ID66IOT
(With some substitute for the non allowed 'I's)

 

Hardly an idiot if I'm driving a £40k car.

So.....any sensible suggestions?

 

Hardly an idiot if I'm driving a £40k car.

Just ask your dealer to send you a list of the registrations they have in their pool shortly before they register your car. Which will be anytime just after it is unloaded from the ship as it arrives in the uk. There will probably be one or two that you quite like.

Only an idiot would think that owning a £40k car precludes them from being an idiot !

I know plenty of idiots with more expensive cars than that - come to think of it I can be an idiot sometimes and my current car cost over double that.

 

I think you may get a few 'unsuitable' suggestions

I'll start with PI66 TKE but I'm sure I'll come up with a better one

 

P166 0FF
1D6610T
P16 61TE
D166ERS
E66 HEAD
E66 FART
ROUTE66
BE66END

 

E66 FRT ? Like it!

How about

WH66 KEY - my personal favourite

RU66 LER - no coment!
JE66 TER - wee bit top gun.
DO66 ERS

CA66 TOF - fishing/boating
LE66 TER - too geographically precise maybe

There's actually loads, DVLA will want about £500 - 600 for any personalised plate with 66 in it though, even just initials, the ones that make semi obvious words will probably be even more.

I got my first PP on the SQ5, bizarrely purely to hide the fact that it's a 16. £250 to make it look like an 07, combination of our initials, cheapest I could get.

I can't post up some of the others that spring to my warped mind!

 

What is meant by "66 plate"? I live in Ontario, Canada, so I'm unfamiliar with those terms.

 

Our "standard" registration plates have a year identifier so, for example, a car first registered from 1 Mar 16 will be in the format "XX16 XXX" and from 1 Sep 16 it will be "XX66 XXX"......................

 

Sorry my simple request has caused so much offence.

Can someone delete this thread please?

 

But thanks SteveMcB - some sensible ideas there.

(I'm just after something I can put on the car that will be different to the random letters that the dealer will try and allocate.)

 

BO66 OFF - bogg off
GA6 6OOD - comedian?
MA66STY - king?
GY66LES -giggles
GO66LES - swimmer?
BOGGLES - the mind....

I have a plate that the PO put on the car. It's 'only' a <letter><number><letter><letter><letter> but, actually, I think it hides that the car is less than a year old and that's weirdly a possitive thing.

 

UK registrations have new identifiers every six months issued in March and September. To differentiate between the 2 issues for a given year the earlier issues (March) are identified by the year e.g. XX16 XXX and the latter issue for cars registered between 1st September 2016 and Feb 28 2017 are the year plus 50. Hence the next issue from 1st Sept 2016 will be XX66 XXX.

Yes, just to add confusion a car bought after 1 Jan 17 will still be issued with a 66 identifier!

 

Thanks for making that clearer than my half-hearted attempt

 

I'm looking forward to my randomly generated number plate by the DVLA computer. As the general consensus is that it's stupid to do anything otherwise.....

 

Jetbeam - now you are actually talking some sense there. And thanks for the very sensible suggestion with the dealer pool of registrations etc. I will follow up with that.

Regarding the reason I made the comment about 'not being an idiot' (owning a £40k car) was driven by the fact I was genuinely shocked about the reactions to what I thought was a perfectly reasonable question about putting a decent plate onto my car. I mean is it that wrong to want a reg not randomly selected by a computer? Something that stands out? I mean the very concept of the Q5 (within reason?) is selected by its owner - us. The car, colour, trim, wheels - so why should the number plate be so different to any of those pre-selected features.

I don't look at someone with a personal plate and think what a d*** look at him - unless it's something totally naff with letters chopped and fudged about to turn it into something they clearly couldn't afford. All i am after/was after was some genuine ideas from enthusiasts who may have shared some inspiration.

 

It was only meant as a joke (hence the stuff about substituting the 'I's)
Just not a very good one

Didn't mean to offend

 

On long motorway journeys I have sometimes kept myself amused by counting the personal registrations (sad I know!). I reckon about 15% of car owners have taken the plunge.

 

Now that's a lot of counting. Does that mean 85% couldn't care less what reg number they have......

 

SJ1000 - you are forgiven!! I walked into it really didn't I......

I had an idea yesterday - I am well known for being tight/argumentative....always try and get something cheaper than advertised etc etc so I thought of:

HA66 LER - HAGGLER

But guess what - the clever ****s at the DVLA have removed anything that remotely spells a word for "future auction" - translates to future rip off of public.

I should have known really! They is well klever at the DVLA......

 

Like someone else mentioned, I thought about buying a private reg. to disguise the fact it was a brand new motor, for security reasons.
Pretty much the opposite of why most people buy them at later stage, to disguise that it's NOT new...
Anyway, i got over it, and basically couldn't be bothered.
There's so many out there now, that they're not eye catching or novel in any slightest way.
They are purely, 100%, to make the owner happy.
I'd say £250 is reasonable for that happiness, but getting up to spending £1,000, I would prefer to include something else from the options list with it.

 

Anything on the DVLA list is a minimum £399 with a 66 configuration. So they are effectively forcing you to pay more to allow you to keep the 66 identity. And anything remotely interesting with a name automatically jumps to £799. It's as if they are assuming if you can afford a new car you can afford to pay more for a plate.

And anything remotely interesting has been reserved for special auction.

Even Dick Turpin was more compassionate to his victims.

 

Basically supply and demand isn't it.
They'll charge whatever people are prepared to pay..
£799 is tip of the ice-berg, don't know about DVLA's top limits are, but personal no.plates is big business privately and soon get into the £1000's and tens of 1000's...
probably more for any two letters with 1 after them

 

WH66KEY, JE66TER, CA66TOF all available from DVLA at £399.
RU66LER - £799!!!

Plates4less list the £399 ones at £294 - no doubt there will be an additional fee involved.

I bought the cheapest plate I could (first ever) with our initials primarily to hide the fact that it's brand new, £250 to make it look like an 07. A bright blue SQ5 is bad enough but I didn't want to make it even more tempting for car thieves

Having said that if I had a 66 I'd be tempted by WH66KEY, could be worth more than that in the future.

 

Saved changing three car passes by keeping the same reg

 

Top 10 expensive plates

10. 1 O
This plate was sold for £170,000 by the DVLA and was purchased in 2009, by an unknown bidder by telephone at an auction in Northamptonshire. Apparently its value is down to how few digits appear in the registration plate and its rarity due to this.
9. K1 NGS
This registration plate was sold for £231,000 in 1993. It was allegedly bought by an Arab Sultan. It is rumoured to have been a highly emotional battle of an auction ending in a rapturous applause. Allegedly the plate now sits on a black 1995 Bentley or similar.
8. 1 RH
'1 RH' sold for £247,000 in 2006. Businessman Robert Harverson from Surrey paid 30 times the original estimated value for the plate because it featured his initials. One of 10 private plates he owned at the time it was sold to him by the DVLA for more than 30 times the reserve price. It's now placed on a black, 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG Auto Convertible.
7. 51 NGH
This plate was sold in 2006 for £254,000 by the DVLA at auction to an unknown bidder. This plate spells out the popular Indian and Sikh name - 'Singh'. It surprisingly fetched two and a half times the price of S1 NGH, which is technically closer to the name. The plates apparently featured on a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead in a music video by Punjabi singer-songwriter Jazzy B in 2008.
6. VIP 1
This plate sold for £285,000 and is owned by Russian billionaire and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich. The number plate was once used on the pope mobile, during a visit by Pope John Paul II to Ireland in 1979. The plate was reportedly destined for his blue 1993 Rolls Royce Corniche IV Convertible.
5. M 1
'M 1' was bought for £331,000 in 2006 by mobile phone business man Mike McCoomb who said this was a gift for his 10-year-old son - lets hope he held off use of the plate until he can legally drive! The plate was sold by Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, to raise money for the Tatton Park Charitable Trust. The plate was originally issued in 1902 in Cheshire, adorning a 1900 Benz car at Tatton Park.
4. 1 D
This plate sold for £352,000 in 2009. The first thought would be that this plate refers to boy band One Direction, but we know none of these young boys spent such a large amount on a number plate. London-based property developer Nabil Bishara purchased these digits for his wife's Bentley. It was purchased at a DVLA auction in Warwick.
3. S 1
This plate was sold to an unknown bidder in 2008 for £404,000, who apparently displays the digits on an old ŠKODA! Apparently Scotland's first number plate it dates back to 1903. Its first owner was the forward-thinking John H A MacDonald, the lord Justice Clerk of Scotland. It was in the family until it was sold in 2008 by Bonhams auction house at the Goodwood Revival Sale.
2. F 1
'F 1' sold for £440,000 in 2008. This plate previously held the number one position when it was purchased by businessman Afzal Khan and took pride of place on his McLaren-Mercedes SLR. In 2014 Mr Kahn was reportedly offered six million pounds for the plate, which he turned down. It is apparently now adorning a Bugatti Veyron.
1. 25 O
This plate sold for a record-breaking £518,000, the most expensive registration ever sold by the DVLA to Ferrari dealer John Collins. This plate is apparently now sitting on a Ferrari 250SWB worth £10m, and once owned by great musician Eric Clapton. Its value is down to its association with the Ferarri models 250GT, 250 TR and 250 GTO. One of the most valuable cars ever built. Mr Collins apparently purchased 500FER at the same time, which was a snip at £3000.

 

Geez - we really are peasants on here. And I'm scoffing over £799...... I think I'm just going to have to bend over and let Mr DVLA have his way.....

 

#9: K1 NGS used to do the rounds on a car in Brighton in the late 70s to 80s, owned by the head of a builders' family (Kings or King(?), funny that) along with a few others of similar make up. Would have been more ironic on the back of a Transit flatbed or similar

 

I bought a cheapo '55' one from DVLA in 2005 and have used it on 4 cars since. Although I've become attached to it now I do however agree with the post mentioning it'd be better spent on options or something far more useful!