FabSwingers.com forum: Number Plates

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?

I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.

What do you think of them fabbers?

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

FAF 1

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

"FAF 1"

Are they your initials?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Each to their own.

Have a friend who made a huge mistake with hers. She was a dog walker, very successful too, but got a personalised number plate to go with her work name on it.. can’t remember the first part but last 3 letters was PTS for Pads & Tails, unfortunately PTS also means Put To Sleep…..

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I have FAB 1

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

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By *r SproutMan
over a year ago

the middle

"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?

I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.

What do you think of them fabbers?"

I have one, I know a few people that have one. I know a fabber who has a very good one

Some are good, some are meh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?

I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.

What do you think of them fabbers?"

Got no opinion of them tbf, some cool ones about for sure but nothing cool about a PP on a 20 year old Mini or something equally as old

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

I think everyone would know everywhere I went with a private plate …… the plate I chose from the dealership suits my personality without my having to pay through the nose for it!

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"I have FAB 1

FWB5 would be nice!

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"I have FAB 1

FWB5 would be nice!"

That's another good idea

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

B16DYK

It's not mine, either way, I may add.

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By *wales_hotwifeCouple
over a year ago

Cardiff ish / PDI early Nov

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

Surely the car is more likely to flaunt wealth than a private plate

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By *coobyBoobyDooWoman
over a year ago

Markfield

I have one, (ex) husband bought it for me for my 40th

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got 2....both with AW in them. Pretty cheesy I know ....buts what's the difference between private plates or a designer watch or shoes or clothes or even the car itself ? If I've/ you've earned it why not spend it ? Like the saying goes.....there's no pockets in shrouds

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By *iceGuy78xMan
over a year ago

Stroud

The best I ever saw was years ago, at the west end of the Chelsea Embankment there used to be two cars, one luxobarge, one GT car, parked in open car ports next to each other. They varied over time, but they always had the same two plates…

2 BE

NOT 2B

The owner was faced with the eternal choice every day!!

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By *ookingforfun9970Man
over a year ago

nearby

"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?

I know people who've bought them to be part of their branding, people that have bought them for a laugh and those who've bought them because they think they make a statement.

What do you think of them fabbers?"

Whole family has a three digit prefix followed by first three letters of first names (won’t post here as it’ll be noticed lol)

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

In my case wealth doesn't come into it.

The car it was on cost us £100 because the fuel filler pipe leaked. That cost another £90 to fix. About a year later we sold the car for £300 to a guy who wanted it for banger racing on condition we kept the number which then got put on the car I currently use.

Narcissistic? You bet. It implies I am W/E but the digit might look more impressive if it were an 8 or 9 rather than a mere 7!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

I disagree.

I’m the narcissist.

My car is the flaunting.

The plates are just ego.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"I have FAB 1

FWB5 would be nice!

That's another good idea

Especially if it means having 5 FWBs!

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

I purchased an old e class merc purely for the registration it was worth 3 times what I paid for this rusty old ex taxi

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They don’t all cost fortunes, mind spells my surname, cost £350 from DVLA. There are plenty on their site for simikar amounts and around £500

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"They don’t all cost fortunes, mind spells my surname, cost £350 from DVLA. There are plenty on their site for simikar amounts and around £500"

For a collection of numbers and letters on a plate, some might consider £350 a fortune

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By *anda and CatCouple
over a year ago

I have one solely for business branding. It makes people look. Cost me 250 quid. As for others, each to their own. If that floats your boat then fine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One came on my van as was a NI van to start with

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

"I have FAB 1

•

You should be STP 1.

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By *havennaturistsCouple
over a year ago

Banff

To save money, I bought an old banger and changed my name by deed poll to match the number plate.

Mr SGH 537Y

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As far as I know they don’t have them here and you just get what your given and my wife was given :-

EY-666-VL

Which is not true as she’s not but funny.

Tony

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple

It doesn’t cost thousands to have them done… you don’t have to be super wealthy to get them. I had a pet insurance claim last year for just over a grand, you can get plates made up for as little as £200"
current value of mine is £36000 my grandad gave it me, came of a lorry he had when he was in his 20s so totally free to him and me just happens to be both our initials.

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By *awtybikerMan
over a year ago

Barnoldswick

I don’t think I’d bother for the car, but I’ve looked at them a few times for the bike.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"I don’t think I’d bother for the car, but I’ve looked at them a few times for the bike."

Do they come cheaper for bikes as you don't need a front one? !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple

This is the point: there a spectrum of prices ranging from a couple of hundred to a guy I know who's number plate costs more than his Ferrari!!

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

I’ve got one. Got it for my 30th. Then I decided it was chavvy so I don’t use it.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

T00 S10W on a Porsche was amusing.

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

They can be very expensive, or not so much. We got my mother ome for her 60th because she had always wanted one... was about £300.

We had taken her car keys away from her by her 61st though, so my sister now has the plate.

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

I have a private plate, but it looks just like a normal, run-of-the-mill plates unless you know me and what I do, then it has meaning.

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By *osh_PawsMan
over a year ago

Uttoxeter

I think if it's clear what it's meant to be i.e. TOM 73 then that's fine.. BUT.. if they have to be explained then that's just naff.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Once over they were thought more of, but nowadays they are common. If it's something very elite such as GAS 123 ( a man we know who owned a petrol station has this) then it does stand out, but the ones where they don't mean anything but to the person who has it then they are pointless.

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By *awtybikerMan
over a year ago

Barnoldswick

"I don’t think I’d bother for the car, but I’ve looked at them a few times for the bike.

Do they come cheaper for bikes as you don't need a front one? !!!"

Buying the reg isn’t any cheaper, but yes you only need to get one plate made up, so that’ll save a little bit

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

I just look at them and the first word that pops into my head starts with a C

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By *ikesEmBigMan
over a year ago

Herts

Just call me LN21 RLX

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By *hristopherd999Man
over a year ago

Brentwood

"I have FAB 1

Doesn't that belong to Lady Penelope?

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"I have FAB 1

Doesn't that belong to Lady Penelope?"

Have you ever seen us in the same room together?

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

I remember seeing some good ones at Cadwell Park British Superbikes back in 1989.

Steve Spray (JPS Norton) Range Rover... 20 JPS

Trevor Nation (JPS Norton) Mercedes 190... NAT101V

Steve Parrish (Commentating) Can't remember what car... PEN15

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By *hristopherd999Man
over a year ago

Brentwood

"I have FAB 1

Doesn't that belong to Lady Penelope?

Have you ever seen us in the same room together?

No M'lady

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

What utter bollocks,

It takes a very very very sad person to judge someone on life choices.

I have one on my daily car, im car mad and find them a nice finishing touch it makes a car personal to myself.

It says G4TTS its on my mums car atm.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

TwAT 1 that’s mine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have FAB 1

Do you drive a ferrari laferrari?

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By *anshee99Woman
over a year ago

all over

I've got one. I got it for my 18th birthday and has been an excellent investment.

Snobby, maybe.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine says B3 LLA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mine says B3 LLA "

Almost the same as mine!

B3 LND

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

We saw a car for sale last year that was DP69 MFM

- was so tempted as it was what I was looking for (the car)

J x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think there for prats wollys and drug dealers usually

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

"The personalised kind. Do you have one? Do you know people that do?

What do you think of them fabbers?"

No, no and not for me.

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By *utterypopcornCouple
over a year ago

oxford

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

Wow!! That ramped up quick.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mine says B3 LLA

Almost the same as mine!

B3 LND"

So fitting

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Too easy to be spotted out and about I think. How am I gonna pop in the sex shop, sex cinema, club with everyone knowing my business.

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

I’ve got one, brought years ago for hardly anything, been offered a lot of money for it a few times, but not selling as my son wants it eventually

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve got one, cost me £250 from the DVLA, it’s personalised to the car and to me (eg if I had a Peugeot 205 it might be P205 DM - but it’s not, obviously).

I don’t care that people think it’s pretentious, the cars worth less than the average 2nd hand car and it’s not worth a lot, it’s just highly personal in ways I can’t even begin to describe on here.

Having said that, my mum has an old private plate that doesn’t have a prefix, and has a 3 letter name not just initials (think 563 TOM) since 1972, and it’s generally worth more than the cars it goes on these days, but it’s practically an heirloom, and cost £5 originally (attached to a Hillman Imp that then got sold for £7…)

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

"I have FAB 1

Do you drive a ferrari laferrari?

Not driven much at all, only done 12 miles over the last 4 mots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have one and it's nothing to do with showing off at all.

My father got mine as a gift for my 30th birthday!

And it's the month I was born, the year i was born and my full initials so its my plate perfectly.

It's not used to show off with.

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

C has one…it’s very apt

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

"I have FAB 1

Blimey! Lady Penelope is a swinger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My plate reads

I1 24Q

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

I paid £200 for mine and its perfect for me.

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By *akie32Man
over a year ago

winchester

my brother was given one with his initials on by his wife one year, he loves it, i take the piss everytime i see him, yours HG312 HKY

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

Lol Narcissistic??? Wtf…wow!

A private number plate isn’t actually that expensive and once purchased, it’s yours. Ok transfer fees to move on, but it’s individual.

So to suggest it’s flaunting wealth? you could have it on a 15-20 yr old vehicle! Hardly wealth…

So what’s your thoughts on someone who owns an expensive vehicle, large house, expensive watch, phone or other expensive possessions?

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By *eryBigGirlWoman
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

My ex bought one which stayed on my car till he could move it but it was a ballache as everyone knew it was me as it was a fairly stand out one and I kept getting spotted at places I shouldn’t be.

I think each to their own choices it doesn’t effect me but had to laugh when ex and his new Mrs both got matching ones on their Kia picantos each with their initials followed by 15 ACE. What a pair of pretentious pricks riding round in their crappy little cars thinking their ace!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

F4NC1 A 8UM

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Not got 1 and there are important things to watch when driving. Plus attractive people to look at.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

Agree - if I had the money I would not but one in principle

I would betray my socialist values

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple

Agree - if I had the money I would not but one in principle

I would betray my socialist values "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buy

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

It isn't personalized but it does have part of my name on so I paid to retain it last year not realising you should only do that when you are ready to change cars so had to put new plates on my current car

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By *iss.ddWoman
over a year ago

Leeds + Newcastle

I have one and I was gifted it as a keepsake for my 30th as we are all car mad and it made more sense than jewelry or a trinket keepsake.

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

"C has one…it’s very apt

I'd never had the desire to own one, until recently that is. It's meaning runs far deeper than it appears and far from pretentious or narcissistic, it's to do with me finding myself after more than a decade of 'me' not existing in my old life.

We all do things to make us feel good. I don't get the problem

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By *UCKER56Man
over a year ago

Walsall

Saw MC15GAY two weeks ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Narcissistic flaunting of wealth, simple"

Bollocks. Mine was given to me for my 40th birthday. You can get them for surprisingly little.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

To be honest, I think that they should never have been allowed. The whole point of a car's number plate is to Identify the vehicle... But the DVLA have realised that they can make a chunk of money out of them, so they take advantage. I have seen many plates that are worth more than the cars that they are attached to.

There is a car around here with a plate that reads "M1LF ?" with the last letter separated from the rest as to not confuse the meaning.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"TwAT 1 that’s mine "

Unless it was this I wouldn't bother.

I know someone who has/had one. She was lovely and it made her happy. So fair enough really.

I'd choose to spend my dosh on an adventure though.

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