is this personalised numberplate legal?

gaz_jones

2B and NOT 2B are on a couples cars near Battersy.

iNath

B2 GAY is a good one round here!

Lum

iNath wrote: »

B2 GAY is a good one round here!

Until some homophobic idiot decides to key your car.

cyclonebri1

oldone wrote: »

I think all these number plate variations should be made legal. It would then serve as a warning to sensible motorists that the car bearing such plates is driven by some idiot who puts vanity and appearance above driving safely and spending money on essential maintenance.

Oldone also fails to realise all these "variations" are illegal, the users takes a chance every time, on pain of a fine.

But some subtle changes can be got away with;);)

Still can't get his connection between a private plate and driving safely, and/or lack of maintenance, some predisporision I guess, ????

davetrousers

I don't wear a name badge on my clothes when walking around, so why would I want one on my car?

I have said specifically to my GF not to buy me a personalised number plate as imo they are bl00dy awful!

cyclonebri1

davetrousers wrote: »

I don't wear a name badge on my clothes when walking around, so why would I want one on my car?

I have said specifically to my GF not to buy me a personalised number plate as imo they are bl00dy awful!

I don't either, but a personnal reg is just that, personnal, not advertising for some conglomerate, just stamping your identity on something unique, your car. Go with it, or don't, just let others have their own view:T:T

davidlizard

Round our way people seem to go for private plates to mask the true age of their car.

They seem to think that somehow it is some huge social and economic inadequacy to be seen with a car that is more than a couple of years old.

cyclonebri1

davidlizard wrote: »

Round our way people seem to go for private plates to mask the true age of their car.

They seem to think that somehow it is some huge social and economic inadequacy to be seen with a car that is more than a couple of years old.

Well let them, it doesn't affect you?????????


Maybe it'll keep the the car keyers off your car???

Then again the 1 million private plate owners could all be wrong????

Many users don't have an option either, they drive company cars that are all registered with the companies corporate lettering

Shoshannah

I personally dislike personalised plates. That said, one of my cars has a cherished number but it is nothing to do with my initials and nothing related to me or the make of the car etc. No vanity, no in-joke. In fact it's such a long story behind it I think it would bore you to explain, so I won't.

The ones that get me are the plates containing, for example, X5. As if the big silver badge saying 'X5' a few inches away didn't tell me what car it is.

Lum

I had one on a car for what I think was a valid reason.

I was driving a 1999 Subaru Legacy B4 which I had kept looking good, and still looked fresh and modern, and I was using it for all my work business trips, however my work imposed certain "appearance" requirements on me and driving around in an 8 year old car was causing management to get annoyed, even though they agreed that the car looked decent enough and that if I had an identical car on, say, a 55 plate then they wouldn't be complaining.

So I stuck a private plate on there. Not a tacky irish one, but one beginning B4, which obviously referred to the car, and that kept management happy.

Cost me £400 all in and saved me having to sell a perfectly good car and buy a newer one. I think we call that "moneysaving" around these parts?