Personalised number plates - cringey?

[AmyAmb]

Inspired by the mum I see most mornings on the school run. Range Rover, personalised plate, leggings tucked into white socks - I’m sure you know the type!

Anyway, personalised number plates - yay or nay?

I don't think you can have ones that make the car look newer that it is.

Also a hassle putting it on a new car every year!

I doubt that is a problem for most people.

Don’t care if they are cringey. My plate helps connect me to people.
It’s a way of communicating and I’ve met people with shared interests via my personalized plate. Perfect tools in the ASD arsenal. Plus they are fun.

My car came with one when I bought it and I never bothered to change it back. It's not an OTT one though. Live and let live - I literally couldn't give less of a shit what people think of my numberplate 🤷‍♀️

That's a myth. People don't take them out when there's no kid in the car and the signs break on impact anyway.

You can’t put a dated plate on that makes the car seem younger, but the simple ones (3 letter 3 number) are what’s known as dateless so can go on any car.

I associate them with people who holiday in Dubai.

You sound delightful and not in the slightest bit judgemental.

Why does it bother you what assortment of letters or numbers a stranger has on their car? It obviously makes them happy and has 0 effect on you. As for judging people on the school run, shame on you.

All my in laws have them, i got one for my wedding gift as a way to say welcome to the family.... we all have our first initial and then a few letters from our surname

When we recently got our new car my husband managed to get a number plate that is sort of my name - didn’t cost anymore as it was part of the allocation for that year new number plate. Unless you knew me it just looks like a normal number plate!

Not for me.

There was thread once where you named what you would never do regardless of wealth.
Buying a pp was top of my list!

I used to think they were really wanky, but in my 40s I’ve decided not to be a judgmental cow, and now think…ah fuck it, whatever makes everyone happy dude.

I like guessing what they say when I spot them out and about and I tuck leggings into white socks because I'm down with the kids.

V v v v tacky.

I am on my second personalised numberplate - I have the perfect one now that spells out my odd Christian name - and it was cheap because it means nothing to anyone else.
I have my previous plate up for sale online ATM - hoping to at least cover the original cost and the retention fee. That was cheap too. So if you have £600 to spare...
I think they are really fun, and it saves having to remember your reg number in car parks. 😀
Nb. I tuck my leggings into my socks to help keep off the ticks/Lyme disease. This area is rife 😬

Some of them are quite funny. We saw one which spelled S1GHT and it was an opticians car with their ad on the side. I like things like that.

They are not for me, but live and let live I say.

For the love of god though, someone tell me what am I supposed to do with my socks?! In/out/invisible /contrast. I didn't understand the "rules" as a teen in the 90s and haven't kept up since. Laces too. Cheers 😄

I have one that matches the model of my car so not that personal to me exactly. A late night spur of the moment eBay purchase cheaper that it honestly should have cost so I couldn't resist. It's probably worth more than the actual car right now. 🤣 It did take me nearly two years to actually assign it to the car cos I felt like a bit of a dick but oh well! 😆

They are so commonplace these days, that I don't really think they are special any more.

Nasty bastardised ones are tacky and chavvy as hell. Ones like “F1” not so much

As @XenoBitch said, Baby on Board signs are for emergency services. It’s not a notice to other drivers to be extra careful round the precious cargo, they’re to indicate to first responders in the event of a really serious collision that they should also look for a child inside the car.

But yeah, with you on the personal reg’s. I appreciate some are occasionally funny, but it’s mainly just a flex for dimwits and show offs - ‘I’m far too flash and loaded and younique to just use the letters and numbers that came with the car, I have to have my own special random letters and numbers so everyone knows it’s meeeee’.

I don’t mind those ones

@AmyAmb I like them if they are related to the car model name or a jokey word rather than the name of the owner/driver but not bothered really.

What about the stick figure family ones! 😂

I’ve got one with my three initials and a number - I’ve had it for decades and have always loved it. But it’s a different story for the ones that attempt to spell out your whole name or a catchy word or something - nope, not for me thanks…