[Closed] Most pointless private plate ever?

The plate may have been describing the owner, not the vehicle?

E.g...

Maybe he got divorced and had to sell the Lambo, hahah.

Mine's pointless, the only reason I've got it, is that it came with the car - now an old battered galaxy

they are all pointless.

Not everyone wants a very fast car.

Maybe he got divorced and had to sell the Lambo, hahah.

I did wonder that 🙂

they are all pointless.

True that.

There is 247 dad on an ageing Kia sorrento or something up the road from me. I wonder if it was a gift for a special birthday. Unlike most unwanted gifts it’s hard to Pass on unnoticed

My FIL got one for his 70th a couple of years ago. I think he was a bit embarrassed TBH, but kind of felt obliged to fit it. If anyone thinks this would be a good idea when it's my 50th soon, there's no way it's going on my van. I don't care if that makes me seem like an ungrateful prick.

Oh I can top that. A girl at my old work really wanted a private plate but couldn't afford one so she just had her current one re-done with random spaces to make people think it was a private plate. The end of Bell Lane of the highest order...

Perhaps in the trade and just keeping it in use rather than on retention. I knew someone who used to do that and the plate must have been worth multiple times what the car was.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk

he likes to trash tyres

said this before, but I used to see A3 on a battered BMW 3 series estate where i used to live. real piece of junk. Since than he's gone up market to a newish V70 Volvo...

Saw one that was M155 MY X (spacing not as apparent, but definitely not standard).

Desperate plea to rekindle a relationship?

they are all pointless.

Mine’s not. CD20 MAB. Reminds me of my day job. Just need a newer vehicle to put it on. Bought it with some prize money from the British Pharmacology Society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD20

Reminds me of my day job

do you forget what it is? 😉

Reminds me of my day job

That sounds like the definition of pointless

CD20 MAB

A personal plate that doesn't look like a personal plate? Yep, that's pretty pointless.

Also, could DADs TOY not have been the ultimate sleeper car? Unremarkable on the outside, supercar killer on the inside? Or is that just my lottery fantasy?

Saw JAN3T yesterday (on a discovery u think, but can't quite remember.) Figured that was probably pretty expensive.

Any plates that refer to the make of the car it’s on. Typically BMW’s, eg A123BMW, you’ve just spunked hundreds on a plate that does the same job the badges that came on your car from the factory do.

All pointless imo, but then many people think the parts I spend ££ for my bike/s are pointless.....

My only contribution to this is that I wish M155 FOX would learn that driving right up my bumper every morning is unlikely to make me break the speed limit..

I've just done a reg check and it doesn't bring anything up for that reg (and some variations). How curious. I must remember to brake suddenly next time she's investigating my exhaust pipes.

Well I discovered an anti cd20 mAb, took it through developed and it’s now approved as a medicine for multiple sclerosis. I’m pretty proud of that. So a geeky and not ostentatious reminder of my most significant scientific achievement.

I think COV1D isn’t available 😉

Fair enough if it had been on a Lotus Exige or something. But a Skoda. And not even a VRS.

#accidentalpartridge

If I won the lottery I'd get a decent plate like D1CKY, stick it on a crappy motorbike (thus splitting the D1 & letters over two lines) just to emphasise how pointless private plates are.

I did pass NA51 SPY when I left work today, shame such plates weren’t around in WWII (I’m surprised the dvla allowed it)

TiRed goes from STW folk hero to mere mortel in a single post by admitting to a private plate. But is partially redeemed by having one that means nothing to 99.99999 % of the population (you can correct me on this figure if you know better, TiRed) and must have been cheap as chips. 🙂

33 EJB and LVX 942J I'd happily have as private plates as long as they are on the cars they were first registered to.

A1 is currently on a 2007 1.6 mini. I shudder to think of the difference in value between car & reg.

They’re a bit naff these days - seems they appeal to a certain demographic. There’s a few on the island starting MU11 designating various names and trades. Trying to work out whether the owner of MU11 HAN is either Chinese, called Hannah or is blessed with good manual skills ? 🤣

Mine’s not. CD20 MAB. Reminds me of my day job. Just need a newer vehicle to put it on. Bought it with some prize money from the British Pharmacology Society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD20/blockquote >

If a private reg needs weird spacing, or mispronunciation/ substitution of any letters to explain it, then it's pointless.

If it needs a Wikipedia entry to explain it then...

 

must have been cheap as chips.

It was free - I used a prize to pay for it. And Mrs TiRed’s shiny iPad Pro that cost a lot more and gets a lot less grief in the TiRed household 😂. About 99.999% would miss the reference. If you are into immunology CD57 MAB is also available. In truth, I just like it having spent more than ten years working on it. AUS71N was also for sale for a while. I’m not that stupid (or rich)!

Big shout out to all the bell ends getting 3D lettering (which even more infuriating is marketed as 4D) on their private plates.

Late stage capitalism at its finest.

If you have to pay for it, it’s not free.

I remember seeing DAD5 70Y in the late '70s on a lovely Mercedes convertible in the Lake District. Driven by a happy looking chap with a couple of kids in the back. Good on yer, mate!

Round our way is a taxi with L8 JOB and a carpet company van (advertising roll ends) with RO11 END

A1 is currently on a 2007 1.6 mini. I shudder to think of the difference in value between car & reg.

A quick look and that car has only 2000 miles on it!

Save me looking Edukator, are they Ferrari 250s or something?

I am disappointed SEX 70Y is not available.

Private plates are irredeemably naff, but this one I spotted last week made me smile…

One upside has to be that it's a tourist attraction. When I left the UK there were a few private plates around but in the intervening 30 odd years they've multiplied. Coming from a place with uniformly dull plates that are four formats depending on age it's fascinating seeing cars with plates that say something, usually registered as "cool", "dick", "don't understand", "silly rich", "another bmw fanboi poser"... .

Edit: SY51 FUS wouldn't even register as "don't understand", you'll have to explain.

A Mini and and Escort, BigJohn, the most famous British rally cars of all time, possibly.

I was up seeing the family over Christmas in Cheshire and there are some superb regs kicking about! One that sticks in my mind is.......wait for it......

MR 5HOT

....there were also plenty of chav supercars...a mirrored Lambo is something else that cannot be unseen!! 😀

There is 247 dad on an ageing Kia sorrento or something up the road from me. I wonder if it was a gift for a special birthday. Unlike most unwanted gifts it’s hard to Pass on unnoticed

Funny, there's one just like that down the road from me.

😉

I always thought that vanity plates were a bit naff but were harmless enough for that type of person.

I then wanted to hide the age of my R-Plate car so spent about £80 on an Northern Ireland plate. Vanity indeed but it is a tarty little car anyway so I feel no shame.

SY51FUS - Sisiphus?

Made to do a pointless task (rolling a stone up a hill)

Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate. - Mr. KVL 741Y,

Thank you, Viz top tips

Sisyphus

Can’t see any hand prints on the back, I would add some. MG number plates were an original option when new - when MG was based in Abingdon and plates were ageless.

And by far the worst I have ever seen is SH17 TER. why? Because it was on a slurry tanker lorry that tried to kill me on a TT.

And for not geeky, my sister now has a surname that spells exactly with letter, number, letter letter, so all the family have their own plates with their surname and first initial. Bought relatively cheaply as they were standard when issued. At least it helps when recalling the plate at those infernal machines where pubs installed cctv.

Spelt that way it could also be a TV series, Nick, according to Google.

@WCA - I thought those black and white plates were illegal unless they were on a car old enough to be registered when they were the normal design? Or do you have a second MOT specific set. 🤔

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Oh I can top that. A girl at my old work really wanted a private plate but couldn’t afford one so she just had her current one re-done with random spaces to make people think it was a private plate.

I actually quite like that one! My old boss- an absolute bellend- paid some stupid amount of money for a plate with M6 in it for her BMW. I thought, that's weird, it's not an M and it's not a 6 series, I don't get it? So she explains "I used to drive on the M6 a lot". OK I guess?

But **** it, whatever gives you pleasure. I can take the piss, but I damn nearly got one for the motorbike, it'd have been S650 ORG IIRC. Because it was an SV650 and I was on SV650.org forum a LOT. Literally the only reason I didn't was that I thought I might bore it out to 700cc. So OK maybe that's a pretty good plate but it's a dickhead reason for not getting it

I'd like M970 XTR. Totally stupid. Even most MTBers probably wouldn't get it (though I guess this forum would). Plus, it only gets less relevant with time. But it'd make me smile every time I saw it.

Looks like it was on a Honda Accord Aerodeck (had to Google it, looks ace!) but it died in 2009.

What Jam Bo said, all pointless.

What Jam Bo said, all pointless.

You can use that argument to dismiss pretty much anything you don't choose to spend your money on or don't derive pleasure from. Posh coffee - pointless as it's just something to drink, expensive food - pointless as it's just a way of getting nutrients, watches - pointless as a casio does the job etc etc.

But the bloke in dubai who apparently spent 9 million dollars on a numberplate needs a reality check.

I had CC 748 RS which would have been perfect for a Ducatti owner at the time. It was on a Ducato van. Back in the 70s our neighbour Ron bought a coke bottle Cortina which was RON *, the *ed bit made it even better but as he still has it I'll keep stumm, just luck of the draw, Brum numbers had an "o" in the middle which made many Rons, Dons etc. happy.

I'll admit to once having a personal plate, but I did get it to wind up my then boss.

He hated me having a new Ford Ka as he said it wasn't in fitting with working at a bank. He would much prefer I had something 'Executive'. So that winter I bought an Audi 80 from eBay for £52.12 as a winter snotter! Showed him the keys and he was happy, until he saw the very scratched, dented and generally tatty D reg thing sitting in the car park. Used it all winter, including as a battering ram to clear snow that had blown up against the branch gate, then the Ka came back out in the spring. By this time I had bought a cheap plate for it, K70 NAD. Came in Monday morning and had to give the boss my new reg for the car park patrol. He was expecting the old plate but looked about concerned when I gave him the reg, thinking it was a '92/3 car I had bought to replace the Audi. He was even more confused when I told him the car was under a year old. He immediately went round to the car park to check what I'd parked there then came back and declared he gave up trying to get me to drive a better car. Good job too as I still had the Audi ready for the next winter. He told me to **** off when that reappeared in November 🤣

I sold the private plate a few years later for £2200, not bad considering it cost me £250 new and £80 for one transfer when I sold the Ka and bought a Fiesta.

I bought a car that had M4 LSR already on it.

Didn't bother me until someone pointed out that whenever they saw it they read 'Mr Loser'.

Classy.

Always bemused by anger at private plates - seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.

We used to have an app that 'valued' number plates.

The local Range Rover wearing GB7 - plate valued at £200k apparently. 😱

anyone who has the plate BO55 XYZ has a special place in my heart....

I mean, what tells people you're the boss more than, erm, literally having to spell it out.

Last time I bought a new car I could choose from a selection of number plates... I worked in IT at the time, and the plate was KU51 WXP, so that was cool, or at least I thought it was.

Always bemused by anger at private plates – seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.

Ambivalent, not angry tbh.

I do like this plate. Need a DB5 but a Silver Spirit is not too bad an alternative

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For peak Surrey, there's a VW Transporter I see regularly on the A25 between Dorking and Westcott direction with a custom plate which reads as 'MTB GOD'

I8 HAM

Not everyone wants a very fast car.

Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.

Always bemused by anger at private plates – seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.

As the OP I wasn't angered - I was more amused.

Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.

Because they choose to spend a few quid on that rather than whatever you see as worthy (perhaps they don't have a new ipad 🙂 )

Not quite the same but when growing up one of the local boy racers re arranged the word Escort on his suped up Ford to spell Scrote which I thought was funny and surprisingly honest of him. Yes it was Stoke.

@nuke - seen it at Swinley!! 😀

I once suggested a private plate to a mate - V70 MTB
I reckon you can guess what he drives and what he likes doing from time to time

Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.

Why not? Who should be allowed a vanity plate?

Mine is pretty non-descript but means something to me. It’s also on a VW California 4motion for added bonus points.

Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.

anyone who has the plate BO55 XYZ has a special place in my heart….

I'm pretty sure I posted this in last months Private Reg Plate discussion ... but since the bloke played such a blinder its worth reiterating.

Weegie with ACK as the suffix.

Absolute. Legend.

Two range rovers near me, one is NA5TY the other VIPER. I can see why you’d buy them as they go up in value, but they are a bit mleh. Does that person think they are nasty or a viper.

It’s also on a VW California 4motion for added bonus points.

Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.

Er, isn't a VW California the very definition of a massive Sports Utility Vehicle??

Does that person think they are nasty or a viper.

They probably own a bad tempered snake.

Saw an Aston Martin 4wd with the plate J007 ASM back in the summer.

There's a car that parks up at my work*; no shit, it is (and is spaced accordingly):

J15MY  J

*I don't work at a pron film studio (as far as I know)

Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.

I'm reasonably sure the Venn diagram of oversized SUVs and private plates has a pretty big overlap

Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.

Easy to remember them at the parking meter. I still can’t recall ours. We had two 09/59 plates that were very similar so I was always mixing up parts of them. I know my next vehicles number already. And now, so do you 😂

VIPER on a Range Rover, what a ****! Depriving a Viper owner of the plate.

Edit: there's a reason people on here photoshop the plates when they post pics of their cars, TiRed, there are some wierd people with time on their hands to do weird things on this forum *waves and smiles*. When a virtual forum reaches into members' real lives or other parts of their virtual lives. Remember when Clarkson published his bank details because he (wrongly) thought they would be of no use to anyone? 😉

Hell, I didn't even give my neighbour of 45-years-ago's full plate and CC 748 RS is long gone. 🙂

weird things on this forum

And the grief I got from Mrs TiRed for the plate pales into insignificance compared to the grief I got for the planned vehicle. Yes I am on the Citroen Ami list. I’ve already done the photoshopping for a presentation I gave to the BPS.

Any one bought AM1 5LOW?