If you’ve never bought, sold or allocated a private plate to a vehicle in the past you could be forgiven for assuming that it’s a complicated, time-consuming and potentially very expensive activity. To be fair, it certainly used to be all that and more, but not today. The whole private number plate business is now incredibly easy; so much so, that…
Most of us don’t think about our motor insurance much until we need to make a claim or when the time comes to renew it and your insurer wants twice as much this year as they did last year even though you haven’t made a claim. You’ve probably thought even less about any motor insurance implications associated with having a private number plate,…
The first thing I want to make clear is there’s no need to panic at the title of this article. If you have 3D number plates on your vehicle you are not necessarily going to get a fine. What we’re going to be looking at here are changes to the rules around UK registration plates that came into force from 1 September 2021 as the new 71 plate starting being used.…
I’ve always prided myself on being pretty good at buying presents, and by that, I don’t mean I know the best time to shop for presents to get in and out of the shop in the least amount of time and by spending the least amount possible. What I mean is I like to put plenty of thought into buying gifts to make sure they are personal to the person I’m buying…
If you’ve never bought, sold or owned a private or personalised registration number you could have the wrong impression about how much they cost. Most of us have read stories in the newspapers from time to time about the astronomical sums paid for some private registration numbers, but they’re only the ones you get to hear about. Someone paying half a million …
If you’re like me and you often find your head turning in the city when you see an exotic supercar parked up or driving past you, it might have caught your attention that some Lamborghinis and other supercars don’t have a front number plate. If you have noticed a lack of front plates on some cars you probably wonder why they don’t have them and if it’s legal to…
You may or may not know that the current system of UK vehicle registration numbers will run out of numbers by 2050, but it will, so what will come in to replace it? There are some very simple solutions as well as some not-so-simple solutions, but what should happen and could we come up with a system that everyone understands for a change?
Number plate cloning is an increasingly prevalent problem in the UK at the moment, but what is it and is it something you should be worried about?
Number plate cloning is the illegal practice of displaying someone else’s registration number on a vehicle to hide its true identity. There are many different reasons why criminals want to hide the identity …
Have you ever stopped for a moment to think about what your registration number actually reveals about you? Unless you have a private plate on your vehicle instead of one issued to the vehicle through the current system, even a casual bystander will be able to tell roughly how old your vehicle is and where it was originally registered from your reg number.
However,…
You’ve probably heard of them and you’ll definitely have seen them if you spend a decent amount of time on the road, but what are ‘trade’ car number plates in the UK, what are they for, who can use them, and how do they get hold of them?
A trade number plate is a temporary number plate used by the likes of motor traders or vehicle testers for…
