Vanity Plates

Nuttzz

The D2 reg thread got me thinking

Two questions

1. Should we allow vanity plates in Ireland

2. Would you buy one

Personally I wouldnt be that interested in getting one myself but I think if people want to buy them then they should be given the option. Considering how much the governemt squeeze out of motorists I'm surprised they dont allow it

drdre

yeah i think ireland should get that system in place.every other country is using it so whats wrong with them.

then there will be loadz of cool plates in dublin like england. eg k1NGS

Atomic Pineapple

no definatly not, the irish reg system is probably the only good thing about irish motoring.

its simple, to the point and straight forward, no messing around with letters and numbers trying to make stupid and pointless words on a number plate.

i mean who really needs to come up with some combination to make some saying on a licence plate, its a waste of time in my opinion.

C_Breeze

draffodx wrote:

no definatly not, the irish reg system is probably the only good thing about irish motoring.

its simple, to the point and straight forward, no messing around with letters and numbers trying to make stupid and pointless words on a number plate.

i mean who really needs to come up with some combination to make some saying on a licence plate, its a waste of time in my opinion.

haha, good one
your joking right???
having the year of manufacture on your reg is THE MOST STUPID THING EVER. no other normal country does this nonsense

Rabies

C_Breeze wrote:

having the year of manufacture on your reg is THE MOST STUPID THING EVER. no other normal country does this nonsense

It is a good idea for the government. Great way to boost revenue.
Would you buy a new car in Nov/Dec '05 or would you be one of the thousands of people that splash out in Jan for new cars.

Squirrel

C_Breeze wrote:

haha, good one
your joking right???
having the year of manufacture on your reg is THE MOST STUPID THING EVER. no other normal country does this nonsense

Apparently France isn't a normal country then. Some French cars have the month and year of registration on the side of their plates. They're set up like this:

10
05

For a car registered in October 2005

Atomic Pineapple

C_Breeze wrote:

haha, good one
your joking right???
having the year of manufacture on your reg is THE MOST STUPID THING EVER. no other normal country does this nonsense

whats wrong with it?

In other countries the letters are used to indicate the year of registration so its no different.

junkyard

I think personalized plates would be a great idea and yes I would buy them for my cars. I hate the present EU style plates, the make the car look old the minute they're fitted to the car and the look horrible.

C_Breeze

draffodx wrote:

whats wrong with it?

In other countries the letters are used to indicate the year of registration so its no different.

'Rabbies' ; hmm didnt know that about france, thanks.

and draffox - letters only represent years in UK afaik.

its stupid because it leads to snobbery and poeple trading cars in uneccesarily every year.
Its ridiculous , you will always find people in ireland not buying a decent car just becuase of the year.
Or ASSUMING a car is crap just becuase of the year. -its ridiculous.

the car itself is more important than the number on the reg which many irish people fail ot see . People in Irelnad basically buy Reg plates not cars.

I asked somebody once , "what car do you drive ?" - to which she replied " oh its an 0-5"

nonsense .ridiculous and uneccesary to have your reg plates with years on it.

i suspect the irish govt. is using it as a means of getting people buy waste more and more money , typical consumer economy.

im in germany at the moment and there are a LOT more cars on the roads than in IRL and they dont need to split up into years to categorise cars , and hence people dont see this as the 'be all and end all' when purchasing a used vehicle.

I hope you see my point

Atomic Pineapple

In my opinion any licence plate will do the same thing, perhaps allowing different designs and colours or something like that would allow the plates to be designed better

Alun

C_Breeze wrote:

and draffox - letters only represent years in UK afaik.

It used to be letters up until recently (2001?), but is now 03,53 04,54, 05,55 etc. 05 is the first part of the year, 55 is the second half.

For me the word "vanity" says it all, though. If people can't find anything more sensible to spend their money on, then it's a sad day IMO.

Atomic Pineapple

i see your point c breeze and i agree completely but thats because of uneducated stupid snobbish irish people, if there too stupid and vain to buy a number plate rather than a car then its there own fault.

I personally like knowing the year and where the car is from just by looking at the number plate, its simple and straight forward and not complicated.

Victor

I demand my own custom driving licence and passport.

sprinkles

BE04 DAN, its on the way. Northern reg. My god am I glad I live in Newry

gearbox

does anybody know where i can get the font even changed on my plate? i know there illegal n they brought in some law to prevent you getting them but id still be intrested in changing the lettering even just a little

Interceptor

It shouldn't matter what it says on your plate so long as your car can be identified as yours - I'd happily shell out my hard earned wonga for a plate that said 'B1G C0CK' and stick it on a Cinquecento just so people would know I wasn't compensating for anything.

The current system made sense in 1987 when it was introduced and there were 70,000 cars sold in the whole country, but with so many nine digit plates (05 D 123456) nowadays it is hard to be sure you can memorise a plate when you need to.

And you're not going to get me going on why we should be allowed to have curly fonts and coloured letters are you?

'c

junkyard

The reg. numbers with loads of numbers are great, I just got my last speeding fine canceled in court a couple of weeks ago because the cop left out a digit on the ticket and the latest ticket another cop is after writing the digits in the wrong order so thats another one for the bin.:D

G Luxel

I personally like knowing the year and where the car is from just by looking at the number plate, its simple and straight forward and not complicated.[/QUOTE]

May not so be the year
I can remember asking someone what they owned and they said a new 05 zafira, except it was the old one.............................. so it was probably built two years before and left standing in a distributors yard for two years
gathering rust on the chassis before finding its first buyer.
In 90/9I and even 92 the country was still selling new old type escorts and orions,even though the new model came out in September 90 but the old ones
were being sold alongside the new ones for another 2 years......... so
the 92 old type orion couldnt be a 92 as it was built in 90. Take BMW
selling the new 3 series saloon alongside all the old type 3 series.
Toyota is selling a Corolla saloon that was updated in 2004 for the japanese market but only decided to sell it there and in Hong Kong, so the one sold
here is really the Mk2 version saloon from 2002-2004.

Ive noticed that with ford scorpios, the lord mayors car was still a New scorpio and this was in 2000, two years after it had stopped production in Germany.

Interceptor

junkyard wrote:

The reg. numbers with loads of numbers are great, I just got my last speeding fine canceled in court a couple of weeks ago because the cop left out a digit on the ticket and the latest ticket another cop is after writing the digits in the wrong order so thats another one for the bin.:D

My point exactly - it is a daft system, whereas if you had 'JUNKYARD' on your plate there probably wouldn't have been a mixup.

'c

MercMad

I would definitely pay big time for a plate that did not disclose the year. Then I'd spolash out on anew high spec car and never change it !

But the dealers and the Gov. know this so that is why why we have what we have !

el tel

It's popular in the UK for people to buy NI registrations to mask the age of their car. Last year I sold my NI car registration (KAZ) for £350 and was given a replacement by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. Apparently replacement numbers that they issue should reflect the true age of the vehicle however they gave me the newest one available so I was rightly chuffed.

_Kaiser_

The current system allows you at a glance to identify the year, county and number - VERY simple and logical.

If the only reason to change this to a system where anyone can have anything they want is because of their own ego and (as already mentioned) because people have this thing about keeping up with the neighbours (which let's face it, is exactly what buying a "brand new" car in January rather than November/December is really about) then that's not a good enough reason in my opinion.

Kersh

Dump vrt, and bring in vanity plates, to cover the revenue.

Stephen

I like the current system because it keeps a good supply of used cars flowing Some muppets flogging their perfectly good cars just because they are no longer current year models makes for a better second hand market.

LFCFan

you should be able to buy your own license plate which you can then keep for life and bring with you from car to car. In the states you can register a vanity plate for an extra $5 (in '98 this was the price anyway) and choose what you like. Don't see what the problem is with this system.