WA11 ACE personalised registration

The next DVLA Personalised Registrations sale gets underway on Thursday the 26th May 2011 at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon in Warwickshire. There are over 1,500 registrations going under the hammer and if you are a passionate Scotsman, then maybe WA11 ACE is the one for you to commemorate the iconic Sir William Wallace?

There will be a range of plates to suit all budgets and tastes with prices starting from as little as £250, right through to the star of the show which is 15 O (reserve price of £10,000). Some of the other plates for sale are listed below, with the reserve price shown as well. You can fit a personalised plate to a leased car but you will need permission from the leasing company concerned. 

• BEL 41R – £400
• CEN 50R – £400
• F4 CTS – £900
• G111 NNY- £900
• 7 OOO – £4,000
• WA11 ACE – £2,000
• YES 80B- £400
• 1OOO- £5,000

Personalised Registrations sale

DVLA Personalised Registrations has been holding their first 2011 sale at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester and three of its star registration plates have just sold for £94,000.

The top plate on sales was 12 O and this one went for a massive £63,290 to a mystery businessman. In addition, 34 OO was sold a few minutes later for £7,967 and 5 OOO went for £22,913.

Damian Lewis, DVLA Personalised Registrations’ head of marketing, commented,”Once again we have been left astounded at the level of interest the O-Series continues to create, it really has been a tremendous success for the agency and we couldn’t have wished for more. The success story will continue at our next auction planned for March in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, with 13 O, 800 OO, OOO 1E and 6 OOO“.

The total amount banked by DVLA Personalised registrations for the O-Series currently stands at £1.3 million. Don’t forget if you are thinking of getting a new car in March 2011 then the new 11 Series plates are available online now from the DVLA website. You can fit a personalised plate to a leased car but you will need to get permission from your leasing company before you can do this.

KHA 1N

Leicester businessman, Mark Smithson, snapped up the personalised vehicle registration plate, KHA 1N, for £12,000 on the second day of the DVLA Personalised Registrations’ first auction of 2011, at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester.

Mr Smithson said,”Khan is a hugely popular name, especially in my home town of Leicester, so when I spotted KHA 1N in the auction I just couldn’t resist speculating with a bid and fortunately I won it. It’s a sound investment”.

The DVLA sale includes 1,500 personalised vehicle registrations with a budget to suit everyone and here is a sample of what is on offer with reserve prices in brackets;

• Star plate - 12 O (£10,000)
• AAM 333R – (£400)
• ASH 333F – (£400)
• 777 CB (£2,600)
• VEG 4N (£400)
• DOC 700R (£400)
• 5 OOO (£4,000)

Please note it is illegal to misrepresent a vehicle registration on a number plate and the full rules can be found at the DVLA Personalised Registrations site under “Got a Question”. You can also fit a personalised plate to a leased car or van but you will need to get permission from the leasing company concerned.

If you are thinking of buying a personalised plate as a Christmas present this year, or maybe just for yourself, the DVLA Personalised Registrations‘ sixth, and final three-day auction for 2010 gets underway on the 1st December.

The event is being held at Ardencote Manor Hotel, Claverdon in Warwickshire. If you do buy a plate at the auction this will leave you enough time to go through all the paperwork formalities to ensure your car (or van) has its new number by December the 25th. You can also fit a personalised plate to your leased car or van but don’t forget you must get permission from the vehicle leasing company to do so.

The plates on offer at the forthcoming auction include – reserve price in brackets.

• 11 O – reserve price of £10,000
• 777 A – (£3,000)
• ALF 4C (£400)
• D111 ANA ( £900)
• EL10 TTS (£900)
• 66  JLS (£1,900)
• F40 WOW (£300)
• F40 XXX (£900)
• 32 OO (£3,000)
• 4 OOO ( £4,000)
• OPR 4H ( £450)
• OUR 805S (£400)
• P911 CUP (£900)

These are just some of the personalised registration plates on offer however as always if you want to search online for thousands of others, just visit the DVLA Personalised Registrations site.

ESS 3X plate

A Chelmsford businessman has bought ESS 3X for a bargain price of £6,250 at the DVLA Personalised Registrations’ first day sale at Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire. The mystery businessman also confirmed he would have bid as much as £15,000 to get his “perfect plate”.

Damian Lawson, DVLA Personalised Registrations Manager, said: “Both the DVLA and the customer are both extremely happy with the result. Managing to raise a sum seven times its reserve is a tremendous achievement, and to hear our customer is delighted to have bought a bargain is music to my ears”. As well as ESS 3X being sold on the day, 1 EPS was also sold for £20,000. You are able to fit a personalised registration to a leased car or van provided you get permission from the leasing company.

Personalised plates

DVLA Personalised Registrations is hoping for buoyant sales at their forthcoming three-day auction which gets underway on the 2nd June at Whittlebury Hall, the Northamptionshire venue. They have high hopes of raising significant sums for 7  O and 10 OOO which in addition to other plates on sale, may surpass the seven figure mark. Last year a series of “O” plates raised £872,000.

The forthcoming auction has over 1,500 personalised registrations on sale with styles and prices to match all pockets. You can fit a personalised plate to a leased car or van (with the permission obtained from the leasing company), so if you fancy standing out from the crowd perhaps a personalised plate is for you?

Some of the personalised plates on sale (reserve price in brackets)

• ALS 911 - (£1,900)
• B007HAM (£900)
• EL10 OTT (£1,000)
• 599 JS (£,2600)
• F458 RED ( £900)
• ESS 3X (£900)
• W11 DOW (£900)
• SO10 MON (£1,000)
• F1 USA ( £1,900)
• OWN 805S (£350)

"MY 10 MUM"

DVLA Personalised Registrations has revealed that with Mother’s Day approaching, they have sold over 1,500 prefix new style “MUM” registrations as a Mother’s Day gift.

The DVLA Personalised Registrations website has over 32 million personalised registrations available in “the vault” and there will one to suit your taste and budget if required. You can also fit your personalised plate to a leased car provided you get permission from the leasing company.

When you lease a new car or van, the MOT is not due until the vehicle is three years old, so the MOT appplication process may not apply to you. However if your leased car is over three years old, or you have extended your contract rather than ordering a new vehicle, you must ensure your car has a valid MOT.

The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) has now decided to publish MOT failure data following a campaign by BBC journalist, Martin Rosenbaum. The information will show you how often different makes and models of cars and vans fail MOTs, which could prove useful to you when choosing your next vehicle.

Europcar, one of the leading daily rental companies, is promising to give their customers a £10 fuel voucher towards their next hire car, if they bring their car back with more than a quarter of a tank of fuel. This offer applies to any customers who took delivery of their hire car with a full tank of fuel at the start of the hire period.

Europcar also offers a competitive rate per litre on fuel as they offer 5p under the average high street pump price. The offer of a £10 voucher is to compensate drivers who may have filled up the car and returned it with more than a quarter of a tank.

Daily rental can be a simple way to bridge the gap between waiting for your new car to arrive, if you have recently ordered one on car leasing, or via another form of finance. Most contract hire companies will be able to help you with an interim vehicle at competitive rates provided you have placed your leased car (or van order) with them.