Vanity plates question

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.

Janesy B · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:13

You could always move to the states if you want that sort of thing.

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

Vonhelmet · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:27

The_Dark_Side said:
Because that was the format when that plate was issued. Iirc the first plate issued in the uk was A1

There used to be some ancient old car in the town where I grew up which had the plate A 6. No idea what it was, but it looked like Noah drove it out of the Ark.

Entai · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:38

You could always go to the States buy a car there and have a vanity plate put on it.

Ship it over here and as long as the car is registered and licensed in the US constantly you can legally use it on the roads here with the vanity plate.

Of course after 6 months you will have to register it in the UK and put a UK plate on it.

UNLESS you normally live outside the EU.

The first decent reason I have heard of leaving the EU on 23rd June, we can import cars and all run vanity plates then

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:49

Well that's it, I'm voting out

iaind · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:50

I understand private plates to an extent - in that they make it look marginally smarter (shorter ones anyway) and hide the age.

I really dont see the fuss otherwise. Really curious what you'd actually want it to say

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:52

One of the ideas was T13V0M

iaind · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:53

Devrij · 17 Jun 2016 at 12:54

Imagine it in your rear view mirror

Raymond Lin · 17 Jun 2016 at 13:21

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.

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

HangTime · 17 Jun 2016 at 13:46

Personally I quite like the 'challenge' of trying to come up with vanity plates that adhere to the constraints. You also get to laugh at some of the more tenuous attempts others have come up with, typically involving strategically placed bolts and dubious spacing.

Janesy B · 17 Jun 2016 at 14:05

TIE VOM

What a business man gets after eating a dogdy curry after a work night out?

naefeart · 21 Jun 2016 at 15:52

I saw a coffin dodger with WH05 BAD on his 911 turbo the other week.

I quite liked it

tom_e · 21 Jun 2016 at 15:56

There's a woman in a new shape beetle with a plate that includes the word FLUMP that I see on my commute sometimes, she definitely looks quite soft and squidgy like a flump!

skaif · 21 Jun 2016 at 16:05

There are literally loads where I live....Time to start a thread of crappy vanity plates?

iaind · 21 Jun 2016 at 16:05

Can we stop calling them vanity plates yet?

Armageus · 21 Jun 2016 at 16:16

iaind said:
I understand private plates to an extent - in that they make it look marginally smarter (shorter ones anyway) and hide the age.

Exactly the reasons why I bought one for my latest car. I plan on keeping it for a while so having a 6 digit previous style reg hides the age and looks a bit cleaner, and the last 3 digits are my initials (making it slightly more personal to me).

Housey · 21 Jun 2016 at 18:10

I saw 8 MX5 on an MX5 the other day, liked that. Now I need to find 1 MX5