Personalised plates....

xs2man said:
Personally I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks about them, as I like them for me.
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The thing with that is though it's everyone else that sees them. I literally can't even see my plates getting in the car in a morning or getting out of it at night.

My old plate wasn't personalised but was very close to the surname Yakoub so used to get the odd twerp asking to buy it off me or if i was a convert but to my knowledge it wasn't transferable.
 
[TW]Fox;28700241 said:
All plates are transferable unless they are plates issues to a car after its orginal plate has been transferred.
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Might be the case that it wasn't the original. Sure I saw something somewhere between n the v5 saying it was none transferable
 
I like plates that have a meaning. For example L555 BAT on the Subaru Impreza group a cars or XXX EVO on a Lancer Evolution. Also having a 5 letter plate means you can have a tiny legal front plate on imports :D.
 
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I had a personal plate on one of my cars in the UK but I refuse to spend huge sums of money on them.

However, now that I live in the US, I've had a lot of fun with personal plates on my cars :)

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If you have money to burn why not. Makes the car look better imo. My parents have had quite a few in the past. My dad's name is Stuart so at one point he had 5tu and 9tu with a bolt where he probably shouldn't have to both read stu.
 
I like some private plates and hate others, never had the urge to get one myself but maybe that'll change one day. If they are well thought out and on a nice car then it's not tacky.
 
Sometimes yes, however please avoid the following combinations as they make you look like a moron:

BO55 ***
B16 ***
MI55 ***

Top two normally found on X5/X6/RR, bottom one normally on a Mini Cooper
 
I have mine for 3 reasons:

1) Has my initials and a memorable date (significant to me).
2) Means I only have to remember a single plate from there on out.
3) Less characters = less cluttered look.

It was cheap (<£400), and it'll stay with me regardless of car. It's irrelevant to me if anyone else either "gets it" or thinks any less/more of myself due to the plate, as that wasn't the purpose behind the purchase.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Once you've bought a plate, what's the cost to transfer to each subsequent car you buy?
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Not sure about transfer, as it's always been handled for me by the garage I've purchased the car from (however I think transfer between vehicles is free, barring any outstanding fees).

Retention is currently £80 / 10 years.
 
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If you have money to burn why not. Makes the car look better imo. My parents have had quite a few in the past. My dad's name is Stuart so at one point he had 5tu and 9tu with a bolt where he probably shouldn't have to both read stu.
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Both my plates start S2, which is a similar abbreviation for Stu, but down to 2 letters. I get it, don't care if no-one else does.

paradigm said:
Not sure about transfer, as it's always been handled for me by the garage I've purchased the car from (however I think transfer between vehicles is free, barring any outstanding fees).

Retention is currently £80 / 10 years.
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£80 to transfer between cars. It used to be £25 per year for retention, on top of the £80 transfer fee, but they dropped the retention fee.
 
I don't see that as disagreeing with me at all.

I have been running private plates for many years. It USED to be £80 to transfer the fee, and £25 per year to retain the plate (as I said). Recently, they have dropped the charge for retaining it, and now it is £80 to transfer or retain it for 10 years.

That is exactly what I just said. How does that link disagree with me?
 
I have one because I wanted a shorter plate which displays my initials. It generally smartens up the look of the car and although annoyingly (and unfathomably) all the 5-character plates with my initials were £450+ (which I wasn't prepared to pay), mine (K17 xxx) looks nice and short compared to a regular plate thanks to the '1' :p
 
Shorter plate definitely looks tidier on the car.

Don't really 'get' the ones which have something to do with the car itself. Nor would I be inclined to spend several thousands of pounds on a plate. But each to their own!

I do wonder about some of the 2/3 character plates I see attached to really old or the most mundane of cars though - they must be worth many times what the car is!

I think I got lucky with mine as it is basically my shortened first name (Leo => L30) and surname (read phonetically).
 
I don't really see the appeal unless they are ice-cold cool or really funny. America has a much better private plate system, you can have all sorts of amusing/cool combinations.
 
Lopéz said:
I don't really see the appeal unless they are ice-cold cool or really funny. America has a much better private plate system, you can have all sorts of amusing/cool combinations.
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And interestingly despite them being very cheap and very easy to get you almost never see cars which have them. I think this is because of the license plate system they have where insecure people are not forced to display the age of the car they are driving to the entire world.

Never really understood that about our plate system. Why do we do it? I'm convinced it's 90% of the reason why private plates are so popular.

If nobody else has got it you can have any 5-6 digit combination you want in the US (well ok, within reason) for about $50 yet in 4500 miles last month I think I saw about 5 people who'd bothered. I saw 5 on my 5 mile drive to work this morning!
 
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