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Daedalus85
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I've got J8 TXT which was only £250, the bare minimum you pay for a plate in the UK.
The J8 is meant to be JB, my initials, and TXT cause I love phones and I text alot, so it symbolises me really I suppose 
Yes they're restrictive, but it makes perfect sense to me. You can't make it look newer for obvious reasons, the fact people will try and make a used car look newer to sell for more. You can't have just anything because chances are they've either already gone or they're reserved for auction (where they go for a fair bit more).
You just have to be more creative
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masseur
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but these number plates that "try" to look like something else are so lame
and I really don't subscribe to the argument about not making a car look newer... anyone who is going to buy the car is going to want to see the registration documents and hopefully do a HPI check.
When I got my MR2 last week I found a great MR2 but the HPI check showed the plates on the car were private plates but it also gave a history of the car with the original plate which showed the car had previously been written off and then put back on the road.
Thats not neccessarily a bad thing but I said no thanks and bought the one shown in the picture in the first post which I am very happy with. it has only 59000 miles confirmed by the service manual, every single MOT the car ever had and the HPI check (and again today when I had my local Toyota dealer do a tune and a thorough check over the car including exchaust emissions etc etc).
so a little due diligience always shows the truth... and anyway, so many other countries allow much more flexibility for number plates so why not the UK?
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arien617
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On 2008-07-16 22:57:18, masseur wrote:
so a little due diligience always shows the truth... and anyway, so many other countries allow much more flexibility for number plates so why not the UK?
Because they're clucking difficult, is the long answer short.
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masseur
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but thats more an excuse than a reason
anyway... it is what it is I guess...
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Daedalus85
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Well thanks, I'll go tell my Grandma that the 21st birthday present they bought me is 'lame' then. I like it, it's mine and reflects me and people know it's mine, that's all i care about.
And yes, most people with an ounce of sense would a) want to see reg documents and b) do an HPI check.....but have you MET any of the Great British public?? The vast majority are as thick as pig shit  Chances are, they won't know or care about an HPI check, and I suspect that theres a fair chunk of people out there who don't check the numberplate versus the age on the reg document.
People in the UK are dumber than most, hence why they have the dumb rules and regs to keep them from being even dumber...
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masseur
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sorry, I wasn't being specific, I was being general about what people have to do to get something halfway towards what they would really want
anyway, surely people do HPI checks for a fiver just to be sure the seller doesn't have debt on the car if nothing else? who wants their shiny new car reposessed because of someone else defaulting?
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max99
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some do look lame
but you can jhave a nice one which means something to you. like mine i think, its my name Max B, (b second name begins with this) and so M4 AXB is closest I can get unless I want to pay high £XX,XXX
Some friends of mine have stupid ones to try and get it to look something like there name and in the end it looks nothing like it.
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Superluminova
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Its just the uk system, its how it started off and how it has stayed.
On the subject of private plates, i can't find anything thats remotely like my name, the nearest is; B42RYS but for £3500 you can shove it Mr. DVLA!
What i really want is B4RRY, but some lucky lottery winner with a porsche has it! Damm that man!
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masseur
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thats part of my point though. anything half decent is only for the rich which should not be how government agencies run their business... at worst it should be a raffle/lottery (of esato fame ) at a reasonable cost, not who can spend the most!
for example, on ebay australia, some Victorian number plates which are very good and less than £200!
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Caspa
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On 2008-07-16 20:25:06, fatreg wrote:
C4SPA is available... a snip at only £5k too.....
is it?! where?! never comes up when i check the dvla!
now if i can find a spare 5 grand.... anyone feeling flush?
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Muhammad-Oli
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That's so weird how the UK does it. In New Zealand our number plates are 6 characters long. So long as its available, you can have anything you want, and they only will restrict it if you want swear words.
New Zealand number plates don't correspond to the age of the car, so there's no need to worry about that. We have a card in the front window of every registered car telling us the age of the vehicle.
Each personalised plate costs a maximum of NZ$750 for a premium plate (any letters or numbers in any combination), or $500 for one with three letters, then 3 numbers in the same style as our regular plates.
We can have coloured plates, plates with pictures on them, etc.
Once we get sick of our plate or want to get rid of it, we can make a bit of money and sell them on TradeMe (New Zealand equivalent of Ebay). I've seen some go for very high prices too.
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Daedalus85
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FYI peeps, the specialist ones (ie over £1k) are only available through independant sites or DVLA auctions, not through their standard website.
And you'd be surprised how few people do HPI checks, they often think "oh they know what they're talking about, I believe them". Again, people are pretty dumb...
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fatreg
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On 2008-07-17 02:01:08, Caspa wrote:
On 2008-07-16 20:25:06, fatreg wrote:
C4SPA is available... a snip at only £5k too.....
is it?! where?! never comes up when i check the dvla!
now if i can find a spare 5 grand.... anyone feeling flush?
it'll look great on my lex...
http://www.uknumberplates.org/enquire-cherished-ch-9250175.html
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Caspa
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damn, always thought it was taken!
mate, what have you done!?
start a new job at the end of the month, and i should be able to have a successful 2nd part of the year... got my current Lex for about another 3 years so no upgrade costs for a while.... maybe a present to myself at some point?!
or will it be available when i replace my IS250 with the ISF?!
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haynesycop
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Get in my car is ready pick it up on Saturday. The number plates i got offered where abit rubbish so i picked **08 ZDZ the easiest out of the lot to remember, so excited.
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