Police asked for car reg

[awemawson]

I know of someone who had his windows etched with the registration number (anti theft fad a few year back) and they cocked up the nmber that they etched !

 

[keithski122]

Do personalised plates show a lack of personality? or on a car that has no personality.

 

[waddycall]

Most days I see a car with the plate W4HNK

 

[Eric the chicken]

Do personalised plates show a lack of personality? or on a car that has no personality.

I can't work this one out. I've never had any desire for personalised plate on any vehicle, but my daughter has one. I obviously failed to bring her up correctly

 

[Erie Fred]

I had a older friend, that wanted his initials on his plate, this was early 1980's
A state police friend said "Don't ever get that on your plate"

He wanted his initials...."PCP"

 

[northwest]

I didn't notice for three years or so until a pull and the rozzer spotted it.

I drove about in a works pickup for three years with the wrong plates on it. Only got discovered when it went for its MOT.

This^^^^^^^^ is not a bad thing

Meanwhile, I think I have told this story on here previously but a well known scroat in Teesside nicked a Jag and the personal plate on it was the same as his name so he put them on his own car after disposing of the Jag. He couldn't understand why he got pulled and arrested

 

[bricol]

...and you said "Surprise me"....

Its even funnier if you know UK plates require yellow reflective background for the rear, white for the front

 

[bricol]

A mate of mines usual reply when asked if he knew his registration number was "why, have the plates fallen off"

Which, for a colleague of mine, was true - or more likely, as the Police suggested, nicked to be used on a similar Mini elsewhere. Both front and rear missing.

 

[Cobbler]

Which, for a colleague of mine, was true - or more likely, as the Police suggested, nicked to be used on a similar Mini elsewhere. Both front and rear missing.

My son had both nicked off his Land Rover a few years back, police came out & said they would likely to be used on a fill & run at a garage, but never were. No idea why they were stolen then.

 

[Dev]

I sometimes wonder if you put a random set of, let’s say Croatian, plates on your car would the cops ever be able to tell if you had tax or insurance.…

 

[indy4x]

Not vain, but on my wish list is a 5 digit reg plate for my Jeep

It's purely for practical reasons, I need a plate narrow enough so it doesn't stick out either side of the front winch bumper

I did nearly buy M0YVT, it was on the cheap list but someone else got it

Other things to spend money on ATM so it's on the back burner

 

[bricol]

Not vain, but on my wish list is a 5 digit reg plate for my Jeep

It's purely for practical reasons, I need a plate narrow enough so it doesn't stick out either side of the front winch bumper

I did nearly buy M0YVT, it was on the cheap list but someone else got it

Other things to spend money on ATM so it's on the back burner

That's my excuse for a private, short,plate on my Caterham - got fed up of snapping the original, long, plate on the rear when I caught it walking past it in the garage

 

[Gritineye]

The dealer put wrong plates on my LR, I never noticed. Drove around for years, got camera flashed a few times but never got a ticket.

The front one got broken so put a new one got fitted.

Got stopped on M25 for doing 70+ with a big trailer (Mazda TD engine) plod said the number came up as a Shogun tax expired, but as he walked back he could see the now correct front one that matched the tax disc he was a bit confused and put it down to a NRC glitch, after we had a chat about that he drove off and forgot to nick me for speeding!

I drove around for another few years before I noticed the plates were different, felt a bit sorry for the poor Shogun owner getting all those tickets.

 

[Norsk]

I have a Unimog that is registered as a Tractor,therefor it only has a number plate on the back. If/when the rozzers set up a checkpoint with anpr and I roll through it I just pull over and wait for the mufti car to come screaming up behind me. By this time I am already holding the rego papers out of the window.

If I were legally able to have another plate on the front I would do,but tractors can only have a single plate.

 

[Pilgrim22]

My taxi pulled up alongside this one in Sao Paulo.
I couldnt resist.

 

[droopsnoot]

I did nearly buy M0YVT, it was on the cheap list but someone else got it

I presume that's just an example, not the actual plate.

I don't really care what other people choose, but it does irritate me a little when people buy something that requires mild (or sometimes severe) dyslexia to make it read what they think it reads. If they're going to mean something, I much prefer the subtle approach. I don't understand people who pay money out for a plate that matches their car - MGF plates on an MGF, just for example.

 

[redlig]

I presume that's just an example, not the actual plate.

I don't really care what other people choose, but it does irritate me a little when people buy something that requires mild (or sometimes severe) dyslexia to make it read what they think it reads. If they're going to mean something, I much prefer the subtle approach. I don't understand people who pay money out for a plate that matches their car - MGF plates on an MGF, just for example.

There was a story going the rounds about a guy who thought that the next MG model would be a MGD and so acquired a batch of reg no's in advance to try to make a killing. He was really p***d when it came out as an MGF.

 

[Robotstar5]

There was a story going the rounds about a guy who thought that the next MG model would be a MGD and so acquired a batch of reg no's in advance to try to make a killing. He was really p***d when it came out as an MGF.

Like the early days of t'interweb with folks speculating buying domain names, the famous one that made a few bob was selling diy.com to B&Q

 

[chunkolini]

That all sounds well dodgy.
Do keep us posted as to outcomes.

 

[northwest]

I don't understand people who pay money out for a plate that matches their car - MGF plates on an MGF, just for example.

I drive past a Kia most mornings with the reg EVO 07 on it. He must be well ticked off :-)