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[rockabette]

Hi all...

Wondering who has personalised number plates for their i30 and what they are and meaning etc etc. Please share!!

I have plates ready and waiting for when I get my i30 and they will read:

MISFITS

as in the band Misfits named after Marilyn Monroe's movie "The Misfits"

[2i30s]

the wife wants us to get, his i30 and her i30 plates. 

[Dazzler]

Some of our members use their personalised plates as their moniker on here including Bob in South Australia (ouri30) there are others but I forget who.. I'm too tight to fork out for personalised plates.. The better ones are quite expensive down here...

You can pick some of the members who use their plates as a Moniker (or ViceVersa) by browsing our member list....

[rockabette]

We are lucky in the NT personalised plates with up to 7 letters on a slim line plate is only $140. However you don't own them outright, you pay a yearly fee to keep them on top of your rego. This fee is less than 15 bucks. I think I can sell the plates (transfer to another vehicle) and the new owner assumes responsibility.

All number plates remain the property of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Payment of the fee
gives you the “right to display” the approved number plate on your vehicle.
http://www.nt.gov.au/transport/mvr/registration/faq/personalplates.shtml

[Dazzler]

Our plates start at $295 one of fee .. but pretty basic choices at that price....(although not having an ongoing fee is a bonus)

Anything a little fancy and you go $500+ 

[bumpkin]

Thats not bad Dazz, in the UK we start at £250 for basic choices rising to over £1000 for still fairly basic.  The good 'uns cost a bomb

[Dazzler]

For some weird reason I just can't bring myself to buy personalized plates.. When I toyed with the idea when buying the i30 the wife suggested I would have to buy some for her Tiida too ... (maybe that is why.. )

I could never understand people paying thousands for what to me look some fairly ordinary numbers...

[L30N]

I have L30NSB, which translates to my first name followed by middle and last initials. It was also a 30th birthday present to myself. This is the 2nd car the plates have been on, but it is quite apt that I now have the i30. UK law dictates the spacing and typeface (illegal to misrepresent the characters) however many people over here are 'creative' with their plates.

[Dazzler]

I sort of got personalised plates for nothing...the dealer let me chose from a range and i chose one with 56 in the middle (my YOB)  

Many years ago (1991 I think) I bought a demo Nissan Pulsar SSS and it was pre-registered as DB1906 which was GR8 because my initials are DB and my YOB, at the time my wife's initials were also DB and her YOB was 1960  

If I were paying good money for plates I would want them to be obviously personalised eg. my nickname or a word like TORQUE or related to the car MY130 or something (although the last one couldn't be trfd to your next car unless it was another i30 of course)

[Shambles]

I won't buy any more personalised plates, for Fergie or ever again. I've seen the light.

However, I've had a few "neat" plates. Way back in 1984 I bought a BMW732i and as our number one son was due to be born I purchased a Northern Ireland plate BIB1818 which (when spaced correctly and italicised) read like "BibiBib". I was a softy in those days

[ouri30]

I won't buy any more personalised plates, for Fergie or ever again. I've seen the light.

However, I've had a few "neat" plates. Way back in 1984 I bought a BMW732i and as our number one son was due to be born I purchased a Northern Ireland plate BIB1818 which (when spaced correctly and italicised) read like "BibiBib". I was a softy in those days

What do you mean, "in those days!"  I thought you were still a big softy at heart!

[2i30s]

 

[snowcherry]

i have personal plates. they were a pressie when i turned 30 for my nickname which i use pretty much everywhere (but not here). i think they were $300 back then but i think its about $500 now? in queensland.  

but they're mine for life, no yearly fees which i like. wasn't too impressed with $195 just to change the colour for the i30. but i guess thats much better than paying a yearly fee.

sometimes i don't like having them, like when you constantly get told you couldn't possibly have been born in that year, and you say 'no'. and then they expect you to explain and you don't. or you want to be very very rude to someone but then realise your plates are too conspicuous compared to most cars and you don't want to be chased down the freeway by some maniac.  
i definantly do like having the colour blend in, but i doubt i would ever get some obvious name like 'snow' branded on the car. i'd rather go for something like SNW130 so it looks more 'normal' (by qld rego standards)

[Wendel]

Hi all

In Germany it is quite easy and cheap to get your desired no-plate.

Only that you are not free to choose from the lettering as we have a fixed sceme:

1-3 characters: city / region where you are living: in my case WES for the next city called Wesel.
1-2 individual chosen charaters
1-4 individual chosen numbers
With a limit of 8 chacters-numbers in total.

As my wife and I love Paris and love to ride the bus line 72 which is like a sightseeing tour, my chosen number plate is: WES-I 3072.

Even though not allowed I asked the guy in the shop to put a little space between the I 30 ant the 72.

[eye30]

my nickname

You've got me wondering what it can be

hint hint?

[snowcherry]

my nickname

You've got me wondering what it can be

hint hint?

well its a plate, and the plates on my car, and possibly somewhere on the forum there might be other threads about my car, maybe even visual ones 
it's not a "nick"name so much as i guess a forum/gaming/pc/ID/everything you can think of putting a tag to name virtually. easier to say nickname 

[Shambles]

... easier to say nickname  

Your "nickname" sounds like you're part of the Borg Collective (Star Trek Voyager?)

[snowcherry]

 
yes it is a little seven of nine'ish
non intentional, but a likeable similarity all the same 

[Nick Riffed]

Strange but true.....I seem to be seeing more i30's with personal plates than normal plates in my area.
My plate starts with the registration year letter for my scrapped Volvo, the plate was originally going to go on that. As you are not allowed to make the vehicle appear newer than it really is, I went for the same age followed by 888 as that is extremely lucky in feng Shui terms. Also "8" is, in these days of equality, a fat person in Bingo terminology. I'm a tad portly so its quite apt that it shows I'm a triple fat person. The last 3 letters are my first three initials, NRG. Sounds like "Energy" of which I'm having less and less as time goes by.

[moxey]

am a scotsman so i changed my name by deed poll to my car reg no it was a cheap way to get a personalised no plate

[eye30]

am a scotsman so i changed my name by deed poll to my car reg no it was a cheap way to get a personalised no plate

 

ps I'm thinking of changing my surname to - Mr Hyundia eye30 

[moxey]

  

[Interphase]

In 1974 a sales representative from Imperial Tobacco was issued with a new Ford Cortina Reg. No. COF 1N.
And chain smoked.

In those days, it seemed not to affect his sales ( but probably his lungs though).

[Interphase]

your plates are too conspicuous compared to most cars and you don't want to be chased down the freeway by some maniac.

In 1978 I bought my own initials followed by number 8 (fung shray or whatever).
On first week someone said "Good news to just about anybody & everybody, they will always know exactly where you have been, are, or going to".

I took them off, put them on retention with DVLA, and on the garage wall instead.

[Dazzler]

In 1974 a sales representative from Imperial Tobacco was issued with a new Ford Cortina Reg. No. COF 1N.
And chain smoked.

In those days, it seemed not to affect his sales ( but probably his lungs though).

 

[GURKHA17]

I've got GURKHA on mine, they are basically Nepalese Army. They are usually fighting for some other country. Britain and India have the biggest lot. Singapore have them as the elite, guarding the Prime Minister, if I'm not wrong.

[IMCRZY]

Was looking at gettin MY-20-SR but for a $200 order fee & then $90 a year, im thinkin its abit steep

[Dazzler]

Was looking at gettin MY-20-SR but for a $200 order fee & then $90 a year, im thinkin its abit steep

Yeah, that $90 per year is the killer 

[IMCRZY]

If it was 1 fee or the other it would not be so bad but both of them is just asking to much....

[ouri30]

Was looking at gettin MY-20-SR but for a $200 order fee & then $90 a year, im thinkin its abit steep

In South Australia MYSR-20 would be a one of fee and then the plate would be yours for life (or if you want, the life of the car).  That's how we got OURI-30. Think from memory it was about $180.

Bob