License Plates

[toinou03]

Re: European license plates

Are you sure, I see many like this on our roads these days?

If your car is older than 2009 and if you haven't changed of address, you can still have an old kind of license plate. But since you buy a new car, or an old car or if your address has changed, you have to have a new kind of license plate.

I recently bought a car with this kind of license plate. But I received a new number.

The change is that the car will now have the same number of license plate ever, while before it had to change if you changed of department or if bought by someone of another department...

Voilà !

 

[anto475]

This is what ours look like in !
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So we have the little EU thing on the side, of course, then the first set of numbers (going left to right), denote the time the car was bought. It used to just be two numbers, marking the year ("93" for 1993 or "05" for 2005 etc.) the car was bought in, but then last year they changed it so that it would change every six months. So from January to June this year, all cars bought would say "141", and then from July to December they say "142", then in January next year it will read "151" and so on. This was done to boost car sales, and seemingly it worked! The middle letter, or letters, denote the county the car was bought in, this one here has "D" for Dublin. Then the last set of numbers are just the registration number, so obviously this car with a number like "92" was bought early on last year. Often the first car in every county is reserved by the county council for the mayor or something like that, but that practice has stopped in many places due to the recession.

 

[doctormalisimo]

but then last year they changed it so that it would change every six months. So from January to June this year, all cars bought would say "141", and then from July to December they say "142", then in January next year it will read "151" and so on. This was done to boost car sales, and seemingly it worked!

I thought it was done because no one would buy a car with a big 13 on it, so they had to make it seem less unlucky

 

[anto475]

I thought it was done because no one would buy a car with a big 13 on it, so they had to make it seem less unlucky

That was another factor ugh. Thanks to the man bringing shame to Kerrymen everywhere!

 

[Morty]

Ireland's plates (at least until they changed to that 3rd numeral for years) can be confused with Turkish plates, as seen in this picture:

But in Turkey, the 14 here means Bolu, where the car (or truck in this case) was registered. Not sure what the rest of the plate means, but I think it's just a regular registration.

I went on a roadtrip from Norway to The Netherlands this summer, and from memory, I saw cars from these countries:
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Germany, The Netherlands (and Bonaire, from The Netherlands Antilles), Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Cyprus, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Ireland and Great Britain (at least England/Scotland and Isle of Man). There were a LOT of Eastern European trucks on the roads.

I don't think I've ever seen any plates from Cyprus before, at least not in person.

 

[SRBIJA]

Re: European license plates

If your car is older than 2009 and if you haven't changed of address, you can still have an old kind of license plate. But since you buy a new car, or an old car or if your address has changed, you have to have a new kind of license plate.

I recently bought a car with this kind of license plate. But I received a new number.

The change is that the car will now have the same number of license plate ever, while before it had to change if you changed of department or if bought by someone of another department...

Voilà !

Oh I see, thanks for the explanation.

 

[r3gg13]

Here's how the ones from the Philippines look like

Most current format (2014 series)

The ones with red lettering are for government vehicles; the text on the bottom will say which government institution the vehicle serves

The ones with black lettering are for private vehicles; the text on the bottom will say which region it is from (NCR = National Capital Region = Manila + Greater Manila area)

The ones with blue lettering are for diplomatic vehicles

(not shown) black text on yellow car plates are for public transportation vehicles; the text on the bottom will saw the termini of the vehicle.

The ones on the left are for motorcycles; MC = motorcycles; TC = tricycle = tuktuk

Here's the older, prettier, format (2005 to 2013)

Matatag na Republika = Strong Republic

The monument on the licence plate is the Rizal monument, it's dedicated to the national hero of the Philippines

Pre-2005 series

Pilipinas = Philippines

Perlas ng silangan = pearl of the Orient

 

[FrachellyJelly]

Mine personally is confusing. As it's a 60 (so would denote it was registered last 6months of 2010) but actually it can cover like first couple months of 2011 - my car is actually 2011 registered!

 

[FrachellyJelly]

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In the UK up north you don't get many foreign number plates but I have seen some Polish, Romanian, danish, german & Norweigan cars, but not many. When I go down south however, I see a lot of dutch and french cars. and a lot of Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian, russian, Germany, french, Spanish, Austrian, Latvian, Danish, Swedish lorries. plus more.

The first bit is an area code?!

O my I just found out where my car came from.....


oh and and at the moment I live in Devon, so I've seen ALOT of German and Dutch plates the past month!