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What style of personalised registrations do you offer for sale?
There are 4 different styles:
Current style
These have been issued to new vehicles since September 2001. Consisting of two letters, followed by two numbers that identify the age of the vehicle, and three letters at the end. For example:
DVLA release over seven million new combinations like this every six months. The majority of current style registrations can be purchased at fixed prices through this website, although the more sought after are sold at DVLA Auctions.
Current Style registrations cannot contain an 'I' or a 'Q', and cannot contain a 'Z' in the first two letters.
Prefix
These were issued to new vehicles between August 1983 and August 2001. Consisting of one letter that identified the vehicle's age at the beginning, followed by one, two or three numbers, and three letters at the end. For example:
The majority of prefix style registrations can be purchased at fixed prices through our website, although the more sought after are sold at DVLA Auctions.
Prefix Style registrations cannot contain an 'I','Z' or 'Q', and cannot contain a 'O' or 'U' as the first letter.
Suffix
These were issued to new vehicles between February 1963 and July 1983. Consisting of three letters, followed by one, two or three numbers, and a single letter at the end that identified the vehicle's age. For example:
Suffix style registrations are only sold at DVLA Auctions.
Suffix Style registrations cannot contain an 'I','Z' or 'Q', and cannot contain a 'O' or 'U' as the last letter.
Dateless
In mainland Great Britain, these were issued to new vehicles prior to February 1963.
Dateless registrations do not contain an age identifier. They can consist of up to four numbers followed by up to three letters, or up to three letters followed by up to four numbers. If the letters in the registration do not contain an 'I' or 'Z', the maximum number of characters you can have in the registration is six.
Examples include:
![faq-plate-dateless2](/images/help/faq-plate-dateless2.gif)
![faq-plate-dateless1](/images/help/faq-plate-dateless1.gif)
![faq-plate-dateless3](/images/help/faq-plate-dateless3.gif)
![faq-plate-dateless4](/images/help/faq-plate-dateless4.gif)
![faq-plate-dateless3](/images/help/faq-plate-dateless5.gif)
Dateless style registrations are mainly sold at DVLA Auctions.
A small selection of dateless registrations are also available to purchase at fixed prices through this website, these all contain either the letter 'I' or 'Z'. You can view these at https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/nifixed/.