I've got personalised plates and they make me happy. I couldn't give a flying stuff what anyone else thinks about them - the end.
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My daughter desperately wants one, trouble is she goes by the name of 'Cari'.
Any idea what the cost of CAR 1 might be ...
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I've got personalised plates and they make me happy. I couldn't give a flying stuff what anyone else thinks about them - the end. MTC
As long as you haven't messed around with the letters and spacing, I couldn't give a stuff either!
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>> As long as you haven't messed around with the letters and spacing, I couldn't give a stuff either!
Why does anyone give a stuff either way?
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>> >> >> >> As long as you haven't messed around with the letters and >> spacing, I couldn't give a stuff either! >> Why does anyone give a stuff either way?
Couldn't have said it better that either of theses two posters.
The spaces aren't messed with.
I'm happy.
DVLA got some money so they're happy.
What's for other people to be upset about ? How does it affect anyone else ?
Mabye folks should find something that gives them some pleasure, and enjoy themselves a bit.
MTC
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>> >> >> >> As long as you haven't messed around with the letters and >> spacing, I couldn't give a stuff either! >> Why does anyone give a stuff either way?
Because if the spaces, letters or numbers (including the font) are messed around with, it can make reading the plates difficult. They need to be easily read, for obvious reasons.
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Hi machika
I was agreeing with you, it's just the way that the quote/copy came out !
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Agree with Roly - the age-related plate has always turned owning a car into a competitive sport to see who can have the newest plate. In the days when we had a large domestic car industry there may just have been some benefit to the economy, but that's harder to see now.
Some friends had HAA 7, (a Southampton no.) issued at new, and kept it on subsequent cars, which was fair enough, but the people who use spacing and the black screw covers to make a letter(s) out of a numeral etc do strike me as needing to get out more. There#s at least one removals co. that has its company initials on the trucks, which seems fine, but my favourite was the Chanel van with (I think) NO 5.
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>>... but my favourite was the Chanel van with (I think) NO 5.
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Yes, several times I have seen NO 5 on a highly polished black van at Hatton Cross, Heathrow.
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There is a family near me who have, to them, the ultimate plates.
They have a three letter oriental family name and have three cars each with their name and 1, 2 and 3
Fully legal and no funny fonts.
Another family nearby have three cars each with a letter and 50FAT on them. Not quite so good.
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"While no other country in Western Europe has licence plates which so clearly illustrate the age of a car."
um - Ireland as well.
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And at least in Ireland it's straightforward - or do people in the UK really want the rest of the world to think their cars were new in 1955?
When I worked in a Southern UK city some years ago the chairman of the magistrates owned a company called Hi-Tech. His Range Rover carried the reg H17ECH, suitably spaced. Now that's what I call cheeky...
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It's funny for this to come up today, I was following a "06" Irish truck earlier and wondering to myself whether the plate change happened there in January or not. How mad is it to have a plate that reads 55 running until March, Why March for goodness sake, why not April at least that would link in to the fiscal year. Why completly overhaul the registration system and turn it into such a mess when the oppertunity was there to simplify the whole process ?
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Exactly. Here in France there is a simple system - every time a car is new, changes owner or departement (county) it gets a new plate, so there's no one-upmanship over age, and the plate ends with the departement number so you can tell quickly where it's from. Now this system is to be changed into something as incomprehensible as the one in the UK. Why do civil servants always have to meddle?
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The French system sounds as though it was created by someone with shares in a number plate factory! I a UK car got a new plate everytime the owner moved or the car changed hands we'd be out of numbers in a couple of years! Our system isn't great but it isn't mad!
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Exactly. Here in France there is a simple system - every time a car is new, changes owner or departement (county) it gets a new plate, so there's no one-upmanship over age, and the plate ends with the departement number so you can tell quickly where it's from. Now this system is to be changed into something as incomprehensible as the one in the UK. Why do civil servants always have to meddle?
IIRC, the current UK system was dreamed up at the request of the SMMT, who allegedly wanted to 'spread the August peak'.
Another part of the UK (Northern Ireland) of course uses a system based on the city or county of registration. Seems quite a logical system and is dateless. However I gather they are intending to move to the system used in the rest of the UK, with the first letter being an 'I'.
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>>His Range Rover carried the reg H17ECH, suitably spaced. Now >>that's what I call cheeky...
I assume you mean the 1 and the 7 were separated? That is what should be banned.
If, after the first offence the fines were increased, or maybe the car was towed away, pending payment of the fine and (say) the cost of towing away, then perhaps the owners of these plates would stop messing about with them.
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Sorry to keep the tone low, but I remember a Rolls in Cardiff 20 years ago wearing deleted - as per above warnings - DD I seem to remember this featured by Esther Rantzen on That's life. Slightly more tasteful, the guy who ran Mr Travel in Cardiff had a Saab with FLY 21 T. BTW in both cases it's my spacing rather than theirs.
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If, after the first offence the fines were increased, or maybe the car was towed away, pending payment of the fine and (say) the cost of towing away, then perhaps the owners of these plates would stop messing about with them.
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There are also tiny number plates often seen on high powered bikes and "funny" cars.
Yet another variation is to have spidery characters on a flowery background making it almost impossible to read.
www.olavsplates.com/index.html
gives some examples of various illegal plates
I wonder how long it will be before a confidential phone line, similar to the DVLA one, or an email address is introduced for reporting non standard plates.
As an alternative I can imagine traffic wardens earning some extra bonuses as a reward for photographic evidence.
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I have a plate that spells my name perfectly acceptably (V11NNN) with no need for any kind of dodgy spacing or bolts. I reckon that by the time I pop my clogs (assuming I reach the same age my Dad did) it'll have cost me £20 a year. I like it. I don't care if others don't like it; it's a free world.
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mine was free i bought the car i swapped the plate im still in profit
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\"a little man in a big world/\"
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locally, you can buy your "own" plate up to a max 7 letters/numbers - as we are in the Western Cape Province, that means you get (your choice)-WP.
So there's tons of Joe-WP or JSMITH1-WP etc etc.
Quite an expensive party, and applications have to go through a process to ensure they are not offensive. (Though a young lady of Asian extraction managed to register her name - n***-WP, which caused an uproar - www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_i...4 )
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Apologies mods - did not realise that would cause the filter to kick in - must be set up for traffic wardens etc!
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Saw this on a parked BMW at Tesco and wondered what it meant: TH KOP. When I got up to the front of the car I could see that it was T11 KOP. The ones had a black rivet between them to make them look like an H.
Obviously a football addict.
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Might have been a dyslexic policeman!
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Tweaked registration plates and inappropriate fonts are now being detected by the vans you see about and fines issued. They also use the 3 strikes and your out rule. So on the third fine your registration is cancelled and DVLA retain the registration for life. Owner has to pay the fine and re-registation fee for the original plate. Regards Peter
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So there is a just god in heaven? (Or in the DVLA, at least.) I'm impressed.
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It still amazes me that anyone other than the competent authorities minds about rivets, misshapen letters or numbers and 'smutty' registrations. All part oof life's rich tapestry if you ask me.
People undergoing psychotic episodes quite often imagine that car number plates are sending them secret messages. Indeed when I see my own initials on a number plate, which happens fairly often, I start ruminating about what it all means and tend to give that car a slightly wider berth than usual.
In California, and perhaps other states in the US, it seems people can have any number plate they want provided it doesn't exist already. 'WALLY'. 'MINGER'.
Why do people care?
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With apologies to the ops, Jasper Carrot once did a story about a US Car with the plate 'b*****'.
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Yes, I'm sure they allow rows of asterisks.
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well, it rhymes with the famous South African cricketers Shaun and Graeme.
And a type of fish.
I'm sure you'll get the message - and the plate ended with o and x.
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well, it rhymes with the famous South African cricketers Shaun and Graeme. the plate ended with o and x.
Shaun and Graeme Botox? Never heard of them.
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BBC2 last night, 'Balderdash and Piffle', anyone else see it? A tabloid frivolous piece on people disputing the first use of neologisms, it interestingly covered 'bog standard', recently discussed in another thread, which the OED apparently thought dated from the 80s, how about that for ignorance, and 'minger' which apparently means: 'ugly or unattractive person'. At last I know.
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It still amazes me that anyone other than the competent authorities minds about rivets, misshapen letters or numbers and 'smutty' registrations. All part oof life's rich tapestry if you ask me. Why do people care?
Because registration numbers are used to identify cars, that's why. Anything that alters the registration to make it look like something else makes identification more difficult, which is not something you want to do if trying to trace a car involved in an accident, for example.
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Tweaked registration plates and inappropriate fonts are now being detected by the vans you see about and fines issued. They also use the 3 strikes and your out rule. So on the third fine your registration is cancelled and DVLA retain the registration for life. Owner has to pay the fine and re-registation fee for the original plate. Regards Peter
Sounds like a good idea to me.
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"Obviously a football addict"
Or a student of South African history...
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The Kop = The head.
Maybe he is a schoolmaster?
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Far cheaper to get a hand held Brother labeller and make your own KAYLEIGH & BAZZA type slogan and stick it at the bottom of the plate. We have one at work, and I did "VOLVO - Chutzpah comes as standard" for a colleague with a V40.
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Got made redundant.
Bought a cheap old BM, E reg, looked clean.
Bought a cheap DRS xxx H number plate (Like 35 quid), so that the car didn't look too old.
Got another job.
Liked the plate, decided to keep it on my new car. Let's call it R1.
Sold the BM to the girl next door, DVLA put the original number back on it.
Got a better job.
Got a better motor. R2
Transferred "my" number to my new car, R2.
Traded in R1.
DVLA hadn't caught up with the number plate changes, and issued the original number from the old BM again.
Dealer was well miffed at getting an E reg on what suould have been an X reg motor.
Spent about two hours trying to explain this to DVLA.
Ended up "replacing the receiver" in frustration.
Dialled back, and simply told them that by some amazing fluke, they had issued me a new number for my car, which - unbelievably - was identical to the number on my next door neighbour's car!
Certainly got their attention, and got the matter sorted in minutes!
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I think it depends entirely on what car it's fitted to.
I see personal plates fitted to completely standard Mondeo LX's and cannot help but think 'Whats the point'?
But then a nice plate on a prestige or performance car looks good - your initials in a Civic Type R, or similar.
I intend to get a personal plate to go on the 530i when I find one - they are only £250 from the DVLA, after all.
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They all look like legalised graffiti to me.
I can imagine the owners scribbling 'kilroy woz ere' on their school desks.
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Out this afternoon, saw a very shiny , apparently new, metallic blue X5 with one very self-satisfied looking driver.
He had sloping italic number plates as
X5 BLUE ( where the "58" had been made to read "5 B")
About 30 grands worth of fairly classy car made to look naff. I bet he has knicker blinds at home, an earring in one ear and drinks Stella.
As us Liverpool supporters remind Chelsea fans " You can't buy class"
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As us Liverpool supporters remind Chelsea fans " You can't buy class"
A certain well-known Zimbabwean with Liverpool FC connections has a Nissan double-cab 4X4 with the plates JNGLMN-ZN (Jungleman).
My kids dig it!
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