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To be bothered by this car's registration?

131 replies

flipflopping · 07/12/2020 13:39

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.

OP posts:
providentglue · 07/12/2020 15:58

@Fandangoes

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

No, you don't.

pointythings · 07/12/2020 16:10

I think that's a pretty harmless plate. I do snigger at some of the ones I see on the road, but that's because they are 3 letter ones which are rude slang terms in Dutch.

LakieLady · 07/12/2020 16:10

I once had a car that had the number plate BRA 800B. From a distance,
it looked like BRA BOOB.

I am very well endowed in the nork department. Grin

Wish I still had it really, it's probably a classic now - a 1964 Mercedes 220SE.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 07/12/2020 16:25

Isn't a 69 plate showing that the car was new in the second half of 2019? So there will be absolutely loads and loads of them on the road. Only people who know you personally will know that your initials are FF and, honestly, are they ever going to look at your number plate? I've never looked at the plate of any of my friends' cars.

countrybump · 07/12/2020 16:27

Do you drive a car now @flipflopping?

I have a totally normal number plate that is easy to remember, and I just take it with me when I change my car. I think it cost about £80 to register it to a new car and they then sent me an alternative plate for the one I was getting rid of - and there was a small cost to going and getting those plates made up and put on the car before selling it.

You could always do that if you have a number plate at the moment that you like?

Benjispruce2 · 07/12/2020 16:31

I struggle to remember my own reg. Yabu.

littlepeas · 07/12/2020 16:31

There is a car on my road with the reg BL08 BGZ. I know blob bags are not a real thing and it’s probably not even that funny, but it makes me smile every time I see it.

PandaBabyJuly · 07/12/2020 16:35

My first car ended with BJB - which at 17 my friends nicknamed the car "Blow Job Babe" GrinBlush

I still kept it and drove it around haha!

JillofTrades · 07/12/2020 16:36

This gave me a laugh op. Grin

TramaDollface · 07/12/2020 16:48

69 is a 2019 number plate op, really can’t see why this is an issue?

littlefireseverywhere · 07/12/2020 16:49

I saw a car earlier NN70 UDE 😄😄😄

borageforager · 07/12/2020 16:51

@SwedishEdith

I'd be worried someone had thought I had a personalised number plate at all. I saw a MR5 [Name of husband] one yesterday. That was bad.
I’ve seen one of those. Massive cringe fest for me.
Bargebill19 · 07/12/2020 16:52

My reg spells boob. I am large of nork.

HotPatootiebootie · 07/12/2020 17:10

Mine is BJ69 followed by my shortened name (totally by accident) and it took me 3 months to notice. Not a single person has commented

ExtraOnions · 07/12/2020 17:14

My friends car is MF69 ... we refer to it as her “mother - Fing BJ Mobile” ... makes us (me & her) laugh

providentglue · 07/12/2020 18:08

@littlefireseverywhere

I saw a car earlier NN70 UDE 😄😄😄

Nope.

TheBlueStocking · 07/12/2020 18:10

It's definitely not going to look like a personalised plate with the standard alphanumeric format.

Elai1978 · 07/12/2020 18:56

LG0PNR

ORBI5ON

MY L0V5R

I presume none of these are in the UK as they certainly don’t exist in this format.

NN70 UDE

It’s a valid format but it doesn’t exist.

OP - just stick a cherished plate on it, cheap & easy.

Hotpinkangel19 · 07/12/2020 18:58

I bought my car, and the reg is XXXX PSY.
Didn't even notice - every bloody one else did!! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

Changi · 07/12/2020 19:01

LG0PNR

I presume none of these are in the UK as they certainly don’t exist in this format.

New South Wales

To be bothered by this car's registration?
DynamoKev · 07/12/2020 19:02

@PizzaForOne

Even if they think its personalised, why do you care?

They may ask you, and you just say no its a coincidence. The 69 is clearly just the year, it will be a modern car so ties into that. It's not like you've bought a 69 plate and stuck it on your 10 year old car.

You can't change to plate newer than the car in any case.
Elai1978 · 07/12/2020 19:05

New South Wales

As I said, not the UK. I didn’t deny it could exist elsewhere.

Changi · 07/12/2020 19:18

I didn’t deny it could exist elsewhere

As far as I am aware, nobody has said that you did.

providentglue · 07/12/2020 19:25

@Elai1978

LG0PNR

ORBI5ON

MY L0V5R

I presume none of these are in the UK as they certainly don’t exist in this format.

NN70 UDE

It’s a valid format but it doesn’t exist.

OP - just stick a cherished plate on it, cheap & easy.

ORBI5ON

ORB 150N is a valid U.K. format, released in 1974.

Changi · 07/12/2020 19:32

ORB 150N is a valid U.K. format, released in 1974.

It is and it is currently attached to a Land Rover