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By *innamon! OP Woman
over a year ago
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Do you have one ?
If you could choose what would you go for, standard initials or words . I have just bought a my initials -15 plate
15 FAB yey im so thrilled.
I dont suggest you put your whole plate here but what do you have or like. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
Don't you end up paying for plates in both the price of the plates and higher car insurance? Or is that a myth....
Anyway the normal plates on my hippie wagon are very similar to the number on the side of the starship enterprise 
Nerdy!!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Had my personalised plate since early 1999.
First got it when I had my last car, then transferred it over when I got the current one - and will transfer it to my next too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't you end up paying for plates in both the price of the plates and higher car insurance? Or is that a myth...."
It's a myth - and not one I've ever heard of before at that.
Makes no difference to the cost of insurance |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have 2 - on 2 Saabs, N7 and M7 followed by my initials, makes no difference to insurance at all, posey I know but love it !! M155 and her initials for my daughter was a bargain !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't you end up paying for plates in both the price of the plates and higher car insurance? Or is that a myth...."
No, once you pay for the plates that's it. Makes no difference to the insurance. You have to pay £80 costs every time you change your car though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Are thy not a 90's thing and now people with them are thought of as a bit of a knob with a complex about something?
im not saying this what I think just thought it was general consensus now adays?"
. Surely not ???????  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Are thy not a 90's thing and now people with them are thought of as a bit of a knob with a complex about something?
im not saying this what I think just thought it was general consensus now adays?"
General consensus? If people want to think I'm a knob with a complex then that's fine by me 
There are much bigger knobs than me around!! |
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By *innamon! OP Woman
over a year ago
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Lol Oh well I dont care if im thought of as a tosser . It amuses ME all that counts really.
I bought a beauty for my daughter who likes the snow.
SNO 4 and her name. its brilliant .
I decided I must live my life before it is too late.
Of course I now need a 2015 CAR  Lucky me. |
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By *innamon! OP Woman
over a year ago
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I'm not jealous of anyone.
When I see them on motorway it makes me smile.
Think if someone had a grudge against me seeing A maroon red merc will be just as easy to pick out as a personalised number I think LOL.
When I bought mine there were only 7 in the country.
Oh well guess I shall just add Tacky to my old fat profile.  |
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"I think they look silly and old fashioned 
How do you work that out ?
Having your surname on top of the range Porsche does make some people jealous "
Yes, and it's the jealous people who seem to have keys but no car, and leave their mark on your pride and joy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I think they look silly and old fashioned
How do you work that out ?
Having your surname on top of the range Porsche does make some people jealous
Yes, and it's the jealous people who seem to have keys but no car, and leave their mark on your pride and joy"
Luckily when you live in the best part of town your neighbours don't care, just don't go near peasants and shop at Sainsbury's lol ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i'm sorry but i dont understand why ppl pay good money for a set of letters and numbers that meen sod all to anyone but yourselves  .if you realy have that much money and you have nothing to spend it on but a worthless piece of plastic then give the xtra cash to some worthy charity that would be delighted to recieve it and put it to good use  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Actually, I've deleted my post as I don't have to justify to anyone how I spend my money!! "
no you dont have to justify how you spend your money but i genuinely do not understand why ppl by them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"for the same reason not everyone like's the same cars, same reason some people modify them, to be individual "
yeh thats true but it does make me laugh when i see a private plate on an old banger worth fifty quid  |
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By *innamon! OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Actually, I've deleted my post as I don't have to justify to anyone how I spend my money!! "
Nor I .. !!
I have worked all my life I will spend my money how I please . charity/ husband/ a friend and my kids. I would not see them go short . At 65 and still working its my business . |
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I think the emphasis should be on the first word of the three PERSONALISED number plates.
Look again at the first 8 letter of that word PERSONAL.
Im not explaining anymore as Im shit at it, its explanitary.
However, opinions were asked for (I havent slated them by the way) |
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I had one but the ex took it when he left - it made me too conspicuous anyway as it wasn't a standard plate!!
I have always looked out for one coming on the market though and my dad has been looking since I learnt to drive and it's never come up - S114RON. Carefully placed bolt between the two 1's and it'll look like Sharon or least that's my dad's idea!! |
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"I had one but the ex took it when he left - it made me too conspicuous anyway as it wasn't a standard plate!!
I have always looked out for one coming on the market though and my dad has been looking since I learnt to drive and it's never come up - S114RON. Carefully placed bolt between the two 1's and it'll look like Sharon or least that's my dad's idea!!"
your number is on a mini countryman cooper S .... and its a blue one |
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"I had one but the ex took it when he left - it made me too conspicuous anyway as it wasn't a standard plate!!
I have always looked out for one coming on the market though and my dad has been looking since I learnt to drive and it's never come up - S114RON. Carefully placed bolt between the two 1's and it'll look like Sharon or least that's my dad's idea!!
your number is on a mini countryman cooper S .... and its a blue one "
Really!! Well least it's on a car I like although it'd look better on mine!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've had one for 10 years. I wont say what it is as it's my name. My real name not Legs "
Shock, horror! Legs isn't your real name?! How many more on here are hiding behind a made up name? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you drive around this time of the year with the roof down, I think your a knob.
To me it dosent matter what your number plate says."
Ok?
Did this Sunday evening!
Friend needed a lift home and mountain bike would not fit in boot!
So roof down and bike in the back!  no pun intended.
Helping a friend so am I a knob or knob tease?
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By *rsIdiotWoman
over a year ago
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"You have a vespa ? That's ter cool ! Is that shop still there in bedworth, opposite the white swan ? Owner was a lady called chris "
I don't know the white swan, mind we don't go out to pubs very often |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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"i'm sorry but i dont understand why ppl pay good money for a set of letters and numbers that meen sod all to anyone but yourselves .if you realy have that much money and you have nothing to spend it on but a worthless piece of plastic then give the xtra cash to some worthy charity that would be delighted to recieve it and put it to good use "
I'm all for opinions honestly held, but "worthless piece of plastic" makes your opinion appear uninformed. Any personal plate can be resold, therefore a chosen combination can actually go up in value.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I bought Daisy one for her 'significant birthday' and to be honest, after trying to change it from one car to the next (almost 8 weeks) I regret buying one. It's not ever actually 'yours' as I found out to our cost. You effectively just lease it from the DVLA.
Bit of a rip off to be fair.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I bought Daisy one for her 'significant birthday' and to be honest, after trying to change it from one car to the next (almost 8 weeks) I regret buying one. It's not ever actually 'yours' as I found out to our cost. You effectively just lease it from the DVLA.
Bit of a rip off to be fair.
B"
I bet you cocked up the retention, my old man has had A cherished plate on loads of cars since he got it in 1987 no problem at all. |
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By *innamon! OP Woman
over a year ago
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"i'm sorry but i dont understand why ppl pay good money for a set of letters and numbers that meen sod all to anyone but yourselves .if you realy have that much money and you have nothing to spend it on but a worthless piece of plastic then give the xtra cash to some worthy charity that would be delighted to recieve it and put it to good use
I'm all for opinions honestly held, but "worthless piece of plastic" makes your opinion appear uninformed. Any personal plate can be resold, therefore a chosen combination can actually go up in value.
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Thanks glad someone picked up on that .
On the one I got for my daughter we have had to pay each year to keep it up Cant remember how much. This year will be the first she can actually put it on her car so now we wont need to pay again.
I will have to wait till I get a new 2015 car to use mine cant put it on mine as its a 2010 model.
I imagine that what we all choose to spend money is relative . Some people spend more on designer shoes clothes and bags than I did on my plate. Some people buy expensive holidays. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I bought Daisy one for her 'significant birthday' and to be honest, after trying to change it from one car to the next (almost 8 weeks) I regret buying one. It's not ever actually 'yours' as I found out to our cost. You effectively just lease it from the DVLA.
Bit of a rip off to be fair.
B"
Really? I've just changed my car and it cost £80, took 9 days for the paperwork to come back and half an hour at my garage for the my plates to be fitted. |
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"I bought Daisy one for her 'significant birthday' and to be honest, after trying to change it from one car to the next (almost 8 weeks) I regret buying one. It's not ever actually 'yours' as I found out to our cost. You effectively just lease it from the DVLA.
Bit of a rip off to be fair.
B
Really? I've just changed my car and it cost £80, took 9 days for the paperwork to come back and half an hour at my garage for the my plates to be fitted."
I've never had a problem either and I have 2 of them. iv change both to various cars and bikes over the yrs its never took anything like 8 wks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I think they look silly and old fashioned
How do you work that out ?
Having your surname on top of the range Porsche does make some people jealous "
I didnt work it out, its simply my feeling about them
oh and im not jealous of anyone with or without a porsche as i tend not to be impressed by material goods, im more of a people person
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Unless I got one that was clearly recognizable I would put my money to better use.
W4STE!
Although the vain ones who want one do hide the age of your 02 plate banger lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I had one that started l69
Didn't pay for it just got it with the car
Written underneath in big letters
LUVS 69
My mother gave me a few funny looks when I drove it to Ireland  "
I heard one in American where a proud vegitarian got pulled over by the police for inadvertently having indecent plates.
She had: I LUV TOFU
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"would love PEN 1S NOW THAT WOULD B COOL"
Sadly, the DVLA never made it available.
When they started selling 'select registrations' in the late 90's where you could pretty much make up your own under the standard format (i.e. Year indicator prefix letter, followed by any number between 1 and 20 and three letters of your choice), some that would be 'more desirable' were held back to be auctioned at a later date, whereas any that could be deemed rude or vulgar simply were not made available. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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On my first car it just hsppend to end wnb I'm from up north and was working in Birmingham . I was showing the bloke I was working with my car he saw no. Platt said well that's easy one for u to remember wnb = what northern bastard ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Actually, I've deleted my post as I don't have to justify to anyone how I spend my money!!
no you dont have to justify how you spend your money but i genuinely do not understand why ppl by them."
Some people smoke and others like to go out and get pissed and the same could be said of these activities.
At least with a personalised plate, it may be worth a little extra in years to come, and even if it doesn't rise in value, it will still at least be worth something.
You can't exactly say the same about a packet of fags or a bottle of Vodka now can you - if you've consumed them.
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By (user no longer on site)
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My ex bought me one years ago! Now I'm divorced and changed my name back it's useless tried to sell it but very difficult as was 'our' surname and my first name mixed up into the nickname his old army buddies called me! I paid to but it in retention no idea what's happened to it as that was years ago! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think they look silly and old fashioned
How do you work that out ?
Having your surname on top of the range Porsche does make some people jealous
I didnt work it out, its simply my feeling about them
oh and im not jealous of anyone with or without a porsche as i tend not to be impressed by material goods, im more of a people person
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Worked out or feelings its as has been said already a investment you can enjoy,its fun too.
It does look good for business also when the name of the company is the reg plate
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Saw a Suzuki Wagon R for sale the other day, probably one of the ugliest vehicles on our roads. It was for sale at under £1000 or £8000 with the private plate. Honestly some cars don't deserve personal plates but guess that's the only way of improving their value!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Don't you end up paying for plates in both the price of the plates and higher car insurance? Or is that a myth....
Anyway the normal plates on my hippie wagon are very similar to the number on the side of the starship enterprise
Nerdy!!!!!"
The insurance is the same and its a tip when buying a car if someone has had personal plates in in general they will have taken better care of their car as if they waste money on a plate they generally look after the rest of the car better. |
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Cant see the point in them myself (unless you play golf!)...so, you have your name (or something loosely resembling it) on your number plate...so what?..I think they are the equivalent of a 'del boy' tie pin...
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NCC 1701? Or did you go for NCC 1701A? Not that I'm a nerd!
Not sure about insurance but you have to pay every time you change your car.
"Don't you end up paying for plates in both the price of the plates and higher car insurance? Or is that a myth....
Anyway the normal plates on my hippie wagon are very similar to the number on the side of the starship enterprise
Nerdy!!!!!"
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think they look silly and old fashioned
How do you work that out ?
Having your surname on top of the range Porsche does make some people jealous
Yes, and it's the jealous people who seem to have keys but no car, and leave their mark on your pride and joy
Luckily when you live in the best part of town your neighbours don't care, just don't go near peasants and shop at Sainsbury's lol ... "
yes....but you live in WARRINGTON....You cant avoid peasants there....and the best part of town is the M62 to Manchester |
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"I think they look silly and old fashioned
How do you work that out ?
Having your surname on top of the range Porsche does make some people jealous
Yes, and it's the jealous people who seem to have keys but no car, and leave their mark on your pride and joy
Luckily when you live in the best part of town your neighbours don't care, just don't go near peasants and shop at Sainsbury's lol ...
yes....but you live in WARRINGTON....You cant avoid peasants there....and the best part of town is the M62 to Manchester"
What chaville, the best part is the other way along the M62, to Liverpool. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If you drive around this time of the year with the roof down, I think your a knob.
To me it dosent matter what your number plate says."
I'll be a knob without the roof down when the sun is out, come summer or winter.
Partner bought me a plate for my birthday - it virtually spells my first name, but had to settle for a V instead of a U, as it was 10 times more the price! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Some are pretty cool, but for me to get the one I want I'd need to come into a few quid... And prob upgrade my 52 plate Astra! There are some thought that I don't get, although so long as the owner does then leave them to it.
That are a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes with transfers and retentions though as a lot of people who have them don't understand how to transfer them and the DVLA aren't always the quickest or most helpful as I've learnt over the years working in a car dealership, but they do seem to be getting over the hitch from when the local offices were closed and they didn't have enough trained staff in Swansea, which might explain the 9 weeks delay for a poster above as it was a testing time... Think I had 4/5 that took the best part of two months to come through, but now usually within 10-14 days |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My ex bought me one years ago! Now I'm divorced and changed my name back it's useless tried to sell it but very difficult as was 'our' surname and my first name mixed up into the nickname his old army buddies called me! I paid to but it in retention no idea what's happened to it as that was years ago! "
I think its gone retention certificates only last for 1 year then if you don't renew DVLA take it back  |
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