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Personal plate?
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:39:16 pm »
Any one know good sites to look for personal plates??  :happy2:

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2011, 07:42:41 pm »
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I got my 'VW05 RED' from DVLA web site - £699 in 2005. Absolutely no regrets, quite the opposite. I didn't plan to get a private plate but was just curious what my local ones would look like. Spontaneous shopping  :evilgrin:


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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2011, 07:44:33 pm »
http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/
The DVLA is the cheapest place but if they don't have what you want thats no good.


I have been making my way through the list of dealers listed on the DVLA site.

http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/dealers/


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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2011, 08:04:53 pm »
I got mine from the DVLA I cringe at it's tackiness now and then and they are a royal pain in the arse when you change cars as often as I do but I've got it now so sod it, it can stay.

Dvla is by far the cheapest a lot of the other sites even sell ones on the dvla site and add their percentage to it so beware.



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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2011, 09:42:10 pm »
I got mine from newreg can't fault from start to finish dvla didn't have it and far cheaper than the rest quality  :drinking:

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2011, 09:57:54 pm »
same here ive had 2 from the dvla and some seem quite a good price lately
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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2011, 03:52:59 pm »
Thanks guys, finding it hard to find one with my name on.

 TA55 RRA is the closest so far!

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2011, 04:15:29 pm »
im thinking i might go for  SY54 VRS

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2011, 04:22:27 pm »
There are many places to get reg numbers from. All are on the internet , do google search "registration numbers". Biggest dealer by far is Reg Transfers and they have virtaully all numbers that are presently available and coming up for auction. DVLA do auctions every year and hae about 4/5 this year. Serach their site under auctions.
Due to the high cost of advertising the dealers mark up is quite high....about 30% plus. Then vat and dvla fee eat away at your cash aswell.

If you buy something like AG55ABC then it will only appeal to a very few. If you buy VW555 it will appeal to many will cost more but will be easier to sell.

Depends what you want the plate for aswell...is it to hide the age or to personalise the car or is it to show off.

What is your budget?

I would say a personal plate is something like RG63.........which is what i am looking for but thats about £5000 plus. About £8k at reg transfers.

If you are after something specific perhaps advertise for it. Most plates put on to personalise car are sold with the car when sold . They generally relate to the car linked to the person. I would say find one and keep it forever......it is then very personal and everyone will recognise you even if you change the car.......or don't you want that (I doubt it :wink:)

I am very into registration numbers if anyone wanna ask any questions :happy2:

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2011, 05:17:59 pm »
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Followed a smart black BMW M5 today: 'M5 WOA' Cool plate I thought.

Then later met a guy with a smart pearlescent black V8 Audi S4: 'V8 BKK' - He's thinking of supercharging it!  :notworthy:

I think a private plate needs to be fairly obvious to justify the cost.

Apparently, so I'm told today, 'VW57 RED' would cost £800 from DVLA.


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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2011, 06:02:26 pm »
Tara, how about 'T666-RRA' for £255 on the DVLA site?  :evilgrin:

I much prefer the old 'prefix' style plates as it's much more apparent that they are private numbers, IMHO.


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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2011, 06:09:03 pm »
I bought my plate from regtransfers a couple of years ago
and had it on 2 cars, waiting to tax the new GTI then will
be transferred onto her :happy2:
Regtransfers were extremely helpfull and experienced in
my purchase :laugh:

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2011, 06:58:31 pm »
Tara, how about 'T666-RRA' for £255 on the DVLA site?  :evilgrin:

I much prefer the old 'prefix' style plates as it's much more apparent that they are private numbers, IMHO.



Ahh yeah thats pretty good! My mum has 666 on her mk5 though...


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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2011, 10:40:42 pm »
i bought mine of reg tranfers as well..I wanted my initials  and the plate i saw was AF 40 but it cost £35000 so i settled on A13 MKV for £250

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Re: Personal plate?
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2011, 12:20:28 pm »
saw a car this morning which had T14 ARA so maybe you could hust get one with another number eg 12, 17 ,19
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