how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

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how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

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i have hurd people saying things like G reg or F reg, what dose it mean and how do i find out about mine?
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Re: how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

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the year of registration should be on whatever th Oz equivelent of a Log book?

its a 4 door mk2 so must be 1983 (A Reg) or later? I think.
So 1984 = B reg
1985 = C reg,
1986 = D reg etc etc.

Im probably wrong though. :oops:
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Thats just based on the UK way of registering a car, each letter would denominate a year the vehicle was made, but it could fall into the following year i.e mine is a G reg which is 89 but could have been sold in 90, the reg's used to be bought out once a year therefore it could fall into two years.

However a while back the Goverment bought in a change twice a year to try and boost car sales, can't see how that works myself though as it just makes your "newer" car older quicker if that makes any sense?


This might make more sense to you than my waffling:

http://www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/year-of-issue.htm
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Re: how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

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Just for fun, how much are some of these :roll:

http://www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/rude-number-plates.htm
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Re: how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

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V300GLT

is still available in the uk.
£400

http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/ ... &x=59&y=13
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But we can't use it on a 300 :( It's too new. Is GLT 300V available, that would be ok for most 300's.
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Hell Driver wrote:But we can't use it on a 300 :( It's too new. Is GLT 300V available, that would be ok for most 300's.
Bah!
Not that ive got 400 crackers to waste..... :roll:
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95 grand for "I Sexy"

Surely by definition, anyone who had to buy that plate wouldn't be...

I'm still wanting F340 AKE and H340 KAR :lol:
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Re: how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

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I want A360 GLS :D
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Didn't Ted Brown have A360 xxx? Might have even been GLS
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'03 S60 D5 SE, '91 (J) MX5, 1954 Cyclemaster
Ex:
'89(F) 340 GL F7R (ex B172k) - Fake -> SBKV 300 Runner Up 08, 12; '91(H) 340 GL B14.4E - Kar; '88(F) 360 GLT B200E - Jet -> BKV 300 Runner Up 09; '89(G) 360 GLT B200E - Beast
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Re: how do you find out what rego leter your car is?

Post by Ride_on »

magnumpi wrote:Thats just based on the UK way of registering a car,
Its more 'Great Britain' than the 'UK', we don't use year letters in N.Ireland and find it just as annoying as other non-GB residents when you guys talk about D reg and so on.

Not the end of the world of course, but would be clearer if people referred to years not random letters.

Incidentally I had reg FXI 360 for a while until the family member I gave it to (lent the reg until my own 360 was back on the road) got it destroyed by joyriders. Waited too long, didn't understand the N.Ireland transfer/holding system and lost it when the MOT expired, car was written off.
1980 345 DL_______1987 360 GLE (project car restored to GLT spec and B230FT'd)
1984 360 GLT______1987 360 GLT
1983 360 GLS______1989 360 GLE
1985 340 GL_______1986 340 1.4
1985 360 GLS______1995 940 SE 2.3 Turbo Estate (daily)
1987 340 GL 1.7
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