My OCD & Superstition Wont Let Me Buy a 2013 Reg Car

[trevvy]

Any other freaks out there like me?

[g3org3y]

Save money and buy a 2012 car instead. Win win.

[trevvy]

Or save up for a 2014

[billzeebub]

I would buy a 2013 car next year

[Alfahorn]

I bought a 2012 car last month.

[trevvy]

Just curious as to whether new car sales will be affected, I mean 13 on a plate lots of people wouldn't by a house numbered 13 would they?

[McSam]

Well, dealers will be offering to put "62" plates on new cars sold March-September this year, so don't worry about it too much. I think I probably would, because despite not being superstitious in the slightest I can actually see it hurting residuals more than the car appearing six months older.

[CharlieCrocodile]

DVLA are letting people register 62 instead of 13 if they want.

[trevvy]

I thought the DVLA was releasing 13

[DickyC]

You're in good company. Aston Martin's Works racing cars in the 30s were LM1 to LM12 and then LM 14 upwards; no LM13. They also stopped painting them British Racing Green and chose red instead.

[McSam]

trevvy said:

I thought the DVLA was releasing 13

That's not what we said, of course they're releasing 13, but most dealers will give the option of registering the car on a 62 plate.

Which is perfectly permissible anyway.. You're only not allowed to make it look younger that it is.

[m0isty]

CharlieCrocodile said:

DVLA are letting people register 62 instead of 13 if they want.

But it would still be a 2013 car!!

Personally it wouldn't bother me in the slightest, not superstitious at all.

[DickyC]

Oh, no! This is the 13th post.

[trevvy]

Still the problem of the car having the dreaded 13 on the reg document.

[Alfahorn]

McSam said:

Well, dealers will be offering to put "62" plates on new cars sold March-September this year, so don't worry about it too much. I think I probably would, because despite not being superstitious in the slightest I can actually see it hurting residuals more than the car appearing six months older.

Has that been confirmed?

[McSam]

the problem of the car having the dreaded 13 on the reg document.
[/quote]You're starting to get tenous by then, though. It won't have "13" on it, it'll say 2013, just another number and nowhere near as significant to that sort of person as driving around with "13" on their plates.

I mean, have you checked to make sure your VIN doesn't include the digits one and three next to each other?

Perhaps your paint code contains a 13?


Alfa, so I've heard, but then as I said above there's no legal reason why you can't do that anyway, so I guess on any unregistered car it's up to the buyer.

[DickyC]

trevvy said:

Still the problem of the car having the dreaded 13 on the reg document.

A lead-lined document folder kept at the back of the filing cabinet keeps all that under control.

[trevvy]

Wont most customers wait for a 63 plate then later in the year

CharlieCrocodile said:

DVLA are letting people register 62 instead of 13 if they want.

[McSam]

trevvy said:

Wont most customers wait for a 63 plate then later in the year

CharlieCrocodile said:

DVLA are letting people register 62 instead of 13 if they want.

What, those who actually want a new car now rather than six months away, for the sake of a vague superstition that they can choose to avoid? The masses of fleet buyers who make up a sizeable chunk of new UK car sales anyway? Nope, I think we'll be fine

[Willy Nilly]

13 reg tractor coming in the next 7 or 8 weeks