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Haha cheers mate, it was £20495 in the end. I hadn't planned on stretching to that but I just couldn't resist this one, talk them into a tank of fuel as a little incentive... Not that it'll last long ha!

34k miles
 
Actually thats not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I had assumed going by some of the bonkers prices some dealers are asking for late ones it was more like £25k.
 
Oh yeah there does seem to be extreme variation in prices. I just missed out on a 61 plate 335i comparible spec at another dealer which was £19995 but I think a 330 will do me fine!
 
 
Washed and waxed ready for the winter.

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adam cool dude said:
He has a point though. The plate ages the car even though subconsciously I know it is a new car. Private plates should be prefix only with as few characters financially possible unless the current style makes up a word.
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And this plate was bought specifically for the combination of letters and numbers in it...its a personal plate and given my initials are S N and E its quite personal to me.
 
Jinxy, you have a new car every 8 months to a year. How? I would understand if it was 2-3 years...

Either a very generous company you work for or you are made of money, or both :p

Nice car though!
 
Vita said:
Or it was the cheapest plate you could have with those initials for £250.
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So why exactly would I want a different plate when, for me at least, it does exactly what a personalised plate should, means something to me? I could have got one with a 2 digit prefix but they'd be meaningless anyway

Rybo89 said:
Jinxy, you have a new car every 8 months to a year. How? I would understand if it was 2-3 years...

Either a very generous company you work for or you are made of money, or both :p

Nice car though!
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I've only changed to this due to problems with the M235i so got a good deal, the previous XF I had for nearly 2 1/2 years. The XFR was changed for similar reasons, issues that made it not viable to keep. If this car behaves then I'd expect to have it for about 3 years...(who am I trying to kid ;))
 
J1nxy said:
So why exactly would I want a different plate when, for me at least, it does exactly what a personalised plate should, means something to me? I could have got one with a 2 digit prefix but they'd be meaningless anyway
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Another reason is surely to clean up the look of the vehicle with a few characters, hence the huge market for dateless cherished plates, and comparably no market at all for modern style 7 digit plates :)
 
Jez said:
Another reason is surely to clean up the look of the vehicle with a few characters, hence the huge market for dateless cherished plates, and comparably no market at all for modern style 7 digit plates :)
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To be honest I don't really care that it has 7 digits, its a plate that means something to me and was bought for me for that reason by people who know what it means. If people think it ages the car so what? it doesn't change the fact its a MY 15 BMW 640d even if some people think its a car from 2003.

It can be put on a car from Sept 03 onwards which is unlikely to mean I can't put it on a car I own, and to buy one of the 5 or lower digit plates that were actually worthwhile, in my view, would have costs £1000's.
 
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J1nxy said:
To be honest I don't really care that it has 7 digits, its a plate that means something to me and was bought for me for that reason by people who know what it means. If people think it ages the car so what? it doesn't change the fact its a MY 15 BMW 640d even if some people think its a car from 2003.

It can be put on a car from Sept 03 onwards which is unlikely to mean I can't put it on a car I own, and to buy one of the 5 or lower digit plates that were actually worthwhile, in my view, would have costs £1000's.
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Keep your pants on mate i was only explaining the other (and often main) reason that people have cherished plates on their cars to you :)
 
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