Personalised number plates

APIII

It's the middle-aged equivalent of typing BOOBS on your calculator (which wasn't even that amusing when I was 4)

greasedscotsman

Pokerface wrote:

Plus I like the idea of being a little different,

It's the motoring equivalent of a novelty tie.

gasman_dave

greasedscotsman wrote:

Pokerface wrote:

Plus I like the idea of being a little different,

It's the motoring equivalent of a novelty tie.

I've never bought either and I could think of loads of things to buy. Most, like me, only posted some they had seen in response to your original post.

Big Hairy Wallapers

I guess several years ago they were perceived by many as 'exclusive'.
E.g. Alan Sugar has AMS 1.
I would estimate that 15% ish of vehicles on the road today have one.
If say 15% of vehicles were Blue would that make blue cars 'exclusive'?
I think not, totally agree with the 'boobs' on a calculator comment.
I wonder if the DVLA would let you have Pretentious W4nker instead?

davewalsh

The Real Radioactiveman wrote:

Some are just to hide the age of the car.

+1. I have M99 SDW, which is a random number that I thought looks ok, followed by the missus and my initials. I bought it just to get the age off a car that was in exceptional condition for the year.

davewalsh

thecrofter wrote:

Brassknocker wrote:

How easy is it to change from one to a normal one?

There's a car I'm interested in buying, but I'm put off it as it has a personalised number plate (or one that's supposed to hide the age - no idea why you'd need to do that?) but I'd be too embarrassed to own/drive it in its current state.

Is it simple to just revert back to the original /a conventional one? and does it cost anything (besides the cost in Halfords to buy the new physical plates??)

It's not that much more difficult than any dealings involving the DVLA What you do is put the cherised number on retention, costs about £80 IIRC and they issue a new number for the car, then when the time comes to renew the retention of the cherished number you just let it lapsed

If you're lucky the previous owner will want to keep the plate and have it's original number put back on.
To put a plate on retention costs £105 (as of last July), however the DVLA will probably just transfer the number off for £80. Would be worth asking the seller if he still has the original plates that he removed when he put the personal plate on, would save you the cost of having some made up.

Nuggs

I couldn't afford one so I changed my name to G497 GLX.

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greasedscotsman

Nuggs wrote:

I couldn't afford one so I changed my name to G497 GLX.

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timb64

My first car back in the mid '80s had a number plate containing my father's name Tom.When I sold the car he transferred the plate and has kept it ever since.Some see it as a bit naff but where's the harm?

gilesjuk

I wish the police would enforce the law. There's so many idiots with non-legal typefaces, black screw caps placed to make a C look like a G and so on. I even saw someone with a plate where they had messed around with the characters, they looked like the number 2 cut in half to make them look more like something else.

At times I just feel like photographing them and reporting them. It could be seen as a deliberate attempt to confuse the automatic numberplate recognition cameras.

Saw an episode of some police camera action type programme where a guy had put some black tape across a 0 on the numberplate to make it look like an 8. Apparently a common trick to disguise a numberplate when driving off without paying for fuel.

TuckerUK

To add insult to injury, the DVLA actually sell personalised registrations (which of course aren't personalised at all unless the meaning of the word changed overnight) that are only attractive once mis-spaced.

It would be so nice if us honest folk could pay less taxes and be subsidised by the dishonest scrotes. Illegal plate? Confiscate car (auction it), registration entitlement (ditto), and license.

There's a great FlickR page where you can upload photos of them, bonus points for identifying the driver. It's call dumberplates or twatplates or something similar.

Pross

Bozman wrote:

I'll guess that the i is a doctored 1 then but it's the reg on the car

It still doesn't work as you would have four letters (VPOS) or a misplaced number.

davylear

There's a blacked out range rover with G 5POT as its number plate.

My wife and mother found it very amusing

zippypablo

davylear wrote:

There's a blacked out range rover with G 5POT as its number plate.

My wife and mother found it very amusing

but you couldn't find it

davylear

stevewj

When I see one I feel like firing a rocket or grenade at them (same as when I see some t..t driving whilst on the phone). A bloke has D4NCF near me (presumably thinks it reads as DANCE) and another has OLD GOLD - how he gets that I don't know unless it is 601D and he has changed it - pathetic losers the lot of them.

cruiser33

Yes, I agree with Stevewj, I suppose if you have the money you can spend it on what you want; but personalised number plates I cannot understand................the owner/driver in my opinion might as well strap a large plastic dick to their forehead, it says the same thing!

Omar Little

dilemna

Saw ACE 80Y on a private taxi Audi A4 two days ago.

MattC59

My first Dax had the number plate B16 DAX. Spaced correctly and it looked like BIG DAX. I liked it.

To those who think I'm sad, pathetic etc, how about; get f*cked.

That's all.

DavidBelcher

Omar Little wrote:

Priceless!

David

Big Hairy Wallapers

To those who think I'm sad, pathetic etc, how about; get f*cked.

Case in point!!

Enjoy your day. X

BTW What's a dax?

DavidBelcher

SLX01 wrote:

rodgers73 wrote:

Only one I've been impressed by is a local one - B16 NOB

What is a B16 NOB? If it said BIG NOB that would be funny but B16 NOB just looks like he was sad enough to spend a few hundred quid on a number plate that vaguely looks like another number.

Not to be confused with B17 NOB, which can be an unfortunate side-effect some blokes suffer after breaking in a new Brooks saddle.

David

MattC59

Big Hairy Wallapers wrote:

To those who think I'm sad, pathetic etc, how about; get f*cked.

Case in point!!

Enjoy your day. X

BTW What's a dax?

Why ?
I am.
This is a Dax (not the pink one )

DesB3rd

Years ago I saw P111 MAN on a blacked out but rather aged Range Rover, which leads to one of two conclusions;

- He really is a drug dealer, albeit one stupid enough to draw attention to the fact
- Not a drug dealer but stupid enough to think it makes him look bad-ass.

Not great either way...

Gizmodo

I don't have a problem with people spending their money on cherished number plates - I do agree they shouldn't alter the spacing and fonts to try and fool CCTV or ANPR systems.

However, 2 things that really do annoy me are:

1. Loud exhaust pipes - I live on a busy road and I like my sleep!

2. Blacked Out front side windows - these really are dangerous, they stop the driver seeing a cyclist when they are pulling out of a junction!

gasman_dave

MattC59 wrote:

Big Hairy Wallapers wrote:

To those who think I'm sad, pathetic etc, how about; get f*cked.

Case in point!!

Enjoy your day. X

BTW What's a dax?

Why ?
I am.
This is a Dax (not the pink one )

Nice place to hide the new wheels for your BMX. No problems with side windows there.

Dave

Mad Roadie

Gizmodo wrote:

I don't have a problem with people spending their money on cherished number plates - I do agree they shouldn't alter the spacing and fonts to try and fool CCTV or ANPR systems.
!

agree.. but I have two cherished numbers - not personalised, or corrupted, re-spaced, or funny fonts, just two digits and my initial, or my wife's. why? because we keep our cars longer and better than most and do less mileage than most (maybe because I cycle?)... and yes bastardised number plates get on my t1ts too!

Mr_Cellophane

I saw H1 1S ME on a Jeep Grand Cherokee yesterday. Appalling grammar, but quite amusing

Stevo_666

Just get X351 ARO - seems innocuous but people need to see it in their rear view mirror