At one time (when buying a new car) you could ask a dealer if you could look through their list of available registration numbers and choose one. Has the latest numbering system put paid to this?
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L\'escargot.
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When my mate bought his new bike recently, he looked through a couple of dozen numbers that the dealer had available.
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You can still choose your reg - I did with my new car in May - but the choice is limited to very random, non-word forming letters. Anything remotely like initials or a word are kept by DVLA to sell on for a higher price I suppose.
Being in East Anglia I was hoping to have at least AO07 but of course they have been kept behind so you can order a James Bond style reg with your initials from the DVLA.
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We had a car near us in Essex that dated back before Bond films-OO 7007-must be worth a lot now.
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We had a car near us in Essex that dated back before Bond films-OO 7007-must be worth a lot now.
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It's on a Range Rover.
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Dealers still get issued with a batch of registrations, and so if you ask nicely they should be able to give you a choice (my Citroen dealer did when I bought my C4 in March). Some large chain dealers have centralised allocations and so you may not have a choice with them.
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When I was buying a car a couple of years ago the dealer pointed out one of the registrations available ended with "5USY" (susie) which he thought was unusal to have just been generally released. I have no close connections with anyone named Susie but took it anyway.
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