Private Plate Quandary

[outlaw118]

Afternoon!

 

I've just purchased a 2005 Volvo XC90 on a 54 plate (as I've just discovered)....

When I viewed it, it had matey's private plate on it, which obviously won't be coming with it.

 

He told me the original plate was ET05 summert, so i was toying with MO05ERL or MO05EBL - both available on DVLA site (Moose+my initials, Robert or Bob).

 

I can't have the Moose-plate now, and X90REL is a bit of a cop-out and X90VLV is a bit shit too.

 

Are private plates just for idiots?

 

Can anyone think of one suitable that won't cost fortunes....like BOB 1 for instance....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Private plates are more shite when the numerals are distorted or tilted to look like letters.

[Tamworthbay]

Don't see the point personally but do find it funny that a few people where I work think I have a private plate just because my cars are so old and it’s not like they are the old three letters, three numbers type.

[Guest Hooli]

Never seen the point myself.

[Kringle]

 

I don't think I have a plaster for that.

 

 

On a serious note, could that be classed as mis selling?

[Mally]

Private plates must be for idiots, I've made a 16 reg into an 11 reg.

Helps when you need to input your reg number though.

[Cavcraft]

JE11 EEL?

[purplebargeken]

I'm sorry. I gave into the private plate thing.

 

I have K*** JPR

 

^^ All 4 initials of my name.

 

I am sad twat, sorry.

[purplebargeken]

HGF would be a laugh* on a kettle engine vehicle.

[lesapandre]

Private plates are more shite when the numerals are distorted or tilted to look like letters.

Also illegal. It's what I call avoidable hassle - why attract attention. Its a MoT fail too possibly.

[lesapandre]

Years ago I missed buying  PUF69...lol...it was on a Standard 8 in those days.

[Noel Tidybeard]

bloke i used to work with let the fire brigade have his old hillman for "practice" the reg?  GON 4D i kid you not!

[Rusty_Rocket]

I reckon the rule with private/ vanity plates is to not try too hard.

 

A 3 digit/three number plate on something like an ancient Volvo 240 looks very 'old money'. This is good.

A miss-spaced modern plate on a modern Mercedes ML/ any Audi/ any BMW etc etc is really tacky and speaks volumes about the driver, IMO.

Non-standard fonts or italic letters should be punishable by death, obvs.

[skoda_fan]

PUF 69 is now on a TVR according to DVLA. There is a Standard Eight with the reg PUF 666 in the book "Ten careful owners". I have since seen it at a show with an age-related plate.

 

I confess I have bought private plates in the past, and one of my Skuds still has one. I sometimes wish I hadn't though, as I have robbed those cars of their identity. Overall it's a bit naff, even though I'm guilty as charged.

 

The ones that wind me up are when the gaps between digits are messed up, supposedly to spell a word in the owner's head but is totally meaningless to everyone else.

[Tamworthbay]

I remember seeing OHP150F on telly as one that ‘slipped through’, it was recalled in case the Mary Whitehouse type areshole was offended because it could be seen to read OH Piss off. One of my sisters had a boyfriend whose mk2 escort had YOB on the plate, not far wrong either.

[chaseracer]

JE11 EEL?

 

P13 MSH?

[outlaw118]

P13MSH not on DVLA site 

[panhard65]

HGF would be a laugh* on a kettle engine vehicle.

I have got K666HGF and A666HGF the k was a on my old hearse now on the 806 and the A was on the Porsche and I haven't decided what to put it on yet. My business is hgf motors and no I don't specialise in k series head gaskets

[FakeConcern]

The plate on my C4 VTS is LEZ 6446, I thought of changing my name to match it, but the surname is too hard to pronounce.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

W4NKR

[Jazoli]

I've had a few but they've always come on cars I've bought until last week when I bought one for the wife, left a few on cars when I've a sold them also as they weren't worth putting on retention.

 

I think they are ok if they are not misplaced with stupid fonts.

[skattrd]

I've looked at private plates, but never done it as they usually look crap or pub landlorsesque.

 

I did come close to buying a plate for the Umm a few years ago as plates with UMM on were cheap

[155V6]

I've got A666 TGF on the Volvo,my initials are TG,& I did have it on a Fiat.

The MG Express has L666 MGE,total cost of those two was less than £250

The Puma came with T20 BOO,Miss_155 likes the number so it's staying 

[fordperv]

D701SWL

 

nowt wrong with personal plates in my opinion

[DodgeRover]

BO08IES obviously I can't judge if you are a lady with a large chest or a person who might appreciate a nice pair.

[dozeydustman]

I have a private plate G17 REA, first initial and surname. Bought for my by my dad for my 30th birthday. He has a private plate, mum has one, so does my brother. I never have hankered after one, especially as you can't make Glen with numbers.

 

From a distance mine does say GIT, which sums me up.

[outlaw118]

I'm a 48 year old fat bloke.

 

I have tits. 

[dozeydustman]

I'm a 48 year old fat bloke.

 

I have tits. 

 

 

Mine are bigger than the wife's on a good day

[outlaw118]

No results found for BOO813S.

 

Story of my life.

 

 

 

Mine are bigger than the wife's on a good day

Fortunately Mrs_Outlaw has a pair like the Mitchell brothers' heads.

[Asimo]

I'd quite like OX08OXO because it wouldn't matter** if I fitted it upside down and it would read correctly** in your mirror.

 

** If I forgot to get the plate made with the correct spacing.

 

There are a few other possible reg numbers that share this symetry, all "08" year with H, X, O combinations.

They only "work" because the O and the zero are identical in number plate font.