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Car registration years — a complete guide to understanding number plates. By Grace Hickman. Contents: Car registration years How does the car registration plate system work? Number plate area codes first two letters When do new number plates come out?
Find a Private Plate Car registration years From car registration years have been signified by numbers which denote the year they were registered. How old is my car? Changing every six months - in March and September - these initially alternated between numbers starting with '0' and '5'. The sequence started in September with '51'. In March it changed to '02'.
In September , the number became '52'. In March it became '03', and so on. So, numbers starting with '0' show a car registered between March and August in the year indicated by the following number.
The current system was introduced in , with plates changing twice annually — on the first day of March, and then again on the first day of September. The first two letters of your car number plate represent where it was registered. The first letter is for the region and second for the local DVLA office. The two numbers following this are an age identifier, changed every 6 months at the beginning of March and September.
The last three letters are chosen randomly and provide the vehicle with a unique identity. In , this was updated every six months which then continued as the new system came into action in The first letter shown was the age identifier and represented the year the car was registered i. Two of the final three letters represented the area of the registration of the vehicle, while the other was a randomly chosen letter.
The registration year first ran from 1 January to 31 December up until , when it was moved to 1 August. The table below shows how the age identifier changes over the life of the current number plate format. The March codes are easier to remember and identify because they follow the year of the registration.
For example, a car that has been registered from March will have the number 21 as its age identifier. For cars registered between September and February, the code is the year as of September plus Therefore, cars produced from September to February will have the number 71 as their age identifier.
Similarly, number plates will feature 22 and 72 as their age identifiers. The first two letters are known as the local memory tag and they show where the vehicle was registered.
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