Psuedo German number plates

Psuedo German number plates

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sherbertdip

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1,097 posts

118 months

Friday 11th July 2014
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In the past week I've seen 4 separate cars; VW, Audi and 2 BMWs with pseudo German plates, i.e. pressed steel, white background, font as used in Germany and with a "D" where the country of registration goes. These have all been with a UK registration number.

Obviously these are illegal in all respects, but I thought especially claiming the vehicle is registered in a different country from what it actually is, is a real bad thing. Oh and the owners that do this what are they thinking of?

rallycross

12,744 posts

236 months

Friday 11th July 2014
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Goes hand in hand with stretched tyres and ruined suspension - a style sported by morons.

Mill Wheel

6,149 posts

195 months

Friday 11th July 2014
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So what.
If they speed as well, they still might get pulled or photographed!

Locally we have a illegally spaced plate parks on the side of the A591 into Windermere - every police vehicle passes it, and nobody bothers, and why would they?
Everybody can read it.

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Friday 11th July 2014
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Mill Wheel said:
So what.
If they speed as well, they still might get pulled or photographed!

Locally we have a illegally spaced plate parks on the side of the A591 into Windermere - every police vehicle passes it, and nobody bothers, and why would they?
Everybody can read it.
Can anpr read it?

Stoofa

958 posts

167 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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As said above - it's a certain "type" of driver who has these stupid, unappealing plates on their car. You know the type....
Not legal and an easy pull for the police. As has been said many times an easy pull can often lead to much bigger things, so surprised they haven't been.
Oh and obviously the display of the "D" on the plate is also illegal.

I also wonder if maybe they "think" they might get away with the odd speeding ticket etc. When the pictures are checked many foreign plates are simply disgarded - UK don't bother chasing fines from outside the country.
So a quick glance will show a metal German plate with the "D" mark in a stupid looking font - possible it would be disgarded as a quick glance may indicate it is foreign.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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quite effectivelyt dealt with by Pc Plod aying

"May I see
your German driving licence
your German registration document
your German Insurance papers please "

as see n on one the telly policing progs

along with seen IRL

" Good evening Doctor, you appear to be lost on your way to an emergency " to some tt with flashing green LEDs along the top of the windscreen ...

jaf01uk

1,943 posts

195 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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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... tongue out

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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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... tongue out

in the german font ? or (depending on age of vehicle ) the appproved UK font / one of the classic UK fonts ?

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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Vaud said:
Mill Wheel said:
So what.
If they speed as well, they still might get pulled or photographed!

Locally we have a illegally spaced plate parks on the side of the A591 into Windermere - every police vehicle passes it, and nobody bothers, and why would they?
Everybody can read it.
Can anpr read it?
why should anpr be unable to read the font use by millions of european motorists? do they not want to give them fines? wink

mph1977 said:
quite effectivelyt dealt with by Pc Plod aying

"May I see
your German driving licence
your German registration document
your German Insurance papers please "

as see n on one the telly policing progs
I've only got one out of three of those

(don't carry insurance papers around, don't need them)

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Saturday 12th July 21:20

Jonny_

4,108 posts

206 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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There are lots of things that people do to their car that irk me, but the faux-German plates really don't. In fact, I quite like the look of them, and it's not as though they are any less easy to read.

Now the ones where someone has bastardised the spacing, tactically positioned the retaining screws and/or used an odd font to make it loosely resemble their name... They deserve all the abuse they get. But zee German vuns, zey ist harmless, ja?

jaf01uk

1,943 posts

195 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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mph1977 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... tongue out

in the german font ? or (depending on age of vehicle ) the appproved UK font / one of the classic UK fonts ?
No completely legal font, and the suppliers postcode on the bottom as well, totally legal....

RedWhiteMonkey

6,806 posts

181 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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I've got them on my car, although I do live in Germany.

g3org3y

20,606 posts

190 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Stoofa said:
As said above - it's a certain "type" of driver who has these stupid, unappealing plates on their car. You know the type....
Do tell... scratchchin

I remember back in the day there was a group buy on one of the BMW forums. I of course bought a set, it was the fashion at the time (along with retrofitted angel eyes) on the E36.

Tbh, there are far, far worse modifications out there.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Vaud said:
Can anpr read it?
You would be very surprised what ANPR can read without difficulty.

I got pulled once by a traffic officer whilst I was on my bike one day, which had a tiny, single line 'letterbox' number plate on it. It was really quite small.

I asked if he pulled me because of the plate and he said no, the ANPR read it fine even from a distance, and he therefore wasn't bothered about it, but he pulled me to check my MOT as it came up as expired. I had it MOT'd that morning before I went out for a ride, and he was happy with that, and off we went.

My girlfriends Audi Coupe had a set of Polish pressed metal plates on it for a little while, complete with proper 'Audi Krakow' plastic dealer surrounds, but in the correct layout of letters K823 MSL.

That REALLY confused one officer in particular. He was almost insistent it was a foreign car because of the plates, despite it being RHD and displaying a tax disk with the reg on.

I have all legal plates these days because I'm now a model citizen.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Also, speaking of Polish plates, I've spotted a new trick recently by the local Poles:

Buy an English car, usually Audi A4 or similar, then simply remove the UK plates and tax disc any fit any old set of Polish plates.

And bingo, no need to ever pay for a tax disc, insurance, MOT, or parking tickets ever again.

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Perhaps the D stands for Dick.

Stoofa

958 posts

167 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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g3org3y said:
Stoofa said:
As said above - it's a certain "type" of driver who has these stupid, unappealing plates on their car. You know the type....
Do tell... scratchchin

I remember back in the day there was a group buy on one of the BMW forums. I of course bought a set, it was the fashion at the time (along with retrofitted angel eyes) on the E36.

Tbh, there are far, far worse modifications out there.
Sure - people who put fake German plates complete with illegal (in the UK) German fonts and complete with a "D" mark on a pressed metal plate is a tt of the highest order. They are the kind of people who rag around towns, generally make a nuisance of themselves. They have blue LED's over their car, stupid large exhausts which are not helping in performance at all. Redline rev around town, race around child infested 30 zones.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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NinjaPower said:
Also, speaking of Polish plates, I've spotted a new trick recently by the local Poles:

Buy an English car, usually Audi A4 or similar, then simply remove the UK plates and tax disc any fit any old set of Polish plates.

And bingo, no need to ever pay for a tax disc, insurance, MOT, or parking tickets ever again.
The fact they're Polish plates is irrelevant. The same applies to any car with false/cloned plates on. It's just that those are easier to spot...

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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TooMany2cvs said:
NinjaPower said:
Also, speaking of Polish plates, I've spotted a new trick recently by the local Poles:

Buy an English car, usually Audi A4 or similar, then simply remove the UK plates and tax disc any fit any old set of Polish plates.

And bingo, no need to ever pay for a tax disc, insurance, MOT, or parking tickets ever again.
The fact they're Polish plates is irrelevant. The same applies to any car with false/cloned plates on. It's just that those are easier to spot...
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.

ecotec

404 posts

128 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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i actually quite like the german font TBH they look good, judging from ebay a lot have been sold.

I wouldn't run them on a UK car, surely the rozzers will notice and pull drivers over what with being RHD and UK lettering?



Edited by ecotec on Sunday 13th July 20:38