Personalised Plates - views

[7184c]

I'm in two minds about putting a prefix style personalised plate on my early 981c, something ending CAY as a few can be had for not too much money on the DVLA.

I just wondered what the general consensus was on such plates. A bit of fun or does it scream kn0b and attract abuse from random strangers?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Why worry? If you like it then that's good enough

[dreamcar]

7184c said:

I'm in two minds about putting a prefix style personalised plate on my early 981c, something ending CAY as a few can be had for not too much money on the DVLA.

I just wondered what the general consensus was on such plates. A bit of fun or does it scream kn0b and attract abuse from random strangers?

I've got letter prefix personalised plates on both our BGTS and my Volvo daily drive. Never had any abuse or problems. Just a thought though rather than get a CAY plate why not get one with your name or initials? At least then you can transfer it to whatever car you get post Cayman.

[7184c]

dreamcar said:

I've got letter prefix personalised plates on both our BGTS and my Volvo daily drive. Never had any abuse or problems. Just a thought though rather than get a CAY plate why not get one with your name or initials? At least then you can transfer it to whatever car you get post Cayman.

Hopefully the Cayman is with me for the long haul, but it is likely to have my first name initial on the plate. To be honest at £250 probably cheaper to keep it on the car if I had to sell than the various fees. Good to hear you haven't had any problems, I've had plates stolen in the past although that was by petrol scammers.

[Hamperman]

Hi - I have a Cayman R and have a plate with R a couple of numbers and CAY. I think it looks great and much better than the 12 plate that it is.

[Hamperman]

Hi - I have a Cayman R and have a plate with R a couple of numbers and CAY. I think it looks great and much better than the 12 plate that it is.

[s3 akr]

You can probably guess my plate from my user name and the car I had when I bought it! Having had it on the main family cars ever since the S3 was sold, it had to be put on the Mini when we got the M3, then stayed there as it costs too much to keep moving it around!

[IMorris]

It's a marmite subject but I think a specialist car can easily qualify for a personalised plate I took my 12 plate off my 981 Boxster S and "invested" (I wish) in BOX 12S and it looks far better than the LC12 plate.
BOX 34S and CAY 34S sold last year.

[Sparkyhd]

Never understood the attraction myself but different strokes for different folks.

[Rob996]

Got a personalised plate on my daily, but the 996 looks good on it age related. However should an appropiate plate become available then i would be tempted. At the end of the day its what you want or would like, why worry about what other people think.

[Sparkyhd]

Obviously worried or wouldn't be asking.

[g7jhp]

My 1st Porsche came with a dateless plate (3 letters then 3 numbers) which I've moved to each subsequent car.

I like as it's not the model (I know what I drive), it's not my name (I know my name) it removes the age from my car and it's easy to remember.

[crystalmethod]

g7jhp said:

My 1st Porsche came with a dateless plate (3 letters then 3 numbers) which I've moved to each subsequent car.

I like as it's not the model (I know what I drive), it's not my name (I know my name) it removes the age from my car and it's easy to remember.

Exactly the same here for the same reasons.

[SRT Hellcat]

I don't have a problem with it. Buy what you fancy. I've six personalised plates. I bought the missus a personalised plate for her Alpina which was her name. A stroke of luck and an Irish plate so not a fortune. Once she noticed her original plate was FC ** KNG. I am not driving around in a car that says F**ING

[Tim bo]

Would feel like a complete dick if I had one on my car.

Don't care what other folk have on their cars.

It's your money OP, do what you please.

Edited by Tim bo on Monday 23 January 08:02

[Maxym]

crystalmethod said:

g7jhp said:

My 1st Porsche came with a dateless plate (3 letters then 3 numbers) which I've moved to each subsequent car.

I like as it's not the model (I know what I drive), it's not my name (I know my name) it removes the age from my car and it's easy to remember.

Exactly the same here for the same reasons.

Ditto. BOC, CAY, POR, etc is just tacky IMO. As is pretty much anything contrived to look like a name or word. Initials are passable but a bit cheesy. But do as you please, OP, and bks to what people like me think.

[Koln-RS]

Like most things, some look really good, some look really naff.

Anything where the letters/numbers/spacing are being distorted to look like something they're not, can look rubbish (and illegal).

As said above, purely your decision, but the best plates can be a very good investment.

[hondansx]

Maxym said:

crystalmethod said:

g7jhp said:

My 1st Porsche came with a dateless plate (3 letters then 3 numbers) which I've moved to each subsequent car.

I like as it's not the model (I know what I drive), it's not my name (I know my name) it removes the age from my car and it's easy to remember.

Exactly the same here for the same reasons.

Ditto. BOC, CAY, POR, etc is just tacky IMO. As is pretty much anything contrived to look like a name or word. Initials are passable but a bit cheesy. But do as you please, OP, and bks to what people like me think.

I agree, i think it looks contrived and cheap - a bit like when people have to use dots or spacing for their plate to make any kind of sense!

Also, how long are you going to own the car for? I would get a personalised car for YOU, not the car.

I'm certainly a 'less is more' kind of guy and prefer numberplates with as few letters/numbers as possible. I was really disappointed to miss out on '85 RF' (my DoB and initials) at a DVLA auction as i would probably have to pay 5x more to get it on the open market now.

[7184c]

Thanks all, some interesting points of view. I like the idea of timeless plates too, particularly ones with few characters. I'm going to have a look at the next DVLA auction list and see if there is anything worth a punt. For the amount of money I'm looking to spend I don't think the plates could ever be considered investments, but should be an improvement over the existing 13 plate.

[m444ttb]

I wouldn't worry too much. The sort of retards that are likely to shout abuse at you or damage your car because you have a private plate will already have taken offense at the car being a Porsche.