Plates

[Jabbekot]

Hi guys..
As I come from Denmark, can anyone please explain this 57-, 54-, a.s.o-plates for me??
We don't have this system in Scandinavia...
Thx

[John LE]

In the uk we have two registration plate releases in the year. In March the number part begins with a zero (although now we are at 2010 it begins with a 1) and then the second number is the year.

There is a second registration release in september where the number begins with a 5 (again now that we're into 2010 it begins with 6).

A car registered between say the 1st march and 31st of august 2007 will have the reg no **07*** and then from 1st september 2007 to 28/29th of February will have the reg no **57***

The first two letters in the registration denote where the car was registered an the last three letters are random letters

[Jabbekot]

Ahaaa, thanks very much.. Very nice to know!!

[Birchy63]

Originally we were going to have only one registration release per year, but due to our class system, materialism and consumerism (people who just have to buy a new car at each registration) the motor industry complained they'd lose too much money and the whole system was bodged to compensate.

[WilliamLX]

We don't have this year system in my part of the UK. Much harder to tell the age of the car from its reg plate. We just have 3 letters followed by a 4 digit number. There are several sequences running at a time depending on the part of NI the car was registered in.