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How do i determine the year of a northern reg car?

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  • #52
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Why? What is benefit of introducing a long more complex number when the present system is good for another quarter century?


  • #53
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Mainland UK kind of have it in theirs. XX03 AAA would be '03 starting in March 2003 (I think) and XX53 AAA would be '03 or '04 starting in August 2003 running until March 2004, then on to XX04 AAA.
    It's 14 and 64 for the current years. As far as I know the XX part is the region, as someone told me once that Scottish cars will have an S there and Welsh cars will have a C. There's been long running plans to introduce the same system in Northern Ireland with an I or a Z in the first two letters.

    They don't "kind of" have a year in their number plates. This year from the 1st of March is rr14xxx where rr is the area, 14 is the year (first six months March to September) and xxx are the letters allocated to each vehicle, on the first of September this changes to rr64xxx. Up to the introduction of this system they used a year letter at the end of the number plate sequence which changed on the 1st of August each year. In 1983 this system was reversed with the year letter at the beginning of the plate. A simple clever system but fatally flawed as after a maximum of 52 years there were no year letters left...


  • #54
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    ardmacha wrote: »
    Why? What is benefit of introducing a long more complex number when the present system is good for another quarter century?

    It would simplify things now everything is being centralised in Swansea. But actually it's not going to happen any time soon as the UK Govt have said the current NI system will remain. It also brings in valuable revenue as it lets them sell personalised plates. In fact currently NI plates have to be assigned to an
    NI car first before being transferred to a GB one. In the future this will no longer be necessary.


  • #55
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    intellectual dosser wrote: »
    Interesting that it has both Derry and Londonderry.

    <<Grabs coat and runs>>

    The county and city have seperate codes. Wikipedia uses the official name for the county and the popular name for the city.


  • #56
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    jca wrote: »
    A simple clever system but fatally flawed as after a maximum of 52 years there were no year letters left...
    Less than that as they didn't use I,O,U or Z.


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