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Number Plates

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EW MASTER
Latest post on 30 March 2011 - 15:32

Someone asked me this today, so I thought that I would post on here too!!!!

old number plates:
these are 5 digits with a colour, red, grey, blue, green (from Al Ain) (the smaller the number the more important the car)
municipalty vehicles: all green with blue circle and red inside (these are taxis/buses etc)
police cars: blue plate with numbers.
diplomatic cars: red with CD on it with white diamond.
United Nations cars: yellow CD with white diamond and blue CD with white diamond.
Army vehicles: red

new number plates
5 digits but with either a red 5, 6, 10, or 11 (in each category there is 100,000 vehicles 75,000 for normal people and 25,000 kept back to sell at the police auctions) once each category is used up they then start another number.
taxis: yellow and white number plate.
municipality: green number 2
police: still blue but different lettering.

all the old number plates are meant to be phasing out over the next 2 years, the old red number plate will become no 1 and so on.

cars from oman are yellow plates, cars from kuwait are white, cars from sharjah are orange etc.

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EW MASTER
Latest post on 03 April 2011 - 23:35
yes you are right that the uk is indeed number 1 and i believe usa is number 3. its very difficult to find out which one follow which country as its all hush hush. i prob could tell you a few more numbers but number 1 is the only number for me.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 03 April 2011 - 22:36
Busy Bee, Do you have a list of what the CD #'s are on individual cars? For example, I was told many years ago that for the CD's, the number represented the order in which the countries recognized the UAE when it became independent...the UK is #1, the US is 20-something. Russia is 50-something (If I am understanding the language my neighbors are speaking). Any idea what numbers correspond to which countries? Lisa