Personalised Number Plates

[ChrisF]

Saw an Audi Q7 on the way home last night with the plate T1EAM made to just look like TEAM. No idea what the relevance was!

[ChrisF]

Just saw (formatted exactly like this) : "G 1.5 ENG" on a Jag
Along with the three lions on the plate too

[VR46]

Saw N14 EON on a Chrysler Neon earlier.

Either a dedicated owner or coincidence.

[VR46]

There's a big auction of desireable plates later this month

http://www.dvlaregistrations.co.uk/home/en/Auction/p/next

Highest priced one is expected to be WE57 HAM - £50,000 is touted as a rough figure, making it the most expensive football plate ahead of the £36,000 someone paid for AR53 NAL.

[Distant Cousin]

There's a great one in Springburn:

B16 MUF cleverly arranged into BIG MUF

[ChrisF]

Saw Y11PES on a 911 Turbo this morning. Black with black alloys. Damn nice

[Bada Bing!]

I used to have one, and it was worth a fortune (relatively speaking), until the DVLA launched their sodding £250 plates and the value of mine went down the swanny.

I also didn't like what it said about me once i started driving less chavvy cars, so I sold it when I bought an S2000 years ago. The Elise doesn't have one either, and I think I'll be keeping it that way. If your car isn't distinctive enough, buy one that is, buying a plate to tart up a normal car doesn't say anything positive about you, IMO.

Took me a while to realise and I got caught up in what is effectively the automotive equivalent of an oversized gold namechain.

[ChrisF]

Have to say I totally agree with you there Bada Bing! Got my plate when I was driving around in BMWs and the like. Now it's on my Toyota I feel a bit of a spag. Still, I hope (next year maybe) to get a more prestige motor to stick it on, and I'll be damned if I'm paying DVLA the retention fee and not using it. Likewise I'll be damned if after paying my fee for the plate I'll let them have it back! (which they do if you dont use it or pay the retention).

My mate has one on his Elise. Doesn't look TOO bad...

[Shez]

I suspect a big crackdown on private number plates and more specifically the way they are presented on the plate.

There has already been a raft of changes made in reference to how a number plate should be checked duing an MOT test, so I guess the police wont be far behind with making it a priority in pulling people over with incorrectly spaced and designed number plates.

[ChrisF]

Mine's very much incorrectly spaced, but I do have a legit one for the purposes of MOT's. Like you say though SS004, they are going to be stepping up checks I would imagine, now that they seem to be increasingly using cameras to detect road tax cheats as well.

[VR46]

There's two Smart Cars driven around my area with CCTV camera's fixed to the roof checking for people illegally parked/using bus-lanes etc, not sure if they can read tax discs but very much Big Brother is watching.

[Eps]

If your car isn't distinctive enough, buy one that is, buying a plate to tart up a normal car doesn't say anything positive about you, IMO.

Took me a while to realise and I got caught up in what is effectively the automotive equivalent of an oversized gold namechain.

That's why I like that you can get them for $10 here. It means that if you want to have a little in-joke or something as your plate it's not going to cost the Earth, or make you look chavvy (as loads of people have them due to the cheapness and the fact that you can also choose from several different designs of actual plates too). I wouldn't have one in the UK, specially not one of those using-the-bolts-etc-to-spell-a-word jobs.

[Alastair]

I was behind a Maserati (that I think was a Quatroporte) the other day and the reg was BO55 ONE. No fancy lettering or spacing, just looked completely standard. Wonder what he was the boss of?

[VR46]

Saw T1CHY on a new Bentley driven by a bloke about 6 foot 4 few days back.

[ChrisF]

Could have been my mates uncle. He bought BO55 RAC and BO55 BBC as well. Obviously to sell those on. Think he stuck an ad in The Times.