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How does the license plate system United Kingdom asked by many people, many times, for many years.
The current number plate system in Britain has been around since September 2001, Northern Ireland has its own system that is quite different, but today we're focusing on the system GB England, Scotland , Wales.
We're also not going to discuss one of the previous plate systems before 2001 the numbering system has changed several times, so we'll maybe consider previous systems again.
British number plates are arranged in the two-letter format, followed by two numbers followed by three letters, eg 00 XXX XX first two letters are an area code, which refer to the DVLA office where the car was registered .
Both figures are an age identifier, which tells you what period of 6 months the car was registered.
The numbers change every 6 months in March and September the March codes are easy to remember because they are following the year of registration if a car registered in March in August 2016 has the number 16, a registered car of Mars in August 2005 has No. 05, etc. For vehicles registered in September February, the code is the year to September over 50, now a car registered in September 2016 February 2017 have the number 66 16 50 a car registered in September 2008 February 2009 is a number 58 08 50 and soon.
This system should work until the code number would be 00 February 2051 personalized number plates are a different story and are not covered here.
Therefore, it is possible to have an old license plate on a new car, however, you can not have a license plate code more recent than that allocated to the date of this registration drive for example, you can have a plate 04 on a 12 car, but not a plate 12 on a car 04.
When you change cars, you are allowed to keep your license plate It is simply to give the DVLA an unnecessarily large amount of money, fulfilling an unnecessarily large amount of documents and wait an unnecessarily long time for them to move the handle.
Z is used as a letter at random, never in an area code.
It is illegal to use different fonts and spacing the letters in any other way than shown above, despite the fact that thousands of car owners do, it is also illegal to amend the figures or strategic use screws mounting plates that look like they read something different.
Why Britain such a license plate system unnecessarily complicated.
Technically, it is a different question, but often follows the initial question of how the system works beats me, but I guess it gives a lot of officials in Swansea something to do.
For a more detailed explanation of the system, and for details of the license plate systems for other UK territories, Wikipedia has all the details of all code and number.
How long before the license plates become irrelevant GPS tracking because of each car by the government anyway, it surely is the next step in the war against motorists.
The second figure refers to the last digit of the year The first digit 0 or 5 refers to the record date March September respectively the first 2 letters vary depending on where the car is registered namely FX FY tend to be those lincolnshire final letters are random combination I do not know what will happen in 2010 with regard to the number ive heard he will return again 0-9, but from March to September figures become 1 June respectively .
I just wish we didn t have yellow plates on the back I would have rather white in front and rear, yellow sounds stupid on almost all cars.
White and yellow scheme is if you know which direction a vehicle is moving or parked when no lights are displayed.
I understand the regional codes of the current registration system, where the first letter is the local official symbol, and the second an identifier of the local office, but how do I know that the second letter should be used, say, 2014 2015, for a particular area.
Why is the white plate on the front and yellow back plate.
Good question is purely to make it easy to immediately identify whether a car coming or going.
Actually thats incorrect Yellow plates were used on the back as they are of a softer color You can not have white lights at the rear of a vehicle, and ditto the license plate is white reflect too bright.
Hi David So how does the rest of the world to deal with UK white rear registration plates is quite unique in this regard.
I understand that the purchaser of a new vehicle can sometimes choose the last three letters of the subject of registration in their availability, but I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how the second letter identifier of the local office is determined, and if the buyer a new car box selected.
For all I know, Mike, the second letter is chosen by the DVLA and not the seller or the buyer The last three letters can sometimes be selected from a relatively small selection, but the DVLA dampen any combination they deem potentially offensive or confusing too popular combinations of letters, for example SAM and TOM are generally hampered by the DVLA and sold separately for higher profits.
I can advise that anyone who has ever worked in a LVLA the second character can be selected Say for instance my regional office was an indication we publish all AA plates AZ.
Thank you for the wonderful blog I have a question can you change the EGM vehicle ID.
You can assign a recording that your OLD car, you can not assign a record that would appear later.
How does the system license plate GB #AskTCE, Consequently, the number, the plate.