The Benefits of Irish Number Plates

When using the term Irish Number Plates there is a common misconception that number plates are in the Republic of Ireland which is part of the EU and not in Northern Ireland. This information is not correct and in fact they are very different in type and style.

The main benefit of an Irish Number plate is that it can be transferred onto an age of vehicle, whether registered in GB mainland or Northern Ireland. They tend to be cheaper than the comparable UK Number plate. It’s a win, win situation. You are getting a personalised attractive number plate that you can give as a birthday or anniversary present at a lower cost than a standard UK number plate.

The prefix of the Irish number plates gives its success in terms of being desirable. They are made up of 3 letters, followed by up to 4 digits. They are dateless registrations which they contain either the letter I or Z. For example, popular combinations included GIL, HIL, CIL, EIL, MIL and more recently AIG. DIG and BIG all followed by 1, 2, 3, 4 numbers, i.e. BIG 8085 or DIG 1.

The highest a businessman has paid for a Northern Ireland number plate is just over £100,000 for the registration BIG 1.

Number plate transfers to the UK mainland from Northern Ireland are very simple and most providers of Irish number plates will assist you in the legal documents required by the DVLA.  What a good provider will do is request your vehicles documents V5C and MOT certificate if applicable, and then all you have to do is just wait, for your new road Tax Disc to drop through the door, and then fix on your new number plates. It really is that simple.

Irish number plates or cherished numbers as they are sometimes called are what is known as dateless plates meaning that they don’t have an age identifier, which means that they can be transferred onto any roadworthy vehicle in the UK.

 Finally, Irish number plates represent a good investment as they are dateless, they will hold and increase their value over time.