How to Get a Cheap Personalised Registration Plate

Getting a Personalised registration plate can be very expensive.  However, is there any way for you to get a plate for a few hundred pounds, rather than a few thousands?  There actually is, so long as you know what you are doing.

Thousands of people would like to have the plate of their dreams, but when you consider some cost as much as £10,000, it seems that it is a bit of a forlorn dream to hold.  So where do you start if you don’t have the earth to spend?

Irish personalised plates are the cheapest of them all.  You could potentially get your hands on one of those for as little as £80.  You do have to calculate the DVLA costs as well, which is generally between £80 and £105, but you also have these fees on a ten grand plate.  The costs vary depending on whether they are on a Retention Document, or whether they are already on a car.  It is possible that you have to pay VAT on the plates as well.

Besides the fact that they are really cheap, they also have a whole lot of options available.  Plus, the Irish don’t date their plates, so you can put them on any car, irrelevant of how old that car actually is.  Plus, because of the way the United Kingdom works, you can use these plates on any vehicle on the mainland.  The best part about it is that you can instantly make and old banger look new with these plates.  Don’t think, however, that you can get any Irish plate for £80, because some of them go for a whole lot more.  Irish plate BIG 1 was recently sold at an auction and fetched £80,000!

Another way to keep the price down is to use letters that mean nothing.  So, names (LIL, GAZ) and words (BIG, OIL) is more expensive, even in Ireland.  However, they are not unaffordable and if you purchase through a private seller, you won’t even have to pay VAT.  (The word VAT would cost you quite a bit!).

If you must purchase a UK plate, go for a prefix plate rather than suffix, they are cheaper.  Initials are the cheapest of the lot, but some initials are more common and will cost more.  Putting two or three digits after the letters on a prefix plate is cheaper than a single number.  

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