The Driver and Car Licensing Company (DVLA) has launched greater than 150,000 new personalised registration numbers, in a uncommon alternative for plate lovers to snap up a one-off reg.

The prefix-style registration numbers are mounted worth solely, which suggests there will not be any bidding wars when the plates go on sale.

Viewing commenced on Tuesday 24 September and the plates will likely be purchasable from Tuesday 1 October.

The registrations are model new – we clarify the place to seek for them on the backside of the article – they usually’ve by no means been assigned to a car or supplied on the market earlier than, which makes this a novel likelihood for plate hunters.

Distinctive alternative: The brand new prefix quantity plates will go on sale 1 October and will likely be mounted worth solely, so there will not be any bidding wars

The prefix codecs are extremely fascinating, that includes a letter from A to H, adopted by 25 or 26, an area after which three extra letters. An instance of this may be A25 CAR.

New prefix registrations up for grabs embrace; A25 CYA, B25 TOM, C26 DAN, D25 OMG, E26 CAT, F25 CBR, F26 ORD, G25 GEM and H25 NRY.

These registrations are sure to be widespread with motorists as a result of there’s an opportunity to snap up a plate together with your title on it, a humorous saying or a phrase that has a private reference to you.

And since these plates are being bought at mounted charges, and never by public sale, with costs ranging from simply £250 (which incorporates VAT and the £80 project charge) they’re much extra accessible than public sale personal plates.

The DVLA holds month-to-month timed on-line auctions the place bidders can battle it out to get their palms on covetable personal plates. 

However as a result of there is no worth ceiling, the price of plates can soar.

The DVLA’s 10 costliest plates of all time had been all above £150,000 (excluding charges and taxes) and bought way back to 1989 – the yr the company first placed on auctions for personal plates.

The most costly DVLA registration ever bought was ’25 O’ which reached £400,000 (excluding charges and taxes) on 27 November 2014.

You need to use the DVLA search perform to seek for a phrase or a mix of numbers and letters. For example put in your title and the search offers you the closest hit 

These had been the personalised registration plates bought by the DVLA for the best quantities final yr

In gentle of the forthcoming prefix plate sale, Jody Davies, head of DVLA personalised registrations, stated: ‘Whether or not it is your title, pastime, occupation otherwise you’re a motoring fanatic, why not give your car that completion by buying a personalised registration?

‘This thrilling upcoming launch is a good alternative to get your good registration within the vastly fascinating prefix type for a hard and fast worth. 

‘The overwhelming majority of the 150,000 new numbers are priced at £250 every. There’s an enormous choice to select from and with Christmas simply across the nook, you might snap up a discount for you or your family members.’

Prefix quantity plates had been first issued on 1 August 1983, and they’re the most well-liked kind of plate throughout personal quantity plate market. 

From 10am on Tuesday 1 October, patrons will have the ability to get their palms on the prefix plates through the DVLA web site.

You need to use the DVLA search perform to seek for a phrase or a mix of  numbers and letters.

Car registrations defined: 

How quantity plates are laid out and what the totally different parts imply (Supply: DVLA)

There is a format to DVLA registrations, which embrace data for the DVLA to trace a car in its programs. 

The primary few letters point out the area the place the automobile is registered.

Then a sequence of randomly generated letters concludes the tip of the quantity plate, which is how the DVLA identifies the actual automobile as they’re completely distinctive to every car.  

Non-public plate market is massive enterprise

As of 2023, companies working within the sector valued the British personalised quantity plate business to be value over £2billion.

Jon Kirkbright, 45, is the founding father of Plate Hunter

A complete of 17,823 registrations had been bought in final yr’s DVLA auctions and patrons spent virtually £49m (together with charges and taxes).

Jon Kirkbright, gross sales director at quantity plate provider Platehunter says: ‘The second-hand plate market retains going from power to power and 2024 will likely be no totally different.

‘Persons are seeing worse plates bought by the DVLA go for a similar worth they paid for a greater one at an public sale years in the past, and so are demanding two or 3 times the worth for his or her plates now on the second hand market’. 

Platehunter noticed a 25 per cent improve in turnover by the primary 17 days of January on final yr, with valuation requests per day up 100 on final yr already. 

> Examine for the plate you need at DVLA Personalised Registrations