And, yes, the caravan and the trailer have personal plates on them to match the car. Anyone apopleptic yet? Hawkeye ----------------------------- Stranger in a strange land
I'd admit to a personal plate, but a CARAVAN?
Nooooooooo!!!
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nice response Hawkeye........
i don't bother with big wheels, upgraded stereo etc, etc but don't mind if others do...their choice
i bought SWMBO a plate for her birthday,...... my first initial,4, then her three initials e.g. X4XXX
went down like a treat, she thought it was really thoughtful and it didn't do me any harm in the reproductive bit either.
My car has one from over 5 years ago, transferred over from the last one, as my first name only has three letters and i fancied a plate that i can keep for ever . £250 all in, in 2001 (from DVLA and includes the transfer fee and VAT) didn't seem that bad to me.
i think it's 'horses for courses' again,....... what harm is it?
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Having your initials on an otherwise normal plate - no harm at all. Nobody else is any the wiser, you get a nice feeling when you see it. It wouldn't even raise a snigger. It's the desparate attempts to spell other words using numbers for letters and realignments etc that make me laugh.
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If you buy the right plate it will also increase in value. My bro in laws plate that he paid £250 for has potential to make big money should he decide to sell it, it spells the name of a multi national company and also one with motoring links
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When I see cars with my initials in the number plate, often with another letter too - K for kill, S for scorn, P for pathetic, things like that - I always superstitously give them a wide berth thinking: 'It's got my name on it.'
People undergoing some kinds of psychotic episode often see messages in the number plates of passing cars. Thinking of a word to contain all the letters in passing number plates in the correct order, with a bonus if they are actually contiguous in the word and an extra bonus if they are a word, makes a good game for children over six or so to relieve boredom.
As for 'GARY 1' and so forth I don't give a monkey's. Innocent vanity doesn't offend me.
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I always superstitously give them a wide berth thinking: 'It's got my name on it.' ................People undergoing some kinds of psychotic episode often see messages in the number plates of passing cars. >>
Wow! Breathtaking stuff there Lud!
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You re-arrange the characters and drive around at your age and you'll excite the boys in blue more that you will like. Add to this all the automatic number plate recognition going on and you will soon receive a warning and eventually cancel your number plate at your cost and your cost to abtain legal replagement plates and registration number. Regards Peter
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I have seen the BOL etc number on a Rolls Royce in Croydon years ago - It made me laugh but I would not spend my hard earned cash on a personal plate.
All Torque -
Why not just change your name by deed poll instead to whatever is on your existing plate so everyone would know you as Mr AB06XYZ or whatever your registration is ?
Much cheaper than forking out for a personal plate that doesn't mean a thing to anyone but you.
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Do you read Viz, Helicopter? : )
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Not recently - stevied - Why?
I ssed to enjoy reading the Fat Slags - it reminded of my youth clubbing in Newcastle .... : o)
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AllTorque,
Coming back to your original question, I don't think (IMHO) that X5 AMX is worth paying for.
1) You'll have to display it as X5 AMX, not X 5AM X. Who's going to know what that means, except you?
2) X 5AM X looks daft (whoever said it looks like blowing kisses to the world isn't far off). Again, IMHO.
3) Why spend good money on a plate you don't really want when you could get something more individual by being inventive. The suggestions for your initials or home county sound better. And if the aim is to disguise the age of the car, any plate will do.
How about X5 SBC - Sam Brown's Car? You can transfer it to your next car (and the next 10 after that) and it'll still make sense...
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Haven't all the X5s been taken up by BMW suv owners?
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Now, I don't mind personalised plates. I wouldn't; I have one. It says my name without any spacing shennanigans. You will certainly know me if you see me. One of the things I like is that I'll probably be able to sell it for the pittance it cost me in a few years. I also like the fact that I can drive a car without any "age snobbery" at my choice to keep cars a little longer than some people would seem to like.
The one thing I don't get is getting a number plate that reflects the car it's on, e.g. X5 or TT, etc. They look fine, but will become valueless over time, surely?
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Do you read Viz, Helicopter? : )
I'm really not old enough to admit knowing this, but I think Viz must have stolen the idea, because I remember Jasper Carrott making the point a long time ago.
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: ) I think you're right, and I am not old enough either!
As for personalised plates, I don't like them, but each to their own. I do have a pet hate about stupid fonts.
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If there's one thing I really like it's a stupid font, stevied. What have you got against them?
A nice Arabic number plate for example.
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wife recognises me straight away in my vehicle with its PP if you can afford it Alltorgue (and no money?) go for it its not snobbery in my book unless they have really had the letters messed with,my pet hate is the slang way of writing normal plates to make the owners look prats (its not a rude word in case filter barrier barricades this small word) and it usually works . they are
as said get it bought and fill the govt coffers with more wonga,you know you want to
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I saw a a plate on a Roller once, 'A1'.
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err, why the line of stars?
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I see no problem with a private/cherished plate, I know what I would buy if I had the money (and a new enough car!). What riles me (same as most others) is the blatant abuse - wrong spacing, illegal fonts, dodgy screwheads etc.
The best plate I know belongs to guy at work. He has a standard prefix plate, standard spacing and font and it spells out his first name and initial of surname. You would never know - unless you happen to know the guy himself, and even then it took a long time for it to dawn on me. If a plate can be cool then this is the way to do it - it is meaningful to him, friends/colleagues also get it, everyone else is clueless.
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I see no problem with a private/cherished plate, I know what I would buy if I had the money (and a new enough car!). What riles me (same as most others) is the blatant abuse - wrong spacing, illegal fonts, dodgy screwheads etc.
Agree 100% on that, quite happy for people to buy whatever plate they want so long as it's still readable by everyone else.
The one thing I've never really understood though is why it's considered cool to have doctored plates but it was/is considered to be totally 'chav' like to have your proper name on a plastic sun strip over the windscreen a la Wayne and Waynetta? Can't see the difference really.
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err, why the line of stars?
The forum software automatically hides anything it thinks might be a password. Go on, try it.
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I saw a a plate on a Roller once, 'A1'.
That would belong to Lord Montague of Bealieu probably. An ancestor of his got this the first registration plate after the repealof the red flag act etc.
Now, my SIL is getting the registration of her new silver Corolla replaced by the one from her previous silver Corolla. The neighbors willl be very ........ confused.
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Personalised Number Plates.. What a great title to open up a can of worms on this great Forum. Regards Peter
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>> err, why the line of stars? The forum software automatically hides anything it thinks might be a password. Go on, try it.
Swearfilter actually. DD.
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Quoted original message but that was no good either.
Heheheheh stevied.
The wheel a justice dem grin slow but dem grin exceedin small eventually so to speak.
We all been there wit we favourite rudeboy numberplate.
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Nobody else is any the wiser, you get a nice feeling when you see it. It wouldn't even raise a snigger.
i genuinely don't get this.........why would me having my first name fully spelt out on a number plate, cause someone else to snigger?.... i think i'm lucky to have the opportunity to have a meaningful plate i.e it's got my name on it, that i can keep for good. For the next 30-40 years of driving (if i'm around that long), i'll have the same plate. I quite like the idea.
Not the reason why i did it, but it will increase in value as well.
Is it a snobbery thing, jealousy, am i considered a chav?.............what's the score, i'd really like to know.
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Is it a snobbery thing, jealousy, am i considered a chav?.............what's the score, i'd really like to know.
Okay, you've asked, and it's a good question.
I'm not sure actually. I think it's a personality thing. I like having a nice but anonymous car, and would prefer not to draw any attention to myself. Having personal plates that shout your name seems a little egotistical and a little vacuous to me, because I don't personally see the point. They are in the same category as showy but not actually very good cars (hairdressers cars like the previous generation SLK for example) - expensive, nice, but not what I'd chose to spend my money on. I think the Q-car is far more the way to go, hence my comment about using plates to disguise a new car.
Having said all that, I will concede that there is nothing at all wrong with it, unless it's all re-spaced and touched up to render another phrase, when I'm jealous that you won't get nicked by speed cameras.
I guess what I'm saying is that, because I don't personally see the point, I think it's funny that someone's ?wasted? their money on the plates. However, when challenged about it as now, I'll admit that actually there's nothing much wrong with it. Indeed, maybe I should get a life and not waste time arguing about something that I don't really have strong views on and that isn't hurting anyone?
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