Private Plate Quandary

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I called a little building company I had once the last three letters on the old van I had. Further savings.

 

Surprisingly, I've seen the plate I want for sayle. £3500. Bums. To me a decent motah related plate is the cherry on the cake.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Ooh, and while we're at it... How can I legitimately* get a plate off a car that was destroyed but wasn't recorded years ago?

[Guest Hooli]

If it's over 40 years old you might* be able to register it as MOT exempt & then plate rape it. I don't think you can do younger as I'm pretty sure they need an MOT to take the plate off.

[Kiltox]

I called a little building company I had once the last three letters on the old van I had. Further savings.

 

Surprisingly, I've seen the plate I want for sayle. £3500. Bums. To me a decent motah related plate is the cherry on the cake.

Also did this... although I later bought a couple of plates with it on too

[Isaac Hunt]

Guilty, I have several but none are distorted to read something they are not. Just numbers and initials and a couple of Irish plates for the kids.

 

A couple of my pre 63 regs had already been robbed off the original car and thus I had to pay a bit more for them. One came off a Vauxhall Astra having been already robbed off a pre 63 motor.

 

You gotta buy it for yourself, not for the other road users. On my daily I have my Dad's plate which is a bit special. People who know me try and work out the three letter combo and get confused so often ask the significance. My Dad initials soon answers their dilemma.

 

As for the guy or girl following me, I don't care if they know the significance or not, it is a cherished registration number and I like it.

 

I tend to notice plates when out on the road and there are some nice ones out there and also some contrived ones that can look shite.

[DodgeRover]

Ooh, and while we're at it... How can I legitimately* get a plate off a car that was destroyed but wasn't recorded years ago?

Have you got a current logbook?

[SiC]

Got a 250quid plate that is my wife's initials on "her" car. Being a 8 year old Audi A4, they never really have changed a lot in their appearance - to most non-car people at least. This is good for two reasons. Car looks a lot newer than it is, so it keeps my wife happy that she doesn't always have to drive old fashioned cars. Also being her initials, it's become her car. That's a good thing as she kept complaining that I keep buying cars but she hasn't got one of her own anymore after I sold her MX5 (it paid stamp duty to buy house). This is all though that it was me who actually paid for the A4...

[xtriple]

I love 'em!

 

Had loads over the years, some highlights: FLY 1T on a black MK2 Capri 3 litre. CAH 9 on a bloody XJ-S V12, SAF 1 (sold to the wife of one of the Flood brothers - came off a Rover 3.5 litre P5B) VEN11S which got put on a Lambo Espada.... Made more money on those plates than I did buying and selling bloody cars and they never go wrong and warranty claims are nil!   

 

Also had a load of more mundane ones and let every one go with the car! I must be mad... oh wait... !

[cms206]

I've kept E33 XGD on a retainer because it was a locally issued double digit plate. My 850TDi was sold brand new in 1996 as E101 UNS which it still carries - apparantly it came off the original owner's 740GL. I've got E29 XGA on the 740 Turbo I'm about to strip, might keep that too.

 

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[cms206]

As for plates I'd like... I always fancied an -XS plate, the pre-1974 reorganisation identifier for Paisley. It wasn't reused bar a small number of diplomatic plates around 1986.

 

Also if it ever comes up, the plate off my first steady shift coach; it carried TSV 677 when it left the fleet but ended up as M254 FYS, keep checking plates for sale but it's never come up yet.

 

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[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Have you got a current logbook?

 

Not on me, but could successfully apply for it I reckon.

[New POD]

For 700 quid DVLA will do you RL05BOB.

[New POD]

Wife has J111Y JA on the mx5

 

I wanted to buy J1LLY but that went for 36k in the very first DVLA auction.

 

I ALSO sees that dvla have M111CBA FOR 250 QUID

 

And M111YFJ 4 the same.

 

My initials are MFJ

 

Would J111YJA parked next to M111YFJ LOOK very Strange?

[MorrisItalSLX]

I like private plates when they are subtle and discrete.

 

I have VTP173 on the Jag, it was the original plate off the Hyundai which my Gran always liked the sound of.

I also have RGK213 on retention as it is my initials and birthday. All I need is a second car to put it on!

 

Are either of these plates available in the UK?

[iainrcz]

My numberplate spells London taxi International incredible, eat many flans.

 

Ideal for fans of black cabs and pastries.

 

 

Need gone £599.

 

 

 

Guy at work has KP02 JAG.

His initials and on a Jag. Flash southern twat.

 

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[Twiggy]

ATW 1G

 

Issued in Hull in 1968, on an 1800. Later scrapped, and no longer available.  I had the front plate made up just for giggles and sometimes

 

bluetack it to the front while it`s on the drive.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

ATW 1G

 

Issued in Hull in 1968, on an 1800. Later scrapped, and no longer available. I had the front plate made up just for giggles and sometimes

 

bluetack it to the front while it`s on the drive.

Is TW11 GGY still available?

[Angrydicky]

ATW 1G

 

Issued in Hull in 1968, on an 1800. Later scrapped, and no longer available.  I had the front plate made up just for giggles and sometimes

 

bluetack it to the front while it`s on the drive.

Issued in Essex, not Hull

[Mr A Lawrence]

We had H6 BKR and H16 BKR when we were Honda 600 bikers.

 

Missus had M80 KKA on her vauxhall mokka,  cost us £250, sold for £500. 

 

We have M21 SUV waiting to go on our mercedes gla 200d suv  that's on order, cost £250.

[oldcars]

Not for me, but if i had one with would need to be BE11 END 

[uk_senator]

I`ve never understood the initials on otherwise standard format plates, it means nothing to anyone except you, so your basically spunking money for nothing. The only reason I can think of is if you have a bad short term memory & struggle to remember your plate at airport car parking machines...

I like plates that relate to the car its on, so I`ve got an Uno plate on one of my Uno`s, & will probably get another when I`m feeling flush. I`d like F147UNO, but it seems to have never been registered by the doovla. I`ve got a non age related plate on my Boxster (which hasn't been on the road since 2012), but I`ve had that plate for 20+ years.

Here's a good`n on some prime shite, you can't get much more descriptive:
 

[Guest Hooli]

That reminds me, I had a XR4i with 'A464JEM' I really should have sold the plate to a ovlov licker.

[nigel bickle]

I’ve SAA 9T sitting on a Nissan, waiting to go back on a Saab...

[Guest Hooli]

I’ve SAA 9T sitting on a Nissan, waiting to go back on a Saab...

 

Buy my Saab & give the plate a better home.

[nigel bickle]

That’s the intention!

[Matty]

Not on me, but could successfully apply for it I reckon.

I think the car your taking it off needs to be MOTed as well. Not just having logbook. They issue a replacement number for that vehicle at the same time

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Yeah... That's the stumbling block... I know where bits of remains of it might be!

[Guest Hooli]

Hence I asked how old it is. You might be able to do it on a car over 40 years old by getting it reregistered as MOT exempt first.

[nigel bickle]

No, to take the plate off, they still require a current MOT - I guess to stop ringing..

[Guest Hooli]

Surely they can't require an MOT if the car is old enough to not need an MOT? That'd make as much sense as requiring an MOT on a brand new car to change the plate.