Personalised licence plate

Kevster

I've been living in England for a few months now and noticed a pretty ridiculous personalised licence plate a few days ago:

'D5 APE'

Do you think I should have warned him never to go to Dublin...? :rolleyes:

Whosbetter?

PEN 1S is a good one too.

wudangclan

Kevster wrote: »

Do you think I should have warned him never to go to Dublin...? :rolleyes:

Because of the recession?

TheZohanS

I'd be more worried about how Kildare people are going to feel about their county being renamed York... and joining the UK!

Armin_Tamzarian

Whosbetter? wrote: »

PEN 1S is a good one too.

Not as good as ASSMAN.

Rented Mule

3M TAE is a personal favourite in the rear view mirror.

biko

Maybe he was from D5?

Best one I ever saw was in Vienna, the local Bakery was called Anker.

so the CEO had W-ANKER1 on his car, of course to a German speaker the word meant nothing.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Kevster wrote: »

I've been living in England for a few months now and noticed a pretty ridiculous personalised licence plate a few days ago:

'D54 APESS'

Do you think I should have warned him never to go to Dublin...? :rolleyes:

FYP.

Manic Moran

There is the famous picture of a Florida licence plate on a Buick with the randomly allocated number of "A55 RGY". Problem is there's a big large orange (the fruit, of course) between the 5 and the R.

NTM

amacachi

What kind of a name is Bort?

Pdfile

Kevster wrote: »

I've been living in England for a few months now and noticed a pretty ridiculous personalised licence plate a few days ago:

'D5 APE'

Do you think I should have warned him never to go to Dublin...? :rolleyes:

i know a fella with 09d1 and has the letters spaced slightly....


i want to try it with a speed camera.

getz

Kevster wrote: »

I've been living in England for a few months now and noticed a pretty ridiculous personalised licence plate a few days ago:

'D5 APE'

Do you think I should have warned him never to go to Dublin...? :rolleyes:

i think i have a good one its K155 BLL it cost me £400 from the DVLA,and i will be driving around ireland in my car if feb,but the one i wanted was [the wife would not let me have ] K155 ARS

AnonoBoy

Fu-Q is a sweet-ass awesome one.

If I had that licence plate I'd be so cool I'd like totally hang it on the wall in my parent's basement where I live and like so totally think about what kinda car I'm going buy when I save up my money from working nights at Kinko's.

Totally.

FU2

I had a friend who had SPL1F.
Edit: it's now on a land rover - He used to have a Granada.

Long Onion

The car the OP referrs to is owned by the drummer gorilla from the cadbury ad. It is, but his perogative.

funk-you

When I was living in London a neighbour who owned a Ferarri had "B1CEP" as his licence plate. There's a word for these people....Saps...

-Funk

getz

a lot of people now take out personalised plates, as they now dont change there car as often as they used to,but do i detect a little jealousy from some of my irish friends ? wait for it''''''''''

GiftofGab

Seen 'VIP NY' on a Ferrari when I was in London. Pretty flashy

BraziliaNZ

I saw "HO MGNT" in NZ on pimped out Merc, loads of cars have personalised reges there

NibNib

I saw a black convertible with the roof down on my way to Brent Cross, license plate: MR FIT

deadwood

Pdfile wrote: »

i know a fella with 09d1 and has the letters spaced slightly....

Pals with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, eh?

Armin_Tamzarian

getz wrote: »

a lot of people now take out personalised plates, as they now dont change there car as often as they used to

I don't understand.
You can keep the plate and transfer it onto any new cars you get for a nominal fee.

Bazzy

My Finance me lives up north and theres a guy near her who has W8 Gee as his reg rather cool for dublin

Armin_Tamzarian

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

I don't understand.
You can keep the plate and transfer it onto any new cars you get for a nominal fee.

He's referring to the fact that personal number plates don't have the year of first registration of the car on them, there is a steady trade in NI plates for that very reason.

Armin_Tamzarian

Deleted User wrote: »

He's referring to the fact that personal number plates don't have the year of first registration of the car on them, there is a steady trade in NI plates for that very reason.

You mean so that the car doesn't look old?
Up North you can re-register your car whenever you want and get a brand new reg.
I've seen plenty of sad cases do it to make their two year old motor look new.

getz

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

I don't understand.
You can keep the plate and transfer it onto any new cars you get for a nominal fee.

like ireland, many people have not got the money now to change their car every two years, so your five year old car still looks good with personalised plates,saying that a car flashed his lights at me in fleetwood this week,he spotted my kiss bll on my plate,when i looked at his plate,he had .... gay on it.

Armin_Tamzarian

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

You mean so that the car doesn't look old?
Up North you can re-register your car whenever you want and get a brand new reg.
I've seen plenty of sad cases do it to make their two year old motor look new.

NI plates don't show the year first registered, what's happening is that they're selling the plates on and re-registering the car for profit.

Armin_Tamzarian

Deleted User wrote: »

NI plates don't show the year first registered, what's happening is that they're selling the plates on and re-registering the car for profit.

They do, the first letter denotes the year of registration.
E.g. in the reg' KLZ 1234' K denotes 2002.
Next year it would be 'LLZ 1234'.

You see these guys buying a new car and then applying for a new reg 2 or 3 years later to have a fresh reg.
Once the model of car hasn't been updated the car will appear to be new.
Pretty pathetic.

I once knew a bloke down here who bought a new Passat.
The reg was something like 04-D-6767.
When the new year rolled round I spotted that yer man's reg had changed to 05-D-6767.
He tried to tell everyone he'd bought a new car.
A local Garda copped it and made him change it back after a few weeks.
What an idiot.

Armin_Tamzarian

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

They do, the first letter denotes the year of registration.
E.g. in the reg' KLZ 1234' K denotes 2002.
Next year it would be 'LLZ 1234'.

You see these guys buying a new car and then applying for a new reg 2 or 3 years later to have a fresh reg.
Once the model of car hasn't been updated the car will appear to be new.
Pretty pathetic.

Fair enough, I was under the impression that the first letter was just a serial index as in when the numbers got to 9999 the letter incremented.

They still profit from selling the plates to the mainland though, but it is still illegal to missrepresent the age of the car by putting a newer year reg on it!

carchaeologist

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

They do, the first letter denotes the year of registration.
E.g. in the reg' KLZ 1234' K denotes 2002.
Next year it would be 'LLZ 1234'.

You see these guys buying a new car and then applying for a new reg 2 or 3 years later to have a fresh reg.
Once the model of car hasn't been updated the car will appear to be new.
Pretty pathetic.

Are you sure of this,i thought you couldnt get a reg newer than you car was?This is definatly the case in england.
And that northern marks just ran untill 9999 and then the next letter takes over,they used to use letters for years in england,but not in the north,unless its come in recently?
Also they usually keep over the first 999 of each series for sale at auction.
Some good,or naff depending on how you see it, english ones.
CLA55Y(classy),60D(god)EEE333,HOP1N(hop in),MRL1P(mr lip),TAX1,
25EXY(too sexy)
This is about as good as it gets in ireland,they are genuine plates

Armin_Tamzarian

Deleted User wrote: »

They still profit from selling the plates to the mainland though, but it is still illegal to missrepresent the age of the car by putting a newer year reg on it!

Not up there.
If you imported a '94 car into the North today they'll give you a fresh reg with this year's letter on it.
There's nothing illegal about it, unless of course you tried to convince a prospective buyer that the car was newer that it actually was.

Down here if you import and '94 they'll give you a 94 reg.

To be fair the reg system that we have here is it one of the few things that we've gotten right.
It's one of the best and easiest to understand in the world.

The other poster did make a valid point though.
Changing the car's reg plate can make a big difference to the car's appearance.
I remember importing a 7 year old BMW before.
It looked well decent on the UK plate but when I put the Irish plate on it,
it suddenly looked alot older and less appealing.

carchaeologist wrote: »

Are you sure of this,i thought you couldnt get a reg newer than you car was?This is definatly the case in england.

100%, I've registed cars in the North myself.
If you register a car there today they'll give you a new reg with the most recently used first letter.

carchaeologist

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

If you register a car there today they'll give you a new reg with the most recently used first letter.

Similar to southern ireland Pre 1987 so.Thanks for that!

Armin_Tamzarian

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

100%, I've registed cars in the North myself.
If you register a car there today they'll give you a new reg with the most recently used first letter.

That means that the reg is not year of manufacture dependant it's just the next in the series!

Armin_Tamzarian

Deleted User wrote: »

That means that the reg is not year of manufacture dependant it's just the next in the series!

Q.E.D.

kowloon

The problem with our system is the reg plate snobbery that comes with having the year clearly displayed on your plate. How many eejits line up to buy new cars at the start of the year just so they can be current? I'd bet it's quite a few.

Of course it does insure people who don't have their heads up their behinds have a ready supply of idiots to eat up the depreciation on new cars before passing them on as bargains.

Lirael

NibNib wrote: »

I saw a black convertible with the roof down on my way to Brent Cross, license plate: MR FIT

:pac:

did MR FIT really fit the car?

hahaha that's brilliant

Armin_Tamzarian

How insane is the cost of this reg?

Lirael

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

How insane is the cost of this reg?

OMG :pac:

jd007

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

How insane is the cost of this reg?

Ya but without the VAT its only 250k.

Armin_Tamzarian

I think the most expensive UK reg is F1, which cost £450k.
Most expensive in the world was £7million for 1.

At least I know what F1 means, what the hell does TP 1 mean?
If it said something like PIMP then at least it would be £250k well spent.

carchaeologist

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

At least I know what F1 means, what the hell does TP 1 mean?
spent.

Thick Prick 1

Catari Jaguar

Kevster wrote: »

I've been living in England for a few months now and noticed a pretty ridiculous personalised licence plate a few days ago:

'D5 APE'

Do you think I should have warned him never to go to Dublin...? :rolleyes:

I don't get this.

People in Dublin 5 are apes?

L1011

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

They do, the first letter denotes the year of registration.
E.g. in the reg' KLZ 1234' K denotes 2002.
Next year it would be 'LLZ 1234'.

This is categorically and completely wrong. The leading letter is sequential, that is all. They move to the next one instantly on reaching *** 9500 in the sequence, no matter when in the year it is.

Seeing as theres about 30 trailing letter combos in use, the average person on the street hasn't got a clue what age a car is off its plate.

Armin_Tamzarian

MYOB wrote: »

This is categorically and completely wrong. The leading letter is sequential, that is all. They move to the next one instantly on reaching *** 9500 in the sequence, no matter when in the year it is.

Sequential like the years.
You can tell the year by the letter.
On the pre 2001 regs in England the first letter was incremented twice a year, regardless of whether the following numbers had reached 9500 or not.
Is the DVLNI system not the same?

The trailing letter combo denotes the county of registration.

L1011

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Sequential like the years.
You can tell the year by the letter.
On the pre 2001 regs in England the first letter was incremented twice a year, regardless of whether the following numbers had reached 9500 or not.
Is the DVLNI system not the same?

The trailing letter combo denotes the county of registration.

The DVA (ex DVLNI) system isn't the same at all. The letters increment when they run out of numbers (they only go to 9500), and *only* when they run out of numbers.

For the third time on this thread, it has nothing to do with the years!

Kevster

TheZohan wrote: »

I'd be more worried about how Kildare people are going to feel about their county being renamed York... and joining the UK!

That's arguably the best thing I've read all year, and we're into december already! Nice one Zohan.

Kevster

Lil Kitten wrote: »

I don't get this.

People in Dublin 5 are apes?

No, it's saying that the driver is a D5 ape. I don't know where you're from but the use of the word 'ape' is a light insult where I am from.

By the way everyone, well done for sticking to the theme of boards.ie - i.e. diluting a topic down so that you can all release pent-up anxiety/frustration by arguing childhishly with each other.

Kevin