Is your personalised plate still available?
Type the combination you want, pick your province, and we run a real-time availability check against the provincial register. Result emailed to you in minutes. A check is just R15.
Up to 7 characters, without the province code. We add it for you.
Your email address is only used to send your result.
Questions, answered plainly.
Plate checks
We query the national vehicle register live for the exact combination and province you enter. If a vehicle comes back, it's taken. If nothing does, no vehicle is registered to it right now.
Usually under five minutes, straight to your inbox. If the register is down we keep trying, and if we can't get you a result within one working day we rerun it or refund you.
Yes. Each check covers one province for R15. To try another province, change it on the form and check again.
No, a check is a snapshot. A plate held on a PRN certificate but not yet fitted to a car can't be seen, so your licensing department has the final say.
Top plates
A board of the coolest personalised plates spotted on South African roads, ranked by likes on X. Have a look.
Post a photo of a cool plate on X and tag @checkplata, or add a post by link on the Top plates page. Each plate goes on once, first come, first served.
Every Sunday at 7pm, the most liked plate from the past week wins. The person who posted it gets a free plate check.
Paid and no result yet?
Tell us what happened and we trace it the same working day. No ticket queues.