Personalised plates....

For me, neither. It's a way to get fewer characters on a plate which I think gives a much cleaner look. The fewer characters the better. At the very least, for £250, it gets you a symmetrical plate with 6 characters.
 
I've had them for a while now, not out of choice, just because they happened to come with cars I've bought.

I really like some of them - particularly the short "single single" style ones, and any amusing/clever/rude ones. Not bothered about the one I've got atm though - if someone offered me £500 for it I'd probably let them have it.

Personally, I think I'd only buy one myself if I had quite a lot of money to burn - I'd want a proper dateless one which really meant something to me, and I'd imagine it'll be quite a while before I'm at the stage in my life where I'm happy to spend £10k+ on a numberplate.
 
Never understood them, we have one on our Jeep that the GF had for many years - "K66TAP", it is completely meaningless to everyone.

Now I could understand if it was relevant to the car, I remember someone on here had a Mondeo ST220 with "V6 WTF", I can see the point in that.
 
I like the ones that match the spec of the car, such as:

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A properly good one is pretty cool, but for every one of those there are a thousand lame try-hards that really don't work and are just a waste of money. Basically, if you have to explain it then it's no good.
 
Provided the plate actually has less characters than a normal plate, then yes, otherwise i fail to see why someone pays £250 - £xxx for something which looks like a standard plate to everyone except them.

My car came with a private plate which is shorter than a normal plate and in my eyes looks miles better.
 
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I don't see the point in car spec plates. The standard car badge just to the left or right of the plate shows people what it is.
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Totally agree. If I was buying a new car I'd have it de-badged. Why advertise to others something as specific as variant and spec? Can't think why you'd want to spend money on a plate to do this even more!
 
Tend to think they're pretty lame, to be honest. Same sort of feel as a bloke dyeing his hair to hide the grey - and I don't mean in the sense of hiding age.
 
i always imagine these private plates being a not so rich persons way of hiding how old there car is.

if you can spell your name or your nickname in a convincing way i like them. D1craig would be awesome for me. but not D1cr81g
 
I quite like 3 + 3 plates as they look cleaer on cars. But I don't like ones meant to spell something or someones name. It also makes me smile when people say in adverts "private plate not included" when it's simply an older style plate such as L123ABC. The car in my sig has one of those and it's original. But apparently it must be a private plate then :p

There's a really cheap car near me with a 2 letter plate. Something like J8 or J9 or something. I think that's cool on a really cheap car (it would be less cool on an expensive car for some reason).
 
I have 2 plates myself. Both are 5 digit plates. Both mean something to me. And both clean up the look of any car they are on. Both even start with the same 2 digits, which is an "abbreviation" of my name.

Personally I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks about them, as I like them for me.

That being said, I dislike when plates try to hard to say something. But I do find some plates funny too. Like WH05 HAT
 
I've got a couple, my main one is as close to my name as I could have got, and at 250 quid, and only 5 characters it looks better than a std plate IMO. Each to their own, most folk prob think it's a waste of money, but 12 years later and I still have it.... don't have much else that old kicking about.
 
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