Number Plate

[matchboy]

How many of you will be choosing your own number plate or will you let your dealer pick it for you?  I know in the past with VW I've been allowed to pick my own plate off the list of potential plate numbers that they have.  Me, I'll certainly be picking mine as don't want to end up with BJ63 OBS or something horrendous like that!

[Bill_the_Bear]

How many of you will be choosing your own number plate or will you let your dealer pick it for you?  I know in the past with VW I've been allowed to pick my own plate off the list of potential plate numbers that they have.  Me, I'll certainly be picking mine as don't want to end up with BJ63 OBS or something horrendous like that!

Uh oh, I think my dealer is in the region that starts with "B"

I didn't know you could choose your plate.  I assumed they filled in some details on a DVLA website and it just spat out the result.  Don't the DVLA charge you for choosing a plate (even if its something boring) so would seem this would not be something they'd want to allow if they are making cash out of it!

[matchboy]

How many of you will be choosing your own number plate or will you let your dealer pick it for you?  I know in the past with VW I've been allowed to pick my own plate off the list of potential plate numbers that they have.  Me, I'll certainly be picking mine as don't want to end up with BJ63 OBS or something horrendous like that!

Uh oh, I think my dealer is in the region that starts with "B"

I didn't know you could choose your plate.  I assumed they filled in some details on a DVLA website and it just spat out the result.  Don't the DVLA charge you for choosing a plate (even if its something boring) so would seem this would not be something they'd want to allow if they are making cash out of it!

They get given a whole list of plates for registration which they can email you a week or so before delivery.  They'll all start the same (I think my dealer is LT63) but I've always been able to pick the final 3 digits - I have nightmares about being given LT63 COC or LT63 BJS or some other embarrassing plate - so I pick something non descript/can't make a rude word out of!!

[Bill_the_Bear]

How many of you will be choosing your own number plate or will you let your dealer pick it for you?  I know in the past with VW I've been allowed to pick my own plate off the list of potential plate numbers that they have.  Me, I'll certainly be picking mine as don't want to end up with BJ63 OBS or something horrendous like that!

Uh oh, I think my dealer is in the region that starts with "B"

I didn't know you could choose your plate.  I assumed they filled in some details on a DVLA website and it just spat out the result.  Don't the DVLA charge you for choosing a plate (even if its something boring) so would seem this would not be something they'd want to allow if they are making cash out of it!

They get given a whole list of plates for registration which they can email you a week or so before delivery.  They'll all start the same (I think my dealer is LT63) but I've always been able to pick the final 3 digits - I have nightmares about being given LT63 COC or LT63 BJS or some other embarrassing plate - so I pick something non descript/can't make a rude word out of!!

I wonder if this is bending the DVLA rules?

They're basically charging hundreds of quid to do the same thing:
http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/search/current-number-plates.html?prefix1=L&prefix2=T&numbers=13&letter1=&letter2=&letter3=&action=current&pricefrom=0&priceto=&currentmatches=59&searched=true&openoption=yes&language=en&prefix2.x=98&prefix2.y=23

[drisser]

I foresaw having a nice car at some point a couple of years ago and bought DR11SCO so i wont have to worry about that (my surname is Driscoll and was always called Drisco at school !)

[CraigW]

Private plate for me so not really bothered what the registration is 

[Bill_the_Bear]

Apparently the next auction is 25th July.  They want up to £3k - £5k for some of the plates (is this the reserve? ) but if you sort by price you get some cheap ones:

	Number	Cost
Party anyone?	P42 RTY	250
Any Carltons here?	C447 TON	300
Mr Fields?	F133 LDS	300
Still using leaded?	L34 DED	300
One for Mark	P463 BOY	300
There must be a Chris?	CHR 157M	350

I really wouldn't waste my money though...

[CraigW]

Apparently the next auction is 25th July.  They want up to £3k - £5k for some of the plates (is this the reserve? ) but if you sort by price you get some cheap ones:

	Number	Cost
Party anyone?	P42 RTY	250
Any Carltons here?	C447 TON	300
Mr Fields?	F133 LDS	300
Still using leaded?	L34 DED	300
One for Mark	P463 BOY	300
There must be a Chris?	CHR 157M	350

I really wouldn't waste my money though...

There's lots more expensive than that

3 SJ   - In the last auction sold for £17,800 

[Bill_the_Bear]

There's lots more expensive than that

3 SJ   - In the last auction sold for £17,800 

These are the reserve prices I guess?  Or opening at?  Yeah £5000 was for "19 O" or something...

[dubber36]

Private plates are definitely the way to go. Short, prefix style ones, the shorter the better.

Single digit ones are getting harder to get hold of these days. I'm glad I bought the kids theirs and put them on retention when they were born.