Jamesbrown
Head Pro
Naf. Usually end up getting stuck behind one doing 10-20 mph under the speed limit. Private plated cars are on my “don’t let out under any circumstances” list along with family cars, Range Rovers, Honda jazz’s and daewoo Matiz’s.
Personalised number plates ..... Bit of fun? Or a bit naff ?
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USER1999
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If you get stuck behind me, you need to get a faster car.
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
That's not as I remember it;
https://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/legal/vehicle-defect-rectification
As for VDRS for an intentionally altered plate, not a chance; it's a deliberate attempt to deceive, not a defect (when it is altered spaces or manipulated letters/numbers).
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rosecott
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Was following a Range Rover yesterday with AV14 TOR. He was driving like a Sky Jockey.
ManinBlack
Tour Winner
I had a car with the Reg. number (actually issued, not bought) OBR1T. I looked for a dyslexic astronaut to sell it to but didn't find one.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Sold my car cheaply to my HGK's daughter in the early 1990's.
He had great fun in telling me she got £400 for the number plate
K4ISER seen on a Porche at Turnberry.
Loads of AYR Numbers around here.
To answer the OP if you have to work them out they are naff. Just shows that the owners can't afford a decent one.
He had great fun in telling me she got £400 for the number plate
K4ISER seen on a Porche at Turnberry.
Loads of AYR Numbers around here.
To answer the OP if you have to work them out they are naff. Just shows that the owners can't afford a decent one.
Bunkermagnet
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Or an on the spot fine of say £500. Some see it as harmless, but when a vehicle cannot be 100% identified after an incident it becomes serious.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
I agree...a Mazda has far to much class for a plate starting like that
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Didn’t think they could get “5h!t golfer” onto a plate
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
No point in them over here because they aren’t proper words with alphabetical characters. And you have to have a number in there.
Back home you can actually have whole words up to 10 characters I think.
Proper personalisation
Back home you can actually have whole words up to 10 characters I think.
Proper personalisation
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Think they are a bit naff - especially the ones that try a bit too hard manipulating things to be personal to the owner - that said Bristol cars used to have their head office on the same site as I worked in the early 1980s and one of their cars had number plate 100 MPH - which I thought was quite cool. And did once see a roller with plate RR1.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
A guy used to drive around East Lothian with SS 1.
A bit marmite that one.
A bit marmite that one.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
I bow to your greater knowledge....doesn't detract from there being hundreds of, technically illegal, plates around here and nothing gets done....you see the same ones week in, week out...
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Deleted member 3432
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Penis extensions in the majority of cases....
AmandaJR
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I used to have one. My first ever brand new car and as I was a mad runner I had AR02 RUN.
I do have, but not on a car, XV03 PAR...bought on a whim when being a scratch golfer was a distant dream!!
I do have, but not on a car, XV03 PAR...bought on a whim when being a scratch golfer was a distant dream!!
road2ruin
Q-School Graduate
But if fun although agree with the comments about people manipulating a plate to look like something else, that for me is naff.
I bought ‘DAN 222S’ about 10 years ago. One thing that has improved during that time is the transfer of a plate from vehicle to vehicle. Used to take an age as the DVLA has to issue the paperwork before you could remove the plates and then transfer to a new car, it’s now almost instant when done online.
I bought ‘DAN 222S’ about 10 years ago. One thing that has improved during that time is the transfer of a plate from vehicle to vehicle. Used to take an age as the DVLA has to issue the paperwork before you could remove the plates and then transfer to a new car, it’s now almost instant when done online.
drdel
Tour Rookie
Live and let live, why is it necessary to insult. Some are stupid and daft, some can make money.
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
if people want to spend their money on a plate and display it as it should be displayed, fine, I'll live & let live. I'll even live with a change of spacing in the right circumstances with the right font (B10 PSY and PEN 15 being two that I've seen without spacing; actually mokes them more easy to remember than a random series of numbers and letters)
When it strays into manipulating the letters and numbers to read something that it isn't, no; it's naff & it's illegal.
Personally, the DVLA gives you very little for no extra charge, I'll spend the money elsewhere.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
I do have one now, bought with £250 from my mothers will. Its the first leter of my county of birth, my birth year and my initials. No-one understands it until I explain it, but I know my mother liked it as I saw it long before she died and it stayed there waiting for me on the DVLA web-site.
rosecott
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A bit of an unfortunate opening sentence - looks as if you are responding to the immediately previous post.
