Value of a highly appropriate number plate.

[peterwight]

BXi 19. If and when I sell my valver, which has this reg, I wonder how much of the asking price would be represented by the number. All estimates welcome.Ta,Peter

[Philip Chidlow]

These days it's whatever someone is willing to pay. Given it's most appropriate for a BX (and we're not talking expensive/valuable cars here) I would't have thought you'd find someone willing to pay more than a couple of hundred tops... but that's my opinion. You might find someone whose initials are BXI and for whom 19 is an significant number In which case they might pay more and stick it on their X5.

[Thread Bear]

Like many a number, worth more on the car, perhaps.

I have TBM 911. Great number you would think. No one has made a sensible offer over the years. Its probably worth less now DVLA sells numbers. One day I might have a 911, in which case on it goes and up goes the price of the car with a realistic chance of getting it. The new owner can pretend to be TBM, or he can trade it in for a more appropriate number. I have done this before.

I have never bought a number though. I've never seen the value in something you do not own, but lease, with a chance of loosing it, and a chance of being recognized, where you want to be anonymous. Then again as I do not show cars, I do not gain that benefit. Leo, or someone, would and it just underlines the effort put it. It looks a narrow market though.

[Tim Leech]

I have two plates on my BX's, TAL 91S which was £600 and C1 TBX which was £1000 (both about 3 years ago),

[kernowtim]

I remember seeing H1SBX on a Citroen main dealers car, as H1S BX , later put on one of their relay vans, guess it was in 1990.
it's not on anything now though could be on retention? Regtransfers sell numbers on comission, offered me £350 advertised at £750 for R3 DKC, got no takers though!!

[JayW]

I've got "G 16V BX" on my '90 Valver that I paid £720 for about 10 years ago. Currently worthless sat on a car that's only done miles on a trailer over the past 7 or so years...

[Tim Leech]

As highlighted by Jay, the car must have a current MOT and be taxed or sorned within the last 12 months.

A mate of mine buys high end performance cars for a living, and has purchased a Daytona that's been off the road for 25 years and is in need of a complete restoration (at the cost of £200,000), the plate on that is 63L! which is worth probably 50k but as the car needs MOT for it to come off.....

[Thread Bear]

I thought you could get it off by exporting the car?

[Tim Leech]

Not as far as I know.

[peterwight]

As usual, good and helpful replies have been posted to my question about my registration number,from which I gather that the monetary value of a number is as unpredictable to amateurs as to the commercial brokers of such things. Also, I’m reminded by Thread Bear that a personalised plate will rob you of privacy. If you are somewhere that you’d prefer to keep secret, the damn car will announce your presence. I was saved from this some years ago by other people keen to bid for certain numbers. It was the first day of the “W” prefix and I wanted W1 GHT. However the ‘phone line to DVLA was engaged continuously, so I was saved both the vanity and the expense.
Regarding BXi 19, I believe that the man from whom I bought the car had hoped to get more money out of me (because of the number): after paying him and waving goodbye, I discovered a general lack of light bulbs throughout the lamps.
Reg no.s have value, as P Chidlow points out, if they are somebody’s initials. I must speak to my young friend Bernard Xavier Iniesto on this matter, before he turns 20.
Again, thanks to all. PW

[mark239]

Bxi 19 is a two digit ni plate from county Antrim, in the 1980s I think. Two digit plates currently go for around 150-400 quid here in NI. people tend to get them because they feel it "sets the car off" somehow!