Are the registration plates on your car. . . boring?  Are they the standard ones issued by the DVLA?  Have you seen personalised plates on cars about town and thought about what fun it might be to have them on your own car?  Did you know it’s easier than ever before to create your own fun number plates?

Many websites allow you to input plate numbers and see if they’re available.  For example, input a choice of one letter, one number, and then three letters and see if they are available.  For example, the plate registration PR05 PER (prosper) would be one that would follow the current registration format and be fun to drive with, as well.

Fun registration plates are also viewed as investments by many people.  Obviously, each plate or set of registration plates must be unique, so if your registered plate is the older, suffix-model of JEN 11E, you can be assured that is the only plate of its kind on the road.  Uniqueness, of course, has always been valued.  Should you decide to part with your personalised plates, you can be sure a good price would be likely at auction.

The more unique your plate is, yet with widespread appeal, the higher the price you are likely to receive.  Cherished number plates, especially those with older origins, are valued the highest and can be sold for tens of thousands of pounds.  In many cases, the appreciation of personalised registration plates far outstrips that of many other investments. 

Also, as DVLA changes their numbering scheme, those plates with an older style will increase in value because they will no longer be issued.  Just as the original dateless number plates issued after the original 1903 Motor Car Act are highly prized, so too are today’s numbers likely to be when their style is no longer available.