Private plate options

Private plate options

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Apollya

Original Poster:

46 posts

5 months

Thursday 20th June
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Hi All, just bought my first Aston 2 weeks ago, V8V N400 Manual Roadster in Lightning Silver.

I’ve been trying to work out what reg to go for on it. After opinions.

I have two options for last 3 letters, which would you go for and will suit car best, both the below are available for me (the X’s are letter and two numbers to match the cars led edition number.

NXXX AMV
NXXX VTG

The draw back is it will make my car seem like an older car than it is, but genuinely struggling to find any reg that makes sense for the car.

Hedgedhog

1,464 posts

103 months

Thursday 20th June
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Opinions on number plates tend to be strong and varied.

Personally I never really understood the need to have a plate that tells you what the car is. I can see that by looking at the car.

Personally and again this is just my honest and irrelevant opinion, if I put a private plate on a car and I have on 2 of my cars, I try to avoid anything cheesy and potentially naff and simply go for a 3 X 3 plate that is symmetrical and simple but says and means nothing obvious. Eg ABC 123. These plates tend to be cheap, I like the symmetry, fly under the radar but are your own unique identity that can be transferred as you change cars.

Ignoring all of the above of the two plates you mention I'd go for AMV personally or AML if its available.

interstellar

3,787 posts

153 months

Thursday 20th June
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I agree, go for something that can move to another car. I certainly wouldn’t make it look older.

Don’t buy a BOSS plate biglaughbiglaughbiglaugh


Time4another

276 posts

10 months

Thursday 20th June
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AMV

Dewi 2

1,493 posts

72 months

Thursday 20th June
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Hedgedhog said:
Opinions on number plates tend to be strong and varied.

Personally I never really understood the need to have a plate that tells you what the car is. I can see that by looking at the car.

Personally and again this is just my honest and irrelevant opinion, if I put a private plate on a car and I have on 2 of my cars, I try to avoid anything cheesy and potentially naff and simply go for a 3 X 3 plate that is symmetrical and simple but says and means nothing obvious. Eg ABC 123. These plates tend to be cheap, I like the symmetry, fly under the radar but are your own unique identity that can be transferred as you change cars.

I agree exactly with your thoughts.
I would emphasise however, try to obtain a 3 letters 3 numbers plate (ie. letters first).

I had a dislike of dated plates as soon as they were introduced and in the early days, dateless registration marks were so cheap compared with now. Would you believe 2 letters, 3 numbers (first allocated in 1926) cost me £10? Huge value now, but have no interest in that, because not selling.
Managed also to find my initials with 2 numbers, which adorns my V8V and have a few other good ones too.

Prices now might be considered ridiculous, but the 3x3 is what I would buy now. Not too expensive, will probably retain value and make Aston Martins really 'Timeless'.

Making 4 pretend to be A, or 6 pretend to be G and then ignoring the legal spacing rules, might be considered pathetic.
I did notice a very subtle mark recently though, which with some thought, represented the first name of a well known drummer's wife.
AN 8. No jiggling with the characters, just a slight change in pronunciation. Very clever.
Can you work out the name?


Edited by Dewi 2 on Thursday 20th June 16:41

fizzwheel

198 posts

133 months

Thursday 20th June
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A nice problem to have !

We looked at similar for our new to us V8V N420, I'd echo the other posters comments look for a 3 letters 3 number combo. Have a look at buying from the DVLA direct as well.

I dont know why but putting the full plate on the internet makes me feel uncomfortable, but I masked out the first 3 letters so you get the idea



I know it wont be to everybody's taste, but we like it.

Edited by fizzwheel on Thursday 20th June 17:08

Apollya

Original Poster:

46 posts

5 months

Thursday 20th June
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I looked at N420, before deciding on getting N400.

I’ll be honest the associated meaning of 420 used widely put me off a little 😉

Apollya

Original Poster:

46 posts

5 months

Thursday 20th June
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Interesting discussion, for me I was looking at the plate to be specifically for the car and to be sold with the car at a future date, it’s a limited edition so was looking to build on that hence specific to car rather than me.

I don’t have private plate on my daily driver and never really had an interest in them before now.

mac_doctor

22 posts

15 months

Thursday 20th June
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Dewi 2 said:
I did notice a very subtle mark recently though, which with some thought, represented the first name of a well known drummer's wife.
AN 8. No jiggling with the characters, just a slight change in pronunciation. Very clever.
Can you work out the name?
Barbara Bach?

N430

324 posts

190 months

Thursday 20th June
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Lots of V8 xxx plates available on the DVLA website.

stevenichols

62 posts

89 months

Thursday 20th June
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I think the best place to buy is a DVLA auction. Yes, you have to pay a fee + VAT, but the costs are inevitably less than buying from a dealer. I bought my XXXX XX (four numbers and two letters) plate for less than £3,000. I had previously bought KXXX SWN, but prefer the new one. I also have JXXX SWN on my Mercedes SLK (10 years old less than 11,000 miles). These were both standard DVLA fare at less than £500.

Jon39

13,375 posts

150 months

Thursday 20th June
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fizzwheel said:
A nice problem to have !

I dont know why but putting the full plate on the internet makes me feel uncomfortable, but I masked out the first 3 letters so you get the idea


Just a guess, GCZ 420. Perfect.
That is for sale at only £199.

MMarkM

1,648 posts

178 months

Friday 21st June
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I think plates are like colours each to their own! Some like it some don't. Don't be put off by people saying it's daft. Likewise people saying it's daft should respect other peoples choices and preferances

Mc2 by Mark Maddox, on Flickr

Buster73

5,190 posts

160 months

Friday 21st June
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Just don’t put a OO 07 *** plate on it.

Anything but.

Dewi 2

1,493 posts

72 months

Friday 21st June
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mac_doctor said:
Dewi 2 said:
I did notice a very subtle mark recently though, which with some thought, represented the first name of a well known drummer's wife.
AN 8. No jiggling with the characters, just a slight change in pronunciation. Very clever.
Can you work out the name?
Barbara Bach?

No, nothing to do with James Bond.

Clue: Say AN 8 to yourself a few times.


alscar

5,406 posts

220 months

Friday 21st June
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Dewi 2 said:

No, nothing to do with James Bond.

Clue: Say AN 8 to yourself a few times.
The only one I could come up with was Shirley ANN Shepherd who was married to Charlie Watts ?

Dewi 2

1,493 posts

72 months

Friday 21st June
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alscar said:
Dewi 2 said:

No, nothing to do with James Bond.

Clue: Say AN 8 to yourself a few times.
The only one I could come up with was Shirley ANN Shepherd who was married to Charlie Watts ?

Getting closer now. clap
You have got the ANN, so just need to include the 8.
I did say it is subtle.

ds666

2,806 posts

186 months

Friday 21st June
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MMarkM said:
I think plates are like colours each to their own! Some like it some don't. Don't be put off by people saying it's daft. Likewise people saying it's daft should respect other peoples choices and preferances

Mc2 by Mark Maddox, on Flickr
That's one for the " Crappy plates" thread

BiggaJ

879 posts

46 months

Friday 21st June
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My Vantage came with a private plate on it ... Had it not had a private plate I doubt I would have gone looking for one as I've never had one before.

Having said this, I do like the plate and have thought about transferring it to another AM if I decided to sell/buy.

Mine is one letter, two numbers followed by AMV which of course covers a lot of AM models not only the Vantage. It also hides the cars age for those that are not up on AM cars as I often get asked how old my car is and get looks of surprise when they found out its a 2009 car.

AML covers all the car as it isn't really model specific (hope I don't get shouted down on this due to the Lagonda model) as all the press cars at the recent launch of the new Vantage all had AML plates but I prefer the AMV.

Jon39

13,375 posts

150 months

Friday 21st June
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ds666 said:


That's one for the " Crappy plates" thread

In one easy step. Ignore the law and spoil a good car.

All is not lost though.
Improvements are possible.