Car Plates sa LTO Ubos na!

[pop3corn]

sa Manila specifically dun sa sa Sta Cruz Church and Pasay, pag nagtanong ka ng direction dun sa pulis/enforcers, huhulihin ka. at this day and age of internet / cellphones / blogs / media, hindi ko maiisip na nagagawa pa ng mga pulis na yun yun ganun harang talaga. yan ang garapal to the max. hindi ko alam kung dahil sa baka iniinom nila ang polluted tubig ng Manila Bay kaya ganon ang takbo ng pag-iisip nila

[jaggerx3]

Nakuha na namin Plates namin Yesterday. TQ*.*** na sya. :D

[vinj]

My neighbor at the office parking also got the new plates for his car already. TO*-###

As for me... wala pa rin per my Toyota SA.

Sana sa Batangas nalang ako nagparehistro para V prefix yung plate ko.

[jaggerx3]

Yung Plate namin 2 weeks lang. We got our GS from a grey-market

[number001]

Ang tagal na ng T series at hindi pa rin nauubos. 2nd Quarter last year pa yan.

2011 L300 has a TQI-*** ; 2011 Innova = TBI-***; 2012 Altis = TQL-***

[vinj]

My friend had TS* in her City from August last year.

[renzo_d10]

Meron akong Grandia na nakita last week, TQ* na yung plates.

[BratPAQ]

saw a thread sa ibang car forums, nahuli na no plates sa makati, 2500 tubos ng lisensya, iwas na lang siguro sa makati.

[vinj]

^What's the story on this? When did this happen? Did the "victim" bring up the LTO memorandum? What did the MAPSA say in effect to that?

I've been driving in Makati with a vehicle that still has no plate and so far i have not been flagged down. *fingers crossed*

[BratPAQ]

^What's the story on this? When did this happen? Did the "victim" bring up the LTO memorandum? What did the MAPSA say in effect to that?

I've been driving in Makati with a vehicle that still has no plate and so far i have not been flagged down. *fingers crossed*

Mukhang napagtripan lang ng pulis sir. Eto yung thread http://www.viosclubphil.com/forum/index.php?topic=32797.msg824675#msg824675

bawal daw mag drive ng wlang plaka sabi ni SPO1 Monterde sakin nung Monday ng 11:30PM along Buendia, kinuha licenxa ko buwiset! P2500 hinihingi. kaya binigay ko na hahaha.

Sabi ko kay mamang pulis matagal irelease ng LTO. nagwalk out lang siya.

Sabi ko sa SA ko sa Toyota Balintawak kunin niya licenxa ko kasi d ako magbabayad ng P2500 na wla naman akong violation na violation talaga. nagpanic lang yung SA ko d pa nagrereply.

Buendia sir mga 3 kanto siguro Ayala na. galing ako EDSA eh. 11:30 ng gabi ang tindi talaga. napadukot ko na jr POLICE pala yun na tyempuhan lang talaga ako. may OR/CR ako sabi ko nga ano problema parang adik eh parang zombie d nagsasalita sabi lang yung kayang iprint ng kahit sino tapos oh.. ehh.. mmm... ganun tapos umalis na. weird baka may problema hahaha.

[vinj]

^Pulis Makati yung nangtrip? Tapos gabi pa. Dapaat ata pakainin ng CCTV yung mga yan.

I passed by a MAPSA again this morning and still he did not bother me when he saw my car.

[jdee12]

Got my plate yesterday sa Hancars. TQ*-*** na rin siya :D

[jut703]

Luma na yung TQ* ah, my dad's boss' Sonata has TQ* plates, and that car's about half a year old already. Will we be using U*I plates once the TQ* gets exhausted?

[AKI125]

Perhaps you are mistaken. I bought a vehicle 6 months ago and i got a TMQ plate.

[vinj]

I think the plate series also varies between the LTO offices they are issued at (depending on how fast the stock moves). When there's a plate number shortage, they also look back at old stocks they can scour. My friend also had her TS* plate last year and yet, the Vios at the office which just got it's plate was TO*.

Aki, yung kay Bluedan na N16 is a 2001 model but his plate series was from 1998 (WG*). :D

[jut703]

I think the plate series also varies between the LTO offices they are issued at (depending on how fast the stock moves). When there's a plate number shortage, they also look back at old stocks they can scour. My friend also had her TS* plate last year and yet, the Vios at the office which just got it's plate was TO*.

One thing that pisses me off with this, bakit hindi nalang kasi sunud-sunod yung ibigay na plates ng LTO? Obviously they're skipping on some combinations. I mean, assuming there are about 30,000 car purchases per year (ilan nga ba hahaha), di dapat ganito kabilis magcycle through the plates.

Each set of letters comes (e.g. NAI-xxx) with a possible 999 plates. Assume mo nang 900 kasi merong mga itatabing plates na special (111, 808, 999, etc). Then we cycle through the letters, NBI, NCI...NZI, before moving on to NAO, NBO, etc. If they did this, the N-series of plates should have lasted around 5 years since we had 6 letter series (N*I, N*O, N*Q, NI*, NO*, NQ*) to exhaust. But no, N-plates surfaced around 2008 and were gone by 2010.

Maybe I'm missing something. I'm sure naisip din 'to nung LTO people. Or, given the ineptitude of those in the public sector, baka nga posibleng they didn't have enough foresight to see that mauubos din kagad yung plates.

[AKI125]

Vinj, yun LTO nakikisabay sa uso sa fashion. Pinapaulit ulit nalang yun mga first letters of the plate. Bumalik na ulit sa uso yun baston, flare, sperry top siders.... Elementary and high school days ko yun. Baka mamaya babalik na ulit sa uso yun cole haan na uso naman during college days. N= 80's P= early 90's T= mid 90's U= late 90's

[vinj]

Possibly because of demand for certain plate endings and also the readability of certain letter combinations is my best bet. It's hard also if some letter combinations are close to each other (i.e. O and Q).

I think there are still some letters never used. Are there standard I, J, O, M, and Q start plate series out already in the provinces before?

[jon777]

Nakuha namin yung kotse Mar 30,2012 tapos last week lang namin nakuha yung plates via courier. pero hindi ko mailabas yung kotse dahil sa alala na baka masita ako ng mga kotong cops. so ginagawa ko para lang mapatakbo yung kotse, sa NLEX ako nagda-drive since lapit lang ako sa A. Bonifacio

sa New York, pagbili mo ng kotse may plaka ng ikakabit yung dealer bago mo ilabas sa kanila. kaya wala kang makikitang brandnew car na walang plaka....

bwisit talaga LTO, minsan hindi ko maintindihan kung bakit wala silang mga common sense. ang kawawa dito yung mga motorista na kelangan talaga gamitin yung kotse eh....

[jut703]

Possibly because of demand for certain plate endings and also the readability of certain letter combinations is my best bet. It's hard also if some letter combinations are close to each other (i.e. O and Q).

I think there are still some letters never used. Are there standard I, J, O, M, and Q start plate series out already in the provinces before?

We previously didn't use Q, O and I plates because they looked like O, 0 and 1, respectively. But with the change in plate font, the LTO was able to revive old series (N**, P**, T**) by using previously unavailable combinations. I've seen combinations such as NQO and NOO, and I still think that the letter Q is hard to distinguish from O if you're viewing from a distance, but the LTO apparently thinks these are readable enough to be issued.

Form what I've noticed, plates issued in other regions still don't use the aforementioned characters, but since they're using the same font as NCR plates, they technically can. I wish they would though, instead of having to backtrack a few years down the line.

Once we re-cycle through U-series, W-series, X-series and Z-series plates, I wonder what's next? 4-letter-2-number schemes?