personalsed reg plates

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey there was seemingly a good programme on C4 last night about folk's quests to get the right personal numberplate, a review in the paper sounded like it was quite entertaining. It was going on about all the Nigels who covet the plate 'N1GEL', and there was some geezer who's had to suffer the ignominy of buying the plate 'N2GEL', thus paying megabucks to show the world his status as the silver-medal winning Nigel. Sounds ace, anyone see it?

[mattblack]

Didn't see it, but it sounds like the sort of thing that would have me shouting at the telly, especialy after a couple of glasses of Strongbow...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

My mistake, its gonna be on tonight not last night.

[pogweasel]

Sounds like ace viewing. Being only the second best nigel must be a terrible cross to bear.

[Father Ted]

Hmm, well the wife has a "cheapo" personal plate JMR ( her initials) which cost me £149 including the transfer fee, but even I baulked at our friends who spent over a grand on FRY ( their surname).Money to burn.

[pogweasel]

Bollocks. This programme is on at the same time as 'Constipation Street', hopefully it will be on the amusingly-named 4OD thing.

[Pete-M]

Chap I know had an old XJ-S with an ageless, non-Mick, reg with his initials on it. When it reached the end of its useful life he scrapped it with the understanding that he kept the reg plate. Easy enough to do as it still had a little bit of tax'n'test but it was never going to pass another MOT. Scrapyard owner was happy enough to do the deal and the Jag went to the big scrapyard in the sky.Week later, the scrapyard owners car had the Jags ageless plate on.Chap who owned the Jag was utterly, completely livid and went to see the Scrapyard bloke who produced a V5 and basically said "Tough shit".However, Jagbloke wasn't to be fobbed off quite so easily. He had a retention certificate for the Jags reg plate. He rang DVLA and explained what had happened, basically he'd put the plate on retention and scrapped the car, and the scrapyard owner had used the reg document to transfer the same plate onto his car in the meantime. Basically the scrappy owner had been a devious bastard and the DVLA had dropped a bollock.DVLA said "You can't have that plate now as its on another car". Jag bloke rang them twice a day for over a year wanting his plate back. DVLA kept apologising, but the Scrappy man wouldn't relent and there was nothing much the DVLA could do about it. Jag bloke also wouldn't relent.Eventually Jag bloke bought himself a brand new car (he's not skint this chap) and wanted his ageless plate on it. DVLA couldn't give him the plate he wanted, so they eventually gave him an insanely valuable plate instead - it's two numbers and one letter (his initial) - he also managed to blag one for his wife, that one is her initials and three numbers.

[andrew e]

[Vanity]Its my wifes![/vanity]

 

[andrew e]

http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2009 ... -b3ll3nds/

 

[500tops]

[Vanity]Its my wifes![/vanity]

 

what's her name?

[pogweasel]

NIOOLAH, obv

[500tops]

[AXrescuer]

I just cannot understand how vain someone must be to want a personalised number plate.

[trigger]

I'm not keen on private plates myself, All i can ever think of is how another car has lost it's original identity so you can just show your initials or name on your car's number plate.I always think it's sad when you see a old car for sale with a reissued number plate.(No offence intended anyone )

[nigel bickle]

Hhhmmm.I'm definitely a Nigel; and own numerous personal plates...Its OK -I can takeit. Big willy y'see.

[Andrew353w]

I have a REALLY unusual number plate-so unusual, in fact, that it's unique.......(Aren't they all??)I reckon it'll soon be easier to change one's name by Deed Poll to one's car number; I could become Mr. R182NBU.... Mmmmm!

[Guest]

It was going on about all the Nigels who covet the plate 'N1GEL', and there was some geezer who's had to suffer the ignominy of buying the plate 'N2GEL', thus paying megabucks to show the world his status as the silver-medal winning Nigel.

CRA2G came up on Ebay a few years back at £800, didnt sell. I did ponder whether that might have been a reasonable investment, but ultimately theres always something better to spend your money on isnt there?

 

[retrogeezer]

I wouldn't go looking but would quite happily have something like D 51 MON so it looked like Simon and my other half could have anything ending 1 NGA as her name is Inga.I wouldn't pay money for it though...

[MrRegieRitmo]

I'm not keen on private plates myself, All i can ever think of is how another car has lost it's original identity so you can just show your initials or name on your car's number plate.I always think it's sad when you see a old car for sale with a reissued number plate.(No offence intended anyone )

Why can't cars get their original plates back come the time when the personal plates are removed?

I always think it's sad when you see a old car for sale with a reissued number plate.

How can you tell it has a reissued plate though?

[trigger]

Why can't cars get their original plates back come the time when the personal plates are removed?

I mean old cars that lose there original plates so a modern car can have the plate.Me and my old man pulled a 1962 Humber from at barn at his work, the reg was XGV1 but it had already been removed in the past and is now on a BMW 316.

I always think it's sad when you see a old car for sale with a reissued number plate.

How can you tell it has a reissued plate though?

You can't but when they come to sell it part of the cars originality is gone and the owner has to declare that's it a non transferable number.

[FredTransit]

I'm not keen on private plates myself, All i can ever think of is how another car has lost it's original identity so you can just show your initials or name on your car's number plate.I always think it's sad when you see a old car for sale with a reissued number plate.(No offence intended anyone )

Why can't cars get their original plates back come the time when the personal plates are removed?

I always think it's sad when you see a old car for sale with a reissued number plate.

How can you tell it has a reissued plate though?

My Daimler got it's original plate back, and now it's none transferable. I know it's the original cos it's on the Daimler service record! The private plate no is etched on the glass.

[autohausdolby]

On a 316 - brilliant! I bet it's got M sport badges as well

[FredTransit]

It's on Channel4 NOW!

[pogweasel]

Must say I am half-way tempted to buy a couple of 'vanity' plates of late, DVLA are selling off some single-number prefix-style 'POG' plates, not too expensive, plus I could get consecutive numbered ones...

[Mash]

How can you tell it has a reissued plate though?

It's actually quite easy. The age related plates that pre-1963 cars receive are from series that didn't reach the end, usually small districts. Therefore a lot of them tend to be Scottish plates eg DSV 123, YSU 123 that kind of thing. *FF is also a series used.Problem is now they've run out of ABC 123 plates so if you re-register a car older than around the late 50s you get a wrong way round plate eg 123 XUD.Plate swapping on old cars is something that really gets my goat because of the history attached, hence the problem with my grandad's Daimler - I can't afford to buy it complete with original number.Having said that, somewhat hypocritically I have just sold the plate off my 1985 Accord, reasoning that it was a recent-ish car with probably very little sentimental attachment and nearing the end of it's useful life (that is to say not a car anyone might invest time and effort in to making as new again). The relatively small amount of cash goes back into the fleet but it's something I would never do with a much older car or if this one was in pristine condition say, and had a chance of lasting a good number of years more as a cherished vehicle rather than a hack.

[Pillock]

Reminder - it's on Channel4+1 in a couple of minutes. Called UR 50 V4IN or summat. Just gonna grab my dinner and sit down for a chuckle.

[Pillock]

Plate swapping on old cars is something that really gets my goat because of the history attached, hence the problem with my grandad's Daimler - I can't afford to buy it complete with original number.

Indeed, I love tracing the history of cars and finding old photos of motors that I own. That would be impossible with plate-swapping.(averts eyes, looks shifty)I was once tempted to, ahem, accidentally swap the chassis number of my old Beetle with a tax-exempt one. I was that annoyed that it had a build date of 4th Jan 1973, 72 frickin' hours out of exemption. My mate had a rusted-to-fook one which would be the donor, 6 months older than mine. It was then I realised that it would make the huge wad of service records, MoTs, receipts and photos that came with the car worthless - unless I was going to explain to people why the plates didn't match!In the end, the history folder was worth more to me than £180 a year or whatever it was back then. It even had receipts for single tyres, batteries, bulbs and stuff all with the lady owner's name and the car registration.

[Richard]

Just watched it on Sky+. What an odd programme.

[Twiggy]

Here it is:

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/firs ... od#2926799

 

Rather sad really...

[vicsmith]

The only thing I don`t get about personalised plates is how anyone at all can be arsed with them, there`s a whole load of fucking about to do and it surprises me just how many normal unassuming people actually go through with it all.I used to go to the DVLA local office in leeds on average once a month to get a car taken off disabled tax, there was always a massive queue of fed-up looking traders already there doing the same thing as me, sometimes you`d be queing down the steps and there for hours, and you`d invariably see some chic-looking 35 year old bottle blonde piece pressing the cherished number enquiries button, and she just didn`t need to be there, she could have been out getting on with her life instead of spending half a day standing shoulder to shoulder with a load of grimy car dealers and scrotes with long-winded queries centered around them not taxing their car.There`s a lot of things I`m not interested in that I can see the attraction of, but this is not one of them, I cannot understand how having sort of half your name spelt wrongly on your car can improve your lot one bit.