New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plates

USED CAR DEALER 2014- Flat dealer plates first appeared in late July or early August of 2014.
The letter range for used car dealers is primarily DLA to DZZ,
but plates using the DAA to DKZ range have also been seen.

2014 FLAT BASEDMK -

SEQUENTIAL ISSUES

2014
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2015
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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

DMM was the final suffix seen in the sequentially issued plates in the 00-DLA00 format.

DU series Used Car Dealer plates were issued starting in late 2015 in both forward and reversed formats.
This is the first time we have seen the DU series issued.

Looks like the sequential series started up at DUL (after the DMM suffix was issued).

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

2015
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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

2016Steve Salit
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2016
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2017
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

2017
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

2017
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2018
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

The DVA prefix on used car dealer plates was first spotted in September 2018.

2018
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2018Steve Salit
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

And DWL was seen in July 2020. DWE was seen in 2022.
What happened to the rest of the DV- series ?

c.2020Colin Schaefer
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2020
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2021
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

By the end of 2020, there was no fixed sequence of letter codes for Used Car Dealer plates.
It is possible that at this point the DAA-DKZ prefixes started being used.

DAA-DKZ PREFIXES

As of late 2020(?) plates in the DAA-DKZ series are now being produced as USED CAR DLR plates.
These are out of sequence ... DAA through DKZ had previously been used for NEW CAR DLR plates ever since NEW and USED were split in 1960.

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

Colin Schaefer
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

Colin Schaefer
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

Jow Wasielewski
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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

There is no general replacement of older plates - any dealer plate issued since 1992 can still be on the road or remade on this base.
It is unknown why some of these plates have a single-digit car number and some use the leading zero (e.g. '9' and '09').

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DPG-92 car number "9"
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

DPG-92 car number "09" !!
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

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New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

Joe Pugliese
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

Courtesy dealer plates now have the car number in the upper right, like courtesy passenger plates.

Joe Pugliese
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

Joe Pugliese
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate

ERROR

This plate has a font problem ... and a prefix problem ... and it's just plain wrong.
First, the DFQ prefix is out of range for used car dealers.
Second, the font on the DFQ and the car number "01" is wrong - and ugly.
Third, the spacing on the "33" is incorrect.

I am hoping that this is an error plate, or a test plate that somehow got out into circulation, or a pure fake,
because if New Jersey's plate font starts looking like this for real, I would be very disappointed.

I photographed this in January 2019. So far, I have not seen any others like it.

SEEN IN USE 2019
New Jersey Used Car Dealer License Plate