Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 8 car

Issued today 2013 to today. Standard plates for car, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 8 car (2013 to today), sample 2-ZHG-85

Format, years and the law

Format
9-LLL-99, for example 2-ZHG-85 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2013 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Sidecode 8 for PASSENGER CARS, from 05-03-2013. The same pattern had already been running for LIGHT commercial vehicles since 26-02-2009, a four-year lead, and the clearest single counter-example to "sidecode = era".

Legal basis and sources

  1. Auto's: serie 8, combinatie 9-XXX-99, ingangsdatum 05-03-2013 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode8-car. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Netherlands's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/nl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "nl-sidecode8-car")'