Registration plate new format?

[scumdog]

This particular matter also intrigues me and nobody has provided an answer. Once 99ZZZ has been issued, there are no more unique five character sequences that have not been used.

I suspect bikes will get a smaller size version of the usual car plates from that point forward. All we have to do is wait a couple of months and all will be revealed.

Numbers first then characters????.

Edit: the other way around, duh!

[Cloggy]

I think after 67ZZK you get 68ZZK, so there's only about 1500 plates left. In theory, after 99ZZK you'd get 01ZZL

I think it is a little more than that, according to my calculations (which could be wrong)
If they use all 26 letters in the alphabet, there are 17576 combinations to each two digit number, i.e. there are 17576 different possible plates between 67ZZK and 68ZZK. There are still 32 two digit numbers between 67 and 99 so that is 32 x 17576 = 562432 possible combinations left before they run out.
That is not going to happen anytime soon.

[davebullet]

There are 1.7 million possible plates with that pattern.

Shit, if we have really used them all up, we really have been crashing a lot of bikes in NZ haven't we?

[YellowDog]

I heard that the new plates were going to start with a single 'A' followed by numbers.

[davebullet]

I have an idea - free personalised plates for bikers (yuck), here are some ones that would fit

AHOLE
CUTOFF
RUDE
BAREND
REVIT
WHEELI
STOPPI
EXCESS
CRASH
etc... etc...

[Badjelly]

This reminds me of a cartoon that appeared around Y2K. A bunch of blokes sitting around in New Testament-looking clothes. One says: "Gentlemen, it's 4 BC, do you know what that means? In 4 years we're going to run out of dates!"

[slofox]

Nah - ya all got it wrong. Once the current format plates run out they're gunna STOP SELLING BIKES! Bloody dangerous things anyway....mumblegrumblegoldernmuthafukkingwhoreson suvvabitches..

[AllanB]

Kewl...6 letter plates?...more personalised plate options for our wheels!

Yeah a piss off that if you want a personalised bike one it's stuck on 5. Plus it's the same horrific price. Consequently I don't have one.

[p.dath]

There are 1.7 million possible plates with that pattern.

Shit, if we have really used them all up, we really have been crashing a lot of bikes in NZ haven't we?

Ahh, but divide that by about 50 years. Also consider all those scooters around the place.

[bogan]

i reckon its fairly likely some poor bastards are gonna get jipped with a plate thats 2m wide and says "Error, Overflow Exception Unhandled"

[peasea]

This reminds me of a cartoon that appeared around Y2K. A bunch of blokes sitting around in New Testament-looking clothes. One says: "Gentlemen, it's 4 BC, do you know what that means? In 4 years we're going to run out of dates!"

They had loads of figs though, eh?

[Hitcher]

Numbers first then characters????.

Edit: the other way around, duh!

11AAA is the current motorcycle series, now nearly kaput.
111AA is an earlier series for tractors and trailers, kaput.
1AAA1 is a trailers series, kaput or close to it
AAA11 is part of the current series for cars, which allows letter/number combinations from 4 to 6 characters, and which will take some time to become kaput.

[Kemet]

Could just ask the LTSA.......

[Indiana_Jones]

Well I donno if anyone else has one, but on my 2003 Daytona I have a 4 digit plate

Edit: 4 characters I should say for ease of understanding. etc: 1ABC

-Indy

[Kemet]

like 1234XYZ or something?