People who put their car make on their number plate!

I have 4 of them. Nothing outrageous or particularly expensive.

But cars are my hobby. I have a lot of them. I spend most of my non working time with them, working on them, going to car shows.

I don’t really drink, don’t smoke, don’t take drugs, I wouldn’t know a designer handbag if I fell over one and I don’t own a single piece of designer clothing. My nails are short and unpainted. I don’t wear make up. I’m not particularly girly.

My money goes on my cars and I’m ok with that. It shouldn’t matter to anyone else what I do spend my own money on. It doesn’t bother me what others spend their money on. If they want nice clothes and bags and jewellery than that’s perfectly fine. It is just not what I’m into.

I have a private plate. DH has a private plate. Our boys have private plates on retention for their 18th birthdays. They’re currently in nursery and primary school 😂 like a PP, I also have a photographic memory for reg plates. I think they’re great, and each to their own

I have one and it was bought as a present 30 years ago. I like it as it’s easy to remember, and I think that will be helpful as I age, but I wouldn’t go out and buy one.

Agree they look really chavvy and crass.

Both my siblings have them though so would never voice this opinion 🙈

When Citroen Saxos first came out in the 1990s, loads of them were registered with number plates ending in SAX. I don’t know how Citroen did it, but you could buy them from new like that. Seemed a bit naff.

what are you thoughts on that one? 😂 I saw it yesterday!

unfortunately I don’t live in Wales anymore but they have loads of them where I live too! Each to their own. My sister has one as her car is her pride and joy so it makes her happy.

I do it too. Half the time you can’t see the driver well, as more windscreens are tinted these days but I can spot someone I know from a long distance by their number plate. Maybe it’s a Welsh thing but personalised plates aren’t unusual where I live either and can be picked up for £300 so hardly a status symbol unless you have a very rare combination of letters that make a name or word.
Have absolutely no idea why some people seem so averse to them that they say they despise them. Think it reflects worse on them than anyone with a personalised plate.
As to the OP, BMW plates on a BMW, etc are not a new phenomenon and have always been around. Maybe you’ve just started to notice them and therefore spot them more often now. DUB is an extremely common number plate for VW, especially camper vans.

Yep that £100 spent on mine 15 years ago for my 40th birthday says we have way too much money!

People do have things like PO10 or CL10 all the time. I think personalised number plates can be great - the creative ones make me smile. Cars are a thing of great joy so people investing time and money into it is their thing. Let them have it and stop judging. Im sure they don’t think you’re all perfect either.

And have you? Some of the plates cost several thousand ...

Im 45 and never owned a ‘posh’ car. I’ve worked hard since the age of 16 and bought myself a posh car last month and Yes! I have put a private plate on it! No fucks given!

I find it utterly cringeworthy op - personalised license plates in general but particularly when people do this, what’s the point?

See also - when people include the engine size eg. V5.

I have a friend who did this and then moved it onto a new car where it wasn’t even accurate. Make it make sense.

I saved my son a fortune. Young CMB16F says he's really grateful 👍

MN has such a weird thing about private regs and how anyone who owns one is thick and a spendthrift and they're pointless and cringe.
'Born poor' is quite something, but at least it's an original one for this episode of 'Hate the Plate'.

Private regs cost from about £200, that's less than my handbag.
Some people wouldn't give a second thought to spending that on a dress which will be worn once.
Costume jewellery serves no real purpose but to imitate the real thing & make the owner feel good. Are we okay to spend a couple of £££ on that?

I'd love to know why there is such a disproportionate reaction to something completely harmless & no different to any other silly frippery that brings a bit of joy to the owner.
I wonder if it's subconsciously seen as a male vanity thing?

(My car has a normal reg plate)

Maybe they are driving their dad’s car?

It’s forecast to have a resurgence!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgyznp615zo

Mine cost £250.20 years ago

Where do you live where there are young drivers called Roger! I thought that was bound to be one of those names that had died out

Mine cost £250.20 years ago

I've got one it's silly and funny.
My money, I can do what I like with it

Watch you don’t fall from up there

I do that too! I take it you’re in Wales with those names on plates.

I had one.

My father was an abusive, alcoholic nasty piece of work. He told me I’d amount to nothing in one of the last ever rants he had at me before my grandparents took me - I was 7. It lived with me for a long time.

He always wanted a car with a private plate as two people he knew, and hated, had private plates, but he couldn’t stay away from drugs or booze long enough to afford it.

It was perhaps petty and spiteful, but when I was 22 I had a good job and was doing well for myself. My therapy to undo his damage was tough, but successful. I bought the plate as my last ever “fuck you” to him. It reminded me every day I had it that I had beaten his brutality.

i also had a second last laugh when a company not far from where I lived opened with initials the same as mine and when they started doing well the owner approached me and asked to buy the plate for a large amount of money.

The only one I liked was on a bright pink Range Rover driven by a woman.
It spelled BIMBO.
I thought it was hilarious.

Not something I’ve especially noticed but also not something I’d get worked up about if I did. Personalised plates in general are very much something I file under ‘not for me but totally harmless’.