To be bothered by this car's registration?

[flipflopping]

I have my eye on a car. I like everything about it except the number plate:

FF69 XSP

(Imagine here that my name really is FlipFlopping, so the FF is my initials. Actually my name is something else but the letters are my initials, if you see what I mean, so if I were called Mary Brown it would be MB69 XSP)

I am slightly worried that people will think I have a personalised number plate with my initials followed by 69.

Please reassure me that I am worrying over nothing.

Vote YABU if you think the number plate is fine.
Vote YANBU if you think everyone will assume I've basically put my sex life on my number plate.

I would think it would be your date of birth.

My brother got his new lease car... registration plate BJ69... and the last three letters are a near miss for something else you don't want on your car! Only two years left to go...

I have a 69 plate, apart from some Inbetweeners style winking and elbowing my Dh who didn't even make the connection it's been pretty uneventful.

My DSis lives abroad and has BJ6969 in some form on hers, she's mortified!

At least you aren’t L84NL!

The world seems divided into people who notice number plates and those who don't. But MN tends to have more of the latter than the former.
Since I do notice number plates, I'd notice your's OP If you really like the car why not pick up a cheap personalised number plate and then you can remove the 69 one?

I have a private plate that implies a completely different name to mine. Once I was pulled over and the officer said Sue I presume? (example name before I get fact checked) I felt a right berk explaining that I just kept it because it's easy to remember.
All my cars have had the same reg.

Heres where a bunch of posters claim they've got local cars with specific plates, other posters search the DVLA site and call them liars 😁

Somebody with 'LG0PNR' just had it cancelled.

I notice number plates and if you knew you, it would probably make me snigger. And wonder if it was personalized.

That being said, I'm not sure it would be enough to put me off buying the car if I was in the same situation.

My brother is actively seeking a BJ69 because he's still a child...

My husband always, always points out 69 plates and smirks. They never quite grow up do they! Consequently, I was keen for my car to arrive in time to be a 19 plate instead of 69.

I can't believe somebody actually looked up the registration

It wouldn't bother me op

@providentglue
Different country!

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Ahh, there was me thinking you were one of those people who got a shiny new car every year

I've never thought about it, but we have a 69 plate, and the letters surrounding it make it sound very iffy indeed. I don't imagine anyone at all has given it a second glance.

If it was FF69 SEX then I might look at it twice, but otherwise no.

Do you 69 though?

You can replace the licence plate with a generic plate though - we bought a car that had a personalised plate, which obviously meant nothing to us, so we made it a condition of sale that the garage would get us a generic plate (with the correct year) - the garage had to take some paperwork to some local government office and it wasn't a big problem. You could do it yourself if the garage wasn't willing to.

In Edinburgh, 13 years ago, lots of cars were scheduled to be assigned plates starting with SN07, but a special dispensation was made to allow the (otherwise unassigned) TN07 to be used instead. By contrast, that year, I'm guessing that Glasgow was issuing SC07 plates as scheduled and thus providing a big batch of future highly-desirable regs - especially whoever ended up with ones like SC07 LND and SC07 ISH etc.

I'm guessing the same dispensation was again made to Glasgow ten years later, to avoid having cars driving around with SH17 on them....

My DH has a 69 plate - the last 3 letters are FCX...

I hate driving his car because I am SO paranoid that people will think it’s personalised.

YANBU, I wouldn't want that reg, but I don't think it's that difficult to change the reg. As long as you don't want a fancy one it won't cost that much.

There's an old Range Rover I see frequently with the plate ORBI5ON. Always wonder if there's an interesting story behind it.

@wildraisins

YANBU, I wouldn't want that reg, but I don't think it's that difficult to change the reg. As long as you don't want a fancy one it won't cost that much.

£80. Apply to remove the registration and the car will automatically be assigned a new registration. Then the cost of plates and any admin charge on your insurance.

I see a car regularly with the number plate KN08 HED - it makes me giggle every morning, I'm sure its not intentional

Oh of all the bleeding numbers.

It reminds me of a time when my mum won on the bingo and instead of shouting “house”or “bingo” She shouted the number she’d been waiting for. (5). I said to her
“it’s a good job you weren’t waiting for number “69”🤣🤣🤣🤣