Psuedo German number plates
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ts etc" NinjaPower said:
Hiding in plain sight.
Easier to spot, yes, but much much harder to get to the bottom of unless our officers have access to the Polish DVLA.
It is not particularly hard to get to the bottom of and there is no need to have access to the Polish equivalent of DVLA. If a RHD car is seen bearing Polish plates, it can be stopped and a PNC check carried out using the chassis number. This will show whether or not the car should be on UK plates. Easier to spot, yes, but much much harder to get to the bottom of unless our officers have access to the Polish DVLA.
Cat
AndrewEH1 said:
jaf01uk said:
I have 100% legal pressed steel number plates on my car, no 'D' just a Euro stars circle with a saltire underneath, let the judgemental amongst you proceed... 
Where did you happen to buy these?Norfolk Plates
NinjaPower said:
Hiding in plain sight.
Easier to spot, yes, but much much harder to get to the bottom of unless our officers have access to the Polish DVLA.
I thought there was a system being put in to share this info over the whole of the EU. By law a car has to be road legal in the country it is from whenever traveling abroad. Easier to spot, yes, but much much harder to get to the bottom of unless our officers have access to the Polish DVLA.
I have seen a few RHD cars about with foreign plates which I would suspect have never been near the country they claim to be from.
NinjaPower said:
Some discussion on them here. I'm not fussed either way, I quite like pressed plates. http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...
and
http://www.ukpoliceonline.co.uk/index.php?/topic/4...
Rostfritt said:
I have seen a few RHD cars about with foreign plates which I would suspect have never been near the country they claim to be from.
Well it's pretty cut and dried in the case of Polish plates because by law you cannot register a RHD car in Poland. Which is why it amazes me that these cars are driving about.
Any Traffic officer worth a bean would pull one as soon he spotted it.
NinjaPower said:
Well it's pretty cut and dried in the case of Polish plates because by law you cannot register a RHD car in Poland.
That may well be changing:http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/court-tells-p...
Vaud said:
NinjaPower said:
Well it's pretty cut and dried in the case of Polish plates because by law you cannot register a RHD car in Poland.
That may well be changing:http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/court-tells-p...
NinjaPower said:
I doubt that will get rushed through in a hurry... My polish mates reckon it would utterly desecrate the Polish vehicle market for the dealerships and traders, which is bad enough as it is.
I doubt that would be a massive problem, they do have Germany on their doorstep which is a huge source of 2nd hand LHD cars. Interesting the link mentions Lithuania, I sold a car a few years back to a Lithuanian who said he would drive it back and sell it for a profit. To be fair quite a few of our 2nd hand cars end up quite far away, I have seen some in Kyrgyzstan of all places.Cat said:
It is not particularly hard to get to the bottom of and there is no need to have access to the Polish equivalent of DVLA. If a RHD car is seen bearing Polish plates, it can be stopped and a PNC check carried out using the chassis number. This will show whether or not the car should be on UK plates.
Nope. It'll show if there's an export flag on the DVLA record, but having that doesn't mean it's been imported somewhere else, nor does not having it mean it hasn't been imported to somewhere else. Plus, of course, not all RHD cars have been UK registered.TooMany2cvs said:
Nope. It'll show if there's an export flag on the DVLA record, but having that doesn't mean it's been imported somewhere else, nor does not having it mean it hasn't been imported to somewhere else. Plus, of course, not all RHD cars have been UK registered.
Sorry but you've just made up a whole new set of circumstances to what was originally mentioned. The scenario mentioned was buying a UK vehicle then simply removing the number plate and tax disc and putting a Polish plate on. No mention of informing the DVLA that the vehicle was being exported nor that the vehicle had been imported. In the scenario described a check of the chassis number on PNC will show that the vehicle should be bearing a UK plate. Cat
Hugo a Gogo said:
if you suspect the Polish reg isn't 'real' check for the hologram numberplate sticker in the window, Polish registered cars must have that, AFAIK
Do the police and traffic wardens know all of these particular rules for every EU (and to that matter non-EU) car they could come across? I know a Guernsey car driving around that used to have an insurance sticker in the window, until it expired. Cat said:
It is not particularly hard to get to the bottom of and there is no need to have access to the Polish equivalent of DVLA. If a RHD car is seen bearing Polish plates, it can be stopped and a PNC check carried out using the chassis number. This will show whether or not the car should be on UK plates.
Cat
There again, the car could've been first bought and registered here then shipped over to Poland and re-registered, same applies for any other country. I often have a look at ebay.de - just search for rechtslenker fahrzeug and see if anything takes my fancy.......Cat
xjsdriver said:
There again, the car could've been first bought and registered here then shipped over to Poland and re-registered, same applies for any other country.
If that is what has happened and it has been done properly then the vehicle will have an export marker on PNC. However, once again, that is not the scenario which NinjaPower referred to.Others have suggested that the Polish authorities will not allow a RHD vehicle to be registered in Poland so in the case of a RHD car bearing Polish plates it would seem unlikely to have happened as you describe.
Cat
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