Ford Purchase, dodgy registration!

oldhand

cootuk

I believe many years ago in bradford the coppers were going to get sponsored cars, until they found out the supplying dealer only had registrations ending in PYG.

poppasmurf_bewdley

If a car dealer selling a new car won't change the reg number, then he is just being bone idle and can't be bothered. There is no way a proposed reg number can't be changed before a car is registered. Like others have said, most new car buyers get shown a list of numbers and are asked to select one from the list. Every Ford I've bought new has used that system. That has always been my experience.

anotherbaldrick

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

If a car dealer selling a new car won't change the reg number, then he is just being bone idle and can't be bothered. There is no way a proposed reg number can't be changed before a car is registered. Like others have said, most new car buyers get shown a list of numbers and are asked to select one from the list. Every Ford I've bought new has used that system. That has always been my experience.

Wait till March and new reg will be 13 :eek: like it or not.

scragend

Muscle750 wrote:

I've always wondered if anyone ever had P155 OFF

Victor Meldrew had P155 OLE in one episode. His wife referred to it as a "pornographic number plate" :rotfl:

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Of course you did and you were tuned down again in 2005on PI55OFF. Did you have any success last year with BE11 END?

Can't have letter I

Tilt

scragend wrote: »

Victor Meldrew had P155 OLE in one episode. His wife referred to it as a "pornographic number plate" :rotfl:



Can't have letter I

You can actually in 2005. The prefix are now 2 letters representing the area of registration. The next 2 digits represent the year of registration.

So Pep is perfectly correct! :eek:

harveybobbles

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

Wait till March and new reg will be 13 :eek: like it or not.

Apparently if you order a new car and it will be on a 13 plate, the dealers are giving you the option to have it on a 62 plate

TadleyBaggie

Tilt wrote: »

You can actually in 2005. The prefix are now 2 letters representing the area of registration. The next 2 digits represent the year of registration.

So Pep is perfectly correct! :eek:

Nope Pep and you are wrong, "PI" is not a valid Local Memory Tag. The only valid tags starting with "P" are:

P Preston A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T Carlisle U V W X Y

Tilt

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Nope Pep and you are wrong, "PI" is not a valid Local Memory Tag. The only valid tags starting with "P" are:

P Preston A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T Carlisle U V W X Y

Ok I stand corrected. But it is irrelevant anyway as it was back in 1996 when I was interested in P155 OFF

scragend

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Nope Pep and you are wrong, "PI" is not a valid Local Memory Tag. The only valid tags starting with "P" are:

P Preston A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T Carlisle U V W X Y

Precisely

The letter "I" is not valid in any part of the registration due to the potential for it to be mistaken for "1". This was the case under the old system and is still the case now.

(Northern Ireland has a different system and can include the letter "I".)