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Post by compeateropeator on Dec 3, 2015 0:52:00 GMT
I bought a new car today and transferred my current license plate over. I am one of those people who buy a car and then keep it...for a long time.  Since I was 18 (almost 33 years) I have only had 4 cars, this is my 5th. For some reason I get very attached to my cars (and to not having a payment also I guess) so it is kind of sad for me to trade them in. Keeping my original license plate kind of soothes me and I know it by heart so I don't have to learn a new one...hahaha. These plates have driven cross country to California, to Florida, and to a bunch of other places. I often joke "oh the stories they could tell". I felt kind of bad putting beat up old plates on a shiny new car.  When you trade cars do you typically transfer your plates or do you get new ones (obviously if you are still living in the same state)? |
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Post by kellybelly77 on Dec 3, 2015 0:56:21 GMT
When I bought my car they wouldn't let me. This one is an SUV and can tow and my other didn't so I had to get a new one. Then like 2 years later, they changed our plates so I had to get another! But I never thought about it I guess!!
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Post by milocat on Dec 3, 2015 0:57:46 GMT
Depends on what shape the plate is in. If it's getting rusty or cracked and you have a shiny new car it's time to trade in for a shiny new plate too. Your registration is the same price whether you get a new plate or not. I kept my old plate since this last time, first three digits are BRA  easy to know if it's me. Will probably get a new one next time. |
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Post by keknj on Dec 3, 2015 0:59:22 GMT
I keep my plates because they are animal friendly specialty plates. I also don't want to learn a new license plate! LOL.
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Post by Kerri W on Dec 3, 2015 1:00:57 GMT
Geez..I should *not* admit how shallow this is of me. Fortunately I keep my cars for a long time as well. BUT our state has so many bajillion designs for plates and they're really colorful and all, so I make sure I get a plate that matches my car. Currently it's white with a horse but the car I'm looking at is black. I'll obviously have to switch to the black plate, right?!
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Post by kath323 on Dec 3, 2015 1:13:30 GMT
Original plates here (been driving for about 15 years). Even though they are beaten up, I'm not paying for new ones. Here you still pay extra for new plates (even if registering a new car), so I will wait until they force me to switch to new ones.
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Post by myboysnme on Dec 3, 2015 1:23:05 GMT
I don't change plates unless I have to, like I'm not trading in my car but passing it on to one of my sons.
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Post by StephDRebel on Dec 3, 2015 1:24:44 GMT
I don't trade cars in, we just seem to keep adding to the stable...too many teenagers!
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Post by freecharlie on Dec 3, 2015 1:27:35 GMT
Well, I'm 40 and on my 5th car if you don't count dh's. We don't purposefully keep or change plates. Usually we still have the vehicle we are replacing and it becomes the 2nd or 3rd car.
We've had the Sante fe since 2010 (it's 2002), truck sine 2004, and my current car for 3 years.
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Post by georgiapea on Dec 3, 2015 1:29:42 GMT
We have moved a lot so DH has 'collected' our various state license plates. He has them displayed in his den.
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Post by mimima on Dec 3, 2015 1:36:22 GMT
Our state doesn't have this program, so we sell the previous car with the plates. However, we do have several plates on our garage walls from replacement plates
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Post by mystuffandnat on Dec 3, 2015 2:05:15 GMT
I have a vanity plate, my name. Got it when I paid off my first car. Only time it has ever changed is when the state provided new plate designs.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Dec 3, 2015 2:10:41 GMT
The last two times I bought a vehicle, no one asked me what I wanted to do about plates. Maybe the dealer makes some money off a processing fee or something, I don't know. I'd have liked to keep my plate number, but I don't have vanity plates, so it wasn't a huge deal.
Now that I am thinking about it, I suspect it actually boils down to paperwork somehow. There's no longer any such thing as a "license applied for" tag-- you have to take temporary plates if you're not taking actual plates, and unless you feel strongly about transferring your plates, it's probably just easier to do the new plate paperwork.
That or they might not be able to transfer the plates if you're not also leaving your car as a trade in, since that one still needs to be registered and plated if you're gonna drive it anywhere at all.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Dec 3, 2015 2:25:16 GMT
We keep ours since we usually get personalized or specialty plates.
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Post by cmpeter on Dec 3, 2015 2:36:35 GMT
I don't think it's an option here in WA.
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Post by perumbula on Dec 3, 2015 4:51:38 GMT
we kept our old plates when we got our new car last week. Dh's old plates still had 18 months of registration left on them, heck yeah we transferred! LOL.
I get what you mean about battered plates on a pretty car, though. Those plates looked fine on a 25 year old Nissan, but they look pretty sad on a 2014 car.
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Post by RiverIsis on Dec 3, 2015 5:26:32 GMT
Geez..I should *not* admit how shallow this is of me. Fortunately I keep my cars for a long time as well. BUT our state has so many bajillion designs for plates and they're really colorful and all, so I make sure I get a plate that matches my car. Currently it's white with a horse but the car I'm looking at is black. I'll obviously have to switch to the black plate, right?! Not the coal plate when the whole world is moving to renewable energy, it will make you look a right fossil! |
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Post by mlana on Dec 3, 2015 7:15:50 GMT
Our family had vanity plates on all of our cars for a while.
My DH and DS had their gaming names on theirs.
DD and I had ones related to the sport she was doing. The one on my van read KAYAK3R and hers read IKYK2. We loved parking the two vehicles side by side. LOL
When she quit kayaking, she changed her license plate to SONGBRD in tribute to what most of my family members call her.
Only my DH still has his plates. I have all of the other plates and I'm going to mount them with some of the pictures I took of our family at that time. I have no idea what my current license plate reads except that the first 3 letters are CCQ...and I know that only because I remember thinking it should be BBQ because I love to smoke and grill. lol
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Dec 3, 2015 7:19:54 GMT
I bought a new car today and transferred my current license plate over. I am one of those people who buy a car and then keep it...for a long time. Since I was 18 (almost 33 years) I have only had 4 cars, this is my 5th. For some reason I get very attached to my cars (and to not having a payment also I guess) so it is kind of sad for me to trade them in. Keeping my original license plate kind of soothes me and I know it by heart so I don't have to learn a new one...hahaha. These plates have driven cross country to California, to Florida, and to a bunch of other places. I often joke "oh the stories they could tell". I felt kind of bad putting beat up old plates on a shiny new car. When you trade cars do you typically transfer your plates or do you get new ones (obviously if you are still living in the same state)? In 20 years of driving I'm only on my 3rd car. I don't get attached, I just don't like car payments. |
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Post by penny on Dec 3, 2015 7:58:47 GMT
I'm on my first car and I get sad just thinking about one day having to buy a new one... Love my car (Honda Element) - never seen anything that's designed so perfectly practical for how I use it... I want to keep my plates - they feel a bit like a passport with stamps of everywhere I've been...
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Post by compeateropeator on Dec 3, 2015 12:45:46 GMT
It is cool that so many have vanity plates. I have always wanted one but could never come up with anything. I love trying to figure out other people's vanity plates when I see them. Some people are so clever. It irritates me when I can't figure them out.  My little state use to issues license plates that were a mixture of 5 letters and digits (i.e 1A23B), in 1990 they changed them add a digit and to an "ABC 123" format. So mine is a little unique in that there are not many with the old format and 5 letters/numbers still around. When I was checking into a campground in California back in the 80s the attendant there told me I must have written my plate # down wrong because I only put down 5 characters...told him no that was correct, he couldn't believe it.  We only have the option of a green plate, although you can get them with a graphic on them to support organizations such conservation/wild life groups or if you are a veteran, etc. I am glad I don't have to decide on too many colors or options, I stink at decisions...hahaha. I am close to NY and am seeing more and more people reverting back to the gold/blue plates rather than the white/blue. bet you never thought someone could write such a long post or be so interested in license plates.  |
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Post by gar on Dec 3, 2015 12:57:59 GMT
Its a car...a construction of metal, plastic etc so no, I don't form any attachment whatsoever with mine. And we lease so we change them every 3 years ish anyway.
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Post by littlemama on Dec 3, 2015 13:23:31 GMT
It costs a lot to get a new plate, so we always transfer when possible. It would not be possible for me to have the same plate from when I was 18, because our state has changed plates several times, and I believe next year I will be required to get a new one because mine is over 10 years old (but I have only had it for about 4 years of that time - long story)
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Post by BarbaraUK on Dec 3, 2015 13:27:36 GMT
I love trying to figure out other people's vanity plates when I see them. Some people are so clever. It irritates me when I can't figure them out.  I'm useless at figuring out most of the vanity plates here in the UK and it exercises my mind and irritates me for ages when I can't figure them out!! I don't transfer number plates or have vanity plates. |
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Post by Princess Amy on Dec 3, 2015 13:30:53 GMT
I've had the same plates for years because they profess my love of two things, the Iowa Hawkeyes and a certain NASCAR driver  |
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Post by Patter on Dec 3, 2015 13:31:20 GMT
I have moved to 3 different states, and I get and keep the same personalized plate in every state. I have had that "same" plate in 3 states over almost 27 years now. Love it!
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Post by brandy327 on Dec 3, 2015 13:36:42 GMT
When I got my new rig in 2012, I got vanity plates for the first time and will most definitely keep them from here on out. I got a variation of 1 boy and 2 girls using the XY and XX. I love it and get SO many compliments and "what does your license plate mean?" |
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Post by teri on Dec 3, 2015 14:16:58 GMT
I have vanity plates too, so yes I keep them  new car  previous car  |
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Post by STBC on Dec 3, 2015 14:27:20 GMT
Over the years I've done both, transfer and get new. I had personalized plates back when they were free (as long as they included a number they weren't considered vanity plates - now both types have extra charges) but eventually dropped them. A friend of mine has had the same plate number since we were in high school.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2015 14:35:59 GMT
I don't get attached to cars. I don't get attached to their plates. Hell, I don't really get attached to houses either. I'm more attached to the memories than the object itself.
If I can transfer the plate, I will. If I have to get a new one, I will. I don't understand why people keep their plates to a point where it's potentially violating the local law. Here, and I'd think everywhere else too, you have to have a plate that is legible at all times. Sometimes the police get picky about it. Sometimes they overlook it until you get pulled over for something else. I saw a plate recently that was so worn out was literally just a white metal plate. I have no idea how that is even able to stay on the road.
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Since I was 18 (almost 33 years) I have only had 4 cars, this is my 5th. For some reason I get very attached to my cars (and to not having a payment also I guess) so it is kind of sad for me to trade them in. Keeping my original license plate kind of soothes me and I know it by heart so I don't have to learn a new one...hahaha. These plates have driven cross country to California, to Florida, and to a bunch of other places. I often joke "oh the stories they could tell". I felt kind of bad putting beat up old plates on a shiny new car. 
easy to know if it's me. Will probably get a new one next time. 
