Subscribe now and choose from over 30 free gifts worth up to £49 - Plus get £25 to spend in our shop
Imagine the following;
Car owner has the registration S55 ABZ, but the plates on the car display SSS ABZ. The plates are changed back to the originals for each MOT. The 5's are not made to look like S's, they are changed. (I've used a Z to make sure its not actually a real numberplate.
Opinions please?
I think they should be fined and have the number taken off them and made to pay for a new one as well.
Oh, and put in the stocks and ridiculed for being so vain
Book em danno
against the law
will get done first time it passes a npr
both vvanky and dumb at the same time
car near me has reg A5 CUN, someone has added a T on the end with black marker pen. 😀
[img] 
[/img]
And the person also decided to post the two versions of their numberplate on a public forum!
Very sad indeed.
NEARLY as sad as the Aston Martin near me that has a plate that reads 0007 BONd
where it looks like it should be a D at the start, the 7 is the 'Bond gun 7' and the d at the end is a 'looky likey German 'D' national plate bit.
Really really sad.
An ex female customer of mine has the number A11 FUD
I was stunned when I saw her car
BTW She was a real bruiser
who gives a sh_t really if that's your biggest worry your a lucky man
We had this conversation at work earlier this week as one of the girl's in the office got pulled over again for her plate and warned to get it back to normal, it's her second warning in the last 6 months or so.
I was stunned when I saw her car- what a kia sportage.
at least A5 CUN is on a merc clk
[url= http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2105/2229896095_a00cdfe2ae.jp g" target="_blank">
I found that one quite amusing.
[i]who gives a sh_t really if that's your biggest worry your a lucky man [/i]
I don't worry about much 🙂
I'm just astounded that someone would actually run false plates purely for aesthetics, rather than criminal purposes such as nicking fuel or worse.
Apparently they've been doing it for a while, and 'not been caught yet'.
[b]YOU ARE NOT THE POLICE, BORE OFF[/b]
It all seems like a lot of hassle over a reg plate what with having to change them - but then I don't really see the point of private number plates (apart from playing "spot the ****" when driving)
Occasional I see a private plate and it makes me smile, current favourite is the 110 Landy owned by a local farmer with the plate GUM 800T, I chuckle everytime I see it, as for doctoring them, as posted above let the law sort it, if people feel the need to do such a thing then maybe they are the ones with bigger issues to resolve,
[Carly Simon]Your so vain[/Carly Simon]
Got a doctored plate by any chance Dan?
Denounce your neighbours I say
There must be a committee somewhere where you can go & report them to - if not we'll form one
Any citizens reported to the committee will be quickly tried & dealt with, merits will be earned by those who denounce the most
Most private plates are pretty lame, but the lengths some people go to trying to make words are comical. Pity the fools.
Sometimes doctoring is worth it
[img] 
[/img]
NEARLY as sad as the Aston Martin near me that has a plate that reads 0007 BONd
I think I saw this or one like it in Edinburgh
private plates are a good idea, they make it easy to identify ****ers.
There used to be an old white MG with: [i]PEN 1S[/i]
private plates are a good idea, they make it easy to identify ****ers.
True!
There used to be an old white MG with: PEN 1S
This number plate exists AFAIK. I remember reading an article in a newspaper years ago where they were talking about how, before compewters took over, someone had to constantly be on the lookout for number plates that spelled rude words - this one famously made it through.
Personalised plates are only forgiveable in cases such as the van above. If used for humour, then fair enough, but to spell out some ridiculous contraction of your name....?
Saw LUKEE in sheffield, on a battered VW Golf. L11KCE with careful spacing and square bolt caps in black. Think the plate cost as much as the car
There's a lady drives round St Albans with SKY 80X
There's one near me that is doctored to read 'BIG PECS'. I cringe every time I see it.
My neighour's reg starts with KN03. One night I'm going to creep over and change the 3 to a B because he is one.
I know a guy who has personal plate who only got it so no-one knew his car was a few years old. Then he got a brand new car and left the personally plate off for a couple of weeks so that everybody knew he had bought a brand new motor. What a D1CK.
Liked the metro rod one though.
I like my private reg so much, I bought my wife a matching one.
Not doctored though.
how have you two matching plates?
when the plate hasn't been doctored and isn't contrived (trying to eek out letters from numbers) then it can be ok. the pimlico plumbers vans in london are a good example.
my cousin has HAN 198(year of birth). her name is Hannah and she was born in 198x. fair enough but it just looks like you're trying too hard and it's a shit car.
in fact, they're all just cars. pieces of metal designed to transport you from A - B. if you're that attached to it you need help.
I like them, providing they're not so forced you can't tell what it should read. If people want to spend hard earned on it then why not
how have you two matching plates?
One letter different mine has the prefix M and my wife has D, our first initial.
in fact, they're all just cars. pieces of metal designed to transport you from A - B. if you're that attached to it you need help.
Just like bicycles.
[i]Then he got a brand new car and left the personally plate off for a couple of weeks so that everybody knew he had bought a brand new motor.[/i]
It takes a few weeks to change the registration over.
There's a woman in the village called Liz Dow. She has L12 DOW. I don't usually like them, but the simplicity and exact match of that one makes it OK.
Oh and PEN 1S used to be on a Capri in Greater Manchester.
KINGTUT - Memberin fact, they're all just cars. pieces of metal designed to transport you from A - B. if you're that attached to it you need help.
Just like bicycles.
kinda hoping no-one would pick up on that..... 😆
although bikes make me smile. cars get me to places where i can ride my bike inorder to make me smile. much like trains.
Borther of a friend of ours has a very nice sports car (can't remember what) and has the numberplate W33 N0B, which I like.
I think PEN 15 used to belong to Steve Parrish but I might be wrong...
Couple from stafford used to own 8OOB and BOO8, they actually fought over ownership when they got divorced, must have been a right pair of tits.......................sorry I'll get my coat
A guy at my work spent hundreds of pounds for a plate with his initials... But you would never know it's a personalised plate at all, it just looks like a regular one. Very odd.
Perhaps I'll change my name so my initials are OSN. Save a fortune that way.
A mate has A1PHA, which looks ok, his company is called Alpha.
Yes saw Steve Parrish in the mid 90s with that plate.
Only decent one I've seen is a guy called Anthony Frisby with AFR158Y on his old Seirra.
G5 POT is on a rather nice DB9 over the way from me. Almost cool. But not.
But not.
Indeed.
I think PEN 15 used to belong to Steve Parrish but I might be wrong...
It does (or did). It was on his Merc at Donington a few years back.
H15LOS on an expensive merc (with a MILF driving) made me laugh.
What i like is folk who are daft enough to pay the DVLA for an plate taken off a scrapped 1978 ford cortina and place it on a nice shiny new car just coz its ends in my initials like BAZ or DAV etc....
Or the better one is penny milloinaires who spend every penny on there new Merc and then buy a chepo Northern island plate (no money left)as they cannot bear for the neighbours to know there car is over 6 months old and not on the latest Reg number.
🙄
Used to be an XJS round here - presumably owned by a dentist - which had the plate "CAV17Y"
And an - apparently - well known producer of movies for the discerning gentleman drives round Nottingham in an Audi Q7 with the plate "B16 OMAR".
(I only know who he is as I mentioned the plate in the office prompting a colleague to say he had dated one of the this blokes ex girlfrinds, but the relationship never became physical as - and I quote - "I'm only 5'6 and everything is in propertion. If she'd been with him I'd never touch the sides." 😳 )
My number plate is P155 OFF
Kidding - that one was not issued. Mine is just the original one.
I changed my name to B357 AFG - much simpler.
Wouldn't bother with one, I could always think of a better use for the money. Round this part of Herts the original DVLA issue numbers stand out more than the vanity plates anyway.
Though there is a N London tree work firm that has number plates that spell OAK, ASH etc. If you don't mind a three digit number the plates cost in the low hundreds, which isn't a lot on top of the cost of a new truck, paint job and signwriting, plus it makes them that bit more noticeable. I can see the point of that.
[i]A mate has A1PHA, which looks ok, his company is called Alpha. [/i]
Alpha has an 'L' in it.
One of the owners of the unit I work in has a range rover with the number plate 'spliff'. I think 'emotionally retarded cock weasel' would be more fitting.
99% of the time i agree that its a total waste of money, and that it makes it easy to identify tossers with too much cash.
then i realised that SM11DGE would be on sale in a year or so, and with carefull placing of a black screw cover..........
still, if it turned into a bidding war at an auction, i would be the poorest smudger there 🙂
There's a knackered old Beemer 3 series round these parts, must be 25 years old, green and rust coloured, complete shed...The plate is A3
It's a family heirloom apparently.
W33nob is on a tvr tuscan
pen15 is on a merc m class
cav17y is now on an X type jag
A3 is on an A3
Tyre-shopper.co.uk has a reg check feature which can be useful, although there tyre prices arn't the best
CaptainFlashheart -
G5 POT is on a rather nice DB9
[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8439000.stm ]Surely that doesn't exist?[/url]
Private regs are down to choice. What's more of a concern is when a standard reg number is altered to allow the owner to perpetrate crime.
Saw one on the M60 last year, new ford mondeo, reg number just looked odd, both came off & stopped at the same junction, had a black bolt head through the second letter that made it look like it had a M---XXX type registration. Simple thing to do if you want to avoid speeding fines maybe, but more sinister if the owner is into drug crime etc.
Not only should the people be fined for doctoring the plate, the company that did it should also be fined as there are rules now to getting new plates done, you have to produce your V5 along with 2 forms of ID, this all has to be logged if the DVLA do a check on the provider, PLUS even if you have a "P" plate its NOT your property, its DVLA property, you are just the gardian of it.(PS I have a "P" plate and it cost £143)before anyone has a go at me who knows me.
W33nob is on a tvr tuscan
Yeah that's him. You'll see him round Edinburgh and Falkirk.
there are a couple of nob plates round here too
BMW 850 with the plate M1ERS belonging to somebody called Miers or Myers - local jeweller
Another BMW - L5 UTD - Leeds United fan - LS is the postal code for Leeds
various cars reg S1NLY or variations on a theme - not the safest or sanest driver I've ever seen
but the nobbiest plates have to belong to Wendy fans - S10WLS and so on
Good one is on a bookie in Belfast.
SPW 1N, spaced out as SP W1N.
I know an Alan Joshua who has the plate AJ05HUA. I think thats pretty good...
Iirc,when Eric Cantona played for Leeds,he had a car with the reg A70 OAH.
Which was 'illegally' spaced to: A7 0O AH.
did A Joshua forget what his name was? can't see the **** point? i have a car and my name is brian etc? i'm a fat bloke called ted, so B16 TED - who gives a shit...? my name is jim bobster, so J10 BUB etc, bizarre retards if you ask me
Personally I don't see much wrong with a decent private reg, some make me smile. There's a chap comes into the quarry with a trailer on the back of his Transit to pick stuff up. He's a pig farmer/breeder, rare breeds and stuff, makes cracking sausages I'm told. His reg? PI9 LUV.
When I worked in Essex, I lived in Southend for a while and there was a woman in her early 30s (ish) who was, err, well, VERY busty shall we say with the reg BRA 34G. Used to see that her quite often. 🙂
Wadworths brewery have a rep with the plate: TRY 6X which is pretty good.
[i]His reg? PI9 LUV[/i]
PIP LUV?
Surely it should be a 6.
Private plates are brilliant. You get to see who is worried that they cant afford a new car 😆
interestingly.........................
If you buy (it helps it it's un-restored obviously) a clasic bike/car with an old plate on it. The plates are often worth more than the car's! People wanting to avoid 'Q' plates on kit cars (especialy if they'r replica classics) and unregistered restorations.
I suppose it's now I own up to owning a 1996 Porsche 993 targa with the plate "91l"
sorry
it came with the car and is worth a lot of cash !
His reg? PI9 LUVPIP LUV?
Surely it should be a 6.
How does 9 = P ??
9 = g !! See the similarity? 😀
I wonder how many people are caught frequently but of course you never hear about them.
Abit like people speeding through average camera roadworks and you thinking 'do they know something that we dont'?...
I snapped this on Edgware road.
Im guessing he may be alluding to his career? 😉
Admittedly not a doctored cheapskate one...
[img] 
[/img]
stoner, proof positive that you can be dyslexic and rich 😆
Saw a bright red Ferrari once with the place EG0 2 BIG
It is the only personalised plate that I have ever thought was decent - probably because it was self mocking and clearly not meant to be taken too seriously.
Much like courier bags and fixies, plenty of idiots have them but also plenty of normal and perfectly nice people have them too, just for their own amusement. Doctoring to look like a totally different letter is definitely a bit off though.
I think quite a lot of personalised plates are just there because they like to make their car their own - much like any other form of personalisation - people making custom decals for their frame? People choosing certain componentry in certain colours they like? Could claim any of these things are equally ****erish.
I'd quite like my initials on my plate, not because I want everyoen to know they're my initials, or because I'd like people to know I had a personalised plate, just because it would make me smile. What's so wrong with that?
thisisnotaspoon - Memberinterestingly.........................
If you buy (it helps it it's un-restored obviously) a clasic bike/car with an old plate on it. The plates are often worth more than the car's! People wanting to avoid 'Q' plates on kit cars (especialy if they'r replica classics) and unregistered restorations.
I sold the number of my bike - RRJ 749 for enough cash to go to south America for months.