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 fanatics to snap up a one-off reg.

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

Viewing commenced on Tuesday 24 September and the plates can 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 automobile or provided on the market earlier than, which makes this a novel probability for plate hunters.

Distinctive alternative: The brand new prefix quantity plates will go on sale 1 October and can be mounted value 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 may 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 in style with motorists as a result of there’s an opportunity to snap up a plate together with your title on it, a humorous saying or a phrase that has a private reference to you.

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

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

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

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

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

You need to use the DVLA search perform to seek for a phrase or a mixture of numbers and letters. As an example put in your title and the search provides you with the closest hit 

These have been the personalised registration plates bought by the DVLA for the very best quantities final 12 months

In gentle of the forthcoming prefix plate sale, Jody Davies, head of DVLA personalised registrations, mentioned: ‘Whether or not it is your title, passion, occupation otherwise you’re a motoring fanatic, why not give your automobile that crowning glory by buying a personalised registration?

‘This thrilling upcoming launch is a superb alternative to get your good registration within the vastly fascinating prefix model for a set value. 

‘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 could possibly snap up a discount for you or your family members.’

Prefix quantity plates have been first issued on 1 August 1983, and they’re the most well-liked sort of plate throughout non-public quantity plate market. 

From 10am on Tuesday 1 October, consumers will be capable to get their palms on the prefix plates by way of the DVLA web site.

You need to use the DVLA search perform to seek for a phrase or a mixture 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 automobile in its programs. 

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

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

Personal plate market is massive enterprise

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

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

A complete of 17,823 registrations have been bought in final 12 months’s DVLA auctions and consumers spent nearly £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 energy to energy and 2024 can be no completely different.

‘Individuals are seeing worse plates bought by the DVLA go for a similar value they paid for a greater one at an public sale years in the past, and so are demanding two or 3 times the value for his or her plates now on the second hand market’. 

Platehunter noticed a 25 per cent enhance 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