Personalised car number plates - yay or nay?

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Just that really.

DH is so keen.

I think it's tacky and a waste of money. I genuinely can't understand why you'd want your name (or some ridiculous incarnation) as your car reg, but maybe I'm a grumpy bitch.

Thoughts?

I don’t like them myself but some do, it’s no different really to spending money on an expensive handbag or lots of nice clothes, I suppose really you can buy what you want. About half our road seems to have one but it’s not a particular affluent area, just average.

I saw a Porsche 911, I think, around Knutsford with the plate V11GRA.

Bet he regretted it several years later

No, no, no, they scream ‘I am a prick’

A friend has one that’s just one digit / one letter. The number and letter aren’t in any way siginificant, it was a pure investment thing (in which case why put it on the car? Suppose it distinguishes it from the zillions of other black 4x4s in their neck of the woods).
There used to be a TVR I’d see around with the plate G5P0T. Twat.

@BruceAndNosh oh god, around the corner from the Waitrose car park on the narrow road?! My kids and I giggle at that every. Single. Time! It must be owned by a proctologist or something- it was moved from one car to the current pale 4x4 thing so it’s not pure accident - it’s intentional poo!

Nay. Why wear your name on your car when you wouldn't choose to wear a name badge on your jumper all weekend?

I would if it was a lot cheaper. The DVLA charges alone mean I wouldn't bother, let alone the costs to actually buy the number.

@HermanHermit YES!
I hadn't noticed that it had changed from one car to another!

@newtb so many private plates knocking around in knutsford 💰

I have one on my car. It was a present and I loved it however it cost less than £300 including transfer fees so not a huge bank breaker. It reads my initials xxx I don't particularly think it's showing off. It's a gift that you can put on every car you own through out your life if you wanted to rather than some piece of tat you would throw away.

@user764329056 so those of us on here who have said we have them are pricks, are we? Just to clarify.

Yes, just to clarify

@user764329056 🤣🤣 nice!

Rockbird, no, that's just what some random, ill-mannered nonentity on a chatboard thinks. It doesn't make it so.

Neigh..all day long...

Nope. Tacky, pretentious shite.

No. Tacky and a waste of a lot of money imo.

I'n in the tacky and waste of money camp

Going by some of the comments on here I'm glad I've got one if it means I don't agree with the some of the posters on here. I'd hate to have anything in common with some of you. You do realise it's possible to say you don't like something without resorting to insults?

PinkSparklyPussyCat, I feel exactly the same. I'm glad to be an 'outlier'. When a poster that does nothing but bilge spite all over the boards tells me they don't agree with me, my overwhelming thought is "Thank fuck for that!". I'd hate to be like that.

There are always things that we don't like. I don't like tattoos, there's no need for a value judgement as well. Sooner or later somebody will say they don't like something that is dear to the venom-spouters and they'll lash out. Sadly, they won't see the hypocrisy but, we've all got flaws.

Take no notice, just relish that you're different.

Classless, a knob, tacky, wanker, arsehole, vain, twat, pretentious, prick.

And that's just what I could be bothered to remember. Over something that has no impact on their lives whatsoever. Glad to be with the outliers too.

I was in the tacky camp several pages ago. Still am but now considering becoming a double agent due to behaviour of my lot on here.

Absolutely love them and also that people are free to choose - this is easier than I thought ! We should all give it a try !

Not for me I think it is tacky.

Up to others what they do.

We have them, they’re DP’s love, not mine! We have kids names and surname initial (variations of the same ones, does my head, surely one of each name is enough....)