Personal Plates
 

So, any experience? Are personal plates a good investment these days? They don't seem to be getting any cheaper, and you are never going to get a snappy plate now they have stuffed the date in the middle.

Anyone bought/sold over a period and got a view?

Rgds, Rob

Well i'm well happy with mine!!My Wife baught it for me as a joint xma/birthday/fathers day pressie.For the next 10 years!!It was £250.

If your planing to put it on the bike once it's on there it can only ever be transfered on to another bike

Rob i dropped on mine about 15yrs ago i followed a car with it on and stopped the driver and asked him if he wanted to sell it ! he did and i gave him 800 squid for it !
i joined CNDA and every year they send you a valuation!
my plate is worth £10,000 but only to someone with my initials and who wants it!

so it's worthless realy if you get my drift!
ps buy one anyway as it does take the year off what you Ride/Drive ;)....mav

not true! sorry john Da that was the old way B4 the DVLA realised they can actually make millions from plates :D

Got 2 PP's now.... one on the R and the other one has been on retention for about 3 years... Got fed up paying £80 every time i transfered it to another car... It still cost you £25 a year to keep the plate, Might be worth a few quid in about 50 years !!

I've got one, paid £850 for it a couple of years ago. It's perfect for me so wouldn't sell it. Probably worth naff all anyway!

Just bought S999 XTC for £250 inc transfer and it'll stay with the bike, I just wanted a plate with 999S in it, not bothered about the value. DUC 749R comes up at DVLA auction tomorrow, now that might be worth summit. about a month ago V5 RCV was still on DVLA site for about 700 noticed it had been bought since rumours of a road RCV started. Pick the right ones and they can be worth a bit.

Theres a few ?888 SPS plates on the DVLA site if your looking for one for your bike.

[Edited on 20-4-2005 by Gizmo]

got one on both sps and monster - came with the bikes altho monnie is proper age just M600 and original owners initials

Thats what I was told by the DVLA about 3 years ago, unless things have changed since not enquired since



[Edited on 22-4-2005 by JohnDa]

I got R99 DUC on the bike when i bought it, when i was haggling over the price of the bike the previous owner said he'd knock £200 or £300 off if he kept the number.

For that i thought it was worth keeping as i guess its gotta be worth that or even a bit more if i ever wanted to sell it.

[Edited on 21-4-2005 by BDG]

I've got a private plate on my car. As well as being a private plate it's a private joke based on my wife's nickname...her real name is Sadie but she's known to her friends as Maj... Hence MAJ in the number plate. That was £250 from the DVLA but is worth nothing to anyone else.

I've got a private plate on my bike as well that I bought after I followed a car with the letters DUC....then I realised after following it for a bit that it wasn't DUC but OUC, with the new DVLA standard font the 'O' is squared off and looks enough like a D at a glance without misrepresenting it.

So, in the days before my son's uni fees hit me I logged on to the DVLA site and bought V2 OUC for £399. Had the plate made up at the NEC one year and bumped into Monty and David Cook, they had to do a double take before realising that it was OUC not DUC. It also looks more convincing when it's on the bike because it's set in the right context then. Probably not worth anything like £399 that but since I'm not selling it doesn't matter, and after all, it's only a bit of fun.

Saw R999 FLA on a Fila rep in Ducati Wolverhamtpon the other day...

Iv got S999 BYE for £250 inc transfers , always getting stopped as police think im taking the pi$$ :lol:

When i was looking i saw GIXXA that eas up for £1k , a bit rich for me and may still be up for grabs to sell tp the jap crap peeps :lol:

Why bother?

Just change your name to your plate, far cheaper.

Regards

MJ03XXY

Cant beat R999 SBK :devil:

i have dealt with personalised plate as a bit of a hobby for a number of years,

DVLA are certainly increasing their prices on the personalised registrations they have available, it was easier to make money buying direct from DVLA and selling private o few years ago, the real problem is it is a very limited market in terms of sale and if you choose to invest you must invest money you dont need to get back as thay can take an enourmous amount of time to sell, its not a quick turnover type thing,

the DVLA release the pending registartion plate ie **55*** for sale some months before you can put them on a car, this is the time when you need to think up the combination of letter that will make you your small fortune and on the day they are released you need to get on the phone at 9 am an try to beat every other bugger to it, you can view prices prior to this online but as i said DVLA are getting more wised up to what is desireable and the prices reflect this more now,

for eg i purchased GE02GYS for £399 when it was released and sold it via an agent to a "Georgina" for a substantial proffit 2 years later. however I would say proceed with caution, if you want to advertise the plates yourself this can be very expensive.

i would suggest that the 3 number and 3 letter plates 123ABC ABC123 are worth investing in at the right price, just take a look at all the car adverts on tv and you generally see this style, they are not age related and desireable for that reason, many can be bought for around £500, and i would expect that to increase steadily in the long term.

if your looking to make money you will need to be lucky, i would suugest you dont invest too much in one registration unless of course its a real corker. and aviod too many alterations to the plate, the police get very difficult about the spacing and font regs and size of letters etc.

One of my neighbours has JUL1E as the reg on her car, her mum bought it as a present for her years ago. Until recently i think the reg was worth more than the car it was on as i imagine that reg must be one of the premium ones.

This is the one my car.

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QwDvA...12669616139891

It says SLOB TT in case you can't see it. Some do some don't. It's meant to be ironic.:lol:

Someone near me has ROMEO and tried flogging it to posh / becks but they wouldnt pay the daft figure mentioned, i do know theyve turned down a LOT of mooola and i think it only cost around a grand :biaggi: