Private reg plates (2 Viewers)

[Feltwell]

We have a local who takes photos of mis-spaced plates

Now there's someone who REALLY has far too much time on their hands!

Personalised plates aren't my thing but hey, each to their own, if others want to spend their hard earned on them then that's their business. Spacing and messing about with fonts and adding bolts etc so ANPR can't read them I support being clamped down on though - but I can't imagine an ANPR having a problem reading the OP's plate.

Personalised plates, private plates, cherished plates - the Yanks call them vanity plates, which strangely enough the industry selling them over here hasn't adopted!

I do get annoyed that people (at work especially) keep asking me "Is that a personalised plate?" on my car - it isn't, it's a pure coincidence that it spells my initials. Wouldn't be so bad but my previous car was the same!

As an aside, years ago I had a colleague with a major ego who would go on and on about his new car and how great it was and it's got this feature and that feature - etc etc. So one day a few of us are stood outside and he starts going on about his personalised plate and how much he'd paid for it - I think "J" reg was new at the time.

"Is that a personalised plate? I thought it was just a B reg" pipes up I. Whatever the plate cost, the look on his face was priceless.

 

[Brian and Jo]

Over the last 20yrs we have had many different plates on lots of different vehicles .while we had American vehicles several of them had show plates and no one ever said anything and we certainly haven't had an mot failure because of them.we have had them wrongly spaced,various Harley Davidson logo on them ,honeycomb background you name we have had it and nothing has been said.
Brian & Jo

 

[MC 55 FUN]

Cherished plates can also be correctly spaced & be meaningful to the owner.

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[EX51SSS]

No he did not take exception, I just stated that in your opinion I seem to have used the wrong choice of word.
Private plate not cherished big difference then.

Probably no difference whatsoever, just the terminology. Most people say private plate but those who have them use the terminology cherished plates.

 

[Detnor]

There are some sad people about.....

He is a highly regarded retired teacher. He is often in the park picking up litter and other such things. It's a brave person who parks in a disabled space without a blue badge. He is considered a useful part of the community by many, certainly not sad.

 

[mpdcymru]

Given you can sell on the "rights to display", it all amounts to the same thing

Except that DVLA can (and do) cancel some plates if they are misused.

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[houdini]

Can't understand what OO10 FUN means apart from the FUN part.
Any number plate displayed on a vehicle around my area with the wrong spacing would definitely be pulled over by Mr Plod and given a fixed penalty notice, including motorcycle's.

Think it is meant to represent exclamation of 'oooooo fun....'.

 

[On the road again]

Think it is meant to represent exclamation of 'oooooo fun....'.

Or it's some sort of binary FUN message ?

 

[two]

Cheapest way to get a personalised number is to change your name by deed poll to match the one you're given.

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[EX51SSS]

Cheapest way to get a personalised number is to change your name by deed poll to match the one you're given.

As in Mr. Ndy?

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

He is a highly regarded retired teacher. He is often in the park picking up litter and other such things. It's a brave person who parks in a disabled space without a blue badge. He is considered a useful part of the community by many, certainly not sad.

Fair play to him for picking up littler and reporting people parked in disabled bays but he is still a sad person for taking photos of mis-spaced number plates...not as if anyone is going to die or be inconvenienced by them..

 

[ceejayt]

We have (correctly spaced)

KI 55 YNG

My wife chose it and it us kissing. However most people who see it assune our 2016 motorhome is actually on a 55 plate and whatever year that was.

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[EX51SSS]

My wife chose it and it us kissing. However most people who see it assune our 2016

That'd be September 2005 to February 2006

 

[ceejayt]

That'd be September 2005 to February 2006

Thanks, so instantly aged the vehicle by 11 years.

 

[EX51SSS]

Thanks, so instantly aged the vehicle by 11 years.

Well yes but as a cherished plate, it doesn't matter per se.
My Moho is 2005/6 and it's on a cherished plate for 51 which is 2001/2

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[ceejayt]

Well yes but as a cherished plate, it doesn't matter per se.
My Moho is 2005/6 and it's on a cherished plate for 51 which is 2001/2

Yes, my point was that most people don't spot it as a cherish plate.

When we bought it, it was about £250. I did it over the phone with the cherish plate company. The girl at the other end didn't get 'kissing' till I said it and then said 'oh, that should have been more money'. Too late as I had already paid.

 

[EX51SSS]

Yes, my point was that most people don't spot it as a cherish plate.

When we bought it, it was about £250. I did it over the phone with the cherish plate company. The girl at the other end didn't get 'kissing' till I said it and then said 'oh, that should have been more money'. Too late as I had already paid.

Well mine was straight from DVLA, and it's EX 51 SSS as we have a Hymer Exsis 55 plate but we've had numerous comments especially since Hymer re introduced the Exsis model.
One meet they said, coolest reg ever. Someone in France thought it was a sales plate! What? Do you sell Exsis? Nooooooooo. How did you get a plate to match your motorhome? Erm? Bought it.

 

[scotzsue]

Thought about getting the nearest to my forum name as a numberplte till i saw the price and realised it would cover a lot of ferry fares.

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[davejen]

We have (correctly spaced)

KI 55 YNG

My wife chose it and it us kissing. However most people who see it assune our 2016 motorhome is actually on a 55 plate and whatever year that was.

It is illegally spaced- should read K155 YNG
Cheers, Dave

 

[bigtwin]

We have (correctly spaced)

KI 55 YNG

My wife chose it and it us kissing. However most people who see it assune our 2016 motorhome is actually on a 55 plate and whatever year that was.

That'd be September 2005 to February 2006

Isn't the registration actually K 155 YNG rather than KI 55 YNG which would age it as around 1972.

They don't do 'I's as I well know!

Ian

 

[karalal]

Isn't the registration actually K 155 YNG rather than KI 55 YNG which would age it as around 1972.

They don't do 'I's as I well know!

Ian

Could be an L with strategic white tape added making it an i

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[Brimal]

Probably no difference whatsoever, just the terminology. Most people say private plate but those who have them use the terminology cherished plates.

Yes you probably right, I use the word persona plate, but used private this time as that was the thread title.

 

[Brimal]

That should be personal plate normally.

 

[ceejayt]

It is illegally spaced- should read K155 YNG
Cheers, Dave

You are Right. It is a one not t an eye and is correctly spaces as K155 YNG

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[ceejayt]

And Hereford is much older

 

[EX51SSS]

Isn't the registration actually K 155 YNG rather than KI 55 YNG which would age it as around 1972.

They don't do 'I's as I well know!

Ian

You're absolutely correct. It's a K reg.

 

[ceejayt]

But people still assume it's a 55 plate

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[EX51SSS]

We have (correctly spaced)

KI 55 YNG

My wife chose it and it us kissing. However most people who see it assune our 2016 motorhome is actually on a 55 plate and whatever year that was.

No, it's incorrect as @bigtwin says, it's a K reg circa 1972 rather than a 55 reg so instantly you aged it by 45 years but it is K 155 YNG is the correct spacing. You might be able to get black and silver plates for that reg.

 

[EX51SSS]

But people still assume it's a 55 plate

But they're wrong anyway.

 

[ceejayt]

And it really doesn't matter

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