A new blacklist of number plates that are deemed too rude for the roads has been revealed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
While personalised plates can provide us with a giggle, certain combinations are banned because they are just too embarrassing and offensive.
Every March and September, the DVLA blacklists certain number plates so that mischievous drivers cant get swear words or rude phrases on their cars.
A total of 343 have already been banned by the motoring body, with many plates refused because of offensive language or for political, racial or religious reasons such as mention of the devil, Birmingham Live reports.
The DVLA makes £160m a year from people splashing out of personalised registrations, but is very strict when assessing requests.
New banned combinations have been added to a list of plates that drivers should never be allowed to get, including any that end with the three letters ARS, BUM or SEX. Covid related number plates have also been banned, including CO22 RNA, CO22 ONA and CO22 VD.
The Daily Record can't publish all the words, but among them are F22 KER, BA22 TRD, A22 HLE, and TU22 URD. Also removed from use this year were S22 LAG, DR22 NK and BO** MBS.
A DVLA spokesman said: "The vast majority of registration numbers are made available but the agency holds back any combinations that may cause offence, embarrassment, or are in poor taste.
"Many people enjoy displaying a personalised registration number and there are over 50m registrations available on our website with almost endless possibilities of combinations to suit a person’s taste, interests and budget."
As well as this, two-tone number plates - which use extra colours to make the letters appear 3D - are being banned to allow number plate recognition cameras to better read lettering. The new rules are all part of a new standard of number plates.
The old standard used BS AU 145d plates, which have been in use since September 2001. The new standard is BS AU 145e, which is being rolled out shortly.
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