Fiats and private plates

[ShaunMck]

When I brought my punto it came with the registeration W 91 ***. So only two numbers. But the high percent of car registerations pre 2001 have three numbers like Y243OUL OR S673SSP or whatever.

So is W 91 *** A private plate of sorts? I have seen it mostly with fiat puntos. Cars with X84 WVL or such like. Im sure someone owns a punto on here with only two numbers which was x or y reg? Mike is it?

I have seen other makes with two numbers only but not many. I have seen a lot of fiats with only two numbers tho.

So is it a fiat thing? or is just the luck of the draw of numbers plates?

cheers

 

[5abr3]

One letter followed by 2 numbers is a private plate, yes

 

[bandido41]

I think its just the luck of the draw, my bravo was only 2 numbers as well (i like it to be honest because its not very common makes the car different)

 

[bandido41]

One letter followed by 2 numbers is a private plate, yes

Not all of them

 

[5abr3]

I thought the convention was letter referring to the year, 3 random numbers, 3 random letters; that built up the plate at that time.

Doesn't mean FIAT didn't buy a load to try and boost interest though I suppose. Rarely saw any car's with 2 numbers on its plate until the new standard personally.

 

[bandido41]

I thought the convention was letter referring to the year, 3 random numbers, 3 random letters; that built up the plate at that time.

Doesn't mean FIAT didn't buy a load to try and boost interest though I suppose. Rarely saw any car's with 2 numbers on its plate until the new standard personally.

You may have a point there :shrug:

 

[udtrev]

I think you will find it's luck of the draw, and depends on when the letter string was released - I used to have a Seat Toledo with a reg of P73 and 3 letters.


Trev

 

[ScoobyChris]

Yeah I think it's just how they are allocated - when we bought our Nissan Micra we were given a list of reg's to choose from that the deaer had available and picked L46 TAP. The following year when we bought one their selection of plates all had 3 digit numbers.

Chris

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

That is just just of the draw. Personalised plates (unless kept from a car which was luck of the draw at meaning something) have certain numbers;

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 40, 44, 50, 55, 60, 66, 70, 77, 80, 88, 90, 99, 100, 111, 121, 123, 155, 200, 222, 300, 321, 333, 400, 444, 500, 555, 600, 666, 700, 777, 800, 888, 900, 999

Jon.

 

[RichDoblo120]

It's completely random.
You could go and buy a new car (before the new system came out) and the dvla might give you A1 ABC for example. These random plates then became valuable.
The last two letters are the area code, for example anything ending YA, YB, YC or YD was Somerset.
The new system has bigger area codes.
My new plate starts WG which is W for West country and the G denotes it was the Exeter office.
Some W plates come from the Bristol office. They have a different second letter.

Here's a good link for the old system

and here's a list of area offices for the new system

 

[sludgeguts]

It's completely random..

Yep.
I've owned half a dozen cars (over the years) with the year letter prefix. I had a brand new A plate which was A60 ***, a secondhand G plate - G3 *** and my favourite was S92 *** which comprised my three initials - in the correct order. Talk about huge coincidence, I was looking through auto trader at specific motors & this was only half hour away & the right price. Saw the plate & bought it without really giving much thought to the rest of the car, turned out to be really lucky that there were no problems with it (and not a bit of trouble in the 6 years I owned it).
I always assumed plates were issued in order of number *1, *2...*99, *100 and so on thus giving 999 combinations of prefix & number which, when combined with the three following letters gave millions of combinations.

 

[chr1s]

It's a mixture between random and private, as stated above.

(My first car was OCT 93 M, but unfortunately it went to the scrappie before reaching Oct '93) :dead:

An old workmate's dad had a dealership, and I remember him telling me about when the DVLA (or was it DVLC then) allocated his dealership with ATE *** T. They held back some numbers, like ATE 14 T, but released other registrations with < 3 digits.

 

[Dobby]

The last two letters are the area code, for example anything ending YA, YB, YC or YD was Somerset.

Where would OB have been?

(could google but am too lazy)

 

[chr1s]

Where would OB have been?

(could google but am too lazy)

Birmingham

http://www.londonbusroutes.net/miscellaneous/regs.htm

 

[Dobby]

Cool. Just down the road then lol

 

[sludgeguts]

A pity they don't change the system to show a postcode on the plate so the next time some tw@t forces me off the road I can go round there & shove the damaged tyre up his @rse

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

A pity they don't change the system to show a postcode on the plate so the next time some tw@t forces me off the road I can go round there & shove the damaged tyre up his @rse

They got a system like that in France. The reg tells you where the car is registered (to the city). When you move house, if you change the area your car is resident to then you have to get another number plate.

Jon.