After starting to read this forum, Ive seen many talk about 16 (or some other number) plate cars.

What does that mean?

It's the age identifier of our number plate system.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_dependencies_and_overseas_territories

Part of number plate that denotes year (March - August). Add 50 for second half of year (September to following February)

So 09 = 2009 59 - second half of 'year'

12 = 2012 62 - second half of 'year'

14 = 2014 64 - second half of 'year'

15 = 2015 starts on 1st march this year

etc.

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Post above (posted as I wrote my post) gives fully explanation.

15 plate will be out on the first of march this year.

Then 65 on 1st September 2015

16 plate, 1st march 2016

And so on, and so forth

For real?

Or for jokes?

Ahh.. I get it.

Thanks folks

For real?

Or for jokes?

 

I'm guessing for real as the OP is in Norway

It'll all have to change in 2051!

It'll all have to change in 2051!

 

Shouldn't effect me though   :no:

For real?

Or for jokes?

I wouldnt be jokin if i asked about a Norwegian plate haha

It is a stupid system really.

i agree, its stupid, but better than it used to be!!

the genius who thought a letter of the alphabet was a good idea really wasnt thinking beyond his own life expectancy!

at least in ireland its just the yr - county - unique number

 

04 TS 1234 is the 1234th vehicle registered in Tipperary South in 2004.

 

they updated it for 2013 though because everybody thought car sales would plummet due to the unlucky 13 plate

so now its 131 and 132 for 1st and 2nd half the yr

 

quite straight forward and very easy to figure out....

It was the whole "lets get away from the one big sales peak around the plate change" and they changed to two plate changes a year.

 

Way to go fellahs some deep thinking there.

 

I thought the more sensible thing was to do away with the year identifiers altogether and have a random number and an area code. They should have allowed proper vanity plates as well. That would have put cash in the DVLAs coffers

The DVLA in the UK do need rather a lot of Available Registration Numbers each year for First Registrations.

http://smmt.co.uk/2014/11/new-car-registrations-october-2014

What annoys me most is the tendency for a lot of British owners/drivers to constantly mention their 'plate' in any possible setting, especially situations where the age of the car in question is totally and utterly irrelevant. I seriously couldn't care less about the production date of my car, it's like mentioning my wife's birth year (when asked if I'm married), my exact engine oil capacity in cubic inches (when asked what I drive) or the length of my penis (when asked how much I weigh).

 

There are situations wherein such a fact would attribute to the clarity of the situation (such as when asked: "when was your car built"  or "how old is it") but even then a more precise answer would entail actually mentioning the date and/or year instead of just the half-year mentioned on your license plate. 

 

Luckily we have a word for things like that nowadays: it's called a 'first-world problem', because if you find the time or energy to worry about things like that you have a pretty sweet and sorrow-less life. 

 

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No flame intended to anyone in Britain or otherwise involved in similar plating systems  :sun: - just wanted to get this off my chest  .

Many mention it because of the year explaining what car or engine they are talking about.

ie a Mk2 Fabia vRS, a 10 or say an 11 plate has a very different engine and slightly different interior from a 13/63/14.

It is a stupid system really.

 

It was the whole "lets get away from the one big sales peak around the plate change" and they changed to two plate changes a year.

 

Way to go fellahs some deep thinking there.

 

I thought the more sensible thing was to do away with the year identifiers altogether and have a random number and an area code. They should have allowed proper vanity plates as well. That would have put cash in the DVLAs coffers

 

It seems pretty sensible to me.

The whole point of a number plate is to make it as quick and easy as possible to identify a vehicle and to help people do that you need a common pattern, hence the LLNN LLL layout.

 

If it was a random string of numbers and letters that would very hard for someone to glance at and remember. Instead, with the current system people may not get the whole thing but they will more often then not remember a chunk of it - either the year or the last three letters which is better than nothing.

a lot of other countries get away without age identifying plates, I just wish we in the uk could have done so last time round

a lot of other countries get away without age identifying plates, I just wish we in the uk could have done so last time round

I quite like it.

Quick n easy

We keep it simple in our house; we have 3 cars and the first 2 letters denote which car it is then the numbers and last 3 letters are all the same! Really simple and ensures Mrs T doesn't forget as she gets older!  

New question.

Is it some kind of status to have the right plate numbers?

Ive now read that people have postponed getting plates to wait for 15(?) plates. Why? Is it a tax thing or?

New question.

Is it some kind of status to have the right plate numbers?

Ive now read that people have postponed getting plates to wait for 15(?) plates. Why? Is it a tax thing or?

Waiting till 15 comes out? (It has now)

Resale value perhaps.

Waiting till 15 comes out? (It has now)

Resale value perhaps.

Yeah I saw one guy here wrote he postponed picking up his car a couple of weeks just to get 15 plates.

Yeah I saw one guy here wrote he postponed picking up his car a couple of weeks just to get 15 plates.

Yeah (:

Because most people just look at the number on the plate when purchasing a car. So for waiting a couple of weeks, his car will be worth a little bit more come sale time than if it was a 64plate

Well worth waiting if its just a few weeks

That gets done here too,people buy car in October and wait until January to pick it up and register. Car is instantly a yr younger...

Other reasons could be to book a specific ref number - 151 T 151 for example on the Irish system