because heaven forbid the numbering system would make sense and remain consistent?

That's how the system has worked since September 2001:

 

March to August - number = last 2 digits of year

September to February (of the next year) - number = last 2 digits of the year plus 50

 

Vehicle Registration Years

Edited 26 June, 20205 yr by PetrolDave

Food for the 'Chuckle in your day' thread?

^^^  I know the order they come in!

 

I just wondered if some brilliant person had looked ahead like with the 12 Plate and the Summer Olympics in 2012 in the UK, and then the 70th Anniversary of the European Convention of human rights being in 2020, maybe the Schuman Declaration.

Or even the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. Even the end of the Korean War.

All just coincidental then. 

Edited 26 June, 20205 yr by Roottootemblowinootsoot

5 minutes ago, Roottootemblowinootsoot said:

I just wondered if some brilliant person had looked ahead

Government and/or the DVLA employing someone brilliant - that would be the first time ever 😄

 

Sorry that my psychic powers had taken a staycation so I didn't 'get' the hidden meaning behind your question 🥴

Edited 26 June, 20205 yr by PetrolDave

All those personal number plates twice a year generate plenty of cash for both DVLA and the Government.

yeah, my math brain was not in gear when i read the screenshot the first time

 

 

Originally we went to 2 registrations a year to help the car trade. They complained of a glut once a year, when the new reg came in, so having two bites at the cherry was considered a better option. 

I don't think most people notice when a new registration number comes out any more. Although there first thing with the new years registration around here is normally a tractor 

When I was selling cars it didn't seem to make much difference to overall sales, but it was a little easier for Dealerships to manage 

1 hour ago, Lady Elanore said:

Originally we went to 2 registrations a year to help the car trade. They complained of a glut once a year, when the new reg came in, so having two bites at the cherry was considered a better option. 

 

we went splitting the year in 2013,

rumour being the SIMI boys were worried noone would want a "13" number plate, so we went to

jan - june xx1

july - dec xx2

 

the story being to help make it easier identiy when  in the year a car was first registered and to help spread the load across the year, as per the UK.

 

so a 2012 tipperary regged car would be

12 - TS - 1234

but a 2013 is..

131 - TS - 1234 or 132 - TS - 1234

 

in 2014* Th and Sth Tipp Co Councils were merged and it became T on the plates.

thus, both the citigo and the octavia are both TS but the 'go is a 132 vs my 131 octy 

 

the 1234 being literally the order in which your car was processed and registered on the system  - above being the 1,234th vehicle in Sth Tipp in the year/ half year. 

My  brain hurts 

IMO the UK registration system makes literally no sense. You buy a car, it's registered to one of many local registration offices (e.g. HA - HY for Portsmouth and Bournemouth/ Hants and Dorset) yet the plate stay with the car wherever it goes to after it's sold.
Why not register the plate to the person and then transfer it to the new car? It could easily be done using a kind of postcode system and would help eliminate overpriced vanity plates which bring in lots of revenue for the Governm........................................ ohhhhhhh. 
I forgot to add, you could even easily do it so there's no 'new plate' snobbery either which artificially pushes up sales in March and September so you could even out sales over the year rather than have two mad rushes to get the new plate. I never saw the appeal in being a new plate snob myself. 

Edited 26 June, 20205 yr by Lee01

21 minutes ago, Lady Elanore said:

My  brain hurts 

County abbreviation map

 

samples..

this is 892nd car registered in Co Limerick in the July-Dec period of 2017.

 

 

this is 92nd vehicle registered in Dublin in the first half of 2013.

 

the "exception" being fleet vehicles that get bulk registered in blocks,

eg Hertz will have a reg block from something like

201 D 28001 up to 201 D 28999 

available for every new rental car they bring into the country. 

I believe in Germany the plate is registered to the person and not the car so you take your plates with you. 

6 minutes ago, edbostan said:

I believe in Germany the plate is registered to the person and not the car so you take your plates with you. 

Genau! (Exactly!) You have no choice in the first one or two and sometimes even three letters. e.g. SE is for the Segeburg region, HH is for Hansestadt Hamburg and NMS is for Neumunster but if you permanently move to another region then you must re-register your car in that region or city.
You get to pick the last numerals and digits at no extra cost AFAIK. Lots of people where I am think SE*XY XXX is cool lol 
 

Edited 26 June, 20205 yr by Lee01

My brain is clearly too small to be able to cope with two different system of registering cars. 

22 minutes ago, mac11irl said:

samples..

 

this is 892nd car registered in Co Limerick in the July-Dec period of 2017.

 

 

 

this is 92nd vehicle registered in Dublin in the first half of 2013.

 

the "exception" being fleet vehicles that get bulk registered in blocks,

eg Hertz will have a reg block from something like

201 D 28001 up to 201 D 28999 

available for every new rental car they bring into the country. 

That seems pretty simple and easy. 

I like I.D. letters for region and the rest just random gibberish......bah humbug.....and bring back lbs and ounces, and feet and inches!!! 

7 hours ago, Lady Elanore said:

I like I.D. letters for region and the rest just random gibberish......bah humbug.....and bring back lbs and ounces, and feet and inches!!! 

caredul now, such discussions have resulted in thread locks

 

I expect they'll just be QR codes before long.

The current system will run until August 2050, (50 plate).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom#Age_identifiers

 

 

TBH it doesn't matter what the system is so long as each car has an individual identifier - that's the basis for the registration numbers - no need for region or year really.

 

Personally I much preferred the old style single letter for a single year as they are easier to remember - but the car industry didn't and wanted two per year IIRC.

 

Diplomatic plates and the channel islands have it sussed - one or two letters plus a series of sequential numbers - easy

Edited 28 June, 20205 yr by skomaz

13 minutes ago, skomaz said:

TBH it doesn't matter what the system is so long as each car has an individual identifier - that's the basis for the registration numbers - no need for region or year really.

 

Personally I much preferred the old style single letter for a single year as they are easier to remember - but the car industry didn't and wanted two per year IIRC.

 

Diplomatic plates and the channel islands have it sussed - one or two letters plus a series of sequential numbers - easy

 

I find the the new system is far easier to remember as the year is stated on the plate, (or year plus 50). The old Letters will only last for 21 years (if 1 per year) as you can't use some letters. Current system lasts double that, 49/50 years.