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Originally Posted by shieldy2k7
How does the N.ireland plates work? i have seen a few such as "AZK 8457" ect ect (dontk now if that is correct but its along those lines,)
is there a part that represents the "year" (A) part for the area (ZK) and random numbers?
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All N. Ireland plates are in effect dateless.
For example the orignal plate on my car was MEZ 1127. The 'EZ' denotes Belfast as the place of registration. The 'M' sort of indicates age as they go alphabetically from A and up (e.g. AEZ, BEZ, CEZ...), but continually cycle and quite a few letters are released each year so it won't be long before they are back at 'M' again. The numbers from what I gather are pretty much random.
It used to be you could be lucky and get a short plate when you registered your car but DVLNI caught on that they could make alot of money from reserving these and selling them off
I've probably confused you, if you want to know more this wiki article is quite good,
Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheers!