Any one ever put stickers on their number plates?

[jellyrace]

I'm wondering if its legally acceptable to place a sticker of e.g. a football team badge on my rear plate. It wouldn't be blocking my reg at all and there would be plenty of space between the sticker and the first character of my reg. Or am I likely to be stopped by police? If so then anyone know if they just warn you or its a instant fine?

Cheers

Edited by jellyrace on Saturday 21st November 22:50

[Roo]

It's not legal so make your own decision.

[arsenalmorris]

On my old car i had plates made up with the badges on instead of just a sticker, was never pulled

[TooMany2cvs]

The likely result depends very much on if you're stopped for having an illegal plate or just for extremely poor taste.

[anonymous-user]

Taste police will fine you.

[Monkeylegend]

It will depend very much on whether it's Rovers or City.

[Digitalize]

Direct yourself to here - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[ging84]

I honesty don't understand people's fascination with interfering with number plates

the law is strict but a little complex, as it relies on an engineering standard, which allows for certain amount of flexibility which allows for some little rebellions to still be within the law, but i still don't think it is a good idea, i spent my teens and early 20s regularly pulled over by the police for trivial things, and have learned not to hand it to them on a plate.
These days i make sure there is nothing about my car which makes it stick out in anyway, no external mods, not even a window sticker. And since i have taken this approach, last 7-8 years i have been pretty much able to get away with murder compared to what i used to.

[AdeTuono]

jellyrace said:

I'm wondering if its legally acceptable to place a sticker of e.g. a football team badge on my rear plate

I can't think of a single reason why you would ever want to. But no, it's probably not.

[The Mad Monk]

No.

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http://tinyurl.com/q4h2z8e

Why on earth would you want to do such a foolish thing?

[98elise]

Why do you need to put it on the plate? You could put it anywhe else on the car and it would be perfectly legal.

[ging84]

98elise said:

Why do you need to put it on the plate? You could put it anywhe else on the car and it would be perfectly legal.

or you could put it somewhere nowhere near your car, like on the back of your laptop, or in a bin.

But in all honesty i think it's all about being a little be rebellious, people never had any interest in putting stickers on the edge on thier number plate until it wasn't allowed.

[Willy Nilly]

Council

[Tomo1971]

As a general rule, plod need a reason to stop you.

Put a sticker on number plate equals that reason. Anything else wrong with the car or your documents and your fubbered. All due to a stupid sticker.

[funkyrobot]

I don't know what's worse. Placing a sticker on a number plate or the fact that it's a football team sticker.

This should be in the council thread.

[Funkycoldribena]

I put a kids sticker over the EU symbol on my old cars,no way Im having that st on my car.Present cars dont have it but I'd do it again.

[TooMany2cvs]

Funkycoldribena said:

I put a kids sticker over the EU symbol on my old cars,no way Im having that st on my car.Present cars dont have it but I'd do it again.

So rather than spend twelve quid on a pair of legal plates without the EU symbol, you'd rather have illegal plates AND look like a dick...?

[Upatdawn]

If we leave the EU will all the "EU" plates be illegal?

[Funkycoldribena]

TooMany2cvs said:

Funkycoldribena said:

I put a kids sticker over the EU symbol on my old cars,no way Im having that st on my car.Present cars dont have it but I'd do it again.

So rather than spend twelve quid on a pair of legal plates without the EU symbol, you'd rather have illegal plates AND look like a dick...?

Couldnt give a flying orangutan what other people think.

[Digitalize]

Funkycoldribena said:

Couldnt give a flying orangutan what other people think.

Then why did you bother telling us?