Sorry, you won’t be able to buy the plate ’69 NOB’ (Picture: Getty)

We’ve got bad news for anyone with a questionable sense of humour who was thinking of buying a customised number plate.

The latest tranche of plates may include the number 69, but many of them have been banned outright.

Plates including BL69 JOB, GB69 FKD, 69 YOU and GR69 PER have all been deemed inappropriate, and are on a list of plates that cannot be registered.

The DVLA released the full list after a FOI request, comprising 800 number plates too rude for the road.


They include plates which could be read as sexual, obscene, threatening or racist.

Here are some of the latest plates to be banned:

Some of the plates which have been banned (Picture: DVLA)

They include:



*B69 PRK

*C69 NNT

*B69 DCK

AN69 LUV

BJ69 BOY

BJ69 BSM

BJ69 PEE

DO69 CRP

EU69 YES

HU69 PRC

MU69 DER

NO69 ERS

NO69 SXY

OR69 SMS

VA69 ROT

WH69 RES

Some more of the banned number plates (Picture: DVLA)

Plates that end with SEX, BUM or ASS are automatically excluded.

Some dodgy plates managed to slip through the net, however when the new plates were released last month…

Last month, we reported how a van driver was too embarrassed to pick up his rental van after it had a licence plate starting with BJ69.

Vanarama company boss Andy Alderson wrote on Twitter, said: ‘Oh dear DVLA – a customer of ours rejected their van yesterday because they weren’t happy with the number plate that was allocated to them.

‘BJ is the prefix that has been designated to our dealer in Birmingham by the DVLA – thankfully we quickly sorted this for the customer, but will it be the last?’

The DVLA said at the time: ‘The vast majority of registration numbers are made available for general issue and for sale.

‘We consider the series in question to be suitable for release.’

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