penalty points, this is because the police can prosecute you as you may not be in complete control of your vehicle.
Splashing a pedestrian with water could land you with a fine of anything from £100 – £5000 this is because it is classed as an offence to drive “without reasonable consideration for other persons”
Hogging the middle lane of the motorway could land you with a fine as this falls into the catergory of careless driving and you could end up with three penalty points and a £100 fine.
Having a dirty number plate could land you with a £1000 fine as it can make them unreadable so you need to make sure they can seen and not filthy.
Beeping your horn could land you with a £30 fine, you are not supposed to beep your horn for any other reason than alerting someone of your presence, not out of frustration or a little road rage!
Undertaking is a criminal offence and however tempting this is especially on the motorway when someone is hogging the middle lane is not only dangerous you could find yourself in court.
Smoking in your car is illegal and taking a prescription drug before driving could see you banned.
When parking a at night drivers must not park on a road facing against the flow of trafic unless in a dedicated space.
You must never place a rear facing baby seat in a seat with an activated front airbag.
When towing a trailer or a caravan on a motorway you must not exceed 60mph.
Having a child in your vehicle without the appropriate car seat. You must have a child car seat for any child up to the age of 12 or until they reach 135cm in height and the seat needs to be suitable for their weight.
You must not drive on a pavement, footpath or bridleway unless gaining access to a property or in an emergency.
Not informing DVLA Swansea of any changes to your details ie your name and address and also regarding medical conditions such as epilepsy, strokes, neurological and mental health conditions physical disabilities and visual impairments.
BREXIT / EURO NUMBER PLATE
Cherished Number Plate up for sale at half price offer !!!
Now that we have left the EURO (European Union) we feel that its time to give someone the chance to buy our stock DVLA Cherished Number Plate (ex Northern Ireland cherished number plate) EUI 20 which is the closest that you will get to spelling EURO.
So until February 29th 2020 we are offering the personalised number plate EUI 20 for half its retail price. It is currently on the market by us at £4995 plus vat and cherished transfer fee of £80.00 but we will offer it out for £2495.00 plus vat and cherished transfer fee of £80.00.
This is a genuine offer and the cherished number plate is a stock item owned by Motor Marks and is on a retention certificate ready for immediate transfer.
If you would like to purchase this please contact one of our sales staff on 0116 235 0116
Number Plates 2020
So we are well into 2020 and we all hope that you had a fabulous Christmas and New Year which actually seems like a lifetime ago.
How many of you have broke your New Year resolutions already? All those that were going to get fit, lose weight, give up smoking, give up drinking etc
Well one thing you don’t need to give up on is owning your own cherished car number plate. With prices starting from as little as £116 all inclusive for a cheap bargain number plate you won’t break the bank and you won’t need to take out a loan for it !!
With a searchable database of over 1 million personalised and DVLA private number plates to choose from we are sure that we will have something to suit your requirements.
Give us a call 0116 235 0116 we will be more than happy to help.
Number Plates – Perfect Christmas Gift
Instead of the usual gifts of chocolates, gold, perfume socks, clothes, games etc give the gift that will last and that is also an investment. Whether you decide on a cheap bargain number plate to take the age off the vehicle or a cover number plate or if you want to go that little more expensive and go for his/her name or initials for the personalised number plate there is still time to get one before the big day arrives.
If you need a little help in deciding, why not give our sales staff a call on 0116 235 0116 they will be more than happy to help or alternatively if you want to browse our huge database of cherished number plates then just clickhere
We have bargain number plates that are as little as £116 all inclusive ranging into the thousands. We will provide you with all the necessary information and will process the transfer for you online (where applicable) it can all be done in a few minutes once payment is made and cleared.
Wishing all our customers old and new a very Merry Christmas
Retention Certifcate V778’s and Certificate of Entitlement V750’s Important News
IMPORTANT NEWS – IMPORTANT NEWS – IMPORTANT NEWS
As from 18th December 2019 you will no longer be able to renew out of date retention certificate V778’s or Certificate of Entitlement V750’s. The DVLA Swansea are implementing these changes and the cut off date for renewing any out of date certificates ends on 18th December 2019. YOU MUST RENEW any that you have out of date as there will be no leniency regarding this new ruling.
Millions of motorists have personalised or cherished number plates on their vehicles but many others hold the rights to use them without actually having them on a vehicle, known as keeping them on retention. Some owners view them as an investment rather than something to adorn a vehicle but DVLA Swansea changes could see motorists lose the right to these investments.
You need to act NOW before it is too late.
For some people this is not common knowledge and therefore we as number plates dealers are making sure that you are aware.
If these changes are going to affect you and your retention documents are out of date, you need to make sure you act now and before the cut off date of 18th December 2019. Currently, if a certificate is out of date you can buy back the right to use it from the DVLA Swansea as long as you obtained the relevant V750 or V778 certificate before March 9th, 2015 and it expired on or after 1st May 2011. You can renew the certificate by paying £25 for every year to get it up to date but this will no longer be the case from 18th December 2019. So if your plate ran out 13 months ago you would pay £50 ( 2 years ) So, if you have an out of date retention document or certificate of entitlement, it is very important to act now or you risk losing your rights to your cherished number plates entirely.
You will need to fill out the form on your documentation and send it to the DVLA Swansea along with the fee owed. If you don’t have your documentation, you need to write to the DVLA Swansea giving a reason for not having the original V778 / V750 document, along with the appropriate fee, details of your cherished number plate and proof of your name and address for example your driving licence.
Failure to comply with these new regulations could have serious consequences as you are basically giving up your rights to your cherished number plates.
Please check any V778 /V750 certificates that you have and act NOW.
Number Plates Halloween
Halloween also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows Eve or All Saints Eve is a celebration in several countries on 31st October every year on the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows Day. It is the start of a 3 day observance of Allhallowtide remembering the dead including saints (hallows) martyrs and the faithfully departed.It is widely believed that Halloween traditions originated from the Celtic Harvest Festivals. Most people celebrate with Halloween Parties involving trick or treating, apple bobbing dressing up in costumes such as witches, ghosts, clowns, spooks and the like, and we carve pumpkins into jack ‘o’ lanterns, watching horror movies and playing pranks as well.
We have compiled a small selection of cherished car number plates that we think are suitable for Halloween. They are all genuine issued DVLA number plates and most are all ready for immediate transfer. All prices are shown on our huge database and will show vat and transfer fee.
If you cannot see anything you fancy then please browse through our huge database of personalised number plates we have various ranging from the cheap bargain number plates £116 all inc to ££££.
Have a Happy Halloween from all of us at Motor Marks
Number Plates – Top 12
Whether or not you are a fan of Cherished Number Plates there is no getting away from the fact some people will pay top price for their ultimate number plate.
We have been trading for over 30 years now and have seen numbers fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds. We have compiled the list of the Top 12 selling number plates that have been achieved at Auctions over the years. The prices are the what they fetched on the hammer so do not include all the extras.
We have millions of cherished number plates to view on our online database and as well as having many top price number plates we also have cheap bargain number plates that are from £116.00 all inclusive.
If you would like us to search for your desired cherished number plate or would like to ask a question please do not hesitate to contact us on 0116 235 0116
Cherished Number Plates
Cherished Number Plates – What are they?
Typically cherished number plates are usually dateless registration numbers that are dated pre 1963 and were usually found on vintage and classic vehicles. Nowadays a cherished number plate can be anything! You have the names, the dateless, the prefix and suffix registration numbers and now the newstyle number plates, not forgetting the Northern Ireland registration numbers it can mean absolutely nothing to you but to someone else everything. You can even get your full name.. example NGO 1D if you are called Nigel Gold. Cherished Number Plates are an investment!!
Years ago Cherished Number Plates as they were coined could cost tens of thousands of pounds and many still do just take a look at some of the recent sales in the auctions some numbers fetching over half a million pounds…. but you can get a Cherished Number Plate for you for as little as £116 all in see our cheap page
The ‘Term’ Cherished /Personalised number plate was coined because for these registration numbers to remain in circulation for such a long time ie their ownership had to be passed along, sometimes the registration number remaining in a particular family for generations.
The best example of one such Cherished Number Plate was the renowned A 1 number plate which was one of the first registration numbers given out by London County Council. The number plate was secured by Earl Russell who queued outside their offices in 1903 to acquire the registration number for his Napier and he had it until 1907 when he sold his Napier car with the A 1 number plate on to a gentleman called George Pettyt who was the chairman of the London County Council. He kept the number is his possession and had it transferred onto various vehicles. When Mr Pettyt died in 1950 the number plate was on a Sunbeam Talbot and was left in his will to a Mr Laker who in turn kept the registration number (this was stipulated in the will of Mr Pettyt that he had to retain the number plate until his death) until his death in 1970 .
After Mr Lakers death, Dunlop purchased the number plate for a staggering £2500 which on today’s market would probably be a million pounds plus’ and the money was donated to the Guide Dogs for the Blind as Mr Laker had stated it was his wish for a dogs charity to receive the money from the sale of the registration number A 1.
In the early 2000’s the registration A 1 was sold again and Prince Bolkiah a member of the Brunei Royal Family became the new owner and it was paired with 1 A to be displayed on matching white Bentley Azures. Quite a history !!!
How do I assign a Cherished Number Plate ?
If buying from a number plate dealer, this is usually done for you by them. If the number you are buying is on a retention certificate then the documents required are the current V5C for the receiving vehicle which has to be currently taxed and MOT’d. Most of these transfers can now be done instantly using the online facility via the DVLA website upon cleared funds, however if the application cannot be processed online then it will have to be posted to DVLA Swansea cherished number plate section and the transfer can take up to 10 days.
If the number you are buying is already on a vehicle then this will have to be posted and on most occasions is all processed within 14 days, however this can take longer if the donor vehicle needs to have a DVLA inspection (most pre-1963 vehicles need to be inspected by DVLA and the odd newer vehicle, however we cannot determine which ones).
The DVLA usually send an appointed inspector to come and check the vehicle and its identity. The cost incurred in transferring a cherished number plate is £80.00 which is made payable to DVLA Swansea.
How do I retain a Cherished Number Plate ?
The cost to Retain a cherished number plate is £80.00 which is made payable to DVLA Swansea. When you retain a number plate the certificate will show that the assignment fee has already been paid so you would not pay any further fees when you come to transfer the cherished number plate off the retention certificate at a later date.
A retention certificate is also now valid for 10 years from the date that the number plate is retained by DVLA Swansea.
How do I sell my number plate ?
If you have a cherished number plate that you want to sell, if this is on a retention certificate then all we require is the valid V750 or V778 document which can usually be transferred online using the DVLA website facility. If the number is on an existing vehicle then the rules require that the donor vehicle must have been taxed by yourselves when it had a current MOT and then you have 5 years to sell the number. If it goes over the 5 years then in order to sell the number plate you would have to get the vehicle re-taxed and MOT’d. All MOT’d exempt vehicles however do require a voluntary MOT to take part in the cherished number plate’s transfer rules set out by DVLA.
So a little bit of history for you and some common questions answered.
If you would like any information on a number plate you wish to sell or would like us to find a number plate to suit you then give our Sales Team a call we are always happy to help 0116 235 0116
Alternatively why not browse our huge database of cherished number plates.
BOSS Number Plates
What type of BOSS are you? A few of our BOSS cherished number plates below, all are genuine issued registration numbers and all available for immediate transfer.
Not a BOSS but would still like a cherished number plate then why not browse our huge database of personalised number plates, we also have the cheap and cheerful range see our bargain plates
Want to speak to someone then give us a call on 0116 235 0116
Always Happy to help