Do you know your license plate off-head?
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ScallyWag II
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I have no idea what my car reg is, or my mobile, or any of my family's numbers. I do know my home number but every other number is either in my mobile memory or my home memory. I'm sure my memory used to be better before mobiles but now everything is programmed in I don't register them in my brain. And car regs, I've always been shite at remembering them 
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Of course I know my plate number, as well as the number on my driver's licence.
I got my car licence back about a year ago, after about 10 years of not having one... and it was the same number I had when I originaly got it, over 30 years ago! ..
I don't know whether that's good or bad.
The fact that it's still the same old number I've always had... or that the goverment has a number for people and that number stays with them their whole life.
I don't know whether that's good or bad.
The fact that it's still the same old number I've always had... or that the goverment has a number for people and that number stays with them their whole life.
scifisam
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I know the license numbers of all the cars that regularly park near me, my mother's license number, and the license number of the particular bus that I get most often (and the license number of the taxi I got tonight). Pretty much any number I've seen more than once. They are written words and numbers in front of me regularly or for a reason, which means that I notice them, which means that I remember them. I'm kinda like Roadkill in that respect. I forget things I would actually like to remember. 
WRT your question, I would have been surprised that anyone wouldn't know their own licence number, but, if they don't, then they should be able to check within one phone call, surely?
WRT your question, I would have been surprised that anyone wouldn't know their own licence number, but, if they don't, then they should be able to check within one phone call, surely?
should they call you?
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I got my car licence back about a year ago, after about 10 years of not having one... and it was the same number I had when I originaly got it, over 30 years ago! ..
I don't know whether that's good or bad.
The fact that it's still the same old number I've always had... or that the goverment has a number for people and that number stays with them their whole life.
It is a not very scrambled combination of your name and date of birth!
(Until only 15(?) years ago, the DVLA were still gallant enough to have a dotted line around the bit of the paper driving licence which printed your date of birth. "Laydees" could cut it out so no one could know how old they were from a quick peek - unless of course they looked at the relvant two digits of the licence number.
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Classic advice on how to deal with possibly dodgy trader masquerading as private seller is to phone and say "Hi, I'm calling about the car.". Most private sellers will be selling only one car.Have just phoned about a car I spotted on gumtree (an Audi of course). Spoke to the 'owner' and asked a few Q's as you do. Asked him for the full license plate so I can find out insurance cost (and of course do a full check on the car's history). He turned around and said he didn't know it off the top of his head.
Is this normal? I would imagine it is a bit like your phone number and surely you would know this
I am now thinking SUSPECT. Am I being naive to expect car owners to know their car's license plate?
It does sound a bit like your bloke may be up to something. I don't have any problem remembering my car reg plates, but I can accept that some people do. However, if you're selling a car, it'd make sense to have the details handy because this is just the kind of question people are going to ask.
As a general rule, I'd say that if there is anything that makes you feel suspicious or uncomfortable at the early stages of the deal, walk away. If you ignore your common sense now, and something even dodgier comes up later, you'll already be fighting your instincts, and you'll end up making a very iffy decision.
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Yup, helps when trying to get quotes as the database will pull my car's details out of it's rectum with just one six digit code. 
deviousmonkey
Haplessness is
or able to drive 
deviousmonkey
Haplessness is
other three??
There's one there which I know of, one being picked up next w/end, one being delivered next week - Christ man, getting a bit spoilt for choice aint ya!!
How many wheels does one person need?
There's one there which I know of, one being picked up next w/end, one being delivered next week - Christ man, getting a bit spoilt for choice aint ya!!
How many wheels does one person need?
Velouria
Long time lurker
It is a not very scrambled combination of your name and date of birth!
(Until only 15(?) years ago, the DVLA were still gallant enough to have a dotted line around the bit of the paper driving licence which printed your date of birth. "Laydees" could cut it out so no one could know how old they were from a quick peek - unless of course they looked at the relvant two digits of the licence number.
Yup ;-)
NNNNN AsMDDB Ixxxx
NNNNN = first 5 letters of surname. Dunno what they do if it is shorter than 5 letters.
AsMDDB = your date of birth, slightly munged (DD-sM-AB).
The first digit of the month is modified and is sex-linked (hence why I wrote it as 's').
If you are a man born on 20th January 1975, that would make 701205
If you are a woman born on 20th January 1975, that would make 761205.
This little difference has caught out some transsexuals in the past.
Ixxxx = your first initial, plus I think any other initials, and some garbage added to make it unique.
So, James McFoo, born 17th August 1987, would have a driver number of:
MCFOO 808177 Jxxxx
and Jennifer McFoo, born 3rd April 1985, would have a driver number of:
MCFOO 864035 Jxxxx
Simple
BTW I always memorise my car reg number whenever I get a new car. As has been mentioned previous, not knowing it makes the cops suss
