Leasing vehicles and Private number plates?

[smcapstick]

Personal plates are just vulgar.
Discuss

Flak jacket on!

Personal plates… on a rental.

Define ‘vanity’.

 

[tinsheet]

W4N K3R looking for this plate for a friend

 

[Widgetone]

W4N K3R looking for this plate for a friend

ST13 ADY there

 

[Clive]

Has anyone leased a vehicle, and had a Private plate put on it?
I have read there can sometimes be issues as the log book isn't in your name!
Any feedback welcome..

i’ve done it before - just get in writing that you retain ownership of the plate - they are well set up and used to doing this

 

[rusty]

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.

This is the reason I have a photo of my number plate on my phone!

 

[Clive]

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.

^ this

just make sure you have in writing from the hire co that they will return your plate at the end of the hire term

 

[Cowabunga]

This is the reason I have a photo of my number plate on my phone!

It would get lost among the 65,000 others on my phone.

PS I’ve been waiting for years to use that little emoticon.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It would get lost among the 65,000 others on my phone.

PS I’ve been waiting for years to use that little emoticon.

Type it in on your phone calls log under number plate
There are loads of places you can hide things on phones with easy access

 

[Cowabunga]

Type it in on your phone calls log under number plate
There are loads of places you can hide things on phones with easy access

Put it in as a contact and phone number. I never thought of that.

 

[Widgetone]

i’ve done it before - just get in writing that you retain ownership of the plate - they are well set up and used to doing this

see post #41.
Is the correct answer Porsche !?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Put it in as a contact and phone number. I never thought of that.

If you had 4 on fuel cards I'm sure you would think of something

 

[Lazy Sod]

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

It used to be the first thing Mr Plod asked if he stopped you in the middle of the night, also what's in the boot?

I bought my 2 numbers 50 and 49 years ago for the sum total of £230, just a bit of youthful indulgence. They're just 3 numbers and 3 letters, none of this prefix or suffix nonsense. At one time they were probably worth £2K each, but not now though, particularly since the DVLA started selling them. If I sold them now they would still probably show a profit.

I recently sold a car and transferred my number for the first time since 2006. I always thought that DVLA just issued an age related number for the old car, but this time they re-issued the original one. I wished that I'd kept the old plates hanging up somewhere, ready to go back on when I sold the car.

 

[ollie989898]

It used to be the first thing Mr Plod asked if he stopped you in the middle of the night, also what's in the boot?

I bought my 2 numbers 50 and 49 years ago for the sum total of £230, just a bit of youthful indulgence. They're just 3 numbers and 3 letters, none of this prefix or suffix nonsense. At one time they were probably worth £2K each, but not now though, particularly since the DVLA started selling them. If I sold them now they would still probably show a profit.

I recently sold a car and transferred my number for the first time since 2006. I always thought that DVLA just issued an age related number for the old car, but this time they re-issued the original one. I wished that I'd kept the old plates hanging up somewhere, ready to go back on when I sold the car.

Police? What are those?

 

[Exfarmer]

Police? What are those?

I think they are now extinct, but when I was a young man they used to be quite common on the streets and roaming the country side in their patrol cars and if you to, were also about late, they would delight in pulling you over and asking to to blow in a little bag, especially if you could not very promptly tell them your number plate