| Vanity is defined as the excessive pride in one’s | | | | If you like Shakespeare, you can honor him with a |
| appearance, manner, and achievements. When it | | | | vanity plate 2BNT2B (to be or not to be). Or if you |
| comes to cars, vanity can be seen on the outside as | | | | love Robert De Niro, your vanity plate may read |
| well as the inside. Vain interior detailing may include | | | | something like RU2KN2ME (are you talking to me?). |
| customized car seat covers loaded with the | | | | However, bear in mind that in picking displays for |
| owner’s name or personalized floor mats | | | | your vanity plates, you must confine your imagination |
| peppered with witty one-liners. | | | | and creativity to the number of characters and |
| Not only can a person purchase specifically | | | | numbers allowed by the state. |
| engineered seat covers, a car owner can even assert | | | | The number of characters allowed in the plate varies |
| himself or herself into the ultimate self-appreciation | | | | from state to state, but usually they are shorter |
| via his or her vehicle’s vanity plates. These | | | | than the regular ones. Most states allow characters |
| specialized car plates bear anything from | | | | to reach seven letters at the maximum, no less than |
| catchphrases to vulgar lines. In the United States, | | | | seven numbers, or a combination of four letters and |
| 3.83% or roughly 4% of the total numbered of | | | | three numbers. |
| registered vehicles are using vanity plates. | | | | Once you have your display and a list of other |
| Basically a personal preference of how one would like | | | | options, you can download a vanity plate application |
| their car plates to read, vanity plates are very much | | | | from the Internet (they are in Adobe PDF format) or |
| like personalized car seat covers. The only difference | | | | you can secure a copy from the authorized agencies |
| is that the owner has to renew them every two | | | | and fill them out. Usually the application form will ask |
| months or so, depending on state laws, or else they | | | | for six preferred displays, along with the basic |
| will lose the priority of the plate. | | | | information such as personal details, background color |
| Applying for a vanity plate is relatively easy, pretty | | | | for the plate (default is white), and the information |
| much like lifting your floor mats off your car floor for | | | | of the vehicle (car maker, model, year, regular license |
| that good old dusting. First you have to decide what | | | | number, etc). |
| you want to display – a certain hobby, | | | | First-time vanity plates applicants are charged with |
| organization, a cause, or just a means of self | | | | $22 every plate and the whole process may take |
| expression. Then you have to make a list of several | | | | four months. For renewed registrations, a fee of $21 |
| alternatives in case somebody already took your first | | | | is charged while the whole process may take in two |
| choice (no matter how original you think it may be). | | | | months or less. Upon receiving your vanity plates, |
| It’s like shopping for seat covers; you have to | | | | make sure you attached it to the rear end of the |
| have a backup option just in case somebody already | | | | vehicle and always keep the original rear plate in the |
| purchased the set you have been raving about. | | | | car. |