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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?
I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.
What do you think of them fabbers? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Each to their own.
Have a friend who made a huge mistake with hers. She was a dog walker, very successful too, but got a personalised number plate to go with her work name on it.. can’t remember the first part but last 3 letters was PTS for Pads & Tails, unfortunately PTS also means Put To Sleep….. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"
It doesn’t cost thousands to have them done… you don’t have to be super wealthy to get them. I had a pet insurance claim last year for just over a grand, you can get plates made up for as little as £200 |
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"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?
I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.
What do you think of them fabbers?"
I have one, I know a few people that have one. I know a fabber who has a very good one 
Some are good, some are meh
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?
I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.
What do you think of them fabbers?"
Got no opinion of them tbf, some cool ones about for sure but nothing cool about a PP on a 20 year old Mini or something equally as old |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Got 2....both with AW in them. Pretty cheesy I know ....buts what's the difference between private plates or a designer watch or shoes or clothes or even the car itself ? If I've/ you've earned it why not spend it ? Like the saying goes.....there's no pockets in shrouds  |
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The best I ever saw was years ago, at the west end of the Chelsea Embankment there used to be two cars, one luxobarge, one GT car, parked in open car ports next to each other. They varied over time, but they always had the same two plates…
2 BE
NOT 2B
The owner was faced with the eternal choice every day!! |
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"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?
I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.
What do you think of them fabbers?"
Whole family has a three digit prefix followed by first three letters of first names (won’t post here as it’ll be noticed lol) |
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"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"
In my case wealth doesn't come into it.
The car it was on cost us £100 because the fuel filler pipe leaked. That cost another £90 to fix. About a year later we sold the car for £300 to a guy who wanted it for banger racing on condition we kept the number which then got put on the car I currently use.
Narcissistic? You bet. It implies I am W/E but the digit might look more impressive if it were an 8 or 9 rather than a mere 7! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"They don’t all cost fortunes, mind spells my surname, cost £350 from DVLA. There are plenty on their site for simikar amounts and around £500"
For a collection of numbers and letters on a plate, some might consider £350 a fortune |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As far as I know they don’t have them here and you just get what your given and my wife was given :-
EY-666-VL
Which is not true as she’s not but funny.
Tony |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple
It doesn’t cost thousands to have them done… you don’t have to be super wealthy to get them. I had a pet insurance claim last year for just over a grand, you can get plates made up for as little as £200"
current value of mine is £36000 my grandad gave it me, came of a lorry he had when he was in his 20s so totally free to him and me just happens to be both our initials. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple
It doesn’t cost thousands to have them done… you don’t have to be super wealthy to get them. I had a pet insurance claim last year for just over a grand, you can get plates made up for as little as £200"
This is the point: there a spectrum of prices ranging from a couple of hundred to a guy I know who's number plate costs more than his Ferrari!! |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
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They can be very expensive, or not so much. We got my mother ome for her 60th because she had always wanted one... was about £300.
We had taken her car keys away from her by her 61st though, so my sister now has the plate. |
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Once over they were thought more of, but nowadays they are common. If it's something very elite such as GAS 123 ( a man we know who owned a petrol station has this) then it does stand out, but the ones where they don't mean anything but to the person who has it then they are pointless. |
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"I don’t think I’d bother for the car, but I’ve looked at them a few times for the bike.
Do they come cheaper for bikes as you don't need a front one? !!!"
Buying the reg isn’t any cheaper, but yes you only need to get one plate made up, so that’ll save a little bit |
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I remember seeing some good ones at Cadwell Park British Superbikes back in 1989.
Steve Spray (JPS Norton) Range Rover... 20 JPS
Trevor Nation (JPS Norton) Mercedes 190... NAT101V
Steve Parrish (Commentating) Can't remember what car... PEN15 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"
What utter bollocks,
It takes a very very very sad person to judge someone on life choices.
I have one on my daily car, im car mad and find them a nice finishing touch it makes a car personal to myself.
It says G4TTS its on my mums car atm.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’ve got one, cost me £250 from the DVLA, it’s personalised to the car and to me (eg if I had a Peugeot 205 it might be P205 DM - but it’s not, obviously).
I don’t care that people think it’s pretentious, the cars worth less than the average 2nd hand car and it’s not worth a lot, it’s just highly personal in ways I can’t even begin to describe on here.
Having said that, my mum has an old private plate that doesn’t have a prefix, and has a 3 letter name not just initials (think 563 TOM) since 1972, and it’s generally worth more than the cars it goes on these days, but it’s practically an heirloom, and cost £5 originally (attached to a Hillman Imp that then got sold for £7…) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have one and it's nothing to do with showing off at all.
My father got mine as a gift for my 30th birthday!
And it's the month I was born, the year i was born and my full initials so its my plate perfectly.
It's not used to show off with. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"
Lol Narcissistic??? Wtf…wow!
A private number plate isn’t actually that expensive and once purchased, it’s yours. Ok transfer fees to move on, but it’s individual.
So to suggest it’s flaunting wealth? you could have it on a 15-20 yr old vehicle! Hardly wealth…
So what’s your thoughts on someone who owns an expensive vehicle, large house, expensive watch, phone or other expensive possessions?
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My ex bought one which stayed on my car till he could move it but it was a ballache as everyone knew it was me as it was a fairly stand out one and I kept getting spotted at places I shouldn’t be.
I think each to their own choices it doesn’t effect me but had to laugh when ex and his new Mrs both got matching ones on their Kia picantos each with their initials followed by 15 ACE. What a pair of pretentious pricks riding round in their crappy little cars thinking their ace!!! |
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It isn't personalized but it does have part of my name on so I paid to retain it last year not realising you should only do that when you are ready to change cars so had to put new plates on my current car  |
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"C has one…it’s very apt
K"
I'd never had the desire to own one, until recently that is. It's meaning runs far deeper than it appears and far from pretentious or narcissistic, it's to do with me finding myself after more than a decade of 'me' not existing in my old life.
We all do things to make us feel good. I don't get the problem
C |
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To be honest, I think that they should never have been allowed. The whole point of a car's number plate is to Identify the vehicle... But the DVLA have realised that they can make a chunk of money out of them, so they take advantage. I have seen many plates that are worth more than the cars that they are attached to.
There is a car around here with a plate that reads "M1LF ?" with the last letter separated from the rest as to not confuse the meaning. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"TwAT 1 that’s mine "
Unless it was this I wouldn't bother.
I know someone who has/had one. She was lovely and it made her happy. So fair enough really.
I'd choose to spend my dosh on an adventure though. |
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