Leasing vehicles and Private number plates?

[colhonk]

Personal plates are just vulgar.

Totaly agree with you.
erm erm erm I only got mine because these new type numberplates are so hard to remember when going to the parking ticket machine ha ha

 

[Exfarmer]

could not agree more, wife was OK when I put 1EX and then 2EX but she had a real hissy fit with her new car, what is wrong with 5EX ? you can never please some

 

[essexpete]

could not agree more, wife was OK when I put 1EX and then 2EX but she had a real hissy fit with her new car, what is wrong with 5EX ? you can never please some

Is not 5 EX for a younger car owner?

 

[Exfarmer]

Is not 5 EX for a younger car owner?

Speak for your self!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Think you will find lease purchase a better option and you don't risk getting stung at the end

 

[Exfarmer]

Think you will find lease purchase a better option and you don't risk getting stung at the end

Cars or wives? Both are expensive and even dearer to change

 

[ollie989898]

Why in the fudge do you want to put a personalised plate on a vehicle. Seriously. For a company to do it to make it easier to distinguish between and manage a fleet of vehicles, fine. But for a random Joe in a car. Who cares?

 

[Widgetone]

Cars or wives? Both are expensive and even dearer to change

Depreciation and cost to change always to consider.

On both...

 

[Widgetone]

Think you will find lease purchase a better option and you don't risk getting stung at the end

And there was I thinking Wales was behind the curve..

 

[Exfarmer]

Why in the fudge do you want to put a personalised plate on a vehicle. Seriously. For a company to do it to make it easier to distinguish between and manage a fleet of vehicles, fine. But for a random Joe in a car. Who cares?

So the likes of me don’t feel embarrassed to be driving a ten year old car when all else are driving the very latest models

 

[Widgetone]

So the likes of me don’t feel embarrassed to be driving a ten year old car when all else are driving the very latest models

Haha. But you're not really leasing a 10 year old ( car ) are you.

Note to self - going to keep a lookout for an old um banger with personal plates seeing as we're reasonably local!

 

[Cowabunga]

Ha, I now believe you get the Log book in your name if you lease Purchase, yet the Finance company has the Log book in their name if you Lease/Contract Hire a vehicle..

That’s correct. I have one on contract hire, to end early next month. Not only do I not have a logbook for it but they pay the road tax from the hire charge. HP, leases and PCP’s are different and the borrower gets the log book and pays the road tax directly to DVLA.

 

[Cowabunga]

Why in the fudge do you want to put a personalised plate on a vehicle. Seriously. For a company to do it to make it easier to distinguish between and manage a fleet of vehicles, fine. But for a random Joe in a car. Who cares?

I have a Land Cruiser on SORN in my yard and the next new car I get will inherit its number. It’s not personalised but it’s the only number I now remember, having driven it daily for 20 years.

 

[ollie989898]

I have a Land Cruiser on SORN in my yard and the next new car I get will inherit its number. It’s not personalised but it’s the only number I now remember, having driven it daily for 20 years.

I don't remember my car registration number off by heart. What odds does it make?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Cars or wives? Both are expensive and even dearer to change

The first is a Financial Desision ,I will never lease hire again ,

 

[Exfarmer]

The first is a Financial Desision ,I will never lease hire again ,

Cars or wives?

 

[Cowabunga]

I don't remember my car registration number off by heart. What odds does it make?

You have to tell the abattoir reception your number when delivering cattle, for just one example. More commonly, hotels require the car’s number for parking.
So it does matter from a convenience perspective that we, maybe not you, remember the car’s number. Transferring the same number, no matter whether personalised of not, from one generation to another facilitates this, especially where several cars are owned and churned fairly regularly.
It’s enough of an issue to remember what year it is for the first three months of any year. Sometimes what decade it is after living through multiple decades.

 

[Enry]

The log book will be in your name as you are the registered keeper. It clearly states that it is not a certificate of ownership

not on a lease/contract hire vehicle. No issue with plate - have had same plate on 3 lease cars, put on retention in between, transferred to vehicle at start and back on retention at end, replace with allocated number - have to get plates made to send vehicle back, then new one is supplied with the cherished number from day 1. Done this with volkswagen finance, lex, and landrover. only cost is the retention fee and new plates to send vehicle back

 

[Enry]

On a leased or contract hire vehicle,you don't get the log book. To put your own reg no on the vehicle, you assign the reg number to the leasing company, then transfer back before termination. Done it a few times.

same

 

[Longlowdog]

I don't think personal plates are vulgar. I've got V12 TUP and wife has V12 EWE. Bought the two for under a grand and love parking them side by side when I meet the Mrs out somewhere. Folk have suggested together they might make a V12LAM but I suspect that's on a much more expensive, faster Italian car.