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Author: Subject: Private Plate Daftness!
scootz

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:03 PM Reply With Quote
Private Plate Daftness!

No problem with private plates, but why-oh-why do folk come up with such bloomin contrived nonsense!?

The latest subject of my ire is.. H15 LTS which is attached to a rather nice Esprit currently for sale. The plate is a unique selling point as it apparently spells 'HIS LOTUS'.

NO IT DOESN'T... IT SPELLS H15 LTS!!!!



Caps off... and breathe!!!

[Edited on 25/2/10 by scootz]





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AndyW

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:07 PM Reply With Quote
I totally agree with you, private plate owners who think in some strange place that they actually read different. Im mean whats the point anyway.
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Charlie_Zetec

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:10 PM Reply With Quote
I have a personalised plate - L8 CWR.

And do you know what it spells? Nothing. It's my initials. Nothing more, nothin less.

Admittedly the L8 part was quite appropriate, as I'm often tardy for things....





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mad4x4

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:13 PM Reply With Quote
My private plate is

UVD 11 H and means jack sh*t. Got it off an old landy before I scraped it





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rayward

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:18 PM Reply With Quote
some good ones HERE

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AndyW

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:18 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mad4x4
My private plate is

UVD 11 H and means jack sh*t. Got it off an old landy before I scraped it



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UncleFista

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:21 PM Reply With Quote
Sometimes, just sometimes you can get a decent one for not much.
My brother (Roadkill on here) got L33 3OND for next to nowt and it looks (even using the correct legal font) suprisingly like "Lee Bond".

A bargain for a plate that should last a lifetime





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locostbuyer83

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:26 PM Reply With Quote
A9 BTO



[Edited on 25/2/10 by locostbuyer83]






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liam.mccaffrey

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:28 PM Reply With Quote
I'm going to buy P100 ?DE at some point, to go on my ford P100 predictably. Plus the DE suffix is local.

back in 93 L14 MMC was auctioned for not much. It spells my name and I don't think its too contrived.
Wouldn't mind that one





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scootz

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:32 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by locostbuyer83
A9 BTO



[Edited on 25/2/10 by locostbuyer83]


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scootz

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:32 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
Sometimes, just sometimes you can get a decent one for not much.
My brother (Roadkill on here) got L33 3OND for next to nowt and it looks (even using the correct legal font) suprisingly like "Lee Bond".

A bargain for a plate that should last a lifetime


Perfectly fine... carry on!





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sucksqueezebangblow

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:35 PM Reply With Quote
How do mine do;

BU54 BYE on the 'Busa engined Vortx
and T15 CGA on the Disco ('tis CGA?)

Both properly spaced with no modifications.

[Edited on 25/2/10 by sucksqueezebangblow]





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locostbuyer83

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:37 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by scootz
quote:
Originally posted by locostbuyer83
A9 BTO



[Edited on 25/2/10 by locostbuyer83]


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Humbug

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:40 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie_Zetec
I have a personalised plate - L8 CWR.

And do you know what it spells? Nothing. It's my initials. Nothing more, nothin less.

Admittedly the L8 part was quite appropriate, as I'm often tardy for things....


Mine's similar N8 + my initials. Harmless and reasonably cheap, but IMHO having to squint, insert letters that aren't there or falsely adjust the characters in order to see what it is supposed to say is going too far

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zilspeed

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:45 PM Reply With Quote
I have one of these.



A Citroen Synergie.

and could easily be tempted to put this plate on it.

Exactly as it appears here.
That's sad, isn't it ?
Incidentally, it's £250 all in from the DVLA and I reckon it might actually be quite a sellable plate.

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Danozeman

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:45 PM Reply With Quote
I saw one today on a Navara where the front was spaced out to says MARKS 1

the rear said M888 RKS or something similar. He was driving like a C*** aswell





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owelly

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:47 PM Reply With Quote
Yeah. Why bother with poxy private plates?..




















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russbost

posted on 25/2/10 at 05:53 PM Reply With Quote
Q is does anyone know the whereabouts of RUS 805T??? - can't be worth more than a couple of hundred quid!





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gottabedone

posted on 25/2/10 at 06:08 PM Reply With Quote
I think it's quite amusing that KN is a prefix now - especially if your car was registered in 03..............................KN03
......................would particularly suit the kn0b that tried to run into me on the motorway this morning

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eznfrank

posted on 25/2/10 at 06:08 PM Reply With Quote
My old man once bought a tatty old VW Derby for about £50, the reg was EWE 6V, which he sold for £550 if I remember correctly - good deal for my dad but who on earth wanted that!!

I do like the ones such as MAG1C which Paul Daniels apparently owns, or P1lot but most are gash.

My mate has bought a few plates for him, his missus and the kids all with the last three same letters, but now as he's bought 4 it has pushed the price of those letters up by a few hundred quid even though it's only him that seems to be buying them!!

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Humbug

posted on 25/2/10 at 06:35 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by russbost
Q is does anyone know the whereabouts of RUS 805T??? - can't be worth more than a couple of hundred quid!


RU58 OST is available from DVLA

£799, mind!

ALso, a search for KN08 reveals this

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morcus

posted on 25/2/10 at 06:50 PM Reply With Quote
I personally don't like private plates at all and think they take away from the purpose of the number plate itself. Going back to the original point though, people who claim their number plate says something when it doesn't is annoying, though I'm more annoyed when they've got a show plate thats spaced wrong to make it look more like it spells something it doesn't. I really don't get how people get away with driving with illegal plates as its so obvious, and its an MOT failiur (My dad failed an MOT because a garage made him a plate where one of the numbers wasn't think enough by a few millimetres), do they swap them over for the MOT?





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russbost

posted on 25/2/10 at 06:51 PM Reply With Quote
But I don't have a '58 vehicle!

I wonder why you thought of KN08 when you were looking at "my" reg???





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dogwood

posted on 25/2/10 at 07:01 PM Reply With Quote
Mine is.

5460 VK 16.. is that SAGO?...





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NigeEss

posted on 25/2/10 at 07:13 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by morcus
, do they swap them over for the MOT?


My ex-copper neighbour does.

He's (the family) got
P33LEY
P333LEY
P33LCY and
P333LCY the latter two with a black screw in the centre of the C.

Can you guess what his surname is ? And quite apt for an ex cop.

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