Number plate valuation?

[stripped fred]

Can anyone tell me how they would value a numberplate? I started putting the details into a website but they want to know all my contact details including phone number. Is there an easy way to get an approx value?

[willswitchengage]

Study ebay adverts. All numberplates are worth £500+ regardless of what a dispassionate array of random characters they are.

[garbaldy]

They will tell you it's worth about 25 grand so you can then sell the the car with the term reg number valued at.

[DodgeRover]

Tell us what it is and get random bids on here - would be interested in anything with SAM in it....

[Mr A Lawrence]

What's the reg number??

[UltraWomble]

Simple hotmail email account you can bin off and submit iffy details ( name, address, phone number of the local indian restaurant).

 

Ultimately though its worth what someone will pay.

[EssDeeWon]

What Womble said^

 

Personally I'd pay naff all for a personalised number plate, all cars come with one anyway.

 

Don't the DVLA give you a rough figure if you plug it in to their website?  Because ultimately they all belong to the DVLA anyway. Not sure there is any such thing as a 'private' number plate as so many people describe them.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

My middle name is Mu51der. Don't suppose it's anything like that?

[Ghosty]

That's weird, mine's Sc11lly.

[strangeangel]

I think there was once a VIZ Top Tip dedicated to this very subect.

[AMC Rebel]

I think there was once a VIZ Top Tip dedicated to this very subect.

And a subsequent one dedicated to the fact that 13 trillion* people had submitted it - even after it was printed. 

[AMC Rebel]

This is interesting cos I asked a similar question in reverse on the stupid Q thread.  Someone (an internet numbers site) reckons they have the original number for my AMC and they £1850 for it.  Although I don't do personal plates, this is the one I would consider - but I have no idea if it's really worth £1850 or more like £8.50 or even £850.

 

The number is VWB 2F by the way. 

[EssDeeWon]

This is interesting cos I asked a similar question in reverse on the stupid Q thread.  Someone (an internet numbers site) reckons they have the original number for my AMC and they £1850 for it.  Although I don't do personal plates, this is the one I would consider - but I have no idea if it's really worth £1850 or more like £8.50 or even £850.

 

The number is VWB 2F by the way. 

 

Again, to someone with those initials about eleventy billion pounds.

 

To me, £8.50

 

To a plate dealer maybe £850

 

Depends how much you want it.  Would be a nice touch to have it back on the car though.

[Cheggers]

It's the magical combination of V and W that's bumping the price up

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[panhard65]

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

[Doctormop]

Presumably Lucifer himself was a fan of K series Rovers at one time then

[Cavcraft]

Here's the usual values for something hopeless like: A19 WKY.

 

Off the car and on retention: £59 and a Twix.

 

On a 1999 Ford Focus with rusty doors, broken power steering and half an hours MOT:  £995

[stripped fred]

I've never had a private plate and to be honest I have no wish for one. There are more important things I'd rather spend money on. I also don't like the idea of standing out from the crowd, it's not my thing. I was just wondering, in a moment of boredom whether the plate on my mr2, E300 FPK, was worth more than £59 and a twix? Probably not. It then got me thinking how you can value a numberplate you already have, or if it's sometimes worth buying a scrapper purely for the plate? Also, a lot of people will advertise their car and say, the plate is worth £500 alone. But how have they arrived at that? Have they plucked it from the air? Probably.

[sporty-shite]

I kept KEO 5Y off a Golf cab I used to have. Regtransfers reckon it's worth something daft like £1300 but I can't sell it for £300.

 

Like others have said, they're only worth what someone is willing to pay.

[stripped fred]

You have to pay to keep them as well don't you, and to transfer them between cars?

[Cavcraft]

I've never had a private plate and to be honest I have no wish for one. There are more important things I'd rather spend money on. I also don't like the idea of standing out from the crowd, it's not my thing. I was just wondering, in a moment of boredom whether the plate on my mr2, E300 FPK, was worth more than £59 and a twix? Probably not. It then got me thinking how you can value a numberplate you already have, or if it's sometimes worth buying a scrapper purely for the plate? Also, a lot of people will advertise their car and say, the plate is worth £500 alone. But how have they arrived at that? Have they plucked it from the air? Probably.

 

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.

[bub2006]

Funny you should mention parkers figures on car valuations. A friend's Mrs has an audi for sale on Facebook. Y plate 1.9 this with body kit. Maybe an S line or the predecessor to it. Looks like an ill fitted s4 to be fair. Anyway she put pics up and screen shots of the valuation page saying it's worth between 1650 and 1800. Been for sale for a few weeks at 1500 ono. Surely it's not worth that much for a 15 year old derv but who Knows?!

[stripped fred]

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.

Thanks, that's what I thought.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I've never had a private plate and to be honest I have no wish for one. There are more important things I'd rather spend money on. I also don't like the idea of standing out from the crowd, it's not my thing. I was just wondering, in a moment of boredom whether the plate on my mr2, E300 FPK, was worth more than £59 and a twix? Probably not. It then got me thinking how you can value a numberplate you already have, or if it's sometimes worth buying a scrapper purely for the plate? Also, a lot of people will advertise their car and say, the plate is worth £500 alone. But how have they arrived at that? Have they plucked it from the air? Probably.

Personally, I'd keep the plate with the car. It's part of what it is, the plate isn't worth a pile, and it seems a shame to separate it from the car after 30 odd years.

On a tangent, have you got a thread for your MR2? I do like a mk1...

[stripped fred]

Funny you should mention parkers figures on car valuations. A friend's Mrs has an audi for sale on Facebook. Y plate 1.9 this with body kit. Maybe an S line or the predecessor to it. Looks like an ill fitted s4 to be fair. Anyway she put pics up and screen shots of the valuation page saying it's worth between 1650 and 1800. Been for sale for a few weeks at 1500 ono. Surely it's not worth that much for a 15 year old derv but who Knows?!

I think it's difficult to value a car when it gets more than a few years old as the prices will vary a lot depending on condition. That price does seem a bit steep to me. However, I think secondhand audi's always seem to be a bit overpriced due to their reputation for teutonic reliability amongst the general population

[stripped fred]

Personally, I'd keep the plate with the car. It's part of what it is, the plate isn't worth a pile, and it seems a shame to separate it from the car after 30 odd years.

On a tangent, have you got a thread for your MR2? I do like a mk1...

It was just out of interest really. I have a letter from the original owner thanking the dealer for giving them that reg so it's part of it's history.

 

I will get a thread up sometime if people are interested. I've owned it about 14 years now and love it but don't seem to drive it much anymore which is a shame. That's what having kids does for you!

[bub2006]

It's not the best looker and I've seen it up in the air on ramps on the drive numerous weekends. Sane as number plates though, only worth what someone will pay.

[garbaldy]

I bought the lancer with a valuable private plate in fact it was that valuable it was left on,

I also have another on retention that was purchased on another car which just happens to be mine and the misses initials, the only problem with that one is I cant seem to find a car I would want to keep long enough to stick it on.

[Mr A Lawrence]

You have to pay to keep them as well don't you, and to transfer them between cars?

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!!

[155V6]

You don't need a current MOT any more to take a plate off a car,it just needs to have been sorned within a certain time.I took a plate off my Fiat Coupe earlier in the year,it had been off the road since 2008.