buying an A1 AAA style reg

[ClaphamGT3]

PorkInsider said:

Breadvan72 said:

Why TF would any sane person want his or her initials on a car number plate, FFS? It's almost as bad as having a monogram on your shirt.

Have to say I completely agree with this.

Just change your name by deed-poll to SP61VWR or whatever happens to be on your car - much less hassle

[Jarcy]

Nothing wrong with personalised plates, and nothing wrong with minor liberties with the spacing IMHO.
You only start looking a bit of a knob when you need extra stuff like black screw heads to start spelling what you want it to spell.

I paid DVLC £250 for J5000CC to put on my TVR (Rover 5ltr V8). Is that lack of spacing considered knobbish?

[KungFuPanda]

Surely it's J500OCC?

[Jagmanv12]

SlackBladder said:

Toonshorty said:

Cooperman said:

So the DVLA sell these plates because they appear to make a name, then when a purchaser has spent several hundred quid buying it and displays the name it is illegal and he risks having it taken from him with no cash back.

Purchasing a plate because it makes a name is fine.

Purchasing a plate that doesn't quite make a name, then illegally rearranging the spaces so that it does is not okay.

Seems fair enough to me.

Which is why the DVLA hold these plates back and then sell them?

Just go on the DVLA web site and look up how many **51 MON plates are for sale.


Simon

Exactly. The DVLA advertise numbers like **51 MON as spelling SIMON so it sells for a higher price. Then when you space it like that you stand the chance of fines, etc. They purposely misrepresent digits, etc. 7 becomes T, 4 becomes A, etc.

[Jarcy]

KungFuPanda said:

Surely it's J500OCC?

Indeed yes, but the official font is the same for O and 0.
It looked like this:

[5-Oh]

Are ANPR cameras able to pick up foreign plates, with fonts/spacing differing from UK standards? I was always told this was why German-style plates were illegal. My local Sainsbury's has ANPR cameras for the car park, with an LED display that lists your reg. and remaining parking time. I was tempted to put an American plate on my car and see if it could read it, but decided it was a slightly weird/anoraky waste of time.

[aw51 121565]

The ANPR in use at the multi storey at Valencia airport can 'read' D123 EFG, so any registration mark on a vehicle doesn't necessarily have to "make sense" to the OS-in-use for pay-at-exit machines to request a fee to leave a car park 1500 miles south of here...

Abstract, I know - but ANPR 'sees' a group of characters and files them, end-of...

Suspect it will pick up on the difference between 0 & O though ; any warrant-card-holder (if there are any about nowadays ) would do so also (not to mention the spacing ).

Have we done the Viz mag joke yet?

Dear Sir,

avoid the issues around buying personalised number plates; just buy one and change your name by deed poll.

Yours etc.

Mr KVL 741Y

[Terminator X]

I have a single digit moved over on mine otherwise plate is standard. Never been stopped and that includes instances of a police car behind me and indeed getting speeding tickets turn up too. Small risk imho.

TX.

[Terminator X]

drdel said:

Bought an old motorcycle decades ago because its number plate had my initials and just two matching digits. Sold the bike for more than I paid for it and kept the number and stuck it on the car rather than pay a yearly retention fee - as an investment it has proved better than a bank's return.

If that makes me a tosser; who cares: not me.

It's 10 years now.

TX.