Vanity plates question

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 07:46

Why can't you just choose what you want the plate to say? It seems like there are only various combos that look like random letters and numbers anyway. Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 07:50

iaind said:
What? Are you US based or something?

No that's what I mean. In the US you just say what you want the plate to say and it's either taken or not. All the sites I've tried over here try to force you to use the current style of letter letter number number etc.

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 08:09

iaind said:
Were not in the US, we don't have vanity plates

We have personal registrations, which still need to comply with the existing format of standard registrations.

Yeah exactly. Why? That's rubbish. And how can Alan sugar have ams1

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 08:46

That's weak. Why do we do it that way? Surely the plate just identifies the car and registered owner?

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 10:50

Havana_UK said:
No, our registration plate system does more than that. It identifies the age of the car, and also where it was first registered. It's been this way for near enough 50 years, so don't expect it to change any time soon!

Haha, no I don't expect it will. In the states the year and model of the car are linked to the reg so I've always wondered why we had it on the plate. I can't imagine buying a car without knowing enough to spot that it wasn't the year that it was advertised as. Seems like they've missed a trick as vanity plates could be a good source of revenue

Dogbreath said:
It's just a number plate, why are you getting so worked up about it? Makes no difference to the performance or styling of the car.

Not worked up as such, just had some money to burn and thought it would be a fun addition to the car, and then realised it wasn't that simple.

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:09

Glanza said:
I'm intrigued to what OP wants their reg to be.

I had a few ideas

. I'm a big warhammer 40k fan so wanted something like HERETIC or something like that. Back in the states my brother's bike had DRSATAN (old horror flick character), but I never had my own so I was a bit jealous.

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:23

Janesy B said:
You could always move to the states if you want that sort of thing.

Yes, this had not occurred to me

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:49

Well that's it, I'm voting out

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:52

One of the ideas was T13V0M

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:54

Imagine it in your rear view mirror

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 13:45

Raymond Lin said:
You could probably get T13 VOM but I expect that to be taken already and yup, just checked, it belongs to a Volvo C70 T5.

What a waste lol