I am hearing people pop ideas about Vanity plate names, and I think that is sooo cool, but DE really gouges you.. I am curious what the fees are in other states..

Stanard plates are $20 in DE yearly.
Vanity Plates are $40 + $20 standard plate fee= $60, in DE yearly. Yikes HUH?

Here are DE Vanity Plate rules:
The Division sells vanity license plates for vehicle owners wishing to display these tags on their vehicles. Vanity plates may display a single letter or combination of letters or combination of letters and numerals not to exceed seven (7) digits in number. (Motorcycle vanity plates are restricted to five (5) in number.) If the combination includes numerals, the numbers shall be displayed to the right of all letters on the plate. No vanity plate with all numerals is authorized. Hyphens, ampersands and spaces are permitted and will count as one letter. No other punctuation marks are allowed. The Division has final approval on any vanity plate issued and any plate considered vulgar or offensive in nature will be denied or recalled if issued in error.

The fee for a vanity license plate is $40 per year in addition to the normal annual registration fee for the vehicle. The plates may be ordered at any Division facility.

The Division cannot approve any vanity plate that may conflict with any existing license plate. The following is a brief but not all-encompassing list of vanity plate rules. The large number of organizational and special license plates issued by the Division prohibits the publishing of an all-encompassing list of restrictions. Due to conflicting possibilities with existing regular license plates, the following combinations shall not be issued:

The letters "A, C, CL, CT, CY, D, DAV, DU, DX, F, FD, FT, HA, I, KW, MC, MCB, MCE, MCJ, MH, MIA, MP, NIA, NG, PC, PH, POW, R, RF, RM, RV, RT, S, SR, T, TC, TX, or V" followed by a number or numbers.
"I" followed by I's, or any other numbers.
"O" followed by O's or any other numbers.
Any combination of I's, numeral I or I's and O's.
Roman numerals (i.e. XIII, VI)

Jeez, you have a lot of restrictions in Deleware... In North Carolina we get 8 letters or characters and it only costs us $40 total ($20 standard fee + $20 vanity plate fee). My plate currently says HUR!CANZ because I'm a big fan of our Carolina Hurricanes NHL team.

It cost me $213.60 CAD to order mine. No extra annual fee tho.

Iskie

I believe vanity plates in RI are $120. I'm not sure if that is for 1 or 2 years
This price also includes plates that have 3 letters and a number such as MGT - 1

TX charges $40 for vanity plates. Standard annual fee in TX is $50-$60. Add the vanity plate and you pay $90-$100 per year.

I tried getting "LOVEBOX" for my Element, but for some reason they wouldn't approve that... :confused:






:grin:

depending on year make model, etc... Alabama fee for vanity plates is $50.00 over regular plate cost.

TX charges $40 for vanity plates. Standard annual fee in TX is $50-$60. Add the vanity plate and you pay $90-$100 per year.
Some of the added expense is because we're a dual plate state. Add a "special" plate like the wildlife or pet ones and it's $150. a year (I am currently trying my best to "justify" vanity plates for the E - but I want both a custom vanity plate and to have it on the special wildlife plate).
And in Texas you only get 5 letters/spaces total - you gotta be really creative here!

New York charges a $43 initial fee and then a $25 yearly fee for vanity plates...its a small price to pay to have "AGNTORNG".:D

( Thats AGeNTORaNGe ) New York allows you eight characters.

Ours (http://www.dol.wa.gov/vs/tr-pers.htm) are $44.75 ($47.75 starting next year), plus a $30 annual fee. $30 from the initial purchase and $20 from the annual fee goes to the Wildlife Diversity Program (http://www.wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/diversty/diversty.htm), which is pretty cool. Each plate is reviewed on an individual basis, but WA does give some specific rules regarding prohibited characters (like #, !, and @) and subject matter (like sex, racism, other generally inappropriate subjects).

I paid abaout $40 for the intial plate and and $30 additional for renewals.

$44.00 extra for a 5 or 6 year plate. Works out to less than $9.00 per year.

I love Kansas!

In VA:

Plate Fee (in addition to registration fee) $10.00 annually
Personalized plate character combination fee (in addition to plate and registration fees) $10.00 annually

Here in wonderful Wyoming we pay $30.00 for vanity plates and that is good for 5 years! Just renew every 5 yrs and you're good. Not too bad a price. The kicker here is you are limited to only 4 letters or numbers because of how they put the county on it. For example, I live in Laramie county which is county 2, then you have 4 places after that. So we get creative. Would be nice sometimes to have more spaces to work with.

Personalized:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c244/MizRock145/Element/personalized.gif

Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-114 (2)
Issued to vehicles that are designed to carry passengers. Personalized plates are issued to passenger, motorhome, light truck, trailer, recreational truck, motorcycle, farm truck, farm tractor, gross vehicle weight (GVW) truck, and gross vehicle weight (TVW) tractor. Additional charge of $35.00 upon application and $25.00 additional each year thereafter. Personalized plate configuration must be at least two (2) positions and no more than seven (7).

Designer passenger (less expensive than designer, with hyphen):

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c244/MizRock145/Element/designerpass.gif

Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-212
Issued to passenger cars, passenger vans, SUVs and hearses. Additional charge of $25.00 each year in addition to the registration and license fees.


Personalized Designer:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c244/MizRock145/Element/designer_p.gif

Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-114
Issued to motor vehicles that are designed to carry passengers. Additional charge of $60.00 upon application and $50.00 additional each year thereafter, plus the regular fees and taxes. Personalized plate configuration must be at least two (2) positions and no more than seven (7).

Jillions of other types of custom plates (http://www.revenue.state.co.us/mv_dir/wrap.asp?incl=registrations/passengerlist), for example: Fire Fighter, Columbine, etc.

. . . I live in Laramie county which is county 2, then you have 4 places after that. So we get creative. Would be nice sometimes to have more spaces to work with.

Heya Watchman :) I grew up in 7 county, lived in 2 county, and in 5 county. I groove on seeing WY plates here in Colorado and being able to tell at a glance the area the driver is from. You can get creative, for sure -- when my sister-in-law lived in WY she had a plate on her powerder-blue Harley from county 2 that read: 2-Much :cool:

Nice looking E you've got there!

I hope to be getting my vanity plates soon, right now the renewal rate is $40/year for standard plates.

Thanks Rock. Yeh, it forces you to become creative or even register in a different county to make something different. A friend of mine has his plate on his '40 Ford that is yellow and says 2-EETY.

"Hey, Lou, did you hear about the guy who couldn't afford vanity plates, so he changed his name to SQ1 NR7?"

"Oh...ya, ya Margie, that's a good one."

-Fargo