Hard to get a good custom license plate these days!

[XR Rob]

Wow, once upon a time I could jump on the RTA website and bang out a dozen clever number plates just for fun as a sort of mental excercise, playing with all the letters and numbers to make something cool, without resorting to $440/year custom jobbies, but those days seem long gone...!

Just spent the past 24hrs noodling around, trying to find something suitable for my XR8 and I found something I love, to be sure, but man, there are a lot of license plates taken these days -- even REALLY obscure ones that you think, "No one on earth can possibly have thought of this combination..." LOL.

You guys and gals experiencing the same thing?

[Mz Revvv Head]

Yes I have ...
I have spent heaps of time on there ...

Omg, I put in so many different ways & can't have it :(
I don't really like the #'s instead of the letters,
So it's time to get more creative, omg lol :**

[XR Rob]

Here's one that I didn't end up taking in NSW, so it's still available:

FRD 54L

[Feathers]

There are some very clever plates, some totally stupid ones, and a few pretty obscure.
Really, if you can't figure it out in the time it takes a car to drive past you in traffic, it's probably a bit too complicated.

I don't like the 'numbers as letters' thing either, so mine are $400/year.
I ask myself why, every year when I get the bill for them, but I still like them, so they'll stay for awhile yet.

[FRDGAL]

Originally Posted by XR Rob

Wow, once upon a time I could jump on the RTA website and bang out a dozen clever number plates just for fun as a sort of mental excercise, playing with all the letters and numbers to make something cool, without resorting to $440/year custom jobbies, but those days seem long gone...!

Just spent the past 24hrs noodling around, trying to find something suitable for my XR8 and I found something I love, to be sure, but man, there are a lot of license plates taken these days -- even REALLY obscure ones that you think, "No one on earth can possibly have thought of this combination..." LOL.

You guys and gals experiencing the same thing?

I hear ya! At the point it's driving me nuts lol. You think, oh no one will have these, you check and they're gone, you're like WTF already lol. It's nuts.

[GULL]

Originally Posted by FRDGAL

I hear ya! At the point it's driving me nuts lol. You think, oh no one will have these, you check and they're gone, you're like WTF already lol. It's nuts.

I wanted YAH 00 , 8 years ago and it was gone:( still want it,lol

[Bmobile]

So does that mean you guys down south pay per year for custom plates ?

Qld it's just a one off fee and their yours for life.

Anyone want to sponsor a set for the Booger Mobile ?

[Mz Revvv Head]

I agree Feathers ... Some are great, so creative, some :| & others are just like trying to get these with WTF ...

So what is it people like :
Cars - are very popular ... with the XR GT combination etc etc etc
Names - very popular ...
What else ?

For me it will come down to my personality ...

It's so hard to choose & to get it right is a MUST IMO ...

[nstg8a]

Originally Posted by B mobile

So does that mean you guys down south pay per year for custom plates ?

Qld it's just a one off fee and their yours for life.

Anyone want to sponsor a set for the Booger Mobile ?

might be a one off fee, but its a ridiculous 2.5k... (roughly)

[HI PSI]

There are some good ones left... I got my HI PSI around 3 yrs ago I paid $2,250... Purchased them online... I know of a few REALLY good combinations that are still available.... Am I going to tell you..... Hell no.... Just waiting for more money and I'm gonna buy them...

I still have my old 90 HSV plates
and UBNO2 - You be number 2

[HI PSI]

There are some good ones left... I got my HI PSI around 3 yrs ago I paid $2,250... Purchased them online... I have thought about selling them.....

I know of a few REALLY good combinations that are still available.... Am I going to tell you..... Hell no.... Just waiting for more money and I'm gonna buy them...

I still have my old 90 HSV plates
and UBNO2 - You be number 2

[LUXO_8]

ive got a couple of sets......
LUXO8 (on my green nc)and BARGE8(not on anything at the moment)
probably sell either set for the right money

[302 XC]

problem is people sit on line comin up with combinations and on sell at huge profits
this is why alot are not avaliable
QLD plates,
i just got some personal plates for the XC and only paid $415 and mine for life(no yearly fees) so anything is possible
maybe go for simple combinations you mite get one sometimes

[XR Rob]

Originally Posted by B mobile

So does that mean you guys down south pay per year for custom plates ?

Once upon a time in NSW if you customised a plate but used the standard letters and numbers like, letter-letter-letter-number-number-number or letter-letter-letter-number-number-letter, it was a one off fee of about $110 (IIC) and that was it.

Naturally, if you make up something of your own creation, in any order of letters and numbers, that's $440/year... always has been a fee, too.

But our RTA has figured that people LOVE making the customised plates based on the standard letters and numbers so you now pay a one off fee between $110 and $200 to make them (depending on what plates they are -- coloured, footy team, FPV/HSV, etc), and then $90/year to keep them.

When your roads and traffic people realise they can make more money like this, they'll probably do it, too :(

[FPV+fteT3]

I have 3 sets of plates an extra $90/year each car but I like my plates each one says something about the car its on.
With the pay per year thing some plates become available again if the vehicle they were on is let run out of rego or the owner elects not to renew the plate fee and fits new std. plates. My plates on the subie have been leased before and they came available whilst I was considering options for it.