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◊ 2008-04-23 16:37 |
No descriptive data is held by DVLA for registration number GX56LKJ. What may have happened is the owner put a personalised numberplate on it, so the original registration isn't attached to the car anymore. EDIT: Plate was once registered to this car according to here: http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ts/search/VRMSearch.aspx -- Last edit: 2012-11-15 18:11:34 |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:21 |
Anybody who wants to personalize their plate in the UK is able to do it? is it expensive? |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:33 |
In the UK you can't just create your own lettering, you must choose an existing registration with a certain combination of letters and numbers, plates with particular permutations have a certain appeal because they resemble certain English words. The cost depends on the "desirability" of the plate, I think the average personalised plate costs several hundred pounds or so. One of the main reasons people buy plates is to hide the age of the car (UK plates used to use letters to mark the year of the car, now they use a two-digit number code). Although I think some personalised plates look nice on certain cars (Paul Daniels owns MAG1C, ingenius), the main gripe I have with them is most of them are bit meaningless (because people can only choose whatever is available and what they can afford), I think the average person only buys them for the sake of it (a lot of flashy SUVs like Range Rovers, X5s and MLs have personalised plates, with some cars I think having an ageless personalised plate reeks of "Keeping up with the Joneses"), unfortunately you can't write whatever you want on them (don't ask me why), so for example I couldn't have "GMANN" because it hasn't got any numbers in it. Whereas in the US (and I think US state licence plates look much better than our boring white and yellow plastic ones), it seems like you can have all sorts of things written on them, which I think is better. -- Last edit: 2008-04-24 01:53:05 |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:37 |
You could try "GM4NN"  |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:39 |
That might work, although I doubt I could afford that if it existed! |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:43 |
So, you can personalazie them but with another existing one? not by one invented by you? that's it? |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:45 |
You buy any plate that's available and register it to your car (and if you buy new cars you can transfer it to them). Actually I'm not sure if it's possible to create new ones (as long as they have the right amount of letters and numbers). -- Last edit: 2008-04-23 17:47:16 |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:48 |
From what I understood, they issue special plates just for selling them at a higher price, but do not create plates on request? In Belgium you can buy special plates but they must fit one of the letter/number system that existed since 1951: "Plates still in use" on Link to "en.wikipedia.org" 620 € for current 3+3 system (1973+), 874 € if you want and older one (5 numbers/letters) -- Last edit: 2008-04-23 17:50:18 |
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◊ 2008-04-23 17:51 |
I really don't know for sure. You can find out more about UK personalised plates here: http://www.regtransfers.co.uk/index.asp -- Last edit: 2008-04-23 17:52:10 |
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◊ 2008-04-23 18:23 |
The DVLA Personalised Registrations site provides a way of searching for your preferred registration both old and new styles. http://www.dvlaregistrations.co.uk/home/ If they do not exist the closest matches are shown and the price. This is in addition to companies reselling existing registrations. Any new registrations that are likely to be of wide interest or are very desirable in the past I believe have been auctioned by the DVLA. -- Last edit: 2008-04-23 18:23:59 |
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◊ 2008-04-24 23:10 |
I believe you can pre-book registrations not yet issued with the DVLA (for a fee). I've seen some ingenious personalised registrations: HAR 150N (Harrison), JUD 50N, LF04 ALL (it took me weeks to realise that this Vauxhall Vivaro van belonged to someone called L. Foxall). When in 2000 I delivered an S-type Jaguar to a certain Branko Ivanov in Macedonia, it carried British plates. His contact in the UK offered to try to get his initials on the plate (which would have been impossible, as BI is an obsolete Irish registration). Branko's reply was 'The names of fools are written up everywhere' ... which rather sums up my attitude. |
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◊ 2008-04-25 01:53 |
Bentley continentals and Range Rovers are the most popular for private plates GM4NN wiil not work .G4MNN would be best option (on a Merc C220 CDI estate) -- Last edit: 2008-04-25 01:56:02 |
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