France license plate: W garage 2009
Retired 2009 to 2025. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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W-999-LL, for exampleW-280-NS(L is any letter, 9 any digit)W is the trade letter: the number belongs to a garage, not a vehicle, and hops between the cars a professional is road-testing, delivering or demonstrating. When a W plate goes on, the vehicle's own number must come off, the swap is total.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2009 to 2025. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
- Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Art. 9's rule that where a W number is used on an already-registered vehicle "ce numéro doit seul être utilisé" is the tell: the vehicle's own plates come off.
- How long it is valid
- period: civil year. note: the W garage certificate runs for the calendar year and carries the end date of validity; renewal is applied for between 1 November and 31 December
Legal basis and sources
- annexe VII B: W + 3 chiffres + 2 lettres, hyphen-separated https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
- art. 9: who may hold a W garage certificate (professionnels du commerce de l'automobile, réparateurs, importateurs, transporteurs, coopératives agricoles, établissements de formation), the permitted uses (essais... https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000047977247
- art. R. 317-8 I: removable plates for W garage vehicles https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000042266062
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is fr-wgarage-2009. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of France's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fr-wgarage-2009")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-wgarage-2009.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-wgarage-2009/template.svg
