Would you buy your private reg again?

[*Al*]

I have 3 P/Plates, 2 in use and the other on retention. I don't care what people think of them, hence the word 'Private' plate.

[yellowbentines]

Mykap said:

Yes absolutely even though it makes my car look older to those who don't recognize the later shape. Of course MY57 ANG only works on one model of car.
Having said that the 2015 may attract silly offers for the plate which if sufficient I may consider.

Your 1957/57 yr old ford anglia I assume?

[xRIEx]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Bennet said:

To me, unless the plate is hilarious or ironic or something, all you achieve with a custom registration is making it look like you were ashamed of the age of your car.

That's in your head then. Wouldn't even cross my mind that somebody would be worried about the age of the car they drive?

It's the oft stated reason for doing this very thing when these threads come up.

[Chr1sch]

daveenty said:

BRMMA said:

I paid £250 for mine which is a letter, single number, then my initials. It's spaced correctly etc and IMO opinion looks better than the original plate and for reasons i struggle to explain i just like it. I wouldn't spend more than what i did for a plate but if i didn't have the plate and was offered the chance to buy it for the same price now then i would

Exactly the same as mine (though it's company initials, not my own, and irrelevant to most people). Bought from DVLA, no hassle and had it over 10 years now, in which time it's been on several cars and has looked good, at least in my mind, on them all.

A short plate and a year loser, what's not to like?

Yep same here

[buzzer]

Yes, definitely.

Bought in 1982 on an Arial square 4 motorbike for £600. Transferred off, and the bike sold for £1200 a few months later ( terrible bike to ride!)

Worth around £5,000 now

[Kitchski]

I think they're cheesey. One of my cars has one on, but it had it fitted when it was 6months old, so all the history is with that reg. Being the geek I am, I'd rather get the original one back on because it was a press fleet reg (though my car wasn't a press car), but then the history thing would bug me, even though I'll never sell it.

I gave a plate to my missus years ago. I never bought it, it came on a car I bought for £300. I removed the plate and sold it again later for £300. I gave her the plate as a birthday present, as I had no money and I thought it would be worth something. She still has it on the car now, but it looks pretty cheesey (M3 VTR on a Saxo VTR).

I don't care if people know how old my car is, I don't drive it for their benefit and I'm not into trying to impress people, let alone people I don't know. I suppose I could see a case if the plate was an investment, but then I'd rather just by a car that was rising in value and enjoy that.

Having the car's model on a plate looks like you're trying too hard IMO, but it's not outright sad. Outright sad is having your initials, with your name spelt out underneath in small text. Yeah, because I often sit at the lights behind a car and thing "Wow! Nice plate, I wonder if it's his initials? It's killing me not knowing! Why couldn't they give me a clue at the bottom or something? I wish I knew! Arrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!" before realising "Oh yeah, I forgot, there aren't many things I give less of a fk about, afterall."

[Hatson]

*Al* said:

I have 3 P/Plates, 2 in use and the other on retention. I don't care what people think of them, hence the word 'Private' plate.

Snap! Second one I bought a car so I could have it on the road.
Thinking of getting a model car with the third reg on for display at home.
I just like interesting registrations and wish I could justify buying more.

[Kitchski]

M3Gar said:

I would happily buy a cheap £250 plate with M3 then some random letters on it for my car, mainly to hide the fact it is an early one (02)
Also makes the car a bit more distinctive.

Spending more than this though, especially when you get up into the £1000s, just seems crazy to me, far better things to spend that much money on imo. However if I was minted and wanted to let everyone else know how well off I was then maybe my opinion would be different.

Edited by M3Gar on Saturday 31st January 09:49

Would M3 VTR suit sir?

[Kaj91]

Mine was a birthday present from the wife. It requires no illegal spacing or screws, it's the name of our football team and was well worth the £250.

[dbdb]

I like the Monte Carlo.

I didn't buy my plate, I inherited it from my dad. He owned it for a great many years, transferring it many times. It has his initials and was a plate from 1959 originally on an Austin, I believe.

Private registration plate didn't attract the kind of snobbish disdain so often seen on PH, back then. I really don't know why some PHers feel so strongly about them. Perhaps back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, most private plates had been bought with a car before 1963 which carried the owners initials, and kept after the new plates were introduced.

I will never sell it.

[jk888]

Yes I used to have one J888 and my initials but it went when I got rid of the car it was on, I regret losing it but circumstances at the time meant I had no option. The car had to go, I wasn't getting another one so the only option would have been retention and I didn't have a spare £105. I do plan to get another one at some point but there always seems to be another reason to spend the money

[danzman1991]

buzzer said:

Yes, definitely.

Bought in 1982 on an Arial square 4 motorbike for £600. Transferred off, and the bike sold for £1200 a few months later ( terrible bike to ride!)

Worth around £5,000 now

Sorry if I've misunderstood, are you saying the number plate 'AFD 506A' is worth £5000?

[Mykap]

yellowbentines said:

Mykap said:

Yes absolutely even though it makes my car look older to those who don't recognize the later shape. Of course MY57 ANG only works on one model of car.
Having said that the 2015 may attract silly offers for the plate which if sufficient I may consider.

Your 1957/57 yr old ford anglia I assume?

Obviously you have difficulty with reading as I said it may make the car look older than it is, if it was a 57 it would appear younger on a 2007 plate....

Anyway half right about the Ford bit.

[buzzer]

danzman1991 said:

buzzer said:

Yes, definitely.

Bought in 1982 on an Arial square 4 motorbike for £600. Transferred off, and the bike sold for £1200 a few months later ( terrible bike to ride!)

Worth around £5,000 now

Sorry if I've misunderstood, are you saying the number plate 'AFD 506A' is worth £5000?

no, that was the number DVLA allocated after the number was transferred off.... the number on the bike was three letters 2 numbers, the letters are the first three letters of my name.

I didn't know the bike had the registration number relating to me on it, I just saw the bike for sale and could see it was cheap. When I got there, and saw the number, the deal was done!

[R8VXF]

Registered my car from new on a private plate. It works for the car, just about, and it hides the fact it is brand new. Only cost 250, and only works on this car so if I ever sell, it will be sold with the car.

[spaximus]

I wish I had bought some many years ago of the right type. I have a staff member whose father was into these before the band wagon was rolling and bought a few for family. One has just sold for £142000, the one on her mothers Bentley is unique and has many meanings, just 0ne number and three letters. They have been asked to name a price on many occasions and allegedly turned down a six figure offer.

The highest figure he paid for one was £500 as they have owned them for years

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

spaximus said:

the one on her mothers Bentley is unique

Aren't they all

[TooMany2cvs]

spaximus said:

the one on her mothers Bentley is unique

Always a good start for a registration.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

TooMany2cvs said:

spaximus said:

the one on her mothers Bentley is unique

Always a good start for a registration.

Beat you (spooky, exactly the same edit!)

[AlmostUseful]

I bought mine because I had an Xmas bonus that year of a few hundred quid and had nothing better to spend it on.
It's R7 XTX, arguable the R7 is a bit like Ry (my name is Ryan) but that's not really why I bought it, I just liked it, would have preferred R9 but I couldn't put my finger on why. The XTX is meaningless, I just like the letters!

And yes I'd buy it again. In fact when I get a 2nd car I'll probably buy another XTX plate because I like the look of them and they're cheap as you like because they have no meaning.