Private number plates

Yes - you'll get e retention certificate, prob best to get the garage to get std plates (easy to change back at later date) & get personalised plates made up, then you can do the change to personalised plates instantly online - ie don't get the garage to supply with the personalised plates.

Ta! That’s helpful.

@ratherbeintobago edited my post with more info

Thanks again!

As a cost saving measure, change your wife’s name by deed poll to match the new car’s plate.

As a cost saving measure, change your wife’s name by deed poll to match the new car’s plate.

Genius- though she may decide to get the same result by getting a divorce

Don’t suppose your wife’s initials are LFL by any chance? If by wild coincidence they are my wife is looking to sell hers...
(I Realise this is a massive long shot😀!)

OMG - Louise?!!!!

I dont understand the point in private registration plates , what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?,

I dont understand the point in private registration plates , what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?,

Tells the world you're cool.

Saw one at innerleithen yesterday which had MTB in it. I bet they're a laugh a minute.

what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?

I thought it was to hide the embarrassing fact that your car was several years old.

Although presumably not so in the OP's case.

what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?,

Could ask the same about a nice shirt or an expensive pair of shoes. Some people like them, it gives them a nice feeling.

No benefits in being judgemental, we are all different.

I dont understand the point in private registration plates , what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?,

Vanity I presume

Could ask the same about a nice shirt or an expensive pair of shoes. Some people like them, it gives them a nice feeling.

No benefits in being judgemental, we are all different.

Pretty much what I was going to say. Each to their own, nothing wrong with that.

She wants one. I am less fussed about having one on my car, not least as the cost of a plate is a good way towards the Fox 34SC I’ve got my eye on.

Her initials are NLR. I am saying nothing about what the ‘L’ stands for…

I thought it was to hide the embarrassing fact that your car was several years old.

You can't fit a plate that makes your car look newer than it is.

Not a problem when you're waiting on delivery of a new motor, OFC.

I have one that I have my eye on. Nobody else will want it. It won't look special, it's from last year. My car is 12 years old. I still want it and have been waiting a long time for it to become available (it's VERY geeky!) - will be on retention until forever...

You can’t fit a plate that makes your car look newer than it is.

Well that’s true but you can still disguise its age. Eg our Audi is pretty old now but they all look the same and a non-dated private plate would make it look like a newer car. If I cared.

I have one that I have my eye on. Nobody else will want it

Hasn't T1RED already gone? Cos COV1D would not be funny! 😉

Could have bought my surname when it was released for £250. Really wish I had. Maybe that makes me sad and vain. That's your problem, not mine.

what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?

Hate to break it to you, but some people, unable to afford some s****y, limited edition item, like a car, for example, would like something a little bit different to make the item stand out from all the other identical cars or whatever.
FWIW, nothing about my car makes it stand out from any other metallic blue and black ST-Line EcoSport, apart from a small Mindless Longboard sticker on the rear window. And I’m perfectly happy about that; oddly enough, I’m seeing quite a few examples of that particular car around, and we have a fair number at work, but I’ve never seen one with any fancy extras like stick family stickers on the back, or other sorts of adornment.
I hame seen the occasional personal plate that’s made me smile, like a car on the M4 that had the registration H1 MUM, and a car parked near to Trinity Road Police station in Bristol, with N11 NAA on it, which did make me smile.
There’s a bloke not far from me with a car with the registration 250 GTO, which is rather neat, and worth quite a lot of money. But not as much as the car it’s attached to…

I’ve got a PP that my dad left to me. It’s of massive sentimental value. Is not have bought it otherwise.

We both have private plates in this house. They actually make our cars look older than they are. E.g my wife’s starts DE65 as she was born in December 65 but her mini is newer than that. We both got them as presents and we just kind of like the fact we will keep them for every car/s we own.

Don’t think we are particularly vain!

There's one at my work that makes me laugh so much that I can't quite work out how it's been achieved (don't seem to be enough characters) but it clearly reads in my mind as

J15 MYJ

I mean, as nicknames go, I've heard better

Genius

er, well...

My sister is now a Venn, they have a lot of V3NN_ plates for her, my BIL and the kids. I rather like that. No it's not T1RED and not COV1D. It is, however, other work related, though. Might update later this month...

I have one genuine vanity plate fitted to one of my cars to hide it's age

This one is a 1998 BMW

This one is an accidental vanity plate for 2020/2021

What other people choose to use is up to them. I find it a bit strange when you see an Audi A5 with an A5 plate or BMW with BMW, come on, we can see the badges on the car but hey I am not going to criticise attention whores

I dont have a problem with them , in fact i dont really notice cars or number plates as its not my thing .I was just wondering what the motivation would be to pay money for a number plate.i could think of better things and alot worse things that people spend money on

I’ve got one but have never wanted one. Like @NZCol it was a gift from my father in law a month or so before he died of cancer. He always said I had water in between my ears for enjoying biking, trail running and open water swimming. So he got me a plate ending in WET. The smile on his face when he saw it on my car was priceless.

There are a couple of mature lesbians who buy stuff from my shop occasionally. They look so normal and straight (if you can apply that description to a gay couple!) and the first time I helped load a kayak on the roof of their VW T5 I had to laugh

H8 COX

Brilliant.

I'm neither for or against them, just find them a bit bemusing.

Charlie Mullins of Pimlico Plumbers claims to have spent £millions on the hilarious number plates they have on their vans. He reckons that it's money well spent :

https://www.pimlicoplumbers.com/blog/pimlico-number-plates-are-part-of-our-brand-identity

Although personally I think the £100 per hour they charge for normal hours work (it doubles out of hours) is even more hilarious.

They would for sure not have the registration number

NE14 ABJ

I dont understand the point in private registration plates , what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?,

Advertising?

On the subject of personal plates B16 0MAR was driving round our village the other day. Different car to the one it was on when a colleague had to explain to me who owned it a few years ago, but intrigued if it was the same owner.

I've got one, but only cos it came with the car when I bought it. I do quite like that it does disguise how old the car is (should be 59).

I generally wonder how worthless and empty people's lives must be that they can be improved by changing the numberplate on their car*. Some of them are proper funny and worthwhile, but the ones with names or even worse the owner's three initials are just a bit tragic.

The best one I over saw was in fact very similar to dozens of the worst ones I have seen.... But it took a couple of reads...

BO55 ACK

sheer genius.

(* Yes, I do have one. To say I'm conflicted about it would be a huge understatement.)

Are you lot equally judgemental about people paying a few hundred quid or more just to have their car in a different colour to the standard options? All those metallic and pearlescent finishes must be a constant irritation, poor old Henry Ford would be apoplectic that even his favourite 'any colour you like so long as it's black' is now an added cost option for lots of cars.

Of course not. Everyone knows that light coloured metallic paint reflects the sunlight much better than black. Thus keeping the temperature int' bus bearable for longer in the morning when camping in the Alps. 😃

It's a worthwhile functional investment.

I generally wonder how worthless and empty people’s lives must be that they can be improved by changing the numberplate on their car*.

I feel the same about people paying for clothing with a picture of a famous person on it or a logo. Or people who spend stupid money outfitting their bikes with colour matched anodized parts. WTF is wrong with a black bike?

I feel the same about people paying for clothing with a picture of a famous person on it or a logo. Or people who spend stupid money outfitting their bikes with colour matched anodized parts. WTF is wrong with a black bike?

Totally agree.

someone at work has got a convertible BMW with

WU 52 ODB

which is quite cool if you're a 40something hip hop fan. I don't know if it's deliberate or not - looks like the car is roughly that age.

Also there are two Minis in the car park, almost identical, and one has the number plate

1 ZOE

- amusingly, the owner of the other Mini (which doesn't have a personalised plate) is called.... Zoe. And she's highly embarrassed that everyone thinks she's got private plates! 😆

I often see BLO4 DAD or something to the same effect on a taxi in town. Makes my skin crawl.

But V70 CYM on a Volvo V70 with a CYM sticker on the back satisfies dormant OCD feelings I never knew I had.

what is the reason for having one or wanting one ?

Mainly going to be self esteem issues. If they help with that then great, why not have one.

My dad had a BMW 535 for a bit, cos why not, he'd always wanted a v8. Lovely car, lost 25% of its value as soon as he drove it off the forecourt. He then saw "R3" come up as private plate. His initial, and the number 3 had always been special for him. Some proper history too - R was the reg. letter for Derbyshire, so that was for the 3rd car registered in Derbyshire.

It cost more that the car. But you don't have to tax it, you don't have to insure it, no-one can steal it (they can steal the plastic, but not the registration) there are no running costs, or maintenance costs.

And he sold it for a chunk more than he bought it for (unlike the car, obviously!), so not such a silly way of spending money.

I just checked, it's currently on a Rolls Royce Dawn, which is a far sillier way of spending money. Just looked them up, too. Bowk.