Number Plate

[CraigW]

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...

Yeah £5000 was the reserve price. It just goes to show what people are prepared to pay for a private reg and that is nowhere near the most expensive

[Jimble]

Personal plate for me although it is a bit of a ball ache to get it moved to the new one! i will be having my pressed plates on this one though as i never got round to it with my mk6.

[Gryzor]

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

When my mate bought his new Focus, he was allowed to pick from a pre-selected list of registration numbers.  It's hardly like a private plate that costs hundreds - just normal registrations that give you a bit of choice.  Either way, my new private plate that I got for my birthday will be going on it, so no it's not something I need to concern myself about, but yeah, it would suck getting a CR4 PPY plate!

[Bill_the_Bear]

That link goes to standard plates for which the DVLA charge £400-800.  They aren't "private" like you're thinking.  If you saw one you'd have no idea it was special. I suppose the difference is the dealer has a few numbers but the DVLA can give you anything.

[KyleB]

Are pressed plates road legal? They do look a lot better but can't be arsed with the hassle of getting a fine/points

[Jimble]

Are pressed plates road legal? They do look a lot better but can't be arsed with the hassle of getting a fine/points

Yes as long as they meet the criteria, ie must be the correct font and spacing, must be reflective, myst have the suppliers details and BS number on them and must be white on the front and yellow on the back.

Got mine from here:

http://www.dubmeister.co.uk/

[Gryzor]

Are pressed plates road legal? They do look a lot better but can't be arsed with the hassle of getting a fine/points

As long as the colour, reflectivity, font and spacing complies, yes, as far as I am aware they are legal.

Edit:  Just had a browse around at some - to me they look a bit tacky.  Think I'll stick to regular plates just pressed on.

[matchboy]

I may get a cheap private plate with my initials when the 63 period runs out.

My brother has various personalised plates - one of them cost £28,000 

[allycat45]

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 !)

Are you sure its not because you like to boogie ? 

The demo that I drove in York was YY13 HMO which the salesman thought was hilarious. Apparently one of the admin girls who was leaving selected it especially for the manager who would be taking the GTI home each day, so that it sounded like "homo" 

[Bill_the_Bear]

My brother has various personalised plates - one of them cost £28,000 

Did he win the lottery?