Stupid numberplate question?

[Philyc]

Quickie for you all; im really not a fan of private plates, mostly the ones which need a modern version of enigma to work out the hidden meaning. But my numberplate may be one of them. Thinking this because it has a format ive not seen before. My plate is M82 KPR, ive just not seen a plate with the three digit first part.

 

Anyone give me some schooling on why its like this?

 

If it is private then the only meaning i can find other then initials is that it was bought by a bloke who either wasnt allowed to sell his car or couldnt get rid of his beloved wifr. (plate could loosely say m8/made 2/to kp/keep r/her)

 

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[Skizzer]

It's a regular plate, it just happens to have two digits in the number instead of three.

[Taff]

Quickie for you all; im really not a fan of private plates, mostly the ones which need a modern version of enigma to work out the hidden meaning. But my numberplate may be one of them. Thinking this because it has a format ive not seen before. My plate is M82 KPR, ive just not seen a plate with the three digit first part.

 

Anyone give me some schooling on why its like this?

 

If it is private then the only meaning i can find other then initials is that it was bought by a bloke who either wasnt allowed to sell his car or couldnt get rid of his beloved wifr. (plate could loosely say m8/made 2/to kp/keep r/her)

 

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[UltraWomble]

My plate is M82 KPR, ive just not seen a plate with the three digit first part.

 

DoooVLAy now routinely keep back twin digits and three digits with sequences (999, 123, 111, 100 etc) to flog on to gullible twats like me who bought the above for his missus Joanne Mary rUltraWomble. I wont bore you with what the W26 means.

 

I also am a gullible twat

[Philyc]

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If someone wants to jump a razor wire fence, sneak passed guards and regular patrols to nick my bag of shite then they are welcome to it

 

Thanks for the answers chaps

 

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[barefoot]

Will swap for bag of sweeties, can call tonight etc

[Philyc]

Make it a bag of sweeties and a sherbert fountain

 

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[Skizzer]

 

DoooVLAy now routinely keep back twin digits and three digits with sequences (999, 123, 111, 100 etc) to flog on to gullible twats like me 

 

They used to keep numbers 1-20 back but they released 21-999 in the usual way.  My ma had F24 XTH* from new, and she deffo didn't stump up any extra for it.  I think it took them a while to cotton on to the patterns, too - a neighbour had a B222 plate**  as standard issue.  

 

Dealers used to get allocated a whole big block of numbers, and if you asked they'd give you a choice when you ordered the car.  Nowadays the numbers letters are allocated by the DVLA one car at a time; if you're lucky you might get a choice of two or three.  (True story: my BMW is HYY - it was going to be FYU but I politely demurred.  There's way too much FYou about a BMW already without having it written in big letters front and back.)

 

 

 

*Jade green breadvan Polo CL, if you were wondering.

** Vauxhall Senator.

[Asimo]

...and some plates are held back for other reasons: 

[Junkman]

I also bought a car from a gullible twat:

 

 

That's the last time I bought a car from a gullible twat, because it subsequently failed its MoT due to the utterly road-safety-relevant fault,

that the numbers were incorrectly spaced. I pretty much had it with gullible twats. Also, someone apparently left the asylum door unlocked.

[Pillock]

A car with a double digit number is quite special, since it means Dollywobbler has owned it in the past or is going to own it in the future.

 

I'm on my second double digit - the first was just the one it was issued with (B44 KPN) by the dealer as it was year correct, area correct, and on the handbook as the pdi reg. The second is my Saab which has gone through three private registrations, settled on a J50 plate, and only wears that because the mechanism to transfer it off is pricey and thus the last shiter to own it just left it there.

 

I keep looking online to find a Mr J Sours to sell it to, but no luck.

[Mr A Lawrence]

My old Mgf, not a private plate.

 

Missus's vauxhall Mokka, definitely a private plate.

[PiperCub]

It's nothing strange - my 205GTi has J74 *** plate - it came with the car as new. I have been asked on a number of occasions "What's the significance of the plate?" as they see it as unusual, the answer is, it means nothing at all, it's a bloody car number plate issued in the days before DVLA started flogging everything they thought they could get money for.

(In the same vein I used to own APL 5T - or was it 3T? Anyway, that was issued to that Mini when new in 1978).

[barefoot]

I used to own VTV10Y and curiously my Grandfather had previously owned VTV7J

Bizarre or what?

[twosmoke300]

My Landy and the 306 I've just bought have 2 number plates . What do I win ?

[FakeConcern]

Mini 1275gt had double digit, I thought it was just a normal one, shame I only discovered it was a private plate 32 years later!

 

Current XM has double digit plate, due to previous owner. (Did someone mention Dollywobbler?)

 

 

 

 

 

[vulgalour]

Just the plate it came with, not a private plate.  I got bored of being asked what it was supposed to say and why had I put that plate on that car.

 

[Pillock]

Private plates are usually private to the person who put it there. I'm not sure what to call them when they just turn up on a car, mine is a J prefix on a 2001 car so clearly wasn't the randomly issued plate but to me, it's meaningless. Cherished? I don't cherish it.

 

This thread has however answered my question with regards to allocation of VRMs. I distinctly remember both my mum and my grandparents choosing their reg from a book, in 1985 for my mum's Polo and 1988 for a Cavalier. The dealer just had a list of all the numbers you could have, and some had names next to them. For the Cav, it was FxxxHCH and 123 had gone, 132 was a possible but they went for 148. It was a whole sheet of small writing so hundreds of plates.

 

Now, you get almost consecutive plates from different dealers. Our old work fleet were all YH09 Focusses but between some of ours, I've seen all sorts of non-Ford cars. I never realised they're issued ad-hoc now.

 

Mind you, my colleague has the next reg on from me - I've got NZJ and he has NZK on cars ordered at the same time.

[UltraWomble]

.  I got bored of being asked what it was supposed to say and why had I put that plate on that car.

 

 

Do you know in 15 years of having the wifes plates and 4 years of mine no one has ever asked me what they mean

[overrun]

Used to own an RS1600i, originally issued with TWO 80Y.

Not a private plate. Until it was removed by one keeper and then transferred to another vehicle.

 

Then it became private.

 

Life's a trip, que no?

[Tam]

My illegally spaced mong plate ! Should be self explanatory but maybe that's only to me ?

[Pillock]

You've got a Really Keen Poodle that is 5.99 Metres tall?

[Taff]

My illegally spaced mong plate ! Should be self explanatory but maybe that's only to me ?

 

I thought Simon Templar drove a Shaguar?

[EssDeeWon]

I also bought a car from a gullible twat:

 

 

That's the last time I bought a car from a gullible twat, because it subsequently failed its MoT due to the utterly road-safety-relevant fault,

that the numbers were incorrectly spaced. I pretty much had it with gullible twats. Also, someone apparently left the asylum door unlocked.

 

What are you trying to show us Junkman? The number plate is totally illegible.

 

Go and change it then try again.

[Alusilber]

This thread has however answered my question with regards to allocation of VRMs. I distinctly remember both my mum and my grandparents choosing their reg from a book, in 1985 for my mum's Polo and 1988 for a Cavalier. The dealer just had a list of all the numbers you could have, and some had names next to them. For the Cav, it was FxxxHCH and 123 had gone, 132 was a possible but they went for 148. It was a whole sheet of small writing so hundreds of plates.

 

I can confirm that my local VW main dealer was still doing something like this six years ago. Not 100s though, more like about 20 or so to choose from. Maybe they changed it when they closed down the local DVLA offices?

[martybabes]

 

(In the same vein I used to own APL 5T - or was it 3T? Anyway, that was issued to that Mini when new in 1978).

 

 

Cor Blimey!  Years ago, I had the pleasure of driving my wife's mother's cousin's Mini Clubman around West Ewell.  That had an APL registration too.  Small world...

[stuboy]

years ago i had b72vwy on mk2 cavalier.. people would ask what it ment... bloody nothing ffs

[hennabm]

UBL 44Y as per pic. Issued in Feb 83 by the Reading LVLO.

[Tam]

Thinking back the only one I had was a Ford Orion diesel C29 ASR. Not taxed since 1995 !

[PiperCub]

Cor Blimey!  Years ago, I had the pleasure of driving my wife's mother's cousin's Mini Clubman around West Ewell.  That had an APL registration too.  Small world...

 

It is!

I think it was 3T and when I looked some time ago it was on some big Merc people carrier or chelsea tractor IIRC. I prefer the vermillion Mini 1000 it was originally on.