I've noticed that you can buy plates online for about

i have VRS on the tail of my plate and paid £250 from the DVLA all in, you dont have to pay a yearly sub and the cost of the plate initially includes all the tranfer fees and the change on the tax disc. note though these changes can only ber made at a DVLA office.

the only thing you have to pay again is a transfer fee if you wanted to move the plate to another vehicle.

mines staying on the car when i sell it unless i have another vRS...

I was thinking about getting a XXXX VRS, too. I can only answer No.4: do *you* think it's cool? If so, get one. If not, don't. You shouldn't GAS what anyone else thinks.

Hadn't thought about the "ohh, private plate *key*" brigade. Hmm. :\

theres quite a few on here that have a "VRS" plate... i dont think its naff in anyway, its personal choice to be honest, mine was a xmas pressie from the better half but i wouldnt have said no if she'd asked if i wanted one.

I have a private plate as a bit of a joke, as I don't really like them. Mine describes my "SDI" so well

i have VRS on the tail of my plate and paid £250 from the DVLA all in' date=' you dont have to pay a yearly sub and the cost of the plate initially includes all the tranfer fees and the change on the tax disc. note though these changes can only ber made at a DVLA office.

the only thing you have to pay again is a transfer fee if you wanted to move the plate to another vehicle.

mines staying on the car when i sell it unless i have another vRS...[/quote']

Yep, £80 to transfer to another car (IIRC) and £25/year to keep on retention if it's NOT on a car.

If you buy from anywhere other than the DVLA, watch out, coz the quoted prices are normally + the transfer fee (£80) + vat, where as the dvla prices are inclusive

best advice is to buy from the DVLA there price "should" include the

i have VRS on the tail of my plate and paid

Bought my son a private plate for his 21st birthday, & was at least £200 cheaper buying from DVLA.

So do you keep the original plates and pay

Sorry, I think those last 2 replies have answered most of my questions!

Cheers,

Verr.

So do you keep the original plates and pay

Cheers M8,

Verr.

My wife has just bought me a private number plate from the DVLA for my Octy vrs.

We got B** VRS, and every one thats seen it thinks it looks cool.

If you go on the DVLA web site you can try the plate you want on a silver fabia vrs.

Nowadays the DVLA do not normally transfer your old number to another car. When you come to sell the car and want to transfer your private plate to your new one they will usually allocate the old number back to your old car. So my advice is dont do as I did and throw away your old plates. Cost me another