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Private Number Plates for under £500
With Absolute Reg, you can buy cheap number plates for under £500. We have a huge selection of cheap private plates that will match your car and your personality.
Our database of over 50 million car registrations has the cheap number plate you are looking for, whether it's your initials, a nickname, or just something unique.
You can also search through some of our other cheap number plate options.
What Number Plate Style is the Cheapest?
It is common to find Northern Irish number plates among the cheapest ones on the market. The majority of owners do not pay anything for them at all, some even buy them for under £500! The DVLA automatically issues them to Northern Irish registered vehicles.
When you purchase your personalised registration, your prices will remain low and affordable because there is an abundance of supply!
Affordable Number Plate Styles
Plates can be found at affordable prices, some under £500 and some slightly more. Through Absolute Reg, you can find cheap private number plates in all styles.
Current/New Style
Current style number plates, also known as new-style number plates. They were initially issued by the DVLA back in 2001. We have thousands of current or new style registrations for you to choose from that are cheap and affordable.
The current style plates use 2 letters at the beginning of the registration, representing the area of the issuing plate. This is then followed by 2 numbers (either a 0 or a 5) and the year date.
Suffix Style
Suffix style registration plates were first issued in 1963 and ran till 1982. They use a letter at the end of the registration plate as an age identifier.
Letters were used at the end of the registration as an age identifier. For example, registrations that ended with an A represented 1963 and registrations ending in Y represented 1982.
Prefix Style
Prefix DVLA number plates were first issued in August 1983 after seeing the suffix registration marks became expired from the issue. Prefix registrations are the most sought after private number plates on the market.
Like suffix registrations, the first character in a prefix number plate relates to the issue year. E.g., if A is the first letter of the registration, it represents 1983.
Dateless Number Plates
In 1904, the DVLA decided to fit a registration on every vehicle. We take pride in selling private registrations at an affordable price, and you can therefore find plenty of cheap dateless private plates for less than £400.
The first dateless private number plates were issued in 2 batches. Ordinary dateless number plates, and reversed dateless number plates.
NI Number Plates
Northern Ireland registration marks are an outstanding way to hide the age of your vehicle. Northern Ireland registration plates are the cheapest number plates you can buy for less than £500, as many owners pay practically nothing for them. There is a wide range of plates, to keep our prices low and affordable for you when you buy your private registration!
All Northern Irish registrations are dateless, too. Meaning they’re highly sought after and often soar in value as time goes on.
Buy Cheap Number Plates for under £500 as a Gift
The affordable range of Absolute Reg's car registrations under £500 makes number plates an ideal gift for family and friends. Furthermore, it is easy and quick to purchase a number plate as a gift.
The only information we require is the name for the registration plate to be registered in. This would need to be the same as on the V5C (log book) of the vehicle as well.