RE: Personalised plates: Tell Me I'm Wrong

[Mr. Potato Head]

Monkey said:

The private plate contaminates the simplicity of this man/machine relationship

fking hell that's thin! Is it anorexic?

[moskvich427]

I think the original plate is part of the car's identity - particularly if it's an older one and it's etched onto the windows.

Also, as a car lover, I like to know what age a car is when I see it on the road - private plates sadly disguise this.

I can see the appeal of them to some, but they're not for me

[TIGERSIX]

I bought mine over the years as investments and they have done me proud tbh sold a cheap £300 purchase vehicle specific one recently for £2500

[Garlick]

DB89 said:

Shaw Tarse said:

Thoughts on this?

Either the owner likes private plates or it came with the car. I'm sure he'll be along to explain.

I bought it for £250 about 8 years ago

Ergo I am a tt

[mr2j]

sugerbear said:

Private plates = Drug dealer/Money launderer/Bank Robber

It also makes things much easier for the police.

said disgruntled of Tunbridge Wells. They are naff, though.

[Garlick]

Pr1964 said:

They all spell c 0 c k ... unless they're on old heaps or classic cars.

No, sorry I'm not a tt I'm a cock

[Amirhussain]

anything fast said:

Dagnut said:

anything fast said:

you know what I really dont mind personal plates when they relate to a car like:

F335FER
M3 EVO
M6 BMW
M5 BMW
etc etc

all very cool

but ones that spell names like T3RRY, S4MMY etc make me want puke and punch the owner in the face

Why? why do you care?
I can't believe the mileage this topic is getting and the Aventador roadster is going completely unnoticed.

Pistonheads now seems to be pages of debates about interiors and thinly veiled snobbery.
"oohh Ferrairs are tacky"....."that's a footballers cars" ......"its still a datsun".... "boo hooo I don't like personalised plates"

Your like a bunch of cackling old geese.

It bothers me because I LIKE cars and people who have private plates that have their name are often self absorbed, utterly vain and usually spoil a nice car with a stupid number plate.

How, do you know them?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

[B'stard Child]

Garlick said:

Pr1964 said:

They all spell c 0 c k ... unless they're on old heaps or classic cars.

No, sorry I'm not a tt I'm a cock

You (meaning "the team") must have known this article would polarise opinions.....
Maybe that's the plan - one thread to end all threads - any future new posts locked and pointed to the "one" we did earlier
You are more cunning than a cunning fox

[Mermaid]

Hot topic

[Tib]

I don't mind them massively, but I vastly dislike anythin 'box' related on a boxster for some reason.

[Rickpw1]

That was a very easy and dare I say lazy article to right. Half day?

[Garlick]

Rickpw1 said:

That was a very easy and dare I say lazy article to right. Half day?

Not a half day as such as he wrote it from this race: http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=133&i=277...

[patrickgovier]

I like them if they are done correctly. I had an Audi TT where the last three letters were JFK (came with the car). This made it a bit easier to find in a car park with lots of other black TT's! I am with the middle ground some look classy some look terrible. Also if the plate has illegal spacing/letters you deserve to be fined.

[Baz Tench]

Nicely put Chris. It's usually just unnecessary car jewellery in my eyes.

[J4CKO]

rossi1 said:

Harris..Open your eyes fella, bigger things going on in the world.
Probably best you did keep this to yourself.

So until World Hunger, Syria, rest of the middle East, Operation yewtree, Cancer, Heart Disease etc are all sorted we best shut PH down eh ?

Frankly, it is all trivial stuff, about cars so it is in context, sometimes we need a dose of the trivial, my grandad is gravely ill at the moment and I can still find the time to bh about other peoples regsitration plates.


Also, we all know, the best registrations can only be shown in white, on a black background, the rest look a bit rubbish, whatever they say.

[B'stard Child]

Rickpw1 said:

That was a very easy and dare I say lazy article to right. Half day?

Write?

[Addymk2]

It seems to me (and I'm standing by to get flamed for this) that 90% of the private plates out there are attempting in one way or another to spell: 51NGH, M0HAMAD, AR1F etc etc.

Funny/easily understandable private plates... They are cool. I don't care if Mohammed drives a black diesel Mercedes. It makes me smile however when a sleeper wears a plate such as C9YA.

My 2 pence anyway.

[Cheesie]

In my view cherished plates are a very good method of the government extracting money from people who can't remember two letters, two numbers and three letters! Keep on buying them and swapping them over please, that could be keeping my road tax down. Now what is my cars number!

[Rickpw1]

Garlick said:

Not a half day as such as he wrote it from this race: http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=133&i=277...

Yep, that's what I meant. Apologies for mispelling big fingers/small phone