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Black screws on White or Yellow Parts of a Number Plate
White or Yellow Screws on Black Parts of a Number Plate
Yesterday I saw number plate L80... looking like L00
What is the law regarding this?
One reason I ask this is that I am finding more and more Car Parks are using ANPR cameras to register in and out movements. Every time I go my registration is never recorded (1 Number 3 Letters) even though it is pucker so what chance do they have with these modified plates?
John
Black screws on White or Yellow Parts of a Number Plate
White or Yellow Screws on Black Parts of a Number Plate
Yesterday I saw number plate L80... looking like L00
What is the law regarding this?
One reason I ask this is that I am finding more and more Car Parks are using ANPR cameras to register in and out movements. Every time I go my registration is never recorded (1 Number 3 Letters) even though it is pucker so what chance do they have with these modified plates?
John
The law says (or something similar to) that strategically placed screws used on number plates to alter the appearance of the characters are not allowed. Can't be bothered to google it.
Edit - oh go on then. Page 4. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...
Edit - oh go on then. Page 4. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...
Greenmantle said:
What is the law regarding this?
The plate has to be easily legible.That's why there's black screw caps (when the screw goes through a letter) and white/yellow ones (when the screw goes through background).
However, you'll always have the halfwits who think it's funny to have plates that "read" their dog's middle name - so long as you squint, mumble, suspend disbelief and have the decoding skills of Alan Turing.
Maybe there should be a thread on here about them, with photos of some of the finer examples of their self-obsessed ineptitude?
DRFC1879 said:
I noticed on there it said "in some cases the registration number may be permanently withdrawn". I'd love it if they started taking plates off the nobbers who manufacture their name into them and issue them with replacements like "PN15 HED"
Half of them would pay thousands for that. Far worse - to them - would be to issue them with bland generic plates like BC58NJW which just crush their wacky personalities under the jackboot of corporate conformism...blearyeyedboy said:
TooMany2cvs said:
However, you'll always have the halfwits who think it's funny to have plates that "read" their dog's middle name - so long as you squint, mumble, suspend disbelief and have the decoding skills of Alan Turing.
It's easier to rename your dog NF58HDM.That's the cat's name.
i had a car where the origonal owner was one of these dicks with a personalised plate that needs extra screws to make sense.
When i took the number plate off for a proper clean found extra holes with rust starting to form around them.
I wasn't the 2nd owner so don't have his address to take round frozen sausages, although i do know his plate, so one day i might find him.
When i took the number plate off for a proper clean found extra holes with rust starting to form around them.
I wasn't the 2nd owner so don't have his address to take round frozen sausages, although i do know his plate, so one day i might find him.
TooMany2cvs said:
blearyeyedboy said:
TooMany2cvs said:
However, you'll always have the halfwits who think it's funny to have plates that "read" their dog's middle name - so long as you squint, mumble, suspend disbelief and have the decoding skills of Alan Turing.
It's easier to rename your dog NF58HDM.That's the cat's name.
blearyeyedboy said:
TooMany2cvs said:
blearyeyedboy said:
TooMany2cvs said:
However, you'll always have the halfwits who think it's funny to have plates that "read" their dog's middle name - so long as you squint, mumble, suspend disbelief and have the decoding skills of Alan Turing.
It's easier to rename your dog NF58HDM.That's the cat's name.
TooMany2cvs said:
blearyeyedboy said:
TooMany2cvs said:
blearyeyedboy said:
TooMany2cvs said:
However, you'll always have the halfwits who think it's funny to have plates that "read" their dog's middle name - so long as you squint, mumble, suspend disbelief and have the decoding skills of Alan Turing.
It's easier to rename your dog NF58HDM.That's the cat's name.
Biker 1 said:
Almost off topic: but what is the f
king point in spending your hard earned on a fking number plate FFS? Do any motorists following you really give a st?? 
Personally id like one that just covers the exact age of my car, with preferably the least letters that I can afford so I can slice the edges of my front plate off.king point in spending your hard earned on a fking number plate FFS? Do any motorists following you really give a st?? Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff