Would you like a specific combination of letters or numbers for your license plate, such as

• an initialism,
• your company’s abbreviation,
• a birth or wedding date, or
• would you like a “reissued license plate” that has become available again in your county, combined with a specific identification number?

For a fee, you can apply for a personalized license plate or have it reserved in advance.

If you’d like to use the personalized license plate from your deregistered vehicle again later in the same administrative district, you can have the identification number reserved for a specific period for a fee and reapply for it in connection with the re-registration or registration of another vehicle. A reservation for a personalized license plate expires if you move a deregistered vehicle to another location. Please contact the registration authority beforehand.

Please note:

• Subsequent changes to a license plate combination assigned to a vehicle are only possible for an additional fee.
• A personalized license plate reserved in another registration district cannot be transferred to the new registration district when you move.

Note: The registration authorities will try to accommodate your requests. However, you have no legal right to a personalized license plate.

• You cannot use the "KFZ Wunschkennzeichenreservierung online" portal on Windows XP computers or on computers with .NET Framework versions lower than 4.5.2 installed.

• To prevent misuse of reservations, the reserved license plate may only be transferred to third parties upon presentation of a declaration of consent.

• You can also choose a personalized license plate if the vehicle has already been assigned a Mainz license plate.

• When decommissioning a Mainz vehicle, you can reserve the previous license plate for the vehicle owner or the vehicle for one year.

• Advance reservation is not mandatory for the allocation of a personalized license plate. You can also apply for a personalized license plate when registering the vehicle at the local registration authority.

If you have reserved a personalized license plate in advance, you will need the reservation confirmation for the registration process.

In addition to the registration fees, you will be charged administrative fees for

• Custom license plate: EUR 10.20
• Reservation: EUR 2.60

Note: If you choose a “reused license plate” from among several available plates in a single administrative district, you must pay a personalized license plate fee only if you also want a specific alphanumeric combination.

Please note: Whether the license plate number you request can be assigned by the registration authority requires an additional electronic check. Therefore, the fees apply even if your custom license plate is not available.

The additional fee is also charged when reserving or reallocating a license plate that was previously assigned.

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