Irish plate question?

wez130 · 23 Mar 2009 at 08:36

just tried google but i just get page upon page of plates for sale, but i've found an irish plate i fancy, but are there any restrictions as to age of car, like in UK, i couldn't put a plate on my car that makes it look newer than it is, are irish plates truly dateless or is there something to do with the letters. The plate i have found starts with WEZ if that's any help.

[TW]Fox · 23 Mar 2009 at 08:44

Please dont do this, there is nothing that looks more naff than using an irish plate as a personal reg if you are not Irish. Double fail if it says Daz, Baz, Wez etc.

Cuchulain · 23 Mar 2009 at 08:48

wez130 said:
just tried google but i just get page upon page of plates for sale, but i've found an irish plate i fancy, but are there any restrictions as to age of car, like in UK, i couldn't put a plate on my car that makes it look newer than it is, are irish plates truly dateless or is there something to do with the letters. The plate i have found starts with WEZ if that's any help.

I'm confused, all the Irish plates I've seen go something like 08 DL 1234 and they had to be re-registered after a certain period of time to a UK plate.

Howard · 23 Mar 2009 at 08:49

He means the northern Irish ones that are like BAZ 5682 or something

Cob · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:07

Yeah atleast get the country of origin correct, dude.

Mine is YAZ, and, since I drive a Rover 200, the only way is up!

Sorry.

wez130 · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:13

lol, my name is wez, the only way i can get a plate with wez on is either new style (NH54 WEZ) or the irish plate with my date and month of birth, i.e WEZ 2577 (not that specific plate though) Ideally i'd love the plate 'WEZ130' as that's my whole online identity wherever i am, but it's not available, and tbh, i couldn't be arsed doing the enquiry with the DVLA then for it to go to auction etc.

[TW]Fox · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:15

It still looks awful

BAZ 3242

wez130 · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:22

lol, i see your point Fox, but i don't want 'WES 77K', i hate the harsh end to my name which is why i adopted Z instead of S for my nick.

Maybe i'll change my name to NH54 CUA

Howard · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:24

How about WEZ 1337?

wez130 · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:27

no

just no lol

Howard · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:39

Janesy B · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:41

Why not get one of these: http://www.dvlaregistrations.co.uk/...ers=54&letter1=W&letter2=E&letter3=Z&x=80&y=6

They look less tacky and suit the car better than an Irish plate.

[TW]Fox · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:42

They just look like normal numberplates.

Go for letter, single number, 3 letters. Best you can get unless you are super loaded.

Howard · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:42

I saw RO54 OFL or something the other day. I lol'd.

Janesy B · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:44

Surely you mean you ROFL'd?

[TW]Fox;13735304 said:
They just look like normal numberplates.

I see your point, but they're nowhere near as crap as Irish plates.

[TW]Fox · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:45

Janesy B said:
I see your point, but they're nowhere near as crap as Irish plates.

Only because nobody notices they are private plates

Janesy B · 23 Mar 2009 at 10:42

[TW]Fox;13735323 said:
Only because nobody notices they are private plates

The problem is that your suggestion of Letter, Single Number and "WEZ" ie (S1 WEZ or similar) is not possible as you can't have Z in the last three letters of a prefix reg.

I'd sooner have something like WE54 WEZ or something to that effect than WEZ 2577 as it look much better, it suits the car and it still means something.

Dogbreath · 23 Mar 2009 at 10:47

[TW]Fox;13735191 said:
It still looks awful

BAZ 3242

In what way to do look awful? You have some very strange ideas, it's just a plate with a bunch of numbers and letters on it that means absolutely nothing to the majority of people (just like other pointless personalised number plates).

I find the concept of a private/personal plate suiting some cars but not others equally ridiculous. It's a number plate, end of.

Scuzi · 23 Mar 2009 at 10:55

Dogbreath said:
In what way to do look awful? You have some very strange ideas, it's just a plate with a bunch of numbers and letters on it that means absolutely nothing to the majority of people (just like other pointless personalised number plates).

I find the concept of a private/personal plate suiting some cars but not others equally ridiculous. It's a number plate, end of.

Exactly. It looks no more or less awful than the A12 BCD style which to the vast majority of peolpe means nothing. It's a number plate.

The good thing about the WEZ plates is that they're a very recent issue so even to people of NI it won't look like a private plate unless you emblazon it with those silly looking blue GB tabs.

If you want a WEZ plate, get one. Don't base your decision on the misguided opinions of others. If it is spaced legally then it'll look like any other number plate, just as long as you don't get the GB logo on it.

[TW]Fox · 23 Mar 2009 at 10:56

Dogbreath said:
I find the concept of a private/personal plate suiting some cars but not others equally ridiculous. It's a number plate, end of.

I suggest its you with the odd ideas then, unless you honestly think the effect of, say, '1 BA' on a Rolls Royce Phantom is identical to the effect the same plate would have on a 1997 Mondeo LX.

To answer the OP's actual question, which I note nobody has done yet, the process of adding an NI plate to your car is pretty much the same as that of adding any UK reg to your car, so there are no problems doing it. The difference is that the DVLI wont sell you an NI one, you'll need to do it through one of the plate brokers.