@kezo happy new year to , regarding the original number that does not matter “if the private plate you purchase is going to be the first number plate registered to the vehicle, when you transfer it at a later date the DVLA would assign an age related number to your vehicle” Above ingo from http://www.plates4less.co.uk Am wanting to go with it from the start as i feel the dealer will do a good job , plus i don’t have to buy new plates and pay for them to be put on , and no additional form filling
no form filling, once you have the v5 (you can also ask the dealer to give you the v5 referance, you go on govt site, put in reg going on the car, new car v5 ref and your ref code on the retention cert. is as easy as that it does not even take 5 mins and you have 3 days from doing it to change.