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Licence plate numbers are an interesting one, since what those mean varies from country to country. Here (Ireland), they are assigned to the car itself via VIN,
by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Licence plate numbers are an interesting one, since what those mean varies from country to country. Here (Ireland), they are assigned to the car itself via VIN, are never meant to change once assigned, and are backdated based on information about the vehicle itself (e.g. year of first registration even if first registered in another country, following an older format if applicable), but in other countries they can be reassigned to other vehicles.
e.g. 06-LK-12345 might be your car's plate if you move your foreign 2006 car here and register it while living in Limerick, but buying a new car might give you a plate like 242-L-12345 since the format of the first two fields changed since. If you leave and later return with that car, re-registering it gives you the exact same number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
- akira2501 2y agoYou don't have vanity plates in Ireland?
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoMany, many countries do not.
- Macha 2y agoThere aren't any, the closest is that some authorities reserve low sequence number plates for e.g. the local mayor
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoYou can get vanity numbers, but 1 is reserved for the region's mayor, and anything 1000 or below is assigned based on a raffle system. Other than that, it's first come first served. It can only go on that one car though, so there's not as much value in doing it. I've mainly seen bus rental companies do it.