Why would a 2002 car have a dateless plate?

[dreaddan]

Have been to a see a car today and it's got a dateless plate (LLLNNNN) which is odd given it was made in 2002.
From the hpi it was given this from 1st registration but I would have thought it would have had a 02 or 52 plate. Typiclay the service history and books are not there either.
Any ideas?


Dan

[LuS1fer]

Someone had the plate on retention and used it to register the car when new instead of having a new plate allocated.

You can register any car on a plate older than the car but not newer than the age of the car ie you can't have an 03 plate on an 02 car.

You can take the plate off and put it on retention and sell it and the DVLA will give tou a relevant 02/52 plate FOC.

[ad551]

It's a Northern Irish numberplate.

[Monkeylegend]

Presumably a private plate or maybe it was registered in Ireland for example?

Not really a great mystery is it? Unless of course you know differently ?

[LuS1fer]

Looking at the format, as I should have the first time, he's right.

[Monkeylegend]

I must learn to type with more than one finger.

[Xavier259]

ad551 said:

It's a Northern Irish numberplate.

This ^^

[Mafioso]

In a similar vein, how come I saw a mk3 MX5 with a J-reg plate on the other day? How are these people getting away with it?

[Monkeylegend]

Mafioso said:

In a similar vein, how come I saw a mk3 MX5 with a J-reg plate on the other day? How are these people getting away with it?

Why is that a problem? Are mk3's older than 1992?

[Roo]

Mafioso said:

In a similar vein, how come I saw a mk3 MX5 with a J-reg plate on the other day? How are these people getting away with it?

What's wrong with that?
My 2003 car has a 'V' plate and my 2008 various has a 'Y' plate.

[Zwoelf]

Mafioso said:

In a similar vein, how come I saw a mk3 MX5 with a J-reg plate on the other day? How are these people getting away with it?

Because that makes the car appear older than it is. But you couldn't put a prefix style T plate to a 1992 car.

As I've always understood it, this is because you may be representing the vehicle as younger than its true age for pecuniary advantage, which is both unfair to the buyer and considered fraud.

[dreaddan]

Thanks guys.
explains it

[sider]

Mafioso said:

In a similar vein, how come I saw a mk3 MX5 with a J-reg plate on the other day? How are these people getting away with it?

There's a chap lives near me with a Ford Focus (so 1998 onwards) with a G reg plate. Doesn't look like a private plate but if you read it a few times and try to make out what it's saying, looks like he likes a game of golf.

[Mafioso]

To the four people above:



Sorry