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The current fully-reflective base debuted Jan. 3, 2007. The previous white on blue beaded plates, which had been in use since 1982, were replaced by the new issue upon expiration. Eric reports that the new plates began at BAA 0000 in Passenger, and CA 00000 in Light Commercial.

The new Spectacular Peninsulas optional plate that replaced the Great Lakes Splendor optional began at 0HA A00 in Passenger, and G00 00A in Light Commercial. (Splendor plates, as well as World's Motor Capital plates, may continue to be renewed indefinitely, but are no longer be available to new registrants.)

The retired blue plates were ordered by the Secretary of State through AJX 1999 in Passenger, and 8000 NB in Light Commercial. All unissued blue plates were shredded for scrap in January 2007.

Passenger plates are now optionally issued to noncommercial pickups.

Isaac reports State Police plates in the standard blue bar design with a full color graphic logo to the left of the numbers, still in four digits, and still displayed in pairs.

Stickers
11 - black on orange
12 - black on green
13 - black on white
Type Plate Notes Reporter
2007 Issue CJU 8249 The series presumably started at BAA 0000. BAA 0435 reported as a low in Clio by Isaac. Gary Forgue
12/03/11
Non-passenger Plates
Apportioned RA 60629 Willie C. Brock, Jr.
9/06/11
Commercial CE 59011 Commercial low - CA 00275 Spencer
6/16/08
Commercial - Spectacular Peninsulas G8317H G01 42A reported as a low by Rob. Rob
1/31/07
Dealer 665d88 Annual plates; current series valid through February 2011.
Rob reports a possible new Dealer low of 100D05 		Willie C. Brock, Jr.
1/26/10
Fleet PF 01604 A new series being piloted on Consumers Energy vehicles, for use by large fleets. These plates do not require validation tabs (PF stands for Permanent Fleet). Isaac Wilson IV
7/14/10
GVW Truck AC63499 New dies. New format for 2007 is AB12345 with no space between the letters and numbers. As in the past, there is room at the bottom for the weight sticker. AA00852 is the low. Kit Sage
1/01/10
Handicapped 7145S5 Eric spotted the first plate of this new type - 0000E0 on 2007-09-29. Keith Foreman
8/23/10
Handicapped - Spectacular Peninsulas 4J9315
ISA1X6611 		Looks like this series may have picked up near where the now-defunct blue trailer series concluded. Chris Chan reports the same type of plate in the Flint area in the nXnnnn series, but the reason for the X series is unknown. John Northup reports X-series high on 3/7/10. Willie C. Brock, Jr.
1/28/11
Historical Vehicle 205322 Instead of keeping the distinctive yellow-on-navy style with the pre-1982 dies (to accommodate the two-line legend), new Historical Vehicle plates are the standard blue bar style, with HISTORICAL screened on the bottom. Low for this series, 079541, reported by John Northup 8-1-2009. The series continued where the former yellow/blue series left off, however skipping the 100000's, which are used for State Govt. John Northup
5/24/10
In-Transit Repair 003g536 000G013 reported as a low by Isaac. Eric Sivertsen
7/12/07
Manufacturer 030m003 Eric Sivertsen
4/30/09
Motorcycle A208D Upon reaching ZZ 999, the series changed to the A000A format.
2007 base low: K022N
Eric Tanner reports that after finishing Z999Z, they apparently rolled back around to A000A again, which was last used on the old blue base.


Eric Tanner
8/12/11
Motorcycle - Handicapped ISA18E6 David Wilson
6/26/10
Motorcycle - Spectacular Peninsulas 70HY3 Willie C. Brock, Jr.
10/10/09
Municipal (Exempt) 099x614 MUNICIPAL is screened across the bottom. Isaac reported 000x050 for a low. Chris Chan
6/12/08
Non-Profit 016y177 Issued to non-profit entities, like churches, the Red Cross, and some ambulance companies.
Gary Forgue reports 000Y038 as a low. 		Isaac Wilson IV
8/02/10
Permanent Trailer C388138 New dies; still no space. Beginning in 2004, all trailers were switched to this type upon renewal. The series presumably begain at A000000. Chris Chan reports A000042 as a low. Trivia: Personalized plates aside, this was Michigan's first 7-character series--of any type--since 1932. Gary Forgue
12/03/11
Special Equipment 000s510 Usually reserved for very specialized equipment permanently mounted to a vehicle, such as for mounting commercial signs. Isaac
9/21/07
State Govt 103512 "STATE GOVT" screened at bottom. Probably started at 100000. 100002 reported as a low by Jim Turner.
MDOT has a different numbering scheme than other state government vehicles, using 7 numbers instead of 1nnnnn, and possibly starting with 0030000. Isaac reports 0033154 on 2009-07-24. 		Isaac
7/10/07
Transporter 000t621 David Wilson
6/29/10
Veteran 1JFX2 NEW Seen on Plateshack Y2K. Willie C. Brock, Jr.
2/03/12
Specialty Plates
Disabled Veteran DV055N Five-year expiration; has the old two-sticker month and year validation system.
The newest version of this plate features a screened, diagonally stacked DV before the characters, which also begin with DV embossed for regular series plates, but personalized is now an option with up to six characters. 		David Wilson
6/27/10
Ex-Prisoner of War 41A11 John Northup
8/01/07
Olympic Education 2MT704 Issue began in 1996 at 0MA00, but it appears Olympic is now using the same configuration as other Specialty plates. Fee is $25 annually, hence the scarcity. By comparison, the optional "Bridge" graphic plates cost only $5 extra upon first registration and nothing additional to renew.

It looks like SOS has gone back to the special format for Olympic plates, tacking an extra number to the end thanks to the Florida dies (FRPs now have the option of six digits for personalized tags). However, Plate It Your Way still shows the 0MA00 format as the only one for Olympic plates.

Isaac Wilson IV
7/13/10
Special Organization 8BH48 Series shared by Michigan State Fire Fighters Union, Michigan State Firemen's Association, Fraternal Order of Police, Freemasons, and Police Officers Association of Michigan
Isaac
5/20/06
Specialty (college/fundraisers) EQ30Z This series is applied to all of Michigan's university and fundraiser plates, except for those listed elsewhere on this page. There was an alternate series in the A00AA format that was used for mail orders from Lansing, but it has been discontinued. This series now features new dies.
Rob reports a low of AA04A on a Central Michigan Univ. plate.
Update - Rob reports the former A00AA series back in use on the new base. He spotted B30DE on 2007-08-04.
Vanities are permitted on specialty plates, but they had a limit of 5 characters due to space limitations until recently. Now that the new smaller dies are in use, 6 characters will now fit and may be used. 		Willie C. Brock, Jr.
12/30/10
Specialty - Handicapped D383ISA Observed on a Wayne State University plate. David Wilson
6/26/10
Spectacular Peninsulas 3KS P40 This is the new optional "Bridge" plate that replaces the "Bridge" plate with the Great Lakes Splendor legend. Steven reports 2HA A56 as the low. Willie C. Brock, Jr.
1/18/12
Veteran Handicapped - Spectacular Peninsulas VXE 6ISA John Northup
8/01/09
Inactive Series
Blue - 3/4 Issue AJR 7125 AAA0013 is the low for this issue, seen in Tempe, AZ by Ted Martin on 2006-03-04. The die and spacing change took place at AFP8999/AFP 9000.
AUR 5436 was reported by Joey Hurd on 2006-03-22 in Chicago. This is way out of sequence, but it appears to be a regular issue.
ATJ7242 was seen and photographed by John Northup on 05-05-05, but it is way out of sequence from the current allotments.
DSD1225, which is some sort of special issue, was reported by Frank Foster on 2005-05-01. A good guess would be that the first letter "D" stands for Detroit, and the "SD" something else.
SCH9802 (unspaced) was photographed and reported by Isaac.

This series follows "ZZZ 999" in the standard white on blue plate style that has been in use for more than 20 years. There is no space between the letters and numbers on these plates. It is not known yet if the 3/3 plates were produced and issued all the way through ZZZ 999. 		Rob
3/27/07
Blue - Commercial - narrow dies 0567 NB Low for narrow dies is 5197 KP. John Northup reports that non-commercial trucks will now receive regular passenger plates instead of truck plates, and fees will be based on the same schedule as cars. Existing truck plates on non-commercial vehicles will continue to be renewed, but new registrations will receive passenger plates. Commercial trucks will continue to receive truck plates. Rob
12/28/06
Blue - Commercial - wide dies 9518 KN Eric Tanner
7/02/02
Blue - GVW Truck 1431BG Eric Tanner
1/05/07
Blue - Handicapped ISAS8476 New dies. R0003 was seen with new dies, but R0060 was seen with old dies. R1658 had new dies. Chris Chan
1/20/07
Blue - Historical Vehicle 074 754 Yellow on navy blue series with 1970s dies. No longer issued, but still valid for existing registrations. New registrants get the fully-reflective blue/white series. Ten year validation interval; this example expires April 2016. John Northup
8/01/09
Blue - narrow dies ZZZ 833 John reports having seen two ZZZ plates in Brighton, so perhaps that office got the last of the 6-digit plates. Plates have been observed as high as XHE 280 with no sticker box, and as low as XJH 451 with a sticker box in the lower right corner. Narrow dies low was UDU 000, reported by Eric 11/18/01. John Northup
2/02/05
Blue - Trailer - narrow dies 0G2412
2/26/04
Blue - Trailer - wide dies Z 91025 Eric reports official confirmation that the last wide die trailer plate was Z 99950. The first narrow die trailer plate was in the new configuration - 0B0001. This series has since been replaced by the new Permanent Trailer issue and is no longer revalidated. John Northup
5/26/01
Blue - wide dies UDT 999 In 1994, narrower dies were adopted to allow seven characters on personalized plates. These moved onto passenger plates with the UDU xxx series. They eventually crept into all other plate series as well, completely replacing the 1982 die set, except for a few blue-base holdouts that clung to the large 1970s die set. As of 2007, all series were using even narrower 8-digit Florida-style dies. Eric Tanner
11/18/01
Great Lakes Splendor - Commercial F20 99D As with the passenger of this type, the "Month" and "Year" boxes have been eliminated. The highest reported truck series with the boxes is F13 26B. Note that this type is no longer issued to noncommercial pickups; they now get passenger plates (see note under "truck" above). Eric Tanner
6/01/06
Great Lakes Splendor - Handicapped ISA5050X Rob
12/28/06
Great Lakes Splendor - Motorcycle 41EP8 Began in 1997 with other Bridge plates. Started at 00AA0. Eric Tanner
3/02/06
Great Lakes Splendor - Passenger 0GR A02 Screening has been changed to eliminate the "Month" and "Year" boxes in the blue band at the top of these plates since Michigan has changed to using a single validation sticker. The newer "Florida" dies are now in use on Bridge plates.
Low - 0AA A00 Eric 		Chris Chan
4/01/07
Great Lakes Splendor - Purple Heart 115C5 Isaac
3/06/06
Great Lakes Splendor - Trailer 128 6C3 Phased out in favor of the "permanent trailer" plate. No longer revalidated. Eric Tanner
8/03/04
Great Lakes Splendor - Veteran 7HXU6 Smaller dies Rob
12/22/06
World's Motor Capital 01 MVH No longer issued but still being revalidated. This type was not available as personalized. Low of AAA 04 reported by Bill on 2008-03-19. Spencer
7/17/07