Car Registration Valuation Guide

How do you put a price on a vehicle registration?

It is done with a combination of years of experience in the business, age and rarity of the particular registration, popularity of the name or initials,  comparable and historical prices, and the desirability of the registration. For example, one letter, one number or low numbers would be more sought after.

It's very interesting watching a DVLA auction, it's not uncommon for a plate to massively exceed the valuation. You just can't predict these things sometimes. Of course some plates obviously spell out a word that you know is going to be popular, it doesn't take a genius to work out that a plate such as 25 O is going to be pretty valuable. Plates that spell out common names are also going to come with a high price tag, but sometimes you'll get people bidding against each other for plates you wouldn't personally look twice at. People have their reasons though, their initials, their date of birth or some detail that represents their business and they'll pay whatever they have to, to secure that plate for themselves. People choose plates for some very obscure and diverse reasons!

Here at Speedy Reg we've got over 30 years of experience, valuing thousands of plates every single month. It's this invaluable experience that means the prices you see on our site are accurate and competitive.

O 11 is an original 1904 Birmingham registration; the 11^th registrations issued by the local authority. When 11 O came up for sale in December 2010, Des Elton, CEO of Speedyreg snapped it up, having acquired O 11 many years ago.

 11 is a special number for many reasons; it is the first of the Master Numbers in numerology and is marked as an important stage in human evolution. Des Elton believes these two number are the best palindromic pair of number plates on the UK market today.