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To ask people with personalised number plates.......why?

265 replies

itsgoodtobehome · 29/11/2018 15:46

Genuinely interested. I see more and more personalised number plates (Sha70n) on my way home which inspired this thread. Why do you do it? Do you want people to know your name? Do you wear your name on the back of your jacket or on the front of your t-shirt?

I am really intrigued as to why people would flaunt their name, initials, nickname, whatever.....on their car.

MN enlighten me please!!

OP posts:
HildaZelda · 29/11/2018 15:46

My friend's got her cat's name . . . . .

tickingthebox · 29/11/2018 15:47
Biscuit
GreatDuckCookery6211 · 29/11/2018 15:47

Not had one of these for a while.

Sparklingbrook · 29/11/2018 15:48

I always thought it was so people wouldn't know how old their car was?

Half my family have personalised plates but I have never seen the appeal.

It's good when you follow one and you can criticise their driving using their name. Grin

DogInATent · 29/11/2018 15:49

It hides the age of the car...

Sparklingbrook · 29/11/2018 15:49

Ah come on Duck, it better than cat poo in the garden or shoes on and off in the house surely? Grin Grin

Imaghosthowareyoooooo · 29/11/2018 15:50

Why does it have to kick off? The OP isn't slating personalised plates, she/he is just bemused. I'd love to know why people get them too.

TheQueef · 29/11/2018 15:51

Mine is someone else's name it was on my first ever car, a hot pink chinquicento.
I loved that car.

NinjaGoSaysNo · 29/11/2018 15:51

I'm always intrigued by this as well. I guess it's a) a "status" thing, to show they can afford something so nonessential and b) as others have said, to hide the age of the car.

badlydrawnperson · 29/11/2018 15:52

I see more and more of these where the digits have been rearranged (technically illegal but obviously the overstretched Police have more important stuff to worry about) - why?

Why would you (and lots of people do) go to all the bother and expense of finding someone to make you an illegal number plate?

Half of them don't make any apparent sense either.

BumbleyBum · 29/11/2018 15:52

Because my husband got me one! I don’t feel much about it either way tbh. But, I can always remember my reg Wink

PinkCalluna · 29/11/2018 15:54

Some people think it’s fun.

I’ve never quite understood going to all the expense though. My friends bought personalised plates for each of their children as soon as they were born.

They cost nearly £1000 for plates which won’t be used for 17 years.

It’s slightly beyond me but it’s their money to spend as they like.

IHaveBrilloHair · 29/11/2018 15:54

I'd love one.

badlydrawnperson · 29/11/2018 15:54

SHA 70N is a bit rubbish anyway isn't it? It doesn't actually spell anything - just looks like a bit of a rubbish approximation.

IMHO we should do what they do in the US - you can have your name etc but it costs extra, and the Americans call them what they are "vanity plates"

MaxTeyon · 29/11/2018 15:55

Nothing wrong with a nice dateless plate correctly spaced etc. Nothing screams chav quite like a bastardised cheap and nasty plate which nearly spells a name.

Sparklingbrook · 29/11/2018 15:55

I followed one yesterday when i think the last letter was required to be an 'O' but it was actually a 'C' with a craftily placed black screw. to look like an 'O'.

Caprisunorange · 29/11/2018 15:56

Flaunt? Grin flaunt your initials?! What a weird thing to think! People just like them don’t they? No different to buying an expensive handbag or bike because you want one

Armchairanarchist · 29/11/2018 15:56

Just sold mine. It was a gift. I bought my son one because he wanted it. It's now worth three times what I paid and I made a profit on mine.

OhLemons · 29/11/2018 15:56

We've got a couple, don't really know why, my husband bought them. I definitely don't see them as a status thing and I'm not trying to hide the age of my car.

MrsTerryPratcett · 29/11/2018 15:56

I used to work somewhere we took down hundreds of licence plates. My non-scientific analytics of the correlation was more nobbers have one.

I heard more patronizing and 'that's not good enough young lady' from them than even most BMW drivers and they were famous wankers.

BusterTheBulldog · 29/11/2018 15:57

I’ve got my initials. I like it, just like the fact that it’s my personal plate really. 🤷‍♀️ Not a status thing as was pretty cheap!

Sparklingbrook · 29/11/2018 15:57

You wouldn't put your name on the outside of your handbag though.

Defender90 · 29/11/2018 15:58

We have one, it was bought as a gift for his 30th, it's on my car, just a bit of fun.

RagingWhoreBag · 29/11/2018 15:58

DP bought one but it was a regular arrangement of letters/number that meant something to him, but just made his car look older to anyone who didn’t know his name! Utterly pointless.

VenusStarr · 29/11/2018 15:59

Saw a great one earlier 'hot kez' she's modest as well Wink