Number plate valuation?

[155V6]

Check out the DVLA site for similar numbers and see how much they are asking. Mine cost me a couple of hundred each A666HGF and K666HGF. Dateless plates tend to be around £500 plus Irish ones are a bit cheaper

I've got A666 TGF 

[garbaldy]

You pay a yearly fee to keep it on retention which includes/is the fee to put it on a vehicle.

 

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It costs £80 odd to remove it and put it in retention but that lasts for ten years before renewal,

The being moted rule has changed slightly too, if it has been on the road in your name then apparently it doesn't mater if it's now out.

[Faker]

I've got 3 proper (private) valuable plates and two not so valuable plates at the mo. Two being used, others retained. Can be a bit of a pain... I've had one for 16 years.

 

I put it on a 405 way back in y2k. Kept the car for about two years. Sold the 405 to a mate, and left the plate on it for a while longer, until I found myself another keeper (always chop and change cars). Mate had the 405 2 years. I chopped and changed... I eventually bought a pretty nice ZX Volcane 1.9td. Put the plate on it. Drove it for a year.... Then sold it to the same mate... who had my private plate on it for another year or two.

 

'05 I bought an 1998 A4tdi avant. After a while I transferred the plate to it. After 7 years (2012) I gave the A4 to a mate who, still with the plate attached, on the understanding it will always be returned to me. True to his word... my mate sold the car a month ago. I got my plate back. Presently on cert. Might just put it on one of the classic bikes and just forget about it.

 

Two of the three sambas have valuable plates.

[Cavcraft]

You pay a yearly fee to keep it on retention which includes/is the fee to put it on a vehicle.

 

Slightly off topic, a work colleague a few years ago was into banger racing and acquired a Granada hearse that had no mot but had his initials in a private plate.

 

As you may know, you can only transfer a reg off a car that has a current mot.

 

He got said "mot" off one of his dodgy mates and applied for the reg transfer.

 

Vosa/dvla wanted to inspect the car as it had been off the road for quite a while.

 

Cue much welding/fettling etc before the visit.

 

When they came they said they would grant the transfer and upon leaving the guys said they knew what they'd been upto but couldn't prove it *wink wink*

 

At the next banger race they made a big thing about it being the only car on the track with 12months mot!!

 

When I had my Morris 1000 someone offered to respray it for me if they could 'borrow' the car to transfer the plates off their rotten one off. I didn't fancy it so it never happened.

[AMC Rebel]

Weird that MOT requirement - especially since the pre-1960 MOT exemption.  I guess it's a half-arsed attempt to stop the worst ringing.

[New POD]

Check out the DVLA site for similar numbers and see how much they are asking. Mine cost me a couple of hundred each A666HGF and K666HGF. Dateless plates tend to be around £500 plus Irish ones are a bit cheaper

 

In the very first DVLA auction of numberplate J1LLY went for £36K

 

My initials are MFJ and in 2002, I was sent a letter asking If I wanted to buy   Y200 MFJ (or something like that) for JUST £1500.

 

I went on the DVLA's website and found the exact same number for £250 and over 2000 regs with LETTER THREE Numbers and MFJ all for £250.

 

So I bought this for My wife - Jill Jackson (for our 12th Wedding anniversary

 

 

£250

 

She seemed impressed at my money saying 

[The_Equalizer]

Trouble with number plates is they are somewhat an illiquid 'asset'. Some of the plates advertised on dealer sites have been there for years.

 

It’s worth looking at the DVLA auction site as the gives you a guide to real prices paid (and do keep in mind that the DVLA auction sales figures exclude costs such as buyer’s premium).

 

My parents – for reasons only known to them – decided to name me so my initials would match the number plate they had on a 1950s Rover P4. I basically have a personised number plate (three letter three number combination) for free.

 

In the 1960s my Dad went to buy a Riley RMF. The car was for sale at forty quid, with twenty being the price of the number plate. When the seller took my dad out to show the car off he promptly drove it into a gate post damaging the off-side wing in the process. The long and short being my dad bought the car and the plate for twenty quid. The Riley is long gone (although it did become a special with a Jag 3.4 XK lump for a while), but he still has the registration (three letters and a one) on his car. His best ‘investment’ by a long shot, albeit completely accidental one.

[gtd2000]

A couple of years back my mates mum bought a new car.

 

We were fiddling around in his barn when I noticed the old reg plate hanging on the wall. I asked if he'd kept the number but he said the car had simply been scrapped.

 

I hadn't noticed the number before but my youngest lad is Dinosaur daft... the plate was T34 RAX...

[Bobthebeard]

The number plate bubble has burst IMHO...

Plates are only worth what someone is prepared to pay. Don't ask me how I know....

[Guest Lord Sward]

Despite being in the motor trade all of my life, I've not been into plates, although I will concede a good plate can transform a car.  Maybe I should have took more of an interest, but until relatively recently, a plate change was a ball-ache.

[xtriple]

Plate changes are a piece of piddle nowadays. Always liked them (we all know I'm odd so no real surprise) and as I drive along, I look at all the cars/number plates as a matter of course. I try to make words or use the initials as a phrase...

 

I've had dozens over the years, most you lose money on but so what? If it's something that amuses YOU then money well spent. If I see a car with a good plate, especially a humourous one, it makes me smile. I like plates...

[Bobthebeard]

Despite being in the motor trade all of my life, I've not been into plates, although I will concede a good plate can transform a car.  Maybe I should have took more of an interest, but until relatively recently, a plate change was a ball-ache.

I have put a personal plate on the MG ZT... It was cheap and, again, IMHO it looks good on the car. Rather than WG02 HDA or whatever it was, it is now A9RCE. Which looks a bit better... To me anyway!

[garbaldy]

I also think the shorter the plate the better A 1 would be perfect,

Not because it means anything but in my eyes the only thing on a car that can spoil a nice shape is the plate.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

When I had my Morris 1000 someone offered to respray it for me if they could 'borrow' the car to transfer the plates off their rotten one off. I didn't fancy it so it never happened.

There used to be a number plate dealer round here ,who had a Morris 1000, Ford 100e, A30(5?) and a Standard 8 or 10. Those and a spray gun served him well for years.

[AMC Rebel]

most you lose money on but so what?

 

I'm ooot - losing enough on the car without the plate as well

[xtriple]

I have made money on some... FLY 1T made me a few quid and was bought on an old 3.0 Capri. I paid a fair price for the car and the plate was free! Also made a few quid on 9 CAH - squint a lot and it looked like the 'prisoners' old number. But then others I have give away: T21PLE which was on my Speed Triple and was an illegal one line plate with no spaces, also gave away J900KER which was on a Jaguar I bought and the previous owner thought was worth a fortune 'cos it said 'Joker'... it really didn't.

 

I do like plates though, comes from being an ocd idiot with a thing for numbers, looked at them and tried to make words or something interesting since I was abut 4 years old.

[Richard]

A private plate on a car would be a deal breaker for me unless it was really cheap or a breaker.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I bought an e28 518 for Mrs in about 1990, it was only someone jokingly saying to me " That number should be on a Porsche" that made me list it with Regtransfers in Dunstable.

The number was A928 SGT, they advertised it for £2000 for about 6 months, then called one day to say would I take £600. As the car only cost £450 and was still in use, I jumped at it. Seem to remember I swapped the BMW for an SD1 VdP afterwards- I used to spoil that woman.

[AMC Rebel]

Meanwhile - man buys number for big wedge and tries to sell it to footballer - fails.

 

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/builder-gives-up-trying-to-sell-4-000-numberplate-to-jamie-vardy/story-29993849-detail/story.html

[AMC Rebel]

A private plate on a car would be a deal breaker for me unless it was really cheap or a breaker.

I certainly wouldn't pay extra for one that was already on a car.

[AMC Rebel]

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I do like plates though, comes from being an ocd idiot with a thing for numbers, looked at them and tried to make words or something interesting since I was abut 4 years old.

 

You'll like this one then

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Some plate dealers will give you a valuation. That valuation is usually what they (optimistically) think they can sell it for. The reality is it'll be on their books for 15 years and you won't get a sniff, but most people just use the 'service' to get a value for the plate then try and sell it based on that. It's all horse shit to be honest, about as useful and real world a guide as whatever ridiculous trumped us figures Parkers pluck out of the air for your 6 year old Laguna.

 

 

 

Spot on. To be honest, I'd put the plate on a car and just keep it. It's a nice enough reg but it's not worth a cup of cold piss.

[puddlethumper]

In the mid seventies I bought a 56 split screen Moggy for £17 from Warwick car auctions. While in Leamington one day, I had just parked up, when a Bentley pulled up beside me and the driver, dressed for a Bentley, naturely, asked if I wanted to sell my moggo. 

Me and my cuz having just graunched a 3ltr straight six into it ( badly as it turned out, well it was my first custom effort ) I wasn't inclined to sell then

He didn't make an offer but gave me a biz card and said to give him a ring when I wanted to sell and he would give me a good deal.

It was only as he drove off and I noticed his plate that I put two and two together. It was RGT 1, and mine was RGT 2, and his name was Reginald Gerrard Turner.

At this time I had no idea plates were worth anything and hadn't payed much attention to mine apart from thinking it was a bit cool.

A few months later when the Mog started to fall apart ( too much weight in the front ) I gave him a ring. Upshot, round to his gaff ( detached 5 bed with in out drive etc ) and came away with a straight swap for his sons 69 rag top Triumph Spitfire. He was buying his son a new car for his B/day.

Didn't like the rag top and can't carry much so got rid. Can't remember how much I got but it was enough to get me a nice mk1 capri chick magnet and being about 23 and single helped my luurv life no end.

[New POD]

The owner of the Littlewoods empire John Moores (RIP) had a rolls with JM1 on it and his house keeper had a mini with JM2 on it. I once went around on Bob-a-job week in my cub scout uniform and asked if I could wash either of them or both, but was sent away by said house keeper. Fucking bitch.

[keef]

I have put a personal plate on the MG ZT.

Does the V5 have the original date of first registration on, or the date you transferred the plate to it?

[Justin Case]

Most private plates are worth surprisingly little. Brightwells have auctions on them from time to time and I was surprised that in the last one 2WLP on retention went for a mere £1200 and 3ATY on a certificate of entitlement went for only £1100. As far as i can tell, a registration on a certificate of entitlement hasn't been allocated to a vehicle, but can be sold and then put onto a vehicle, but if anyone can confirm or correct, a virtual pint will be on its way.

 

BTW, J114TCH went for just £200, obviously not many short-sighted J Hatches around

 

I might be even tempted when the next one comes round, especially if J 6 ASE is up for grabs

[Isaac Hunt]

I had much experience of these things.

 

Wot folk have said so far is valid

 

A plate is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.

 

As a general rule of thumb the scale works as follows, A = Alpha #=Number

A#. A fortune

AA## A fortune

AAA### anything from £300 to £3000 depending upon letters

###AAA anything form £250 to £2750 depending on letters

 

The we have the dateless NI registrations with Z in

Anywhere from £100 to £3000

 

Then we have the 'single letter suffice plates

A##AAA

Anywhere from £100 +. (I'm personally not a great fan of these, just me)

 

Then you have your 'bog standard plates'. Such as AAA###A or like yours A###AAA

 

Then you have the modern plates that can be contrived to read something they don't. Some are quite good, some really take some 'getttn your head around the meaning'.

 

With E300FPK I wouldn't hold out for too much. It is poss of interest to Frederick Peter King if he likes number 300. If it were 300EPK then I would say anywhere from £300 upwards, alas with an E as a suffix, maybe £100.

 

Some folk don't give a toss. Some people try and work out what the combo is. People I know often ask me what the intitials on my plate mean, they can see they are close, but can't quite get it. Then i tell them it was my Dad's plate and are his initials, really special to me. It happens to be a 1962 issue ###AAA so it is dateless.

 

It is all a load of BO11AKS really and chances are DVLA have stopped that one.

 

At the end of the day, if folk don't EN11JOY , they might like 60FRO, take your choice

[Isaac Hunt]

Does the V5 have the original date of first registration on, or the date you transferred the plate to it?

The vehicle DOR and all history on MOT remain with the 'Car' and the new plate will reflect these.

 

It happens 'instantly' the moment the plate is transferred.

[pandamonium]

So mine is worth basically f all? 

 

 

 

[richardmorris]

I did see x19rom for sale a year or so ago at the dvla sale- sadly too young for any of my cars, it was £200 I think.

My neighbours bought L16WON last year for a similar amount - they’re Leicester city fans, and put it on their new Mercedes ML.