[davyk31]

Selling my registration as I have seen another I fancy. It's a Northern Ireland dateless reg do can be applied to any age of car and in any part of the U.K. The reg is

SNZ 1440 attractive as it ends in the desirable zero, has a 1 in it to shorten the look of the plate and the double digit 4

Asking for £200 plus the DVLA transfer fee of £80 so its a very cheap way of getting your car to stand out from the crowd.

[davyk31]

Also a nice plate for a 440 driver!!

[Digidick]

Lol! 😂

[davyk31]

Originally Posted by Digidick

Lol! 😂

Why lol???

[SteveChester]

Change your name by deed poll to SNZ 1440 and you are sorted!

[davyk31]

Or just buy a cheap N Ireland plate like lots of people do to make their car ageless and its job done. Don't you see loads of NI plates about?

[Boosting35d]

Originally Posted by digidick

lol! 😂

😂😂😂😂

[Drek]

Originally Posted by davyk31

Why lol???

I think it’s a beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing.

[Digidick]

250 quid (includes transfer) gives you a 5 or 6 digit plate from the DVLA with a good chance of getting one that actually has your initials.

[Digidick]

Originally Posted by davyk31

Why lol???

Loving the sales pitch

[davyk31]

Originally Posted by Digidick

250 quid (includes transfer) gives you a 5 digit plate from the DVLA with a good chance of getting one that actually has your initials.

Can you point me to this please. I can’t see any 5 digit plates for anything like that cost. Genuine question by the way.

[Armaan]

Originally Posted by davyk31

Can you point me to this please. I can’t see any 5 digit plates for anything like that cost. Genuine question by the way.

https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.u...ce&sortdir=asc

[Armaan]

Originally Posted by Digidick

cheers mate

I have one from here, along with the wife, daughter and son (ready for when hes old enough).

Nice, I've been contemplating it, but chose the remap first and steering wheel retrim...in the pipeline though

[davyk31]

Call me stupid but none of those are 5 digit plates. They are all 6 or 7 digits and standard “English” style plates. Thought you might be going to link to N Ireland style plates with 5 digits for £250 but you won’t find them.

Not comparing apples with apples I’m afraid.

[Digidick]

I see 5 & 6 digit ones when I click on the link?

I notice you're in NI according to your info, not sure the plates travel as well these days and seemed to be more popular years ago.

[Lal Nasty]

Coming from New York stateside I have no idea what's going on here...but damnit I am interested! Why are 0's at the end appealing? How is a plate that starts with N ageless?

Can someone share some old world wisdom?

[Armaan]

Originally Posted by davyk31

Call me stupid but none of those are 5 digit plates. They are all 6 or 7 digits and standard “English” style plates. Thought you might be going to link to N Ireland style plates with 5 digits for £250 but you won’t find them.

Not comparing apples with apples I’m afraid.

I can see a mixture too...I think the point is that any private plate makes the car dateless (although can't put a 19 personal plate on an 18 plate car for instance)....and they can be more personal.

Except for a 440 owner, I can't see the appeal for more than a £250 one that could be more 'personal' to the individual and more of a keepsake between cars in the future.

[JD6]

Originally Posted by davyk31

Call me stupid but none of those are 5 digit plates. They are all 6 or 7 digits and standard “English” style plates. Thought you might be going to link to N Ireland style plates with 5 digits for £250 but you won’t find them.

Not comparing apples with apples I’m afraid.

https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.u...super_priceto=

[robbiep]

Originally Posted by Lal Nasty

Coming from New York stateside I have no idea what's going on here...but damnit I am interested! Why are 0's at the end appealing? How is a plate that starts with N ageless?

Can someone share some old world wisdom?

Way back in the early 1960s (and all before then), GB numberplates comprised of anywhere from 1-3 letters, followed by 1-4 numbers, or the reverse (1-4 numbers, then 1-3 letters). Those are the 'real' dateless plates.

In 1963, the system changed due to running out of plates. It became 'three letters, one to three numbers, and then 'A'. So, for example, ABC 1 A, or ABC 12 A, or ABC 123 A. The 'A' at the end changed to a 'B' in 1964, etc. Some letters were skipped as they could be mistaken for numbers (I, O, Z, for example).
In 1982, after 'Y' was used, it changed again, and became A (numbers) (letters). I, for example, had a car that was D 68 OTU. The sole letter at the start changed each year, so A, then B, etc.From 1998, it changed again, to every 6 months, because there was such a 'bulge' of registrations in the month the new plates came in.
In 2001, it changed again. We are now 'XX 11 XXX', where the first letters indicate the region the car was first registered in (C as the first letter is Wales (Cymru), the second letter is the region), Y (and then a second variable letter) is Yorkshire). The 2 numbers then indicate a 6 month block, then the last 3 letters are random.

The rules on plates are that you must have the right (by purchase, etc) to use a numberplate, and you must inform DVLA that you wish to use it. You aren't allowed to mis-represent it. My wife, for example, has the numberplate CAZ 12 (it's an Irish plate) on her Subaru. It must be shown like that, you can't change the spacing to make CA Z12, or C AZ12

That's it really. You can buy or sell the rights to a plate (I think we paid about £3k for CAZ 12), and you own the plate in perpetuity. You can have the right taken away if you break the rules, but it's pretty rare.

If you don't want to use a plate, you can keep it on retention. I've got '41 ROB' on retention, as I don't want to use it right now.

[C320]

Originally Posted by Lal Nasty

Coming from New York stateside I have no idea what's going on here...but damnit I am interested! Why are 0's at the end appealing? How is a plate that starts with N ageless?

Can someone share some old world wisdom?

Lal Nasty -greetings to you from this side of the pond.

It's quite complicated the way it works here, RobbieP has given a great overview of the UK registration / licence plate system. By the way, you & your wife have got some great plates there too Rob

Essentially ever since 1963, right through to the present day we've had a system which pretty readily indicates the age of a vehicle.

The other thing with our system is that although you can buy the right to use a specific combination we can't assign a registration number to a vehicle to make it look newer. So whilst I could purchase a '20' 2020 registration, I can only assign it to a car that is registered on or after 1st March 2020 (i.e. when the '20' digit became valid).

[Digidick]

Originally Posted by Lal Nasty

Coming from New York stateside I have no idea what's going on here...but damnit I am interested! Why are 0's at the end appealing? How is a plate that starts with N ageless?

Can someone share some old world wisdom?

😂😂 perhaps you can now explain the US plates for us.

[davyk31]

Originally Posted by robbiep

Way back in the early 1960s (and all before then), GB numberplates comprised of anywhere from 1-3 letters, followed by 1-4 numbers, or the reverse (1-4 numbers, then 1-3 letters). Those are the 'real' dateless plates.

In 1963, the system changed due to running out of plates. It became 'three letters, one to three numbers, and then 'A'. So, for example, ABC 1 A, or ABC 12 A, or ABC 123 A. The 'A' at the end changed to a 'B' in 1964, etc. Some letters were skipped as they could be mistaken for numbers (I, O, Z, for example).
In 1982, after 'Y' was used, it changed again, and became A (numbers) (letters). I, for example, had a car that was D 68 OTU. The sole letter at the start changed each year, so A, then B, etc.From 1998, it changed again, to every 6 months, because there was such a 'bulge' of registrations in the month the new plates came in.
In 2001, it changed again. We are now 'XX 11 XXX', where the first letters indicate the region the car was first registered in (C as the first letter is Wales (Cymru), the second letter is the region), Y (and then a second variable letter) is Yorkshire). The 2 numbers then indicate a 6 month block, then the last 3 letters are random.

The rules on plates are that you must have the right (by purchase, etc) to use a numberplate, and you must inform DVLA that you wish to use it. You aren't allowed to mis-represent it. My wife, for example, has the numberplate CAZ 12 (it's an Irish plate) on her Subaru. It must be shown like that, you can't change the spacing to make CA Z12, or C AZ12

That's it really. You can buy or sell the rights to a plate (I think we paid about £3k for CAZ 12), and you own the plate in perpetuity. You can have the right taken away if you break the rules, but it's pretty rare.

If you don't want to use a plate, you can keep it on retention. I've got '41 ROB' on retention, as I don't want to use it right now.

Some nice plates there you have with the ROB plate and the N Irish CAZ 12. The point of my plate is that it’s a very different format to all the other English plates posted here and gives a car a very different look. My sister has a NI Plate in England and often gets people asking her about it. There are plenty of businesses here selling NI plates across to England for decent money so clearly there is demand but it’s for some and not for other people.