[Bmcu] Bought a Mini!

[Gary Lindstrom]

Rich gives sound advice, but I'll add some personal experience.

1) In my experience the personalized number search process on the DMV 
website is not complete, current or authoritative as to whether a 
particular number is available.

2) I recommend against applying in person - use mail instead.  I asked a 
DMV clerk whether a number was possible and she stated "it's not 
available".  Note she didn't say "it's taken" - I wonder if some numbers 
are either reserved for Big Shots or in some kind of administrative limbo.

In this case I had a friend who consults for the DMV look in up himself 
in their database, and determined it was available.  I submitted the 
application by mail and it was approved.

3) The number in question is "XK" for my XK140. This proves (at least as 
of a few years ago) that numbers shorter than 5 characters are possible.

4) You are allowed three choices on the application (first, second, 
third).  If none are available, your check is returned fairly quickly. 
Moral: don't hesitate to ask for anything, as long as you can afford to 
be patient.

5) For each choice you are required to provide an explanation - probably 
to deter interpretations that the number requested is somehow obscene, 
political, inciteful, etc. etc. Don't waste that opportunity to lobby 
for your choice, e.g. "it's the name of my sweetheart who has only 6 
months to live", etc. etc.

Hope this helps,
     --Gary

On 5/1/2013 12:25 PM, richsanders2020 at comcast.net wrote:
> Aaron- I just went through the same process, but with bringing a car 
> in from out of state.
>
> So if you are having a new Utah title issued like I had to do, you 
> have to register it at the time you apply for the title (total >$100).
> At that time you need get license plates that ARE NOT personalized. 
> These can be vintage plates so that you are not subject to semi annual 
> inspection. You will leave the DMV with this set of plates in hand. 
>  However, only after your new title arrives (2-3 weeks in the mail) 
> can you apply for the customized plates. You will need to pay an 
> additional $63 for the customized plates which take 4-5 weeks in the 
> mail. (It has been 4 weeks today and I'm still waiting for mine).
>
> The vintage application form and search process is online at the DMV 
> website. You can actually search by choosing special plate type (in 
> this case vintage) and then go through your selections that you are 
> looking for to see if they are available. The vintage plates are now 
> limited to a total of 5 (no more, no less) alpha numeric characters.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/bmcu/attachments/20130501/14f09e42/attachment.html>