[Closed] I want a private reg (poor scorn upon me)...

I want one too - and it's currently not allocated.

Not sure I want to pay £1,500 for it though 😈

£250 here but still got other things higher on the list!

I understand this may upset some folk but I just fancy getting a reg unique to me that I can then keep every time I change my vehicle.

You can do that with every reg plate. You know they're all unique, right? Thats sort of the point.

Have you not thought of just changing your name to by deed poll to KT66 YLT?

votchy

I understand this may upset some folk

Make, model or technical detail about the car - probably acceptable. Your initials - borderline. Your name or profession - dodgy territory. Your name spelled incorrectly - hanging offence.

Have you not thought of just changing your name to by deed poll to KT66 YLT?

That's what I did.

Sincerely

BE11 END

lol at jimjam and binners

You're more likely to be scorned for "poor" not "pour"

[i]I understand this may upset some folk[/i]

Yes, it does upset me. Especially if it's one of those ones that [i]almost[/i] spells a word, but not quite. Like
STOO 91D
P17 7OCK

that sort of thing makes me break down and sob uncontrollably.

Extra helping of scorn to be poured for "poor".

Tom - I did the same

W4N K3R 😀

Do you have a stable of whores?

https://www.regplates.com/number-plates/number-plate-P11MPU-exact

STW 1

I saw it on a rolls Royce corniche a few weeks ago

Ooo swear avoidance ometer could hit an all time high on tbis thread.

This is the only acceptable private reg plate...
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There are loads on the [s]febrile industrial estate[/s] business park where I work that begin with MR

So we have MR51 HAD (Mr. Sihad?)
MR51 SMH (i'm guessing Mr. Simon Smith)
MR10 YDD Mr Loydd? 😆

to name a few

P 15 SED?

The reg I want

which is...

For Father Ted fans there's a land rover I've seen a few times in Ireland with UK number plate R5 FEK

There are loads on the febrile industrial estate business park where I work that begin with MR

So we have MR51 HAD (Mr. Sihad?)
MR51 SMH (i'm guessing Mr. Simon Smith)
MR10 YDD Mr Loydd?

to name a few

Or, there's a load of fleet cars bought at a similar time and registered at the Manchester DVLA office

I want a private reg (poor scorn upon me)...

Learn how to spell Pour?

I live in Essex

I live in sunny Brentwood, in Essex

I'd never have a private plate

Ro5ey

🙂

20 odd posts and nobody has mentioned 'poor' instead of pore.

Standards are slipping I say

20 odd posts and nobody has mentioned 'poor' instead of pore.

Standards are slipping I say

Oh the ironing... 😆

And I did..

I am happy to report that MX5 2 GAY is still available for £250. If only I was more confident in my sexuality...

I drove past a chap in an old SUV the other week driving to Dover. He had a private plate, but one which was unrecognisable as a private plate with normal plate font & spacing.

To get round this inconvenience he had a non road legal version made up with contorted letters & spacing and stuck to his roof box in an attempt to realise it was a private plate.

Just struck me a a terribly desperate thing to do. If you get one, get a obvious private plate like "D4ve" or "B4zza"

One of the directors of a company I used to work for had BMW 323 i on a BMW 323i.

An owner of one of the Lakes quarries had a plate "FEC 1 T", his name being Fecit (with a soft 'c').

I want PI55 OFF

But the boss of a local business called CNG does have BO55 CNG on his flash Range Rover.

As did many others before you teatwosugars 😉

But the boss of a local business called CNG does have BO55 CNG on his flash Range Rover.

I'd read that as BE11 END

One of the few I has respcetr for was for the boss (I assume) of Caley Brewery -
ALE 80 S

Used to park in our street every couple of weeks or so..

If you do get a private plate, make sure you buy a Range Rover to go with it.

I think this is a really good combination and I'm surprised I don't see it more often

UN1QUE
CL4SSY

I think this is a really good combination and I'm surprised I don't see it more often

Got to be better than on a clio or similar as i often see.

Got to be better than on a clio or similar as i often see.

CL10 LOL

One of the directors of a company I used to work for had BMW 323 i on a BMW 323i.

I'll be that person... no he didn't, that's not an allowable number plate. He could have had BMW 323, or BMW 323L, but not BMW 323I

Local potato farmer has T8TOES on his truck which (sadly) makes me chuckle when I see it.

Best plate I've seen by a country mile was on a black McLaren F1 - "DAR7H"

Most however are SH 1T3.

The reg I want

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Or, there's a load of fleet cars bought at a similar time and registered at the Manchester DVLA office

where's the like button!

I must admit to coveting D1CKY

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In answer to OP contact dvla, pay small fee, make up valid reason to need to contact owner & you used to be able to obtain owners address

votchy - Member

I want to put a private reg on my car. The reg I want currently exists on another vehicle but I know nothing about it or the owner. How can I track down the owner and make an enquiry in to the purchase?
I understand this may upset some folk but I just fancy getting a reg unique to me that I can then keep every time I change my vehicle.

I had one once, it came with the car - the seller proudly told me "valued at £2k" no idea why, it didn't read anything - it sort of looked like the reg of the Ferrari in Ferris Buelers Day Off, but not really, it was just some dudes initials I think.

I did what any rightminded soul would do as soon as I owned it, tried to sell it, because I don't need a £2k bit of plastic, but I'd quite like a new MTB frame - this is where I discovered the difference between 'worth' and 'value' - it might have been 'worth' £2k, but only to someone with the exact initials on the plate and some sort of connection to the other 3 numbers, but it's 'value' was actually negligible.
There's hundreds of thousands of plates on retention, their owners hoping one day the right Mr. HJD 653 comes along and HAS to have it and will pay real money for it, and it HAS to be that exact plate they're after, because if they're just Mr. HJD there's 999 other plates they can choose from and one will be £150 or so.

So, I registered with a agency that sell these sorts of things for £50 or whatever, if, they ever manage to sell it and in 5 years I got a single e-mail, reminding me that they were still listing it.

Ultimately, when it was time to sell the car, I told the buyer “The plate’s worth two grand mate” and he sort of nodded.

Anyway TL:DR

If you want a special plate, either be flexible about what you want and pay a little or try to buy the EXACT plate you want and expect the owner to want stupid money for it, because since there was a bit of a boom in 'Private Reg Plates' in the 80s and 90s most owners think they're 'worth' a fortune, but they're not really and if you do – don’t expect it to ever sell for what you paid for it.

Private reg plates are any easy way of identifying pricks. There is a sliding scale obviously. From bilious to bearable:
BO55 ***
A random number and then initials.
name spelled wrongly
Something funny about the occupation
Something funny about the vehicle.

I'm ashamed to admit I have one, but console myself that it's in the last category so it's just about acceptable.

But deep down inside I actually know I am a bit of a ****.

johndoh - Member

Got to be better than on a clio or similar as i often see.

CL10 LOL

I see a lot of "CL10" Clios near me, C (for Cymru) is the Welsh Area Code for number plates, Renault wisely registered a lot of their clios in Wales in 2010 with CL10 plates for obivous reasons.

Local potato farmer has T8TOES on his truck which (sadly) makes me chuckle when I see it.

Nope, again, he doesn't. Maybe T87OES or T8OES