thinking about putting a personal plate on my coop. nothing related to me but the car.

I'm thinking of getting "W20VTP" as it's 20v Turbo Plus. by having W it keeps the original plate year.

My sister has got an MG and bought hers with the MG in the plate which got me thinking about it, although part of me thinks it's a complete waste of 400 quid!

I think I've only seen 1 personal plate on a coop being an LE, so seemed appropriate. perhaps the turbo plus is just that not special enough to warrant it??

I've considered this option from time to time over the last year and have concluded that it is something of a waste of money as there are other things that I could spend that cash on to improve it mechanically.

That said I would still like one. From time to time, when I've had a few pints, I wheel the credit card out. I have, as yet, however not gone through with any sort of purchase.

All depends, could be viewed as a waste of money but if you have the cash and the plate means something to you then why not.

I don't ever anticipate parting with mine, and under the circs I thought it was a bit of a bargain:

a personal plate would be worth it, if its personal to you, not the car.

our both,i have KAL 20V

What a fantastic car you have there Cappo.

make sure your next car is a 20 valve

I have one of the *2 OVT plates and have had several offers for it, all much more than I paid for it

Not sold it yet though....

Thanks MrC, yes, it is a bit special, I still get a huge kick from driving it. Got to hand it to CarlT for the condition it's in today, wouldn't be there without him.

i love personalised plates, i have a cheap one on my coupe K2UPE £300 i think but the best one i've had on another car was D13BLO

i like that one you have Pondman

I liked the idea of a personalised plate as the design of the car still looks fresh, even after all these years. It de-ages the car and lets people who have "how old!" syndrome, see the car, not it's age. I agree a personal plate is portable , but there are no badges for people to say "Oh thats a......" so it might give them an idea whats just overtaken them
I have an LE with the plate - F14T LE - It makes the car look showroom, so I'm pleased with mine, even if it does go with the car. I've had plenty of posative comments from other people about it, but at the end of the day, it's down to you and your budget.

I managed to get a free private plate! P88 JUE, doesn't take much imagination (or modification) to make it say JOE.
It came in on a car I bought to break and I transferred it on to mine. Unsure about it now though as it makes my W reg look like a P reg, but then I could always sell it. Searched some number plate websites and they want £900 for something similar i.e with the same letters at the end, I certainly wouldn't have paid that much.

I always quite fancied one but they used to be sooo expensive. However since the DVLA have latched on to them being a good money-making scheme I was amazed at how much they have come down in price and Mrs Nello is getting me a 5 digit plate for Xmas with my intitials on for not much more than £200!!

This place are good : Private Plates

They have the reg [ 20 V ] for just under £10K if anyones feeling flush!
Remember seeing a fabbo Chrono LE with the reg C20V LE.............

Also I meant to say that when I contacted some plate websites about selling the plate on (before I decided to keep it)some of them said that if it went on their website I would have to be open to offers on it. So don't just pay the price they state online, ring up and haggle!

Thanks Nello - always been tempted by one with my initials £245 (actually same price as the DVLA as their prices include the fees)

Nello, are you ringing them or me?..... WOW !

By the way, their super looking deals of "Was xxxx now only xx" are nothing more than the various DVLA costs stripped out (and then added back in )

Good shout - TUR80 - is a snip at £51,745!

Still tempted by the matching pair they have.......... 1 LE ...... £150,000 and LE 1 ........ £250,000

Must do an extra euromillions line this week

lol what gets me is that you sometimes see these kind of plates on a Nova or Astra worth about 3K

I have a personalised as below.

Here in sunny Queensland, the cost varies from $415 (about 200 squids) to $2295 (approx 1000 squids) Cost depends on type of plate and combinations etc.

http://www.ppq.com.au/CreateAPlate.aspx

We have a number in my family which mostly describe the model of Fiat the plate is on.

Theres a battered old E Clas Merc in Coventry - car must be worth £1500 max but the Reg is E2 - prob worth about £30k+!

I purchased

S111 SKH for my wife - her Initials are SKH

But i think if correctly marketed can go for a little song

To a Kebab King SHIIISKH

Or if you are looking at it in another light - a member of the Indian community

S111SKH (SIKH)

Actually been approached by a couple of Indian folks about this...

Someone was selling OAN13L on ebay for ten grand or best offer. I offered £500 but didn't hear back which I thought was strange

I have been stopped once for my plate as spaced D4N xx, and that was only because I ended up between 2 motorcycle officers out training. He was a good one though and gave me just a warning as the plate spelt Dan (well it doesn't, it clearly displays Delta Four November as I don't use dodgy screws).

If you can afford one I'd get one, it makes your car more personal and individual, though this is something which the government don't seem to like.

I quite like having a 'different' plate, but I'm not sure if I would actually buy one! Mine came with the car

I wanted to see if I could get T24PPY even though I can't use it on my current car (S reg).

As it wasn't for sale anywhere, I did an insurance quote to find out what it was on:

FORD FIESTA 1.4D (03 ON) GHIA 5DR 1398cc 5DR

I would like to have my initials in my plate but it was cost a small fortune...... JAG !

For the coupe I chose a NI plate to just disguise the age

Well, after having a tax rebate on last months paycheck I decided to waste it on a personal plate!

I went for "H20 VTP" in the end, hides the year of the car and i tried to justify to myself that the fiat coupe is a rare car and the plus model/LE is even rarer and what with the car having had a full expensive respray and complete leather retrim, the plate finishes the car off style wise.

cost £245 all in from the DVLA website, I considered "C20 VTP" but that was £390 and I didn't want to spend that much.

thats the coops christmas present!

what does the 'H' stand for?

I thought you meant H2O VIP and was wondering what you meant by "important water"

I got mine with my coupe

P 20 VT

and I love it

my scooby came with the plate M500WRX...i gues that might be worth something to someone with a 500hp wrx scoob..??...might try and sell it too release some funds for the inevitable maintenance the car will surely need...or just keep it to help the equally inevitable resale haha

My plate is G6 UPE.

Not the best, but hell of a lot cheaper than C6 UPE

just change your name by Deed Poll to the reg on your car.. sorted

The 'H' doesn't stand for anything, it's just the oldest prefix style plate I could find at the cheapest price. obviously the rest "20 VTP" stands for 20 valve turbo plus! I'm hoping when I get the plates made up at Halfords I can slightly space the 20VTP further out from the H!

i would imagine they wont get involved in changing the spacing.Not many places will anymore.

yeah, probably right.. it's a lot more stricter than it used to be.

still, to an untrained eye it's clearly a personal plate and to a trained eye .. it's the 20v turbo plus model .. can't go wrong, winner!

I've got R77 HOT on my Coupe, not by choice and private plates are not really my thing but I got the car with it.

I'm thinking of selling it if anybody is interested in the plate drop me a PM.

They won't. Plus you have to take the veh reg doc in to prove you own it. However there are sellers on Ebay which offer show plates which can have spacing altered. For when you're not on the public highway of course!

Disclaimer: DVLA do not allow plates to be modified to appear to read as something else. This despite the fact that those plates which can be are more expensive

I believe it's now illegal to make 'show plates', too... can't recall where I saw it, though.

Ooops. Behind the curve again! Though that would explain why the plate maker at the NEC on sat wouldn't make up plates without proof of ownership!

I suppose it could stand for Hampshire, so your plate could mean ''Hampshire's 20 valve turbo plus.''

Here is the coop with her christmas present on ...

lovely - and what a beautiful car

Yes, looks very nice

agreed, should be proud, you have a very nice looking coupe there, and I like the plate as well

I have just bought another 20v na,the last one was on a p so could`nt put my plates on but this one is a t99 vis model so T24 HEV is getting added

Heather

I was loving the car a little too much on the way home after that photo was taken. Got pulled by the traffic cops whilst on the motorway but was let off with a warning (I've only had her 3 months as well, not good).

My girlfriends name is Heather too! .. she wants a personal plate with Hev in. I keep telling her she'll have to buy her own car to do that as she's not allowed to drive mine

Id Say now the coops are getting on a bit its great thing to do and why not they still look so damn good.

Best plate ive ever seen was on a Ferrari G1rls


to all you private platers

Too right! I would`nt let her put T24 HEV on my W plate + lol

Looking very nice, Duncan. Great pics.

Love the anonymity that personalised plates give.

Those shut lines on the car are frikkin tops. Not having seen the car the car for a bit, I'd forgotten how good it looks.

Look after her for me please, there's a good lad..

Cheers, Hedge

Isn't that rather a contradiction in terms?

Personally I've never seen the point of them, and consider the majority of cases with forced characters and incorrect spacing, well, silly.

If it were possible - per the states - to get a single word of seven or eight letters, then I might see the sense of it, but otherwise? Why bother?

A great way to hide the cars age. An ever decepting way to add to the coupe's great dating looks.

Just one way to look at it.

Well, yes, except I suspect the majority of people seeing a non-age related plate immediately thing 'what's he hiding?'

Me, I stick with the one it came with!

I want to put "B12 GRR" on my 750i because F376 TJH is just rubbish... but I have better things to spend my £400 on at the moment.

Are plate makers allowed to make them shorter if you have less characters in them?

Ooooh! Thanks for that! Now, how many tickets can we print in thirty minutes?

Well, as long as you know the exact times and dates that I cant prove the car was parked in a military establishment....

I'm confused. A military establishment? Cosford? Surely that's RAF?

Looking forward to St Athan?

Yes, I forgot you guys dont like long words.

I should have used the term "base".

And no, I'm not looking forward to St Athan if we have to go there, but I'm looking forward to living next door to Lincoln for the next 18 months, quality night out.

Coningsby?

Closer than that, Waddington.

I changed my P registered plate to a NI one. Mainly as it hides the age and as it was relatively cheap I thought 'why not?'

Also makes the car more unique, not that there are hundreds of Coupes around my area, but it does create a unique 'package'.

Typo corrected

Dude, why don't you just change your name by deedpole to Mr F376 TJH?

Sorted

Lol .. rest home that's at <2/3rds manning

I had K777 FEL on the 5 series .. didn't transfer it to the next car, shoulda done really ..

My coupes carry the numbers 707 and 708, purely by coincidence...

This was my coupe and reg a few years ago.

T20V FC

I sold it via the forum a while ago.

I personally thought it's one of the best plates you could get for a coupe. It surprised me how many people didn't get what the 'FC' stood for

Saw P14 TGT on a wee yellow punto last week. No idea if the punto came in a GT model but it had a GT badge on it, with a well placed yellow capped screw holding the number plate on so it read F14T GT

yes, they do come in a GT, its a 1.4 turbo

Never understood the point of putting caps in funny places to change the text, if your going to do that you may as well put what ever the hell you like on the plate!

I don't understand why people get so excited about a reg plate, some people spend insane money on them but I just don't care!! its only a reg plate

This one?

I love my plate, I dont think I would have actively gone out seeking "P 20VT" but I think it adds a little to the car

Oh yeah how weird is that

I have two personal plates, one on retention and one on the car. "M4 AWV" on retention and "H11 FUD" on the Coupe. Theres pros and cons to having a private plate. Exclusitivity of hiding the age of the car, and perhaps making it more unique. However theres the fees of making up registration plates, transfer fee everytime you change car, retention fee if you decide you dont want it on another car-which needs renewed every year whilst of a vehicle or the DVLA claim it back, the waiting of the change of v5 etc....

Because it's rubbish.