08-15-2023, 03:24 PM | #1 |
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Custom/Vanity License Plate vs Standard License Plate
Hey all. Curious to see which route people have gone for their G8x: a customized license plate or the standard, random license plate from the DMV.
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08-15-2023, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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Semi-standard, as the specialty plate I like can't be customized.
Lots of vanity plates here in the forum though. Anecdotally guessing a 50/50 split! |
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08-15-2023, 05:55 PM | #3 |
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It's gotta make sense IMHO, not just random. Here's mine.
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08-15-2023, 06:02 PM | #4 |
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I agree, has to make sense. I’ve seen some good ones, here on the boards, and otherwise:
M3OW SixSpd M3NTAL (I could not get this one, unfortunately) Thought about getting a custom plate, just not creative enough. |
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08-15-2023, 07:06 PM | #5 |
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Last track day I seriously wondered if I was the ONLY person there who hadn't gotten a personal plate. To me, they are like a tattoo - I can think of tons of things I like and think are witty in the moment, but none of them are fit to drive around with all the time on my butt.
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08-15-2023, 07:09 PM | #6 |
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My deciding factor was that VA charges a yearly fee for vanity plates, on top of the normal registration. I can’t see paying a yearly upcharge for a special plate they only make once.
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08-15-2023, 07:14 PM | #7 |
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my personal fave is when people spend the extra $80 a year to put the make and model of the car on the plate just inches away from where the factory put the same information.
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08-15-2023, 07:27 PM | #8 |
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I have vanity plates on all three of my vehicles with a similar theme, and they aren't going out of style.....
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I have both types of plates. I run the standard plates right now because we have a truck and a Jeep, nothing excites me about either one.
When the kids move out, I'll dust off the vanity plate and get it attached to the sports car that I eventually buy. I have U4IC ST8 as my vanity. Or was it U4IK ST8. Can't remember if it was a C or a K. Someone else had the other letter. |
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08-16-2023, 03:09 PM | #12 |
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UNC WED on my bike, imagine that.
Rest of them are standard. New truck came with 247 something or other, I like it!
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08-16-2023, 05:21 PM | #14 |
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Vanity plates here. Close to my user name. Model specific but may have to change after 14 years
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So do you have your eye on a replacement for the X6 that is not another X6 or is it still too early to tell?
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08-16-2023, 09:06 PM | #16 |
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I've only done vanity plates once and then for my Sprinter van. I used that van mostly for hauling lumber, fencing, etc., but could also load my llamas in the van, which was 73" high inside, so I called it my "llama limousine" and the plate was LLAMSN. It would've been clearer if I'd been allowed one more letter I suppose.
I also did a custom two-tone paint job on the white van, having the lowers painted BMW Estoril Blue -- an M color. An M color on a utilitarian Mercedes.
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08-16-2023, 09:37 PM | #18 |
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IL has weird rules for plates. My neighbor has the same plate (his last name) on all 4 of his vehicles. They each have a small red letter on the far right side of the plate. A,B,C, and D. I'm pretty sure vanity plates are the same as normal plates here cost-wise as long as there is a number in it somewhere. Non-number plates cost more.
Our plates are just standard.
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I mean, if you care about your car you should care about your plate IMO, but who am I to say?
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Six is certainly short when composing your own vanity plate character string. I'm not sure, but I think most states offer space for seven characters now. ------------------------------------------------- When we lived in New Hampshire and I was paying the bills, I chose a "moose plate" for our Tundra. It cost ~$25 extra at renewal each year, and the money went, I thought, to worthy "conservation, heritage and preservation programs statewide". NH is a super low-tax state, so I looked at it as a voluntary tax that I was more than willing to pay. Once the wife took over paying the bills, however, the moose plate went by the board. Seriously, who, living in moose country, wouldn't want a plate with a moose on it?
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I need to go to the Porsche dealer and check out the Cayenne Coupe. I read here somewhere that Porsche was going back to some buttons after push back but I'm not sure if that was model specific or which model year. I just watched a video of a Cayenne test drive and the damn thing doesn't even have a shifter anymore, it has some stupid toggle thingy. So I'm not optimistic. I may have no other choice than to buy out my current X6 ///M so I'll be keeping my vanity plate a bit longer. Not thrilled with having a vehicle out of warranty but I don't like what's out there. We shall see. Hijack over.
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