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

[itsgoodtobehome]

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!!

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

Not had one of these for a while.

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.

It hides the age of the car...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'd love one.

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"

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.

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'.

Flaunt? 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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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