W/TP
Trade plates for unregistered vehicles (dealers and workshops)
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Key Facts
- Issue Date
- official-use allocation
- Issuance Range
- State letter + number + A or S (Peninsular); W/TP and W/TS (Kuala Lumpur, from 2013)
- Rarity
- Functional (motor trade licence)
- Transfer Rules
- Issued to licensed motor traders; not a registration number and not transferable.
Key Points
- For unregistered vehicles moved by dealers, workshops, importers and manufacturers.
- Peninsular trade plates are white on blue, with A for cars and S for motorcycles.
- Kuala Lumpur uses W/TP (cars) and W/TS (motorcycles) since 2013.
- Sabah uses ### D in red on white; Sarawak white on red.
Series Overview
Trade plates let vehicles move on public roads before they are registered or while their documents are incomplete, for example a new car going from a dealer to an inspection. JPJ issues them under a motor trade licence to vehicle manufacturers and assemblers, new and used car dealers, repair workshops and importers, and each licence runs for a limited period.
In Peninsular Malaysia trade plates show a state letter, a number and a suffix, A for cars and S for motorcycles, in white on blue, with leading zeroes for numbers below 100. Kuala Lumpur switched in September 2013 to W/TP #### for cars and W/TS #### for motorcycles, and kept the W even after new Kuala Lumpur registrations moved to V. Sabah's trade plates use a ### D format in red on white, and Sarawak's are white on red.
Sources
Sources checked for the W/TP entry.
- Vehicle Registration Plates Of MalaysiaWikipediaOpen citation: Vehicle Registration Plates Of Malaysia
- Kenderaan03JPJ (archived guide)Open citation: Kenderaan03
- +0Lowyat.NET ForumOpen citation: +0
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can use a trade plate?
Holders of a JPJ motor trade licence: manufacturers and assemblers, new and used car dealers, repair workshops and importers.
Why does Kuala Lumpur still use W on trade plates?
KL's trade plates changed to W/TP and W/TS in 2013 and were not moved to V when ordinary KL registrations switched in 2016.
For normal state series (V, B, J, etc.), see the Series Index. For broader JPJ plate-index context, visit the Plate Index.
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