Personalised plates....

Never really get the hatred for them, love mine, cost less than a lot of people here spend on wax or leather restorer (£379) :p

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I'm all for ones like mine where it's 3 - 3 (spaced correctly) including my initials and a date to me, the one's I don't understand people buying are where you have to do some funky spacing to get it to attempt to read a word.
 
Northern Ireland plates tend to get chased because of our prefix system. BIG 1 was bought several years ago for 80k (same fella also bought BIG 2 and BIG 3 at the same auction for nearly 20k a piece, so after all the VAT was included for the plates Christ knows how much he'd spent), which beat the previous record for an Irish plate at 50k for WIL 1.
 
If only all these idiots putting private plates on 3 year old 30k cars knew!

What chumps.... Run down to the Kia dealer and blow 15k on a 65 plate, you will look well rich then.
 
I got mine a couple of years ago, I was quite excited at the time but to be honest I'm not so keen on it now.

Its a pain as I have to pay to switch it every time I change my car.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I think [ui]ICEMAN is doing it right, or shall I say, the way I would do it. Make it fun, make it really fun.

Having a plate with a letter then a number follow by a sequence of seemingly random letters that is supposed to be your initial is no different to the standard DVLA plate. You are just forgoing one uniformity and onto another uniformity.

The UK is really hard to get something fun due to the spacing and letters and numbers criteria, I hazard a guess that most people do it partly to hide the age of their car.

I almost bought BA51 NGA purely because I like The Big Bang Theory.
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I think you've got that the wrong way round.

A1 ABC for example looks good because it's shorter and looks smarter, and you can usually hazard a guess that ABC are the driver's initials.

BA51 NGA isn't any shorter or any smarter and it doesn't spell anything obvious - it just looks like it belongs on a car registered between September 1 2001 and March 1 2002. As you said, no different to a standard DVLA plate..
 
Mum was offered a custom plate from Audi after they mucked up her new car order.

You'll all be traumatised by what she chose, I shall post a photo on Saturday once she's picked it up.
 
Howard said:
I think you've got that the wrong way round.

A1 ABC for example looks good because it's shorter and looks smarter, and you can usually hazard a guess that ABC are the driver's initials.

BA51 NGA isn't any shorter or any smarter and it doesn't spell anything obvious - it just looks like it belongs on a car registered between September 1 2001 and March 1 2002. As you said, no different to a standard DVLA plate..
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Well, my approach to personalised plates are different to yours, it's not backwards, it's just different.

1 – I hate initials, detest them, I find them narcissistic and don't see why I need to tell the world this car belongs to the person with the attached initials. You can use them of course, it's your prerogative but not for me.
2 – I like the plate to have a bit of fun, the fact that I can pick what I want, I want it to be fun
3 – Follow on from the fun part, which means I don't want to follow what everyone else is doing – i.e. putting initials on it, that is what the majority of people do…Zzzzzzz boring and opportunity missed.
4 – Having a word that most people wouldn't immediately get is fine by me, but for those that get it, they GET it and it'll be fun.
5 – I couldn't care less that people don't get it and mistaken it for an old car, if they think a E89 came out in 2001…that's their problem, not mine.

That's my approach to personalised plates.
 
Well I have my initials on mine :p

It's no different to people modifying their cars to make them look different (body kits etc...) - it's just a bit of customisation.

To me it just adds a bit of personality and it's a bit of fun. Is it vain? I don't personally think so but I can accept that some people may think it is.

However, if I were to do it again though I'd probably not put the initials and do something related to the car (I've seen a few plates with 'ZED' which would be what I'd be after for my car).
 
Each to their own mainly but personally I think the only ones that really work are the funny ones or where the car is unusual. You occasionally see ones like V10 E46, 1JZ OMG or 100 0HP etc. which work IMO as well the ones iceman posted.

I would like my initials but I don't think I could have CAR 1, CAR 2 etc :D
 
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