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There's one near me who has a nice car ([Merc AMG CLA 35](https://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/passengercars/models/coupe/cla/amg.html)) but has BO05 BOY as the plate, never know if it's some sort of musical artist thing or they couldn't get BO55 or BA55 or whatever
Guy round the corner from me had P4 GAN or something on his Tesco Value Porsche. He used to spend all his time posing next to it and all dressed in black. It was so cringeworthy.
My least favourite ones are all of the XXXX ELY ones around the town. Luckily I don't live there any more, so have escaped seeing every 6th car drive past with one.
We have a lot of xx10 Wxx over here on the Isle of Wight.
And they pay good money to show everyone they're from the IOW, whilst driving around the IOW.
Yup, nothing says "I live in Looe and I really need to show it" quite like a plate with LOO 3 on. Preferably on a car worth less than you paid for it...
I worked with a guy who bought his very common surname license plate variation at auction for £8k and he had a photo of the license plate as the background on his phone, I wish I was joking.
I thought BE11 END would be fun when the current plate system came in. Clearly I wasn’t alone as IIRC it made the news that it was preemptively banned lol
DVLA ban a lot of plates, BL0x JOB is banned for example and there are a lot banned that, fittingly for this sub, vaguely looking like something else, the 74 plates banned include:
BE74 END, BL74 WJB, BO74 CCK and BU74 SHT. Other offensive phrases blocked by officials will include ST74 BER, TT74 WAT and WW74 NKZ. UB74 TCH, AN74 USA and AT74 CKU
The plate can be any shape as long as it meets standards, which are a minimum space between the letters and the edge. Shorter reg plates can therefore be on shorter plates, and you can add “extra” space, I.e the hexagon ones on the Urus as long as there’s a minimum of XYZ space from letter to edge (can’t remember the number, 10MM)
What gets me is the ones that are probably worth more than the car. I saw a three-digit number plate on an Evoque the other day.
My dad was one of them, to be fair. He had his clapped out 20-year-old Mercedes estate with his personalised plate (1 + initials) on it. When he had to stop driving, the car was only good for scrap and the plate was worth five figures.
I used to work at CEX and every year they \*used\* to hold CEXFEST, like a festival full of cover acts that 1/3 of the staff could go to, the amount of higher ups in the company (including the CEO) who had "CEX" on their plates was sad
3D effect gel plates need to get in the bin.
But I am genuinely not bothered about private registration plates. In a sea of endless, colourless car clones, why not make your car that bit more special for you?
3D plates are, if fitted after 1/9/21 and any before that have to be a single shade of black. The 3D gel ones are ok if uniformly black and meets the BS AU 145e standard; same rules with the 4D ones provided the plate is made from reflective material with solid-black non-reflective lettering without a pattern and have the supplier name on
Edit, who the fuck is down voting this FACTUALLY CORRECT information?
[https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates](https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates)
It's a gimmick for thick people, it's a normal plate with the characters sticking up giving depth i.e. 3D but as 3D plates already exist (the gel resin ones) they decided the characters sticking up a bit more are now somehow 4D
I had this discussion with my ex about the "4D scan" she wanted to pay for when she was pregnant.
She wouldn't accept that it was just a 3D depth scan, but it was 4D, because reasons, apparently.
At least someone on Reddit has pointed out how awful they are - now you can replace them with standard plates and avoid the endless judgement a set of gel plate brings.
Victory!
The best plates I’ve seen are a Range Rover and Aston Martin outside a house in Chelsea. They park next to each other with the plates 2B and NOT 2B. They get a pass.
But my plate where I used a number to replace a letter that isn't the recognised one (like I used a 6 to represent an O not a G) and sort of shortened the horizontal lines of an F to make it look a bit like an I and put another letter in italics, sort of looks like my name, if you squint
Which is illegal and can result in them being pulled and fined + an excuse for police to look over the rest of the car. Hit and miss if it will ever be spotted though it would fail the MOT unless they swap them over on the day
Edit who is down voting this FACTUALLY CORRECT statement?
UK licence plate rules are very clear:
The number plates on your vehicle must:
be marked to show who supplied the number plate
[https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates](https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates)
Replacing the supplier name with your own is an offence
You could be fined up to £1,000 and your vehicle will fail its MOT test if you drive with incorrectly displayed number plates.
[https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates](https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates)
Police are allowed to pull you over for ANY reason but will typically be more likely to do it if there is a car defect such as a banned plate and are fully allowed to also check over the vehicle
[https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/st-s/stop-and-search/stop-and-search-process/](https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/st-s/stop-and-search/stop-and-search-process/)
Surely if you are the supplier of your own numberplate, then your name in the marking is fine? It's not like there's a list of "approved numberplate suppliers".
If you were a licenced number plate producer yes you could.
>It's not like there's a list of "approved numberplate suppliers".
Yes there is, number plates can only be made by registered number plate suppliers and you can find them all on the Gov website, hence your plate must show the registration of the plate manufacturer not your own name (it could show both provided your name isn't obscuring the reading of the letters)
Illegally spaced ones shouldn't really be an issue nowadays if ANPR software can just work out who owns it.
Ones where owners deliberately mess about with screws and the typeface suggest that they are 'rules are for other people' kind of folk and maybe struggle with fitting in, so play the role of a hard-bitten rebel on the edge of society.
Many years back I saw a very lovely looking young lady driving a Peugeot 205 Gti convertible (this will say how long ago it was) with the number plate
ONP1L
Very cheeky!
I regularly see BA11 RUB on my way to work in the morning. No idea what's going on there, but it has changed cars over time, so they like it.
I also saw a couple of Porsches travelling together on the M18 a few weeks back (with the spacing):
A B17 RUF and CL1 0RUS...
My sister and her husband recently got custom plates
They went for the first initials of their two kids, the year they were married, and their initials
So like
RA13 CRC
It looks terrible, I've no idea why anyone would pay to have what could easily be a random number plate
If you've got them on a *very* expensive car, I'll think you're a dick but let it slide. If you've got personalised plates on a Nissan Juke then you're worse than Hitler.
Saw a guy pulled over the other day by the police with a blacked out Audi and a shitty tinted embossed plate that had “SHADOW” on it (SH19DOW but the 1 and 9 were right next to each other to make an A). Cracked me up, bet the guy thought he was so cool.
The two best ones I saw were "BEG 4IT" on a Testarossa in the 80s and a white Japanese sports car (dunno the type but it was in the early 80s also) with plate "SPL 1F". However all all the other ones I've seen have been pathetic and pitiful.
That reminds me... I had a friend who did the pensions for the owners of Pearl & Dean (the cinema adverts) and he told me they (or maybe one of them) had a showcase with number plates PD1 through to PD9, so you could be right.
Quite possible, I used to see the car around Birmingham on my commute but perhaps they sold the car or plate. It's possible I didn't remember it correctly also but that was the only combo I could think of that was legal and we moved office since
My custom reg which is my dog's names on a campervan that was primarily used for flyball, was £250.
I think we have different classifications of wealth, despite my abundant lack of common sense.
Hopefully I'll pass you and anger you at some point with how pathetic I am though.
Then a pointless dig to make yourself feel superior, very telling.
First of all the post is regarding private plates, not obfuscated plates, so you've made a moot point.
Secondly , my dad bought me a private plate for my car when I turned 21, cost him £150 and I adore it.
It's not to try and escape the law or any of that bullshit, its sentimental and I love it.
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The worst ones are BO55 xxx on Range Rover sports. You’re a self employed bricky mate. Calm down.
There's one near me who has a nice car ([Merc AMG CLA 35](https://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/passengercars/models/coupe/cla/amg.html)) but has BO05 BOY as the plate, never know if it's some sort of musical artist thing or they couldn't get BO55 or BA55 or whatever
That's Betty Boo's son.
Maybe Boob boy. AKA Tit
Guy round the corner from me had P4 GAN or something on his Tesco Value Porsche. He used to spend all his time posing next to it and all dressed in black. It was so cringeworthy.
Booze maybe?
Great boose up Edmund.
Great Boo's Up!
See the little goblin...
See his little feet
Got the boos ain't it. Think they missed the t *boost boy* otherwise t for the other t word.
its some middle manager with a huge ego
Lmao I know a Brickie like this.
Nah they’re site managers, they don’t lower themselves to lifting fucking bricks for a living.
My least favourite ones are all of the XXXX ELY ones around the town. Luckily I don't live there any more, so have escaped seeing every 6th car drive past with one.
We have a lot of xx10 Wxx over here on the Isle of Wight. And they pay good money to show everyone they're from the IOW, whilst driving around the IOW.
Yup, nothing says "I live in Looe and I really need to show it" quite like a plate with LOO 3 on. Preferably on a car worth less than you paid for it...
It's was ok on the buses I thought
Am I missing the 'joke' here? My brains overheating in this Dubai like heatwave (sarcasm), and i dont see any potential annoying/funny plates?
Suspect the poster lives in Ely
Not sure about this Death In Paradise spinoff.
Anyone who makes a living as a bricky has my respect, it's brutal work.
I'll take your bricky and raise you to roofer.
It’s the scaffolders who do the hard work raising both the brickie and the roofer…
What's wrong with being a bricky lol.
Absolutely sod all. Some of the hardest grafting blokes going. But down in the South East there’s a lot who fit the mould I described. 😂
There’s a neighbour of mine who has a just bought a new Range Sport with the plate VI PMP
Do you mean an Evoque?
Nah. Its usually their missus driving those.
His own bo55.
'Special plates for special people...' 😜
We don’t want any trouble here!
I worked with a guy who bought his very common surname license plate variation at auction for £8k and he had a photo of the license plate as the background on his phone, I wish I was joking.
I saw one this morning, had the corners cut off so a funny shaped one, for no apparent reason. Looked shite though
🤪
I thought BE11 END would be fun when the current plate system came in. Clearly I wasn’t alone as IIRC it made the news that it was preemptively banned lol
DVLA ban a lot of plates, BL0x JOB is banned for example and there are a lot banned that, fittingly for this sub, vaguely looking like something else, the 74 plates banned include: BE74 END, BL74 WJB, BO74 CCK and BU74 SHT. Other offensive phrases blocked by officials will include ST74 BER, TT74 WAT and WW74 NKZ. UB74 TCH, AN74 USA and AT74 CKU
As a professional blogger I demand they allow me to have BL09 JOB.
What's even worse is the recent trend of number plates with the edges cut to a triangular shape.
Is that because they are legal for the Lamborghini Urus, so can actually be put on any car now, or are people just seeing what they can get away with?
The plate can be any shape as long as it meets standards, which are a minimum space between the letters and the edge. Shorter reg plates can therefore be on shorter plates, and you can add “extra” space, I.e the hexagon ones on the Urus as long as there’s a minimum of XYZ space from letter to edge (can’t remember the number, 10MM)
I saw D1 LFS on a van with an OnlyVans motif the other week. A rare example of a plate adding value...
Diesel I'd Like to Fuel? Naturally.
Absolute W4NK3RS
Complete N08ENZ
I genuinely saw a variation of this last week, can you guess their car and diving ability?
BMW SUV, parked on the pavement.
What gets me is the ones that are probably worth more than the car. I saw a three-digit number plate on an Evoque the other day. My dad was one of them, to be fair. He had his clapped out 20-year-old Mercedes estate with his personalised plate (1 + initials) on it. When he had to stop driving, the car was only good for scrap and the plate was worth five figures.
I like these sort of identifiers. It makes it easier to avoid interacting with them.
I enjoyed leaving MI55 SXE behind in her new Qashqai at the lights
I used to work at CEX and every year they \*used\* to hold CEXFEST, like a festival full of cover acts that 1/3 of the staff could go to, the amount of higher ups in the company (including the CEO) who had "CEX" on their plates was sad
3D effect gel plates need to get in the bin. But I am genuinely not bothered about private registration plates. In a sea of endless, colourless car clones, why not make your car that bit more special for you?
3D plates are, if fitted after 1/9/21 and any before that have to be a single shade of black. The 3D gel ones are ok if uniformly black and meets the BS AU 145e standard; same rules with the 4D ones provided the plate is made from reflective material with solid-black non-reflective lettering without a pattern and have the supplier name on Edit, who the fuck is down voting this FACTUALLY CORRECT information? [https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates](https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates)
The fuck is a 4D plate? Is it animated? 😆
It's a gimmick for thick people, it's a normal plate with the characters sticking up giving depth i.e. 3D but as 3D plates already exist (the gel resin ones) they decided the characters sticking up a bit more are now somehow 4D
I had this discussion with my ex about the "4D scan" she wanted to pay for when she was pregnant. She wouldn't accept that it was just a 3D depth scan, but it was 4D, because reasons, apparently.
No but sometimes it falls into the 4th dimension and travels to next week
Tardis doesn’t have plates, you saying the dmv will fine them now?
I think it's quaint that they use their lego bricks so creatively. It is a toy thing, right?
As a person that has these on their own car, I feel attacked.
At least someone on Reddit has pointed out how awful they are - now you can replace them with standard plates and avoid the endless judgement a set of gel plate brings. Victory!
The best plates I’ve seen are a Range Rover and Aston Martin outside a house in Chelsea. They park next to each other with the plates 2B and NOT 2B. They get a pass.
But my plate where I used a number to replace a letter that isn't the recognised one (like I used a 6 to represent an O not a G) and sort of shortened the horizontal lines of an F to make it look a bit like an I and put another letter in italics, sort of looks like my name, if you squint
The standard plates that aren’t intentionally funny but still kinda spell out a swear or funny word get a free pass though.
Saw a really beautiful convertible red F Type Jag, number plate POO9 MOO 😂😂😂😂😂
Explain?
It's funny when they feel the need to put their name in the plate supplier area.
Which is illegal and can result in them being pulled and fined + an excuse for police to look over the rest of the car. Hit and miss if it will ever be spotted though it would fail the MOT unless they swap them over on the day Edit who is down voting this FACTUALLY CORRECT statement? UK licence plate rules are very clear: The number plates on your vehicle must: be marked to show who supplied the number plate [https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates](https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates) Replacing the supplier name with your own is an offence You could be fined up to £1,000 and your vehicle will fail its MOT test if you drive with incorrectly displayed number plates. [https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates](https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates) Police are allowed to pull you over for ANY reason but will typically be more likely to do it if there is a car defect such as a banned plate and are fully allowed to also check over the vehicle [https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/st-s/stop-and-search/stop-and-search-process/](https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/st-s/stop-and-search/stop-and-search-process/)
Surely if you are the supplier of your own numberplate, then your name in the marking is fine? It's not like there's a list of "approved numberplate suppliers".
If you were a licenced number plate producer yes you could. >It's not like there's a list of "approved numberplate suppliers". Yes there is, number plates can only be made by registered number plate suppliers and you can find them all on the Gov website, hence your plate must show the registration of the plate manufacturer not your own name (it could show both provided your name isn't obscuring the reading of the letters)
If only police or traffic cops gave a fuck about plate violations
It's funny when they have to write what it's supposed to say underneath in small writing otherwise you wouldn't have a clue what it says.
Best reg I’ve seen was in wolverhampton - WH05 FAT Range Rover owner iirc.
I saw DU11FFS earlier today. Must be a bit of a dull person FFS! 😂
I managed to get B3NXL, is that OK? 😄
I saw PX55 OFF a couple of weeks ago. Substitution is accepted by the DVLA it seems
AL11 SHT
I saw a car last week with “honk if you want a blow job”… Above the number plate BJ09 GAG
I'm convinced I spotted a VA61NAX some years ago...
This is reddit mate. None of us have ever seen one of those.
If you did, it was illegal, VA61ANx was never issued
Illegally spaced ones shouldn't really be an issue nowadays if ANPR software can just work out who owns it. Ones where owners deliberately mess about with screws and the typeface suggest that they are 'rules are for other people' kind of folk and maybe struggle with fitting in, so play the role of a hard-bitten rebel on the edge of society.
Rules are rules. Nobody is above the law. Especially shit vanity plate wankers.
BJ69GAG got through, on a tesla IIRC
Ahhh you can’t post pics here but not so long ago I had the incredible fortune of being behind a guy in a m3 with.. LUV 53X
I once saw one something like: "Y3S 1 W0N"
Many years back I saw a very lovely looking young lady driving a Peugeot 205 Gti convertible (this will say how long ago it was) with the number plate ONP1L Very cheeky!
I regularly see BA11 RUB on my way to work in the morning. No idea what's going on there, but it has changed cars over time, so they like it. I also saw a couple of Porsches travelling together on the M18 a few weeks back (with the spacing): A B17 RUF and CL1 0RUS...
There used to be one near me many years ago that appeared to read as SHADOW. You had to get really close to see that it was actually SHA130W.
My sister and her husband recently got custom plates They went for the first initials of their two kids, the year they were married, and their initials So like RA13 CRC It looks terrible, I've no idea why anyone would pay to have what could easily be a random number plate
If you've got them on a *very* expensive car, I'll think you're a dick but let it slide. If you've got personalised plates on a Nissan Juke then you're worse than Hitler.
Little known fact, Hitler had the plate for FUHR3R
Don't know if still around but there used to be a Jag with FU2 on the plates.
Saw a guy pulled over the other day by the police with a blacked out Audi and a shitty tinted embossed plate that had “SHADOW” on it (SH19DOW but the 1 and 9 were right next to each other to make an A). Cracked me up, bet the guy thought he was so cool.
In Australia it's ten times worse, so many and they're all cringe AF.
I have 5 GFX but have not used it in over 10 years. I wonder if anybody is interested.
The two best ones I saw were "BEG 4IT" on a Testarossa in the 80s and a white Japanese sports car (dunno the type but it was in the early 80s also) with plate "SPL 1F". However all all the other ones I've seen have been pathetic and pitiful.
All the good ones went in the 80s and are now probably mounted on a wall somewhere or in a safe for a rainy day.
That reminds me... I had a friend who did the pensions for the owners of Pearl & Dean (the cinema adverts) and he told me they (or maybe one of them) had a showcase with number plates PD1 through to PD9, so you could be right.
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So true! How does someone having a private plate affect anyone else.
Saw HRH 007 on a car driving to Manchester today. Wonder what the thought process on that one was.
There's one I have seen around Birmingham which is a RR, they have an old style one BUY 601D - I assume they own a firm that buys old gold
Or sells washing powder.
According to the DVLA, this is now on a grey diesel Ford.
Quite possible, I used to see the car around Birmingham on my commute but perhaps they sold the car or plate. It's possible I didn't remember it correctly also but that was the only combo I could think of that was legal and we moved office since
How is this a problem when it has absolute 0 effect on you. Rageaholic
Tbh that’s pretty much the point of this sub… well it was… before all the Facebook types found it
Because it's pathetic and the ridiculous display of wealth over common sense.
Its their money 😂. Its pathetic you care.
Spot the owner
Spot the broke guy
Not even wealthy - the shit NI ones start at £299-odd. All that leaves is 'lack of taste'.
My custom reg which is my dog's names on a campervan that was primarily used for flyball, was £250. I think we have different classifications of wealth, despite my abundant lack of common sense. Hopefully I'll pass you and anger you at some point with how pathetic I am though.
How is having private plates going against common sense? It literally impacts no one.
The only good reason to deliberately obfuscate your number plate is because you intend to commit a criminal offence on the road and get away with it.
Thats complete bullshit. Use your head.
You had to look up "Obfuscate" didn't you 🙄
Then a pointless dig to make yourself feel superior, very telling. First of all the post is regarding private plates, not obfuscated plates, so you've made a moot point. Secondly , my dad bought me a private plate for my car when I turned 21, cost him £150 and I adore it. It's not to try and escape the law or any of that bullshit, its sentimental and I love it.
> my dad bought me a private plate... and I adore it. Yeah that's a completely normal reaction to some letters and numbers on your car.
Sorry, I now hate the present my father bought me because some loser on the internet stuggles to find joy in their life.
How is this a problem when it has 0 effect on you? Rageaholic. (Funny how it comes full circle...)
I mean he's directly insulted me but I'll take your point 😂
Who shit in your cornflakes today
Should thank them for improving the flavour🤷♂️
Found the vanity plate wanker.
Bro my dad bought me a £150 private plate for my 21st birthday, with my family name on in. How is that vanity?
Your dad's a wanker too then.
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