Getting rid of old number plates?

[JohnnyUK]

Hi All

This might be a daft question, but clearing out my garage today, I have around twelve physical number plates I need to throw away.

Shall I put them in the normal rubbish? Is there a risk they would be retrieved and used as "false plates"?

They're a mix of metal and plastic plates, so not the easiest things to destroy.....

Thanks!

John

[FilH]

Can't say when ever I need false plates I go down rubbish bags, usually I just unscrew them off the nearest car.

Hope that helps.

[bristolbaron]

Snap them in half and put in the bin? One half in this collection and save the other half for the next if you must!

[DavieW]

bristolbaron said:

Snap them in half and put in the bin? One half in this collection and save the other half for the next if you must!

That's what I was going to post. Or else screw them onto the garage wall and start a man cave.

[Spare tyre]

Snap them

Do you even own the cars associated with them

Failing that, drop them down a cavity wall or slide them under a floor

Will cause a bit of head scratching in future

I wouldn’t worry, if people want the number of a certain model, they will look out the window or on autotrader

[Slow.Patrol]

Stick them up on the inside wall of the garage and reminisce about all the cars you have owned.

Who knows, they might be replaced by a barcode in the future, so may have some value.

[Skyedriver]

Slow.Patrol said:

Stick them up on the inside wall of the garage and reminisce about all the cars you have owned.

Who knows, they might be replaced by a barcode in the future, so may have some value.

Ditto.

[Dog Star]

Skyedriver said:

Slow.Patrol said:

Stick them up on the inside wall of the garage and reminisce about all the cars you have owned.

Who knows, they might be replaced by a barcode in the future, so may have some value.

Ditto.

Yep. I keep meaning to do this - I’ve got hundreds. Even my mums first car she used to take me to nursery school in - DTC176B, a blue Triumph Vitesse.

[EmailAddress]

Dog Star said:

Skyedriver said:

Slow.Patrol said:

Stick them up on the inside wall of the garage and reminisce about all the cars you have owned.

Who knows, they might be replaced by a barcode in the future, so may have some value.

Ditto.

Yep. I keep meaning to do this - I’ve got hundreds. Even my mums first car she used to take me to nursery school in - DTC176B, a blue Triumph Vitesse.

You've got hundreds of number plates?

Weird flex

[richhead]

bit of over thinking going on here, just snap the plastic ones, and cut the metl ones in half and bin

[Dog Star]

EmailAddress said:

You've got hundreds of number plates?

Weird flex

No, really - I’ve got stuff from my parents going back to 1970, then loads off all the cars and bikes I’ve had because of tow bars, “freshening” up the look with new plates and loads are duplicates due to plates being moved from on vehicle to another - my current main plate for example has been on four motorbikes and four cars.

I don’t collect them cos I’m a weirdo or anything, it’s just that they all mount up. I keep meaning to clad a wall in my garage with them.

[Essel]

I did have an assortment of old plates in the garage, mostly off trailers, and while bored during lockdown used most of them to make small planting troughs.

In the bin since then though.

[Bungleaio]

Dog Star said:

No, really - I’ve got stuff from my parents going back to 1970, then loads off all the cars and bikes I’ve had because of tow bars, “freshening” up the look with new plates and loads are duplicates due to plates being moved from on vehicle to another - my current main plate for example has been on four motorbikes and four cars.

I don’t collect them cos I’m a weirdo or anything, it’s just that they all mount up. I keep meaning to clad a wall in my garage with them.

Glad I'm not the only one, I have a stack about a foot high of plates that I've taken off old cars.

[anonymous-user]

Just waz them over the fence into neighbours garden and let them sort it

[anonymous-user]

I’d keep them, still have the plates from my 1967 mini!
But if you must, just bin them.
My local tip are good now. But when the stasi were in charge, I disposed of a brick fireplace over a few months, in the bin!

[andy43]

Take them to a carpark along with some double sided tape.

[Dog Star]

andy43 said:

Take them to a carpark along with some double sided tape.

Haha

[Mr Dendrite]

Cut them up and build a giant Scrabble board.

[48k]

richhead said:

bit of over thinking going on here, just snap the plastic ones, and cut the metl ones in half and bin

Bit of overthinking going on here, just bin them.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I attach mine to the inside of the garage wall.

(But, then I'm a bit sad)