What crappy personalised plates have you seen recently?

[berlintaxi]

Jaguar steve said:

Nobody actually needs a brand new car or a distinctive registration number.

Nobody actually needs anything beyond food, water and shelter, but the right to spend your money on whatever you want is what makes us a free country.

[anonymous-user]

Saw a lovely red Ferrari 458 Italia in Ashley Cross (Poole) yesterday. Plate was 458 IT which I thought was nice

[V8forweekends]

berlintaxi said:

Nobody actually needs anything beyond food, water and shelter, but the right to spend your money on whatever you want is what makes us a free country.

As indeed does the right to express an opinion on the stty choices made by others

[Jaguar steve]

berlintaxi said:

Jaguar steve said:

Nobody actually needs a brand new car or a distinctive registration number.

Nobody actually needs anything beyond food, water and shelter, but the right to spend your money on whatever you want is what makes us a free country.

Of course

If it really is your own choice then yes it's a free country and you can spunk your cash on anything you want. Nice car, expensive holiday, enough booze to paralyse a entire herd of rhinos, a massive line of Coke or a weekend in the sack with a two grand a night hooker. Anything you genuinely want.

If it's a choice made under influence of a carefully contrived lifstyle desire that's designed to hook you in by creating a need and then bleeding you white satisfying that artificial need without you actually realising what's going on then no it's not freedom at all.

You only have to look at the number of PH'ers posting in GG having agonisingly sleepless nights over an minor difference of trim level between Eurobox one and Eurobox two or worrying endlessly about adding another £30 a month to some crippling finance deal on said Euroboxes that they already have admitted they can't really afford in the first place to see it's so often the latter.

Why people actually allow a lifestyle choice to do this to themselves and still refer to it as it as a freedom beyond me.

[JonRB]

Jaguar steve said:

Of course

If it really is your own choice then yes it's a free country and you can spunk your cash on anything you want. Nice car, expensive holiday, enough booze to paralyse a entire herd of rhinos, a massive line of Coke or a weekend in the sack with a two grand a night hooker. Anything you genuinely want.

If it's a choice made under influence of a carefully contrived lifstyle desire that's designed to hook you in by creating a need and then bleeding you white satisfying that artificial need without you actually realising what's going on then no it's not freedom at all.

You only have to look at the number of PH'ers posting in GG having agonisingly sleepless nights over an minor difference of trim level between Eurobox one and Eurobox two or worrying endlessly about adding another £30 a month to some crippling finance deal on said Euroboxes that they already have admitted they can't really afford in the first place to see it's so often the latter.

Why people actually allow a lifestyle choice to do this to themselves and still refer to it as it as a freedom beyond me.

So what you're saying is that every single person, without exception, who buys a personalised plate does so due to external pressure? Not one bought one for themselves because they just liked it and decided to spunk their cash on something that gives them pleasure.

Also, coke (as in "a line of...") is illegal. Oooooh, I'm telling on you to the police.

[andysgriff]

Why not try and at least 'educate' these people with dodgy plates and the ones who cannot park with a flyer/sticker with a link to the title of these threads? i.e 'Congrats, you are the winner of todays PH Crappy Personalised Plate'. These can then be issued to the drivers (if you have the man fruits for it) or placed under the wipers of said cars (when safe to do so). We must be able to come up with some cracking designs.

The winners can then be given a chance to join up and explain to the world what is going on in their heads.

[R11ysf]

Jaguar steve said:

A clampdown would no doubt kick off an outburst of sanctimonious indignation as well. Ain't yew got nuffink betta to do offisaah? Where wos yew when me bleedin lawnmower got nicked ay? Kost me a bleedin fawchune that plate did. Anywayz oo pays your faaakin wages yew faaakin kaaant? and so on - amongst those Chavs who have bought a registration with the specific intention of displaying it illegally.

I can see the Persecution Of Innocent Motorists headlines in the Daily Wail already...

Steve I do find you amusing. You seem to presume that everyone who owns a plate that is display illegally (oh no! Just like speeding, let's hang them all!) is some Daily Mail reading, pond dweller who bought a £250 Northern Irish plate and doesn't have the ability to speak English. Perhaps this says a lot more about where you live / the people you hang around with than the actual 'chavplaters' themselves.

I live in Marylebone where there are a lot of exceptionally nice plates and a lot that you would consider 'chav' plates. They aren't pulled over on a daily basis despite the very high Police presence due to the number of embassies around. My 'chav' plate cost over £10k and was sold by the DVLA with full knowledge that people would not pay that amount of money without the intention to mis-space it. The DVLA are complicit to this and there was even suggestion that the spacing rules were to be relaxed in the Sunday Times 25 March 2012.

I have been pulled over in my car twice and twice the officers have had a nice chat with me and let me go with no notice and nothing else. I even asked the 2nd officer is his ANPR camera could read the plate and he said yes. So lets put to bed the idea that this is fraud, or an attempt to dodge ANPR cameras or anything so stupid. It is a transaction between the DVLA and car owners and as such the police actually enforce it with discretion and intelligence. Something the jobsworths on here seems to lack.

If it doesn't affect you, why let it both you? Move on enjoy your life and don't spend all your spare time getting irate on a Pistonheads thread about number plates.

H4V3 4 N1C3 D4Y

[Pixelpeep7r]

To clarify - i hate chav/crappy plates. But not enough to call 999 everytime i see one

So, is my child ok seen as they have been mowed down at least twice now?

[B'stard Child]

R11ysf said:

Jaguar steve said:

A clampdown would no doubt kick off an outburst of sanctimonious indignation as well. Ain't yew got nuffink betta to do offisaah? Where wos yew when me bleedin lawnmower got nicked ay? Kost me a bleedin fawchune that plate did. Anywayz oo pays your faaakin wages yew faaakin kaaant? and so on - amongst those Chavs who have bought a registration with the specific intention of displaying it illegally.

I can see the Persecution Of Innocent Motorists headlines in the Daily Wail already...

Steve I do find you amusing. You seem to presume that everyone who owns a plate that is display illegally (oh no! Just like speeding, let's hang them all!) is some Daily Mail reading, pond dweller who bought a £250 Northern Irish plate and doesn't have the ability to speak English. Perhaps this says a lot more about where you live / the people you hang around with than the actual 'chavplaters' themselves.

Just to clarify - A personal/private/vanity plate isn't chav if it's displayed according to the rules that apply in the UK

Butcher it, manipulate letters or numbers, add bolts to create letters or numbers that aren't there and space letters or numbers out to make it say something - well that's chav IMO and why there are so many good entries in this thread.

[Jaguar steve]

JonRB said:

Jaguar steve said:

Of course

If it really is your own choice then yes it's a free country and you can spunk your cash on anything you want. Nice car, expensive holiday, enough booze to paralyse a entire herd of rhinos, a massive line of Coke or a weekend in the sack with a two grand a night hooker. Anything you genuinely want.

If it's a choice made under influence of a carefully contrived lifstyle desire that's designed to hook you in by creating a need and then bleeding you white satisfying that artificial need without you actually realising what's going on then no it's not freedom at all.

You only have to look at the number of PH'ers posting in GG having agonisingly sleepless nights over an minor difference of trim level between Eurobox one and Eurobox two or worrying endlessly about adding another £30 a month to some crippling finance deal on said Euroboxes that they already have admitted they can't really afford in the first place to see it's so often the latter.

Why people actually allow a lifestyle choice to do this to themselves and still refer to it as it as a freedom beyond me.

So what you're saying is that every single person, without exception, who buys a personalised plate does so due to external pressure? Not one bought one for themselves because they just liked it and decided to spunk their cash on something that gives them pleasure.

Also, coke (as in "a line of...") is illegal. Oooooh, I'm telling on you to the police.

Too late. I've destroyed the evidence and it's all gone now...


Looks like this to me. If you buy a personalised plate solely because you like it and you have one for that reason only then yes, you have freedom of choice. If you buy a personalised plate because you're concerned about improving your status or what other people think of you then no you really don't.

As an aside I have an inherited plate that's been in our family since the 1930's. I have several pictures of various cars displaying it over the decades and it's been on the cars driving my parents, me and my daughter to our weddings.*

I'm really not that comfortable with the attention it seems to attract and have had my car vandalised twice within a week or so of first having it. I'd happily get rid if it weren't for the sentimental attachment and family history value it has to me. It's much cheaper to stick it on the Barge which is my long term keeper than to place it on a retention certificate and tuck it away in a drawer so in actual fact it might not be everybody seen with a distinctive plate actually has had the luxury of freedom of choice of whether or not to buy it.

* Not actually what it reads as.

[Jayessgee]

Anyhoooo.... I've seen a car with a crap number plate. That's the point of this topic no?


Edited to add - if he'd left the font alone it would be ok. And nice car too.

Edited by Jayessgee on Tuesday 5th August 18:48

[sue20]

garyhun said:

Saw a lovely red Ferrari 458 Italia in Ashley Cross (Poole) yesterday. Plate was 458 IT which I thought was nice

4581 T

[AlexRS2782]

Any chance we can just get back to posting up pics / details of crappy plates and having a chuckle at the owners expense, rather than having the same argument about the pros & cons repeated once a month?

V8 Animal said:

I think this is quite good.

This seems perfectly fine - why post it on this thread and not the "Real Good" thread

[NomduJour]

R11ysf said:

You seem to presume that everyone who owns a plate that is display illegally (oh no! Just like speeding, let's hang them all!) is some Daily Mail reading, pond dweller who bought a £250 Northern Irish plate and doesn't have the ability to speak English

If you have to alter the format in attempt to make it say whatever it is you wish it really did say but never will, I'd say it's irredeemably CR4P (however much the DVLA fleeced you for it).

[AlexRS2782]

Earlier today SK11 ADY, spaced to read SKI LADY - quite amusing, made me chuckle, but placed on this thread due to the dubious spacing.

And to get back to the subject of crappy plates, seeing as it was Ford Fair at the weekend, as expected out came the badly spaced plates

ERS 500E - well it's a given really



C19 BRS - poor attempt at CAB RS



COS 1C - Only one S short and use of black screw cap to try (and fail) to make COSSIE

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Tuesday 5th August 20:45

[FakeConcern]

It gave my daughter & I quite a laugh trying to work this one out. When we got close & saw it had "Danny Sean Mulligan" printed underneath all the screw heads etc became clear!

[anonymous-user]

sue20 said:

4581 T

In that case it's a load of poo.

[Cliftonite]

AlexRS2782 said:

Someone's pinched a wheel and tried to wrench the door off.

Where is this? Liverpool?

[Escort3500]

AlexRS2782 said:

Any chance we can just get back to posting up pics / details of crappy plates and having a chuckle at the owners expense, rather than having the same argument about the pros & cons repeated once a month?

V8 Animal said:

I think this is quite good.

This seems perfectly fine - why post it on this thread and not the "Real Good" thread

I'm probably due a giant Macaw overhead for asking, but what is so interesting about this plate that warrants "really good"?

[AlexRS2782]

Escort3500 said:

I'm probably due a giant Macaw overhead for asking, but what is so interesting about this plate that warrants "really good"?

I wouldn't say it's really good either, but it's not exactly crappy or badly spaced, etc, so shouldn't really be on this thread tbh.