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Really? Wikipedia gives some possibilities and I can't see one that would match yours. You can't transfer a RoI plate to UK - unless it is one that was transferred before 1987 and is on the books already. So yours must have been previously transferred to a mainland car. The OP might find one through a dealer.iolanthe07 wrote: »That's a Northern Ireland plate.
Actually it is a Dublin (ROI) plate.There is no Z or I in it.I need to think of something new here...0 -
Really? Wikipedia gives some possibilities and I can't see one that would match yours. You can't transfer a RoI plate to UK - unless it is one that was transferred before 1987 and is on the books already. So yours must have been previously transferred to a mainland car. The OP might find one through a dealer.
You may be right. All I can say is that the company that sourced it for me told me it was a Dublin plate, but of course they may have been mistaken. I bought it because the letters are my initials and the number the month and year of my birth. Pretentious, moi?I used to think that good grammar is important, but now I know that good wine is importanter.0 -
Not necessarily... I'm 50 this year - and if I was buying a brand new car next month I'd be tempted to add a few hundred for AnyAny 68 + my initials. Which would be meaningless to anyone who didn't know they were my initials. A quick look at Regtransfers says I can get XX 55 + initials for around £300 - but that would be more obvious as the car would be the wrong generation for a 55 plate. I can also have single digit plus 3 initials for £15K or initials plus 1 A for Price on Application. That's lottery win territory..I need to think of something new here...0
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Not necessarily... I'm 50 this year - and if I was buying a brand new car next month I'd be tempted to add a few hundred for AnyAny 68 + my initials. Which would be meaningless to anyone who didn't know they were my initials. A quick look at Regtransfers says I can get XX 55 + initials for around £300 - but that would be more obvious as the car would be the wrong generation for a 55 plate. I can also have single digit plus 3 initials for £15K or initials plus 1 A for Price on Application. That's lottery win territory..
Funny one near me is a renault scenic with 1 xxx - if the plate costs 15k for that, baffles me why they drive such an awful car - looking it up on DVLA it's 13 year old 1.6L petrol junk heap, if you can spend 15k on a plate you can surely get a half decent car!Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Absolutely... I once saw my initials + 1 for sale at £25K (many years ago). I've never paid that for a whole car! Only thing I can think is that they bought the plate when flush in the past and are hanging on in the hope of being so again rather than selling the plate and buying a cheap plate and a £14K car with the money.Funny one near me is a renault scenic with 1 xxx - if the plate costs 15k for that, baffles me why they drive such an awful car - looking it up on DVLA it's 13 year old 1.6L petrol junk heap, if you can spend 15k on a plate you can surely get a half decent car!
Precedent for that: Jimmy Tarbuck owns COM 1 C - it was on his Rolls Royce in the 60s; on a Metro in the early 80s when he was out of fashion and on various Mercedes when he picked up work again in the late 80s.I need to think of something new here...0 -
Could the government/DVLA change the numbering system considering some plates have such high values?
Imagine if they announced that all cars will use a new system and from 2020 all old registration numbers will no longer be used. There would be uproar from people who'd spent tens of thousands thinking it was an investment.0 -
Well they could if they wanted to - like they did in 1963 and again in 2001. They might even try and make money by holding back desirable combinations for auction again. Of course, the cost of re-issuing plates for every vehicle on the road would be a big factor - and trying to make the owners pay for it would cause the uproar.
How about changing them all to QR codes that can be read by ANPR cameras? No-one would pay for one that couldn't be read by pedestrians and over drivers. Might make it harder to find your hire car in the yard though and you'd have to be careful to not park too close to an identical model/colour combination...I need to think of something new here...0 -
Funny one near me is a renault scenic with 1 xxx - if the plate costs 15k for that, baffles me why they drive such an awful car - looking it up on DVLA it's 13 year old 1.6L petrol junk heap, if you can spend 15k on a plate you can surely get a half decent car!
If that's an old shape pre ducks backside Scenic it may simply be they can't find anything else comfortable to drive. The very upright driving position is highly prized by those of us with lumbar problems!
Since my last Scenic expired I've never found another car as comfortable, despite having tried many different makes and models.0 -
If that's an old shape pre ducks backside Scenic it may simply be they can't find anything else comfortable to drive. The very upright driving position is highly prized by those of us with lumbar problems!
Since my last Scenic expired I've never found another car as comfortable, despite having tried many different makes and models.
Possibly yes but it's in an area with lots of big expensive houses, I'd be surprised if they couldn't afford a more comfy big car - it's a 2005 reg if that helps?Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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My initials are HRH. Thankfully I'm not vain else it would cost me a pretty penny.1
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