Personalised Reg for a car i've not yet bought!

johntmanic

johntmanic

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Hi,
I've never bought a personalised reg before and i've seen one I want on http://www.newreg.co.uk/ The thing is I will be changing my car in the next couple of weeks so I dont really know what to do?
Do I buy this reg and put it in my old car details or will I have to wait until I buy a new car before getting a reg? It's just that the one I have seen I dont want to lose!

Thanks for any info!

John
 
Get it put on retention, or buy it and just ask them to keep it till the new car arrives.
 
Just buy it and don't assign to a vehicle. The first year is free anyway. You'll get a certficate of ownership with a form attached when you're ready to put it on a vehicle.

DVLA - it's cheapest, normally. They don't add any additional costs like other websites do. What you see is what you pay.
 
TS7 said:
Just buy it and don't assign to a vehicle. The first year is free anyway. You'll get a certficate of ownership with a form attached when you're ready to put it on a vehicle.

DVLA - it's cheapest, normally. They don't add any additional costs like other websites do. What you see is what you pay.
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Brilliant, thanks for that!

It's just that the reg I want isnt on the DVLA website and only on that Newreg one? :confused:
 
They have a couple of JAH plates on DVLA for 400 quid.

At least that includes the transfer fee.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Its fail because it looks like 99.998% of all the other W reg plates ever issued and for that reason its not worth £400.
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Registrations are worth whatever they are worth to you. It's an odd purchase. The majority of people who buy registrations don't buy them for the purpose of investment or to make profit on them in the future. They buy them because the letters on a peice of plastic mean something them. So market value etc is irrelevant. I don't plan on ever selling any of my numberplates so whether I paid too much or too little doesn't matter.

A neighbour got offered £5k for a LNN LLL (which he declined). It's certainly not worth £5k. He probably purchased it for ten times less. But to the person offering the plate was 'worth' that much.
 
TS7 said:
Registrations are worth whatever they are worth to you. It's an odd purchase. The majority of people who buy registrations don't buy them for the purpose of investment or to make profit on them in the future. They buy them because the letters on a peice of plastic mean something them. So market value etc is irrelevant. I don't plan on ever selling any of my numberplates so whether I paid too much or too little doesn't matter.

A neighbour got offered £5k for a LNN LLL (which he declined). It's certainly not worth £5k. He probably purchased it for ten times less. But to the person offering the plate was 'worth' that much.
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I agree but only to a certain point, I'd say most people buy a cheap reg plate (sub 1k) to serve three purposes, 1: for the plate to mean slightly more than the standard one and 2: to hide the age of the car, 3: to look slightly more flash than everyone else.

To pay £400 for something that clearly means nothing to anyone else, that I assume doesn't really hide the age of the car and doesn't look any different to anyother W plate makes for a poor choice.

But then again cheap plates don't really don't work in 90% of instances, lots of expensive plates round this area stuff like 91 H and the like, those work, but you will need a spare 40k or something for one.

I think what i'm trying to say is no matter how irrational a private plate purchase might be, to spend money on a private plate that looks no different to a standard plate is odd (imho), spend more and get something that looks like a private plate whilst holding meaning to yourself.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Looks like a normal numberplate to me, anything less than LN LLL is fail.

Edit: they want £400 for that, LOL!
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Thing is though, my plate looks just like a "normal plate" at Y6 RDE

But because my surname is YARDE, it works perfectly,

Although, his doesn't really look like anything other than initals, and i've just realised your point! *d'oh*
 
Firestar_3x said:
Looks like a normal numberplate to me, anything less than LN LLL is fail.

Edit: they want £400 for that, LOL!
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95% of the public still think the first letter in LN LLL format is the age of the car anyway?

S1 ABC for example, WILL make your car look like a 98/S.
 
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