Personal current style plates

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I'm looking at the possibility of getting a personal plate in the current style, not for any investment value but just because I think it would be nice to have. The two options I'm looking at have either the number 67 or 14 - 14 is for the year that my wife and I got married. Obviously if we did get rid of the car which will be new this month we would put the standard plates on.

Is there any reason (apart from the car having an older year than it is) that we shouldn't put 14 plates on instead of 67? Is this just a silly idea in general or should we just go for a plate that 'means something' to us?
 
If it means something to you, just put it on. If you are one of those people who care what other people think of the age of your car, leave the 67 plate on.
 
If you have a brand new car then why not show everyone you have a 67 plate rather than making it look like your car is 3 years old with a 14 plate on. Neighbors will be thinking you have fell on hard times :p
I don’t see the point in having the number 14 for the reasons stated tbh. If it’s your initials or almost spells your name then fine but to have the number 14 seems pointless imo
 
Dav4 said:
If you have a brand new car then why not show everyone you have a 67 plate rather than making it look like your car is 3 years old with a 14 plate on. Neighbors will be thinking you have fell on hard times :p
I don’t see the point in having the number 14 for the reasons stated tbh. If it’s your initials or almost spells your name then fine but to have the number 14 seems pointless imo
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See this is kind of my thinking, the rest of the plate is initials/surname abbreviated and both 14 and 67 are available - it's only going to be us that knows why it's 14. Having said that, when we eventually change the car we are left with a 67 reg that whilst personailsed we probably won't want to transfer to say a 21 plate vehicle.. Or we could keep the car for 10 years and it wouldn't make a difference!
 
If you can get the 67 with initials etc then yeh why not but definitely wouldn’t get the 14 and make your new car look 3 years older.
 
Nobody apart from you will know the letters are your initial if it’s a 67 plate car. Most won’t know whether your car model even exists in 2014.

So just get the plate that works for you, not what others perceives it to be because they wouldn’t have a clue.
 
Personally I'd not entertain recent private (or personal, cherished, whatever they're called now!) plates. They just make your car look older to me.

I'd go dateless or Irish if possible for a reasonable price.
 
I have 14 in my current style personal plate. So does my wife. We both have later year cars and will continue to transfer the reg to them. Doesn’t matter what others think and as the years go by it will be even more blatantly obvious that it couldn’t possibly be a 14 plate car. If what other people may think causes concern then that will work in your favour down the years as it will keep them guessing what year the car is.
 
If you have to ask these kind of questions, then why are you even bothering in the first place?
 
Clearly you get the plate with the 14 in it, as it actually means something to you. The plate with 67 is meaningless to you, and so will have less meaning to you personally. Who really cares how old other people might think your car is?
 
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