As the title says.. What are your thoughts on private plates? Seen one I want for the bike.. I've always thought it to be a bit pretentious to have one... until I saw the one I'm now considering!! My nickname is SMO, which is basically my initials and everyone at work and a lot of mates call me SMO and I have now seen a plate SM05 TOY which will obviously be Smo's Toy... Oh the dilemma!! Its going to cost about 850 quid btw... So what do you reckon????
I have one, it was the DLVA's cheapest plate at £200 all in - S555 plus my initials - think it looks good One thing, if you like a small plate on the bike and get stopped more than once the DVLA can withdraw the number, forever It de-ages the bike to
A marmite thread mate. I like to plate watch when I'm up and down the countries roads. If it suits your purpose and your pocket? Why the heck not. As Al says, it can draw the attention away from the actual age of the vehical, if that's what you want to do too?
Mine was £250; S13 CBR. £850 for that plate is expensive IMO. one-thing to note: if you have less numbers and letters on a plate, the smaller you can go, and it's 100% legal. I use a legal plate now, which is 7.5x6. B.S stamped etc. because of the letters and numbers being less. If you have a plate with just, say, A1, it would be tiny and legal.... But cost a hell of a lot of dosh.
Looks ok. I've got a plate on my car which I've had for 20+ years - its a fair amount of paperwork and an £80+ fee everytime you move it between bikes. Do you know that plate is available direct from DVLA at £799 including all fees?, Global quick registrations search. Searches both prefix and current style registrations I'd be tempted to search for a shorter plate - plenty available for £250 all in.
Once you've bought a private plate does it also cost so much to keep it every year ? Or once you've bought it that's it ?
Only if you keep it on retention mate. From memory the price includes the relocation to the new vehical.
not necessarily. I've been stopped 4 times with a 6x4 plate on the blade within 6 mths. Fine of £60 each time, and the copper ( same one each time) said the dvla will take my plate off me and issue a q plate. I phoned the dvla office, and they said they hadn't ever to their knowledge withdrawn a plate because of it being too small. They like the fines too much I suppose. I know, getting stopped 4 times is totally my fault, but that's one reason I wanted a private plate, mainly to go smaller and legal. I can't be doing with a fek off big plate on a bike which has a tiny rear tail. All aesthetics. Plus, I can sell the plate for what I bought it for, or keep it to put on another blade.
I have a private plate, my 2 initials, my lucky number then FEZ A private plate on a flash car sometimes makes people turn there noses up but i dont think it has the same status on a bike
Got four, one on the Golf, one on the wife's car, one on the blade that I recently transferred from a car I sold, one on the car I use now use for work that came with it. (Vehicle specific) Three of them all end with the start of surname (three letters) and start with who owns them, the one on the blade is for my son when his older as starts with G, his name is George, wife's name Jo, ........ Always thought they were for presumptions cocks, but have obviously changed my mind. Have to say the three I bought have all gone up in value, some more than others. Each to their own, although I actually prefer plates that relate to those that own the vehicle as you can keep them for life, strange as all them I own tots worth the most the one that vehicle specific!
Do you mean pretentious cocks Dave? They are... You've just turned into one lol Tbh I like them if they don't have a million screws in them to vaguely resemble "5exy" and seeing daves on his bike today looked cool... Nice personal touch which really gave it a good look. Also saw si's in a post recently and thought it looked excellent. Wouldn't mind one on the r1 - but no doubt I'd just end up making myself look like a typical r1 bellend lol
No one actually 'owns' a private plate, ultimately they all belong to the DVLA. What you pay only gives you the right to display that plate, you don't 'own' it wholesale. If you fek about with the graphics or sizing too much the DVLA 'can' revoke your 'right to display' with no compensation no matter how much it's worth on the open market. Got two myself.................. This on the car, which was a bargain £1K And this on the Bike, which was not so good value at £400, but I liked it as two of my mates bought new 62 plate bikes 3 weeks before me just because they didn't want any bad luck with a 13 plate. so I thought I'd embrace the whole Chinese 13 lucky shyte thing!
Why does it "belong to the dvla"? Totally get it belongs to the insurance company as part of the vehicle, eg if it goes missing any pay out includes the plate but haven't heard that before. Be interested for obvious reasons.
There is a lot of mis-understanding about 'losing' a private plate to your insurance Co' if ya vehicle gets nicked and is never recovered. This is not true as long as you make it known that any 'Private plate' remains with you in the event of a 'Total Loss' People have only lost plates in the past because they've done nowt about it for months or years after a Total Loss then wondered why the plate has been 'chucked' back in to the DVLA's bank of plates.
