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Personalised number plates

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Cleanbedsheets · 10/01/2024 11:24

Why do people spend so much money on these?

AIBU to think that the only possible reason for having a PNP is to be a bit braggy?

My DP wants to get me one for my upcoming birthday, I have said it is a waste of money and to not bother. DP doesn't understand.

Your thoughts?

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Shade17 · 19/01/2024 21:26

WeeJimmycranky · 19/01/2024 13:18

Anyone who cares will know.

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This. Anyone who knows cars will know roughly how old it is and anyone who really wants to know will look it up online and find out the exact date it was registered.

Iwantmyoldnameback · 19/01/2024 16:23

I've seen a couple of Disney plates both slightly different but they both "worked"

Comedycook · 19/01/2024 14:51

Vittoriosa · 19/01/2024 12:38

I used to think this, but then bought an old car in very good condition. I bought a cheap personalised number plate which then disguised the car’s age. I feel it was worth the money - i can transfer from car to car in future and no one will know if my car is from 2014 or 2024

But I still don't understand why you care if people know how old your car is?

WeeJimmycranky · 19/01/2024 13:18

Vittoriosa · 19/01/2024 12:38

I used to think this, but then bought an old car in very good condition. I bought a cheap personalised number plate which then disguised the car’s age. I feel it was worth the money - i can transfer from car to car in future and no one will know if my car is from 2014 or 2024

Anyone who cares will know.

VisionsOfSplendour · 19/01/2024 13:15

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 19/01/2024 13:00

I know a couple called Howard and Diane, Diane drives a white Freelander with D1 4 HOW on the plate. I bet she wrote that all over her school books too.

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D14 HOW is on a red Merc, have you got that right?

DuchessOfSausage · 19/01/2024 13:09

@ImJustMadAboutSaffron , I hope those aren't their real names and numberplate.

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 19/01/2024 13:00

Janefondashair · 10/01/2024 12:01

Personally I think they're a bit naff and I don't understand the appeal. Each to their own though and I know plenty of people with them.

Someone I know has one along the lines of CB04 JNT i.e. Chris Bloggs 4 Janet. On one hand it is quite subtle, on the other it strikes me as being the modern equivalent of those stickers in the 80s that used to go across the top of windscreens like in Only Fools & Horses.

I know a couple called Howard and Diane, Diane drives a white Freelander with D1 4 HOW on the plate. I bet she wrote that all over her school books too.

SocksMcR · 19/01/2024 12:46

I read it as FUDGE and would have assumed his nickname was a euphemism for poo 😅😂

Vittoriosa · 19/01/2024 12:38

I used to think this, but then bought an old car in very good condition. I bought a cheap personalised number plate which then disguised the car’s age. I feel it was worth the money - i can transfer from car to car in future and no one will know if my car is from 2014 or 2024

DuchessOfSausage · 19/01/2024 12:33

How do I make my cat look younger? If I pop a ribbon on its tail would that be illegal?

VisionsOfSplendour · 18/01/2024 19:08

mrsbyers · 18/01/2024 18:26

My reg actually dates my car rather than makes it look newer

It's illegal to make your cat look newer, everyones make them look older unless you're lucky enough to find what you want from the same year

mrsbyers · 18/01/2024 18:26

My reg actually dates my car rather than makes it look newer

Comedycook · 15/01/2024 13:06

*debt

Comedycook · 15/01/2024 13:06

New cars aren't impressive anymore. It usually just means you've taken on a shit load of credit

Shade17 · 15/01/2024 12:41

Oakbeam · 15/01/2024 12:27

I used to use a mortgage broker who had the opposite problem. Clients would assume that he was taking too much in commission if he arrived in his BMW, so he kept an old Astra for work.

If a mortgage broker turned up in an old Astra I’d assume he was pretty crap at his job!

Oakbeam · 15/01/2024 12:27

I used to use a mortgage broker who had the opposite problem. Clients would assume that he was taking too much in commission if he arrived in his BMW, so he kept an old Astra for work.

WeeJimmycranky · 15/01/2024 11:40

This is why I couldn’t run my own business of that type. Any customer who started spouting on about how old my van was would be sacked as a customer straight away.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/01/2024 11:32

And those who have said they have not bought them to brag but to make an older car look newer. That's bragging!

My Uncle had one for his work van. He was a decorator and several snobby customers commented about the age of his perfectly good van so he got a personal plate so the age was no longer obvious.

WeeJimmycranky · 15/01/2024 08:35

Loafbeginsat60 · 15/01/2024 05:46

I have one that came from my grandads old motorbike so I like it because of that.

It's sitting in my boot and has been for the last two years - I really should do the paperwork and get it on the car! 🙄

Hmmm good luck with that.

WeeJimmycranky · 15/01/2024 08:35

There is one on a car near me that is FUD 5G which he has illegally rearranged to FU D5G (on the back, he drives around without a front plate). DSG is a kind of gearbox on his shot box car and FU is obviously a lovely message to others.

Comedycook · 15/01/2024 07:26

This is really hard work because no one wants to ever admit they got something to impress other people or brag.

You are spectacularly missing the point.

Our entire consumer culture and the whole concept of marketing is designed to make us buy things and believe we need them and to make other people think we are doing well.

Very very few of us are immune to this.

Personalised number plates are an absolute marketing triumph...

Zapss · 15/01/2024 05:52

I saw one once that looked very like "PISSERS."

Not sure if that was the intention.

Loafbeginsat60 · 15/01/2024 05:46

I have one that came from my grandads old motorbike so I like it because of that.

It's sitting in my boot and has been for the last two years - I really should do the paperwork and get it on the car! 🙄

AnnusMirabilis · 15/01/2024 03:59

I’m going to buy one actually. I’m reverting to my maiden name and there’s one on the DVLA website that spells my very unusual surname.

You’d never know unless you knew me, imagine something like PI11OCK. 😂 but obviously not pillock.

I don’t give a stuff what anyone else thinks.

jeeperscreeperswheredidyougethosepeepers · 15/01/2024 03:44

Justgorgeous · 14/01/2024 10:00

I cringe when I see one, I find them tacky.

Each time their own I suppose but this is my personal view ...

I feel they are tacky and pretentious and, yes, they are to brag.

Personally I can't see why you'd want to brag by having a personal number plate. It makes me think you must literally be a bit stupid if you waste you money on something like that, regardless of how much money you have!

And those who have said they have not bought them to brag but to make an older car look newer. That's bragging!