If you bought a car in 2000 and registered it with a new plate today, wouldn’t it have a new plate with 25? They could have had their plate stolen and requested a new one no?
No, it’s when the car is registered. If the plate was stolen and you requested a new one, you’d get the same registration number. The plate identifies the car, basically.
If you bought a car in 2000 and never registered it before 2025, then you’d get a 251 plate. But you wouldn’t be able to drive it on public roads for those 25 years.
Not sure they’d give you a new number if yours was stolen, if you got to pick a new registration they’d still probably want you to get the same year and locality. Otherwise you’d be paying for a full custom plate, so why would you just pick the latest year and not something interesting?
It’s possible they ordered the car sometime back in 2024, maybe even earlier, then registered the car in 2025 but I think it’s a stretch to say this was before Elon went crazy.
Isn’t it just when the plate is registered?
If you bought a car in 2000 and registered it with a new plate today, wouldn’t it have a new plate with 25? They could have had their plate stolen and requested a new one no?
No, it’s when the car is registered. If the plate was stolen and you requested a new one, you’d get the same registration number. The plate identifies the car, basically.
If you bought a car in 2000 and never registered it before 2025, then you’d get a 251 plate. But you wouldn’t be able to drive it on public roads for those 25 years.
Not sure they’d give you a new number if yours was stolen, if you got to pick a new registration they’d still probably want you to get the same year and locality. Otherwise you’d be paying for a full custom plate, so why would you just pick the latest year and not something interesting?
It’s possible they ordered the car sometime back in 2024, maybe even earlier, then registered the car in 2025 but I think it’s a stretch to say this was before Elon went crazy.