DVLA releases new personalised registration numbers with over 150,000 up for grabs

The Driver and Automobile Licensing Company (DVLA) has launched greater than 150,000 new personalised registration numbers, in a uncommon alternative for plate fans to snap up a one-off reg.

The prefix-style registration numbers are fastened worth solely, which suggests there will not be any bidding wars when the plates go on sale.

Viewing commenced on Tuesday 24 September and the plates will probably be purchasable from Tuesday 1 October.

The registrations are model new – we clarify the place to seek for them on the backside of the article – they usually’ve by no means been assigned to a car or supplied on the market earlier than, which makes this a singular probability for plate hunters.

Distinctive alternative: The brand new prefix quantity plates will go on sale 1 October and will probably be fastened worth solely, so there will not be any bidding wars

The prefix codecs are extremely fascinating, that includes a letter from A to H, adopted by 25 or 26, an area after which three extra letters. An instance of this might be A25 CAR.

New prefix registrations up for grabs embrace; A25 CYA, B25 TOM, C26 DAN, D25 OMG, E26 CAT, F25 CBR, F26 ORD, G25 GEM and H25 NRY.

These registrations are certain to be standard with motorists as a result of there’s an opportunity to snap up a plate along with your identify on it, a humorous saying or a phrase that has a private reference to you.

And since these plates are being offered at fastened charges, and never by public sale, with costs ranging from simply £250 (which incorporates VAT and the £80 task price) they’re much extra accessible than public sale personal plates.

The DVLA holds month-to-month timed on-line auctions the place bidders can battle it out to get their fingers on covetable personal plates. 

However as a result of there is not any worth ceiling, the price of plates can soar.

The DVLA’s 10 costliest plates of all time had been all above £150,000 (excluding charges and taxes) and offered way back to 1989 – the 12 months the company first placed on auctions for personal plates.

The most costly DVLA registration ever offered was ’25 O’ which reached £400,000 (excluding charges and taxes) on 27 November 2014.

You should utilize the DVLA search perform to seek for a phrase or a mix of numbers and letters. For example put in your identify and the search offers you the closest hit 

These had been the personalised registration plates offered by the DVLA for the very best quantities final 12 months

In mild of the forthcoming prefix plate sale, Jody Davies, head of DVLA personalised registrations, mentioned: ‘Whether or not it is your identify, pastime, occupation otherwise you’re a motoring fanatic, why not give your car that of entirety by buying a personalised registration?

‘This thrilling upcoming launch is a good alternative to get your good registration within the massively fascinating prefix model for a hard and fast worth. 

‘The overwhelming majority of the 150,000 new numbers are priced at £250 every. There’s an enormous choice to select from and with Christmas simply across the nook, you possibly can snap up a discount for you or your family members.’

Prefix quantity plates had been first issued on 1 August 1983, and they’re the preferred sort of plate throughout personal quantity plate market. 

From 10am on Tuesday 1 October, consumers will be capable of get their fingers on the prefix plates through the DVLA web site.

You should utilize the DVLA search perform to seek for a phrase or a mix of  numbers and letters.

Automobile registrations defined: 

How quantity plates are laid out and what the completely different components imply (Supply: DVLA)

There is a format to DVLA registrations, which embrace info for the DVLA to trace a car in its methods. 

The primary few letters point out the area the place the automobile is registered.

Then a sequence of randomly generated letters concludes the top of the quantity plate, which is how the DVLA identifies the actual automobile as they’re totally distinctive to every car.  

Personal plate market is huge enterprise

As of 2023, companies working within the sector valued the British personalised quantity plate business to be price over £2billion.

Jon Kirkbright, 45, is the founding father of Plate Hunter

A complete of 17,823 registrations had been offered in final 12 months’s DVLA auctions and consumers spent virtually £49m (together with charges and taxes).

Jon Kirkbright, gross sales director at quantity plate provider Platehunter says: ‘The second-hand plate market retains going from power to power and 2024 will probably be no completely different.

‘Persons are seeing worse plates offered by the DVLA go for a similar worth they paid for a greater one at an public sale years in the past, and so are demanding two or thrice the value for his or her plates now on the second hand market’. 

Platehunter noticed a 25 per cent improve in turnover by the primary 17 days of January on final 12 months, with valuation requests per day up 100 on final 12 months already. 

> Verify for the plate you need at DVLA Personalised Registrations