buying an A1 AAA style reg
Discussion
grumpyscot said:
A friend just had his number plate taken off him by DVLA after the third time police had stopped him. He had his plate spaced just like you intend. Police said it was because the average speed cameras at on the Forth Bridge approach kept picking it up as an invalid reg.
Good, glad to hear that people actually get their illegal plates taken off them!Breadvan72 said:
Having any sort of personalised or chavved up number plate on any car always seems to me like wearing a badge that says "Tosser". Still, to each his own.
Discrete initials with a favoured number is acceptable but agree that anything else is as you say Chav., even Essex, or council or maybe just blue-collar desperation to be noticed & accepted. Cooperman said:
So the DVLA sell these plates because they appear to make a name, then when a purchaser has spent several hundred quid buying it and displays the name it is illegal and he risks having it taken from him with no cash back.
Purchasing a plate because it makes a name is fine.Purchasing a plate that doesn't quite make a name, then illegally rearranging the spaces so that it does is not okay.
Seems fair enough to me.
PorkInsider said:
Breadvan72 said:
Why TF would any sane person want his or her initials on a car number plate, FFS? It's almost as bad as having a monogram on your shirt.
Have to say I completely agree with this.One is ABC 123 style and the other 123 ABC. The letters and numbers mean nothing to me, but I've had both for many years. Didn't buy them either, both came off pre-63 motors I used to own. Always correctly spaced.
I personally like them because they make my cars "mine". The ABC 123 style one always goes on my main car, and I've had it on many different cars over the last 15 years I've had it. A bit like always keeping your number when you change your mobile. My car isn't my car until it has my plate on it.
So, acceptable to the PH massive or a bit chav?
Toonshorty said:
Cooperman said:
So the DVLA sell these plates because they appear to make a name, then when a purchaser has spent several hundred quid buying it and displays the name it is illegal and he risks having it taken from him with no cash back.
Purchasing a plate because it makes a name is fine.Purchasing a plate that doesn't quite make a name, then illegally rearranging the spaces so that it does is not okay.
Seems fair enough to me.
Just go on the DVLA web site and look up how many **51 MON plates are for sale.
Simon
Hmmmmm, I suppose you could get a fine, but it's far more likely that it will definitely end up being photographed and posted here - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... - at some point in the future
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