[Closed] Private plates

How dreadfully gauche

How dreadfully gauche

Too many characters

SO22ERZ for your local butcher's jag?

I saw an, what I assume was legit, Ambulance with a reg starting K999…

Fitting, I thought.

would it not be easier and cheaper to just change your business name to eg. BX22 TGS ?

Is W4 NKR available?

We can no doubt expect to see plenty of BO22 plates being driven around by red faced blokes and hard faced women soon.

I just don’t get private plates.

I just don’t get private plates.

If you have a couple of hundred quid kicking about then why not? What could you possibly do that would even more fun than buying a couple of bits of coloured plastic?

If you have a couple of hundred quid kicking about then why not? What could you possibly do that would even more fun than buying a couple of bits of coloured plastic?

1. Coke

2. Hookers

😃

BO22 plates

ZZ22 ZZZ

2. Hookers

HO04 ERS it is then

It would be cheaper to just buy some stickers and spell put your name on the back, or get one of those sunshade windscreen labels "Barry and Tracy" across the front of your cortina.

I could be the richest person in the world and I'd never get one.

I had one for a month or so, came on a car I bought. Right PITA to get rid of, I felt like a proper tool driving round like that.
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Sorry OP, I think the consensus may be 'don't'

2. Hookers

For £200? I thought this place was all about quality rather than quantity.

Ambulance with a reg starting K999…

Our trust once had K999 NAS for the first of a new range of vehicles.

molgrips. Full Member

I could be the richest person in the world and I’d never get one

That’s a shame Molls. We could all have a field day coming up with a suitable one for that Merc 😃

HO04 ERS it is then

For a travelling vacuum cleaner sales person?

I saw "U S05AGE" on the back of a range rover, which I thought was quite funny.

saw CO51 BED on a matress truck, didn't seem too cheesy at the time.

For £200? I thought this place was all about quality rather than quantity.

Depends on the timeframe.

We can no doubt expect to see plenty of BO22 plates being driven around by red faced blokes and hard faced women soon.

For all the losers who missed out on BO55....

It would be cheaper to just buy some stickers and spell put your name on the back, or get one of those sunshade windscreen labels “Barry and Tracy” across the front of your cortina.

Except it isn't really, that's why I'm looking specifically at 22 plates for £399.
These plates are cheap now because only new vehicles can display them. When I wind up business ten years from now, the plate can be sold at a decent profit, while the sunshade sticker is long since in landfill.

I'm in total agreement by the way about personal plates with names or initials on, that's not what I'm after. Total embarrassment...
I do quite like a business related one though, it's a different thing.

Portaloo hire place near here has P33 POO and JOB 3Y or something close, the acceptable end of private plates imo.

That’s a shame Molls. We could all have a field day coming up with a suitable one for that Merc

Sadly B1 NRS isn't available.

Except it isn’t really, that’s why I’m looking specifically at 22 plates for £399.

VS £20 for stickers? Do you really think £399 is cheap for a badly spelled label?

MO16RIP

I could be the richest person in the world and I’d never get one.

Same here, never been one for vanity plates.
I once knew a guy with Triumph Mayflower who’s reg was OPT 8. He was offered a fortune by an optician, didn’t sell though.

Edit, just checked the DVLA site & it’s now on a Land Rover. So he did sell it!

When I wind up business ten years from now, the plate can be sold at a decent profit

It was once the case that Private Plates only appreciated in value as the supply was fairly limited - only ones that were issued at random / by accident made it into circulation. Now that the DVlLA has monetised the issue of them it means many more actually get issued so theres loads of them - every clever business related combination that could get issued does get issued and thats been the case for over 20 years so theres plenty of stock - I work with a guy who has a sizeable  fleet if vehicles - all with plates that appear to spell his business name which is a name that describes the act of driving a vehicle so as car and business related a private plate as you could ask for. - judging by the number of them he's got they're not hard to come by.. Next time you're  in traffic challenge yourself to see if theres ever a moment on a journey when you can't see a 'private plate' - they're totally ubiquitous.

Ebay's full of private plates for sale -some with optimistic prices on some for nearly nowt the vast majority of them just don't sell. In 10 years time there will be a decades worth of new 'business related' plates out there, and non of the old ones will have gone away - so rarity is constantly decreasing.

Driving around perth, MAD41T, spaced out to read mad 4 it.
Made me laugh.
I’m not generally a fan of them, except humorous ones.

Our trust once had K999 NAS for the first of a new range of vehicles.

I know the owner of K999 NAT.
She's had the plate for years.

VS £20 for stickers? Do you really think £399 is cheap for a badly spelled label?

If you read my post, then yes, over the ten year period I mentioned, the £399 plates will work out cheaper.

It's not rocket science...

Unless they don't of course 🤣

Copper near me retired after 30 years.

P30 LOD.

He was surprised I'd pinged it. Said normally it was only kids that could see it.

VS £20 for stickers? Do you really think £399 is cheap for a badly spelled label?

If you read my post, then yes, over the ten year period I mentioned, the £399 plates will work out cheaper.

Unless you can get your email address or a mobile phone number on a 22 Plate I think a sticker is going to drum up more business and yield more profit in the short and long run 🙂

Yeah in terms of return on investment, a sticker will be better at communicating your brand, and a lot cheaper.

During the last national fire service strike our Brigade was supplied with a new full liveried car reg #999FBU - we never worked out whether it was the brigade engineer or the vehicle supplier showing support. It drove senior officers mad!

These plates are cheap now because only new vehicles can display them. When I wind up business ten years from now, the plate can be sold at a decent profit, while the sunshade sticker is long since in landfill.

I bought a personal plate back in 2004 for £250 direct from the DVLA, nothing special just a 6 character one with my initials. Quickly got bored of it and realised it was a little bit naff so decided to sell it 3 years later. It was selected by the trader I had it advertised to go in an auction as they thought it might make more than the £499 they had it advertised at for some reason. Cue a cheque for £2200 being in my hand a few weeks later! It sold for just under £3k to a guy who was buying up every plate with my initials on it for some unknown reason but a few years later I checked and it was on a 2003 Jaguar X-type diesel! Seems to have disappeared now though but I don't care, it paid for most of my new bike 😀

WA22OCK?

What’s your business OP? We need to know so that we can suggest plates

Private plate are the height of cringe imo. Unless it's something ruthlessly succinct. My old boss had one something like T G. His initials. Which was cool.

To each there own though, so crack on.

TO 22 BAG

I'm not a fan of them. Would never have one... but, I parked behind this the other day and had to send my son a pic. You'd either know, or you wouldn't 😀

What’s your business OP?

The forum name 'Bedmaker' suggests CH4M83R M41D 🙂

BO22 HOG

edit

damn its Hogg not Hog

BJ2 2UCK

BU22ING

OP is a drug dealer or lovehoney exec

To each there own though

If you decide to get a vanity plate make sure you get someone to check the spelling.

YE71 MTB
Wonder if their home insurer knows that's parked outside the garage.

MO16RIP

16 year old Mo has died?

Private plate are the height of cringe imo.

But so what? Why do people care so damned much about what others do with their own money? Much the same as those who start clutching their pearls and having a fit of the vapours as soon as the subject of tattoos comes up.
Honestly, it’s not scaring your pets, keeping you awake all night, making the neighbourhood smell, or any of a number of irritating or otherwise obnoxious antics, so I really don’t understand why it makes people so huffy.

ZZ22BED
GO22BED
MY22VAN

The ones I just don't quite understand are the ones generally attached to a BMW X5 or X6 that are along the lines of X5 ROB or X6 DAZ.

Thanks for pointing out exactly what your pointless ****ing monstrosity of a car is I'd never have guessed you complete ****ing waste of skin.

Those and the ones that someone has clearly spent a couple of hundred quid on but that could only ever make sense if you were 10 pints deep and squinting.

The ones I just don’t quite understand are the ones generally attached to a BMW X5 or X6…

May have been posted before (nsfw):

I really don’t understand why it makes people so huffy.

Does seem to be disproportionate reactions on the subject. I regret not getting the plate with my surname when it was launched, would have been £250. Would have made me smile every time I saw it.

But so what? Why do people care so damned much about what others do with their own money?

They help forewarn me that the driver is going to be a dick so they serve a purpose. I don't however care about it or whatever money they may have.

If it's also one of those 3D plates it is confirmation that the owner is a weapons grade throbber.

MA22OUT while we're on forum plates...

But so what? Why do people care so damned much about what others do with their own money?

The OP seemed to court opinions. Isn't that the purpose of this place?

Saw a yellow seat with W7NKR the other day . W77NKR is still available for you.

The OP seemed to court opinions. Isn’t that the purpose of this place?

Only if the opinion you court aligns with the group-think.

NE14 ABJ?

I have a private plate, so does my wife... please dont burn me at the stake!

Caveat - they mean something to us, arent spaced incorrectly and there isnt a use of multiple fixing bolts to try and make it say something it doesnt.

Anything that ends in BED would get my vote. Dont worry about the first few letters/numbers.

Thats assuming your forum name is relative to your business!

I can spell my company's name on a plate in both Welsh (perfectly) and English (very nearly), so the taxman bought me some plates but you'd never tell unless you already knew.

https://www.newreg.co.uk/search/info/SO22+BED?sel=buy&registration=SO22+BED

Is available. Assuming beds are your business.

Except it isn’t really, that’s why I’m looking specifically at 22 plates for £399.
These plates are cheap now because only new vehicles can display them. When I wind up business ten years from now, the plate can be sold at a decent profit,

Interesting I had never considered that the release of new plates and the rules on putting them on old cars created an investment market. Would still need to be very "clever" to pick a plate that works for 22 and will have demand in 10 years time and no significant competition. I do wonder if you'd actually get a better return sticking 399 in your pension (with the tax benefits of doing so) for 10 yrs, rather than 399 + the transfer cost every time you change your vehicle, and then selling it on in the future. I can imagine some future government might clamp down on these being bought as a business expense which could really ruin the market. If the money is going to DVLA its just moved from one dept to another so perhaps doesn't worry government as a "tax on the vain" but if you but a plate for £399 and sell it for £3000 - gov get none of that and its probably going through someone's books so reducing tax income.

I can spell my company’s name on a plate in both Welsh (perfectly) and English (very nearly), so the taxman bought me some plates but you’d never tell unless you already knew.

This has always puzzled me. A plate costs £400. If it's a business expense, it reduces your profit by 400. That means you pay less tax, but not 400 less - perhaps 160 less tax? So HMRC didn't buy you a plate, and yet nobody would know its special so why splash £240 on a plate?

YE71 MTB
Wonder if their home insurer knows that’s parked outside the garage.

No different to having a bike carrier on your roof really is it? In fact I suspect if you asked the average thief they'd say the bike carrier is far more obvious, gives an idea how many bikes etc. Whereas MTB could be someone's initials, random letters etc.

Not a personal reg plate, but followed a Skoda taxi this morning with the taxi number 666. No way I'd be getting in that 😛

Wonder if their home insurer

Blah blah. Maybe he keeps his Yeti next to his bed. I reckon I could put a sign saying "There are mountain bikes in here!" on my garage, it still wouldn't get broken in to.

They help forewarn me that the driver is going to be a dick so they serve a purpose.

That statement probably says more about you than the driver with the vanity plate.

I quite like them when they spell something obvious or are consecutive numbers in a fleet of trucks - often those are local companies who really take pride in their vehicles and keep the same set of plates for decades.

It’s a bit of harmless fun, people who assume that the owners are idiots need to take a look at themselves.

I could be the richest person in the world and I’d never get one.

You wouldn't have to - people only get them to hide the true age of their car and if you were that rich you could simply get a new car every time a new plate comes out.

people only get them to hide the true age of their car

Do they? Cheaper to just buy from NI.

YE71 MTB
Wonder if their home insurer knows that’s parked outside the garage.

I didn't 3xp3c5 anyone to take the comment too seriously, but I did forget the winky face so I guess it's on me.

Having said that, insurance companies have been known to try anything and everything to avoid paying out.

Wasn't there a woman a few years back who was refused a payout for vandalism due to religious slogans on her car?

people only get them to hide the true age of their car

not so sure about that, we have one on my wife's car, it spells her name and we quite like it. She changes her car for a new one every 3 or 4 years and the plate has now been on at least 4 of her cars

I also don't get why some folks get so worked up about others spending their money on private plates.

Indeed. I think they're naff but then I think the same thing about white cars, SUV's, hot tubs, Apple products, gravel bikes and a million other things that have (mostly)zero impact on my life.

Choice is a nice thing.

YE71 MTB
Wonder if their home insurer knows that’s parked outside the garage.

There is a large house near the local trails where several cars have plates that end ***MTB. As far as we know, none of the inhabitants are MTBers. Which is sad, because they live about 200m from some great trails. I wonder if they get broken into by thieves looking for their bikes.

On the other side of the woods is a large house with about 6 cars all with plates ending HUW. I'm guessing that everyone in the house is called Huw, or Huw lives on his own and is very greedy about collecting number plates. 😀

I've just got a private plate - nothing tacky, just mine & the Wife's initials.

Just been looking and 'MTB' prefix plates seem cheap as chips - £170 on Regtransfers.

I did find my 'ultimate' plate, but it was £36.5k..... I'd previously seen it about 25 years ago and it was £5k then lol

In 15+ years of commuting by bike the only driver to threaten to kill me had a personal plate. That's enough evidence for me thank you.

That statement probably says more about you than the driver with the vanity plate.

Yeah probably. What is your dream private plate?