Private plates!!!

[Anonymous]

I agree a complete waste of money and I do not understand why anyone would want them......If you have the money then why not?

I have a very fast Audi sports car (not the TT and with standard number plate) and receive an Audi mag each month. In this mag, there are always ads for plates such as TT xxx

Usually, these are for sale at £600 (3 LN planes! Which will wear out,chip and rust) to £1200 (1 festool saw bladeAgain which will wear)

No i dont have one but as long as its a decent plate then it will hold its value. Each to their own

Try READING my posts before having a go at me with red additions to my point. I find this very rude.

If you had actully read it, you would see the comments were tongue in cheek - £1200 for a saw blade for instance.

 

[andys wood shed]

And most Honda S2000 owners have S200 O initials :wink: :lol:

We don't

Sad souls. Is it because they can't remember their name? Or because they lack self-esteem? Or because they are under-endowed significantly in the male organ stakes? I put them in the same category as Porsche Cayenne owners.

Cheers mate
But at least I can remember the reg number when asked :lol:

 

[Gary]

I can't understand why people think a number forms part of their name a mean who knows anyone with a number 4 in their name instead of an A. ATW 4T would therefore be their ideal plate after thety have also played with the spacing too. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[woody67]

That was a corker Gary =D> wonder if anybody does have it? I agree that legit - without messing with the spacing, screwcaps etc; private plates may be a good investment or indeed money spinner for the government; if i recall
K1 NGS sold for 200 and odd thousand quid :shock: . Just out of curiosity I spotted "my" plate - 1 MW for £155.000 :shock: Think I'll change my name by deed pole to BD 05 HKY - funnily enough my reg number! - that if I were unscrupulous enough and wanted to tamper with the letters, could sell it to Mr Abramovich for £12874.00000000! I'm sure he'd love B DOSHKY don'y ya think!?

 

[mr]

I can't understand why people think a number forms part of their name a mean who knows anyone with a number 4 in their name instead of an A. ATW 4T would therefore be their ideal plate after thety have also played with the spacing too. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

huh?
Though I can't read text speak either. So no surprise really. I suspect that subliminally I can't be bothered to put the effort into reading these things particularly text speak so I don't see the meaning.
Cheers Mike

 

[StevieB]

No, I don't have a private plate. No desire to either. But then I also don't have the desire to add a huge spoiler, alloys, modified rims and skirt, custom paint job or kicking stereo. Personally I see a private plate as just a modification to the car - something that makes it stand out from other cars of its type.

I really cannot see them as a 'badge of wealth' because they may cost alot. If you can affort 30k for a car then 600 quid for a private plate is neither here nor there. If you only own a less than prestige car then a private plate is a relatively cheap way of making it that little bit unique and probably personal as well.

Affixing tape to a numberplate or altering a screwhead colour to make a new letter is not the same as having a private plate. Taping is plain illegal, usually to evade camera detection, usually for 'bilking' (absconding without paying for fuel) and for speed camera avoidance. Playing with the spacing is not currently illegal, although I believe (from various motorbike forum posts) if you get caught more than twice then you can be forced to revert to normal. Italics scripts and odd colours are now illegal as they are difficult to read by cameras. Script is supposed to be standard font and size.

I would say a word is easier to remember than a random plate in the event of an accident/incident but thats just my personal opinion.

Motorbike forums are littered with posts like this, usually about size of letters and small plates rather than private plates. Bikers seems to do it to enhance the looks of the bike (or avoid camera detection in a minority of cases) and I see personalised plates in the same way.

Steve.

 

[Gary]

huh?
Though I can't read text speak either. So no surprise really. I suspect that subliminally I can't be bothered to put the effort into reading these things particularly text speak so I don't see the meaning.
Cheers Mike

A TW4T it's not text speak, just some idiots think a 4 is an A. Or would you like me to spell it out any clearer?

 

[woody67]

Glad you had the B4 LLS to post that reply Gary :wink: you G1 TTT !!

 

[mr]

I think I gloss over words so that if they're not what I expect I miss them and they mean nothing. I can't say I really ever notice personalised plates unless they have fewer numerals than expected, as for text speak It means nothing and just washes over my head

Cheers Mike

 

[StevieB]

Its not text speak, but leet speak. It hails from computing and is very prevelant in MUDs and online text based role playing games. DAMHIKT

Steve.

 

[mr]

Its not text speak, but leet speak. It hails from computing and is very prevelant in MUDs and online text based role playing games. DAMHIKT

Steve.

On the contrary - and strangely enough - I can understand l77t speak ( I can even type it as easily as I can the Queen's english) it probably comes from having had a business partner who peppers his every day speech with "teh r0x0r" and the likes, text speak is something completely "other" to my mind.
Cheers Mike

 

[Paul Chapman]

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[White House Workshop]

As a biker with a personalised plate the biggest problem bikes have with the standard plates is that most bikes are made for the US market and they have smaller plates than the UK. Consequently the UK standard bike plates hang over the edges of the support frames (if there is one in the first place) and are very susceptible to damage - not from riding or from other bikes but from idiots trying to squeeze past and catching the plate and breaking it. So, a smaller plate is a definite attraction. I'm on my third plate in 6 years, incidentally, mostly from idiots in Tesco's/Sainsbury's who can't be careful where they push their trolleys... :evil: Maybe they just hate bikers??? I know of a few of those, too.

There will always be some bikers who have ridiculously small plates in an attempt to avoid the ANPR systems, but that system can't read regular bike plates anyway as the numbers and letters aren't all in one straight line, which of course they are on the tiny plates! :roll:

Some people drink, some smoke, some spend money on their hobbies. If your hobby is motoring related then what's the big deal with having a personalised plate? Mine cost me the princely sum of £125 - a tiny % of the bike cost. Each to their own...

 

[ike]

Some people drink, some smoke, some spend money on their hobbies. If your hobby is motoring related then what's the big deal with having a personalised plate? Mine cost me the princely sum of £125 - a tiny % of the bike cost. Each to their own...

That's the spirit I like!

ike

 

[tiler99]

I agree a complete waste of money and I do not understand why anyone would want them......If you have the money then why not?

I have a very fast Audi sports car (not the TT and with standard number plate) and receive an Audi mag each month. In this mag, there are always ads for plates such as TT xxx

Usually, these are for sale at £600 (3 LN planes! Which will wear out,chip and rust) to £1200 (1 festool saw bladeAgain which will wear)

No i dont have one but as long as its a decent plate then it will hold its value. Each to their own

Try READING my posts before having a go at me with red additions to my point. I find this very rude.

If you had actully read it, you would see the comments were tongue in cheek - £1200 for a saw blade for instance.

Actually or is that "Actully" I did read it but didnt really pay attention to the numbers but then the prices of Festool stuff it may have been correct for all i know. It was written in red to stand out as replies to your comments and not to have a go at you. As for being rude i think you will find that its generally thought of as being rude when you put text in capitals.

 

[woody67]

awwww don't like inciting arguments, especially as my thread was merely an observation on Audi TT owners. I never said they thought themselves above any others, just that my eye is drawn to such owners.
There are thousands of others from Mercs to Austin Allegros (one in my neck of the woods with ERM 77 - imagine what that's worth! - not the Allegro by the way!) with private plates and yes, I do agree with everyone to their own - I would certainly have a private plate (it's my 40th tomorrow, so you never know!), but not if I owned a TT. Many replies I agree with - private plates easily recognised etc, but surely everyone is with me when I totally disagree with tampering/altering plates to make them different to what they were intended to be! And I'm sorry and I'm sure that Gary agrees with me, that when I went to school 4 does not = A, 3 does not = E, 5 does not = S and two ones with a screw cap in between does definitely not = H !

Woody - N4 RKT !

 

[nickson71]

Some people drink, some smoke, some spend money on their hobbies. If your hobby is motoring related then what's the big deal with having a personalised plate? Mine cost me the princely sum of £125 - a tiny % of the bike cost. Each to their own...

I must point out that I said "I personally .........." at the start of my post and I totally agree with the each to their own philosiphy ......

 

[Anonymous]

Bit off topic but I just sold my bike for £50 more than I paid for it 7 years ago.

 

[mr]

Outrageous pornography of the worst kind
Cheers Mike

 

[DomValente]

Don't any of you dissenters come near the farm complex, you're not allowed in unless you have a personalised number plate

Dom