buying an A1 AAA style reg
Discussion
R1 Indy said:
I managed 6 months with no front plate on the S2000 and didn't get stopped once! Despite driving by many.
I suspect they don't really care? Or they just couldn't keep up...
Why would you not have a front plate for 6 months?I suspect they don't really care? Or they just couldn't keep up...
Surely you can get a new one within a couple of days of it falling off/being stolen.
R1 Indy said:
I managed 6 months with no front plate on the S2000 and didn't get stopped once! Despite driving by many.
I suspect they don't really care? Or they just couldn't keep up...
You probably didn't give them any reason (apart from your lack of front plate) to pull you over so never bothered/had better things to do.I suspect they don't really care? Or they just couldn't keep up...
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.
I'm calling bulls
t on that one.I don't think anyone has had their plate revoked. Happy to be proved wrong.
Camera thing is bulls
t. I used to have a slightly modified plate. Next door was traffic police. Whenever he popped in with his company car the ANPR camera always read my plate fine.Toonshorty said:
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.
^^This^^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.
It doesn't even have to be a name. I see quite a few Mitsubishi Evos with EVO plates. Likewise Nissans with GTR (R32/33/34 Skylines and GT-Rs).
Messing about with fonts, or using mis-spacing/'strategically'placed fixings to make a plate read something it isn't, is counter-productive though.
Why provide an open reason for the police to decide to look twice at you?
The plate on one of my cars when I bought had one of the numbers spaced so as to spell out the initials of an owners club.
From a legal perspective it was a show plate so I swapped it for a 100% compliant version. The significance is still obvious to those in that community.
What I really don't get is the outpouring of invective/spleen displayed by some posters. It strikes me as wholly unnecessary.
As my granny used to say, "If you can't find something nice to say about a person, keep your trap shut!"
I have an A1 AAA style number plate on my car which has been moved so it’s now A1A AA – if you’re interested in taking the piss there should be a picture of it on my profile.
I’ve been stopped once for it, and subsequently told to change it. I haven’t and that was a couple of months back now, although I’m fully prepared for the consequences should I be stopped again.
The copper who stopped me mentioned the first offence is just a £30 fine, the second time £60, the third time £100 and finally if seen again the number plate would be revoked by the DVLA. He also tried telling me that my rear number plate was illegal too because of the Japanese size, which I don’t believe so the above may be utter rubbish.
I’ve been stopped once for it, and subsequently told to change it. I haven’t and that was a couple of months back now, although I’m fully prepared for the consequences should I be stopped again.
The copper who stopped me mentioned the first offence is just a £30 fine, the second time £60, the third time £100 and finally if seen again the number plate would be revoked by the DVLA. He also tried telling me that my rear number plate was illegal too because of the Japanese size, which I don’t believe so the above may be utter rubbish.
AndrewEH1 said:
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!(In Malta the car would be confiscated and scrapped within 24 hours)
Bradley1500 said:
I have an A1 AAA style number plate on my car which has been moved so it’s now A1A AA – if you’re interested in taking the piss there should be a picture of it on my profile.
I’ve been stopped once for it, and subsequently told to change it. I haven’t and that was a couple of months back now, although I’m fully prepared for the consequences should I be stopped again.
The copper who stopped me mentioned the first offence is just a £30 fine, the second time £60, the third time £100 and finally if seen again the number plate would be revoked by the DVLA. He also tried telling me that my rear number plate was illegal too because of the Japanese size, which I don’t believe so the above may be utter rubbish.
If your car was originally a Japanese Domestic Market car (JDM) that has been imported into the UK and cannot physically accommodate a standard size UK plate then you're fine.I’ve been stopped once for it, and subsequently told to change it. I haven’t and that was a couple of months back now, although I’m fully prepared for the consequences should I be stopped again.
The copper who stopped me mentioned the first offence is just a £30 fine, the second time £60, the third time £100 and finally if seen again the number plate would be revoked by the DVLA. He also tried telling me that my rear number plate was illegal too because of the Japanese size, which I don’t believe so the above may be utter rubbish.
However, if it is a JDM car that can accommodate a standard size UK plate, or it's a UK market car and you have fitted import size plates even though standard size UK plates can be fitted, then the Officer is correct and you're plates are not legal.
One of the good things about miss-spaced/altered registration plates on cars is that it makes it so much easier to spot the complete knobs who are out and about!
Bought an old motorcycle decades ago because its number plate had my initials and just two matching digits. Sold the bike for more than I paid for it and kept the number and stuck it on the car rather than pay a yearly retention fee - as an investment it has proved better than a bank's return.
If that makes me a tosser; who cares: not me.
If that makes me a tosser; who cares: not me.
When I bought my car, it had the old owners personalised plate on it, misspelled to A1O AA instead of A1 OAA so the last two letters were his initials.
It was less than a week before I got pulled over by a traffic car, but the new car, plates ordered just waiting for paperwork and even I thought it looked crap story got me off a £100 fine. I followed his advice and changed the plate for a correctly spaced one the next day.
So the only reason I have a personalised plate is to get rid of his crap one.
It was less than a week before I got pulled over by a traffic car, but the new car, plates ordered just waiting for paperwork and even I thought it looked crap story got me off a £100 fine. I followed his advice and changed the plate for a correctly spaced one the next day.
So the only reason I have a personalised plate is to get rid of his crap one.
Another money making scam from HM gov!! selling the right to a reg number that they know will only be any use if its miss spaced in most cases , why we don't have a system like other countrys where the plates belong to the person or business not the car I don't know , they could make even more selling personalised plates to self absorbed tossers and chavs...!!!
4rephill said:
If your car was originally a Japanese Domestic Market car (JDM) that has been imported into the UK and cannot physically accommodate a standard size UK plate then you're fine.
However, if it is a JDM car that can accommodate a standard size UK plate, or it's a UK market car and you have fitted import size plates even though standard size UK plates can be fitted, then the Officer is correct and you're plates are not legal.
One of the good things about miss-spaced/altered registration plates on cars is that it makes it so much easier to spot the complete knobs who are out and about!
Thanks for the information - honestly thought there wasn't an issue with that size number plate on a UK market car.However, if it is a JDM car that can accommodate a standard size UK plate, or it's a UK market car and you have fitted import size plates even though standard size UK plates can be fitted, then the Officer is correct and you're plates are not legal.
One of the good things about miss-spaced/altered registration plates on cars is that it makes it so much easier to spot the complete knobs who are out and about!
Nice subtle dig as well.
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