Any way to check if plate number i have is right
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Hi...
there was a guy who hit my car in the parking and drove off at fortune centre 3 days ago, i was nearby so i saw it, but i coulden get the complete details of the car cos it all happened so fast... when i went to report they said i must have the exact plate number or hard to do anything... is there any way to trace?
it was a merc, black in color with only Kompressor at the back and no engine make and i think the plate number was likeSH799821 (1 or 0 in the end)
SHL798821 (1 or 0 in the end)
SHI799821 (1 or 0 in the end)
Can some1 help me trace what was the exact number so i can report that sob or tell me how i can check?
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there's no 6 digit licence plate no. in SG fyi..
and the last must have an alphabet..
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maybe the 1 was a I or a O then? ><
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and AFAIK, there's no 5 digit no. plate in SG too..
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:( im screwed...
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Originally posted by Pizzed:
Hi...
there was a guy who hit my car in the parking and drove off at fortune centre 3 days ago, i was nearby so i saw it, but i coulden get the complete details of the car cos it all happened so fast... when i went to report they said i must have the exact plate number or hard to do anything... is there any way to trace?
it was a merc, black in color with only Kompressor at the back and no engine make and i think the plate number was likeSH799821 (1 or 0 in the end)
SHL798821 (1 or 0 in the end)
SHI799821 (1 or 0 in the end)
Can some1 help me trace what was the exact number so i can report that sob or tell me how i can check?
As QX179R had said, there is no 6 digits registered number on our vehicle plates.
SHxxxx (SH plate is a TAXI number plate)... the car that hitted you isn't a taxi right ?
SHIxxxx there is no "i" and "o" number plates (So, this don't make any sense).
And Finally.....
SHL7988. As mentioned above.... SH belongs to Taxi's plate... SH, SHA, SHB, SHC, SHD, .... to SHZ will be taxis.....
If you can't determine the number plate.... who can help you ????
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i saw some guys were able to use somewhat similar numbers, do trial and error and find the right plate with the make n stuff in a thread here... if i knew how i'd put in all the dam combos to try to find ><
it wasen a taxi... sigh... tot there'd be some directory for all these merc cars... they cant all have sequence numbers after all...?
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Vehicle registration plates of Singapore
Motor vehicle licence plates in Singapore are administered by the Land Transport Authority.
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[hide][edit]Current scheme
In general, all licence plates numbers in Singapore come with the vehicular registration number, suffixed by the official reference in the form of a letter of the alphabet. Two colouring schemes are in use: the black on white(front) with black on yellow(rear) scheme or the older white on black scheme. The number plate has to be made of a reflective plastic or metallic with textured characters made of black (for white-yellow) or white or silver (for black ones). No standardised typeface is used and all are based on the Charles Wright number plate typeface used in the UK, from thinner looking variants used commonly by SBS buses, taxis and goods vehicles, and even the FE-Schrift font used in Germany can sometimes, though rarely, be seen - though this is prohibited by LTA.[1]
- S - Private vehicle (since 1984)
- BA - Alphabetical series
- 1234 - Numerical series
- A - Checksum letter (the characters "F", "I", "N", "O", "Q", "V" and "W" are never used as check digits.)
[edit]Types of numbers
Private car licence plate numbers began in the early 1900s when Singapore was one of the fourStraits Settlements, with a single prefix 'S', then adding a suffix letter S 'A' to S 'Y', but skipping a few like S 'H' and S 'Z' (reserved for taxis and buses), S 'D' (reserved for municipal vehicles), and S 'G' for goods vehicles large and small. No changes were made when Singapore became independent in 1965. Later, the suffix was added. Previously there was no suffix, for example, SS1234, as in the vehicle registration plates of Malaysia.
When 'S' was exhausted at SY, in January 1972, Private cars started with E, Motorbikes with A and Goods Vehicles under 3 tonnes with Y. E was followed by EA, EB with the letters EC in 1973 up to EZ. From 1984, the "S" series of number plates was launched again, but now with two serial suffix letters, starting from SBA. Currently, as of this writing, the SKD series is in issue for private cars.
Other classes of vehicles have registration numbers beginning with specific letters:
- A_ series: Motorcycles (used until 1980)
- CB series: Company or school buses
- F_ series: Motorcycles
- FB_ series: Motorcycles [Ex. FBA, FBB...], m/cycle plate started in end of December 2005
- G _ _ series: Goods vehicles (class 3) [GA-GZ,GBA..GBB]etc
- P series: Private buses (PA, PB, PC, PH, PZ were used to separate Private bus, Pte Hire etc, subsequently they were not issued and all are issued under PA
- Q _ _ series: Company vehicles (QBx, QCx etc, except QX and QY)
- SH_ series: Taxis or Street Hire vehicles (SJE - Singapore-Johore Express)
- W_ series: Engineering Plant vehicles (Class 5) (Currently issuing WD)
- X_ series: Very Heavy vehicles - not constructed to carry any load (prime movers/class 5) (Currently issuing XD)
- Y_ series: Goods vehicles (class 3/4/5)
In addition, the following are controlled for specific types of vehicles, including:
- CSS: City Shuttle Service buses
- LTA: Land Transport Authority, formerly known as ROV, Registry of Vehicles
- MID: Singapore Armed Forces vehicles (suffix), originally stood forMinistry of Interior and Defence
- MP: Vehicles operated by the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command (formally SAFPU prefix)
- PU: Tax-exempt, restricted for exclusive use (with permission) on the island of Pulau Ubin
- QX: Emergency & Law-enforcement agencies (Singapore Police Force, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, etc)
- QY: Quasi-Government / Statutory Boards
- RD: Research & Development (like fuel-cell cars, smart car rental cars)
- ROV: Defunct; Registry of Vehicles, now known as LTA [Land Transport Authority]
- RU: Restricted Use vehicles, a special category where taxes are not paid. A vehicle with such a licence restricted to certain areas, for example a pushback truck within Singapore Changi Airportgrounds or shuttle buses on Sentosa Island.
- S/CC: Vehicles of the Consular Corps
- S/CD: Vehicles of the Diplomatic Corps
- S/TE: "Technical Employment" vehicles
- S1 to S10: "State Cars" - VIP vehicles for ferrying official government guests and dignatries.
- SBS: Buses operated by SBS Transit
- SEP: "Singapore Elected President" - The Official Car of The President of the Republic of Singapore (SEP 1)
- SJ: Supreme Court Justices - With the Chief Justice's car displaying plate number "SJ 1", and so on.
- SMB: Buses operated by SMRT Buses, used in tandem with the TIB series.
- SP: "Speaker of Parliament" (SP 1)
- SPF: Police commissioner of the Singapore Police Force (SPF1)
- SZ/SZA: Rental vehicle. No new issues. New Hire/Rental cars use same series as normal cars
- TIB: Buses operated by SMRT Buses, originally stood for Trans Island Bus Services (TIBS)
- TP: Motorcycles of the Traffic Police Department, Singapore Police Force
Special prefixes were used for specific events, such as:
- WTO: For vehicles used during the World Trade Organization'sinaugural Ministerial Conference held in Singapore in December 1996
- IOC: For vehicles used during the International Olympic Committee's 117th Session held in Singapore in July 2005
- NDP: For vehicles used during the National Day Parade, 2005, on August 9, 2005
- SAA: For vehicles used during Asian Aerospace
- APEC: For vehicles used during the APEC Annual Meetings in November 2009.
- YOG: For vehicles used during the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
[edit]Checksum
The checksum letter is calculated by converting the letters into numbers, i.e. where A=1 and Z=26, potentially giving 7 individual numbers from each registration plate. However, only two letters of the prefix are used in the checksum, for now, so the first letter is discarded for a three-letter prefix. SBA 1234 would therefore give 2, 1, 1, 2, 3 and 4 (note that "S" is discarded). For three-digit numbers, a "0" is appended to the front of the number. Each individual number is then multiplied by 6 fixed numbers (14, 2, 12, 2, 11, 1). These are added up, then divided by 19. The remainder corresponds to one of the 19 letters used (A, Y, U, S, P, L, J, G, D, B, Z, X, T, R, M, K, H, E, C), with "A" corresponding to a remainder of 0. In the case of SBA 1234, the final letter should be a G.
[edit]Middle letter exceptions
There was some speculation as to whether the Singapore government would continue the SDZ series to its next logical sequence - i.e. SEA and then on to SEY etc.. Apparently the government decided to adopt the policy of using no vowels in the middle digit to avoid meaningful 3 letter word combinations. Indeed there was never an SA sequence issued (the S—sequence started with SBA), although this was because the West Coast Division of Sabah state in Malaysia has been using the SA sequence.
[edit]Personalised registrations
The Land Transport Authority has announced they may begin implementing the use of personal registration licence plates (Vanity plates) as early as late 2007, and are currently working on the details of the plan. These licence plates may take up to 12 characters compared to the current eight.[2] For now, there is a thriving trade in the sale of number plates that have significant digits (i.e. lucky numbers) or letter combinations like SGD. Full vanity plates are not available in Singapore, only the number combination like Germany.
[edit]Other colour schemes
[edit]Off-peak Vehicles
Vehicles registered as "Off-peak Vehicles", affectionately known as "Weekend Cars", pay a cheaper road tax as compared to normal private cars, although COE charges apply as usual. They display number plates with white characters on a red background. These vehicles are only allowed to run on the roads in Singapore after office hours (7pm-7am) on weekdays, full day on Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays.
In the case where owners of private vehicles choose to run on the roads on weekdays during office hours, they are required to buy an e-licence for $20 either online or through major post offices. Car owners have up to 24 hours on the following day to purchase the e-licence. Failure to do so first time offenders may be fined up to $5,000 for failing to display a valid day coupon or using an invalid day coupon, and fined up to $10,000 for using an altered day coupon when the OPC is used during the restricted hours.
Off-peak vehicles pay a relatively lower road tax (a discount of up to $500) as compared to other private vehicles and are also given rebate of $17,000 which can be offset against COE and ARF.
Even so, the majority of the people in Singapore do not use Off-peak vehicles.
[edit]Commercial vehicles
Light Goods Vehicles and Goods Passenger Vehicles uses the G series prefix. From G to GA through GZ, and the GBA, current issue is GBB.
[edit]Other categories
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there's a site which I reguarly use to check vehicle statuses but with all ur combos, it'll need some time before you can find the right one..
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Originally posted by QX179R:
there's a site which I reguarly use to check vehicle statuses but with all ur combos, it'll need some time before you can find the right one..
Wah.... so many numbers.... which numbers to buy for today 4Ds....
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dun buy lah coz all ur $$$ will be donated to SGP..
machiam like throwing $$ in the drain for nothing..
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Originally posted by QX179R:
dun buy lah coz all ur $$$ will be donated to SGP..
machiam like throwing $$ in the drain for nothing..
Not really lah... just kena-ed $1,166 last Saturday (ibets 1st Prize), $500 on Wednesday (direct, starter).... Can buy Samsung 10.1 liao...
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must buy lah 10.1 coz I myself using one & its damn gd..
much better than the "fruity pad"..
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Originally posted by QX179R:
must buy lah 10.1 coz I myself using one & its damn gd..
much better than the "fruity pad"..
Yes... i saw your thread posting the other day.... wanted to ask you... but thread was locked.
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Check your forum Mailbox in the top right hand corner.
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Me going SgPools now....
Small bets on one of the numbers... ibets... see got ipad2 or not...
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
Yes... i saw your thread posting the other day.... wanted to ask you... but thread was locked.
aiyah, juz drop me a PM lah..
