Store Bus with number plates or without?

Hi. I am taking my 78 VW bus of the road for the winter. It will be a 25 years old in January 2013. Just now I pay classic car insurance plus vægt afgift which is quite expensive . Would it be cheaper for me to take the plates off and cancel my insurance then put new plates on again next year OR just store it with the number plates on? Is the vægt afgift lower on cars older than 25 years ? I am not from DK and find it difficult to gather the needed info. Cheers for any help. Gavin

Hi Gav,

If you have classic car insurance on your bus through any of the known classic car insurance companies (eg. Runa, Nordisk Veteran, Thisted etc), the amount saved by cancelling your registration and paying for new plates and re-registration next spring should pretty more equal each other out.
Classic car insurance already takes into consideration that the car isn't driven from Nov 15th-March 15th.
Vægtafgift on a classic car (35 yrs) is 25% of vægtafgiften on a none classic car. How ever if I remember correctly this is not an automated process and you have to go get your car registered as a classic car to obtain the lowered vægtaftgift.

If the bus is from ´78 , it can not be registred with black plates.
Black registration plates ended april 1st 1976.

Mette is wrong, the vægtafgift gets lowered to 25 % when the bus hits 35years, høj dont have to dø anything.
Numberplates; og you take off the plates now, you vil save the vægtafgift, for half a year (1880kr if its the same as mine), but, then you have to but new ones in the spring for 1200kr.. I would leave them on

Ehh René? 25% of the full amount is not the same as getting the price lowered to 25%??
I didn't write 25% off of the price - I wrote 25% of the price as in 1/4 of the original amount as in lowered to 25%.

Get of vs. off straight!!

Jep, Claus har ret, det var det jeg mente, det sker helt af sig selv.