Badger

I've had a butchers on the DVLA site and, although there's all the guidelines about Suffixes, prefixes, fonts, spacing yadda yadda yadda, I can't find anything that tells you what you can and cannot have as a private plate (apart from the not making it appear younger than it is)

So seeing as a lot of the cars here have S2000 this and S2K the other...thought I'd ask here How do I go about sorting S2K FTW or S2K GJ or something?

(bunged the possiblities into AA's car data check as a first pass and they show up as not registered).

Lurking Lawyer

Have a look here:

http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/

You can enter a particular search string and see which plates it has available.

Neil.H

[QUOTE=grahamb,Jun 3 2005, 04:28 PM] I've had a butchers on the DVLA site and, although there's all the guidelines about Suffixes, prefixes, fonts, spacing yadda yadda yadda, I can't find anything that tells you what you can and cannot have as a private plate (apart from the not making it appear younger than it is)

So seeing as a lot of the cars here have S2000 this and S2K the other...thought I'd ask here

Badger

That's what I've been to already but just gives prefix, suffix and current style results.

Unless I'm missing something.

Neil.H

What else do you want?

There are 'dateless' plates as well which are the 'proper' private plates and tend to be expensive and difficult to find what you want as all the best ones will be taken.

bigfecker

dvla-som.co.uk is the best place

you cant have S2K FTW as there are to many letters, you could have S2 KXX with XX being whatever you want if available, see link below.

http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/Search/p...91&y=8&start=20

{bugger beaten to it}

Badger

Yeah that's the kind of thing I was getting at. I know you can get certain "normal" plates that spell out certain things and whatnot, like S20 0DJ for example, that I saw the other day.

I'm on about what I think of as "proper" private plates as well

bigfecker

Are there really "private plates", arent they just plates that spell words or have some meaning that then have been dubbed "private plates"?

Neil.H

The S2000 plates are just normal S reg plates with an O in them, ie S200 O** where the * is any 2 letters.

Try the Newreg link above, the site is an arse to navigate but you get better results than the DVLA one.

Badger

Well yeah, but to give an example :

A1

That's not a prefix, suffix or current but IS a valid licence number iirc.

edit - which are in fact "dateless" as Neil mentioned. Ta for the NewReg link