Does your car registration matter to you? I got a new car several months ago and I don't like the registration! It's highly likely I will change it. Am I being silly?

Depends what it is!

My mum refused to buy a car becasue she didn't like the number plate. She said there were too many 4's (four sounds like 'death' in Chinese). Ideally, a number plate should have at least one 8 (eight sounds like 'rich').

Same in Japanese!

A friend of my Mum's number plate has quite a few eights in it, which are supposed to be lucky and someone tried to steal it (the number plate) a couple of times

I love my culture.

If it's P155 OFF, you should really consider getting a new one...

No it's not!

Saw one today which was quite good (wouldn't want it myself necessarily)

WH05 CAR

There are some good ones, but I'd settle for a nicer combination of letters and numbers.

My last car had two 8's and no problems. My car now (I only got on 3rd Jan this year) has one 8 and has been pranged already! I would like J1 LLY as a number plate, but it would probably cost more than the car's worth.

Or maybe I could have L1 DDY!!

I saw one once which was W236 BDA, which I thought was quite funny considering that our smaller car is W215 BDA!

A friend sent me a link to a DVLA page where you can pick a new registration plate - she sent me MU51 CAL

I know someone with P111SSE!

Our car registration starts with R and ends with G which are my wife's initials.

I would like P3TRA but some other Petra has it.

Aww, that's a shame.

N00DL3 looks a bir strange!

I think that S8 HOA would do me nicely....

At a price probably. Personalised registrations have become very trendy in recent years and the prices have increased dramatically.

For the most valuable go for a pre-1963 dateless registration, not the Irish ones, but a UK mainland reg. with three numbers and three letters. I used to own 849 EGC, but flogged it to raise some money when I was short of work. If I'd hung onto it until now, I could probably have made three or four times the amount

I saw a horsebox the other week with the registration HOR 5E, which probably set them back a few thousand pounds, but judging by the size and newness of the horsebox I wouldn't think they were short of cash.

When we bought the Jag, the salesman asked if we were happy with the registration that would be put on it as he had a few others available from his "list".

I didn't know then (which Andante told me later) that KT??JAY is still available for just about all the number combinations......

I wonder if it would be cheaper to change my name to YS55 EZR.

Does anyone else get a strange, sad "Oh if only...." feeling when they see a K registered car with a number higher than 626??

I used to own MAX 57. I wish that I had kept the plate.

Max probably has it now!

I want B3NJ 5AX

That wouldnt be a valid plate !

M466 13M4Y
doesn't look real either
: )

Nope, none of them could be registered numberplates.

In the US, I believe you pay a licence fee to keep the licence (registration) plate on your car. If you don't pay, you lose the plate, and that means not being able to drive the car. Sounds like a far better and more visible way of spotting the non-payers, than silly little paper discs placed in the left-hand corner of UK vehicle windscreens.

I know this is off thread, but thinking about Car registrations, and Petrats post reminded me that there is an
organ piece by a composer Henri(?) Mulet called 'Tu Es Petra', I think meaning you are the stone !
Im sure other organists will know it.

Great fun to play, and one of my favourite pieces - I recorded it on a cd a few years ago.

"thou art Peter the rock, the gates of ###### shall not prevail against thee"

(ed) ha - I expected that. The gates of the place that's not heaven ...

The 07 reg is coming out tomorrow

Car Expert

That'll get you going!

Quite right

Need to do a reg survey soon to get that reg off the mark.

Car Expert

Somebody on the Porsche forums was buying an Aston Martin with a O07 plate

About 15 years ago my grandad died and left me some money with which I bought a new car . As I didn't have to pay for the car I splashed out on a number plate - HI5 DOH .

People still look sad when they see I don't have it any more - I feel sad too, I loved it!

I saw an 07 plate this morning. It (and the car it was attached to ) went past me on the M4 just outside Swindon (and please DON'T ask what I was doing in Swindon this morning, it's a long and irritating tale...)

What were you doing in Swindon Katyjay?

Getting irritated.

Oh dear . I hope you're not irritated now!

Swindon has that effect on everyone. Not a nice place.

Didn't get caught up in the Magic Roundabout, did you?

Oh my goodness, why on earth do they build roundabouts like that?

Not been there since I got breathalysed there. New Year's Eve 1987. Stone-cold sober.

What on earth were you doing stone cold sober on new year's eve ?????

Lost the toss of the coin and had to drive the others...

Driving for Harrogate towards Otley yesterday, coming the other way was:

M1AOW

My hubby once had a company car with registration ???? GOB which we teased him about endlessly as he loves good food......


I'd like a K9 registration though..........