Stick on number plates.

[digger the goat]

Hello folks...
A question for all that have self adhesive front number plates.
Have you been 'pulled', has your car failed an MOT and should I be overly worried about putting one on my MK1.

I know the points of law and understand that they are illegal.

I was just wondering if anyone has any bad tales.. ??

[Steffan]

digger the goat said:

Hello folks...
A question for all that have self adhesive front number plates.
Have you been 'pulled', has your car failed an MOT and should I be overly worried about putting one on my MK1.

I know the points of law and understand that they are illegal.

I was just wondering if anyone has any bad tales.. ??

If you knw the law and know this to be illegal why actually break the law? I have known of a number of such plates pulled. Equally I have known of a number not pulled. Entirely up to you.

[digger the goat]

Yes, it is up to me.
Thanks for your input. Do you have any experience of being on the 'wrong end of the stick' yourself ?

Many classic cars also display these 'plates but are never questioned on the road.

[Steffan]

digger the goat said:

Yes, it is up to me.
Thanks for your input. Do you have any experience of being on the 'wrong end of the stick' yourself ?

Many classic cars also display these 'plates but are never questioned on the road.

Having owned innumerable kit cars and classic cars over umpteen years I have had the odd incident with the Police. Mostly to stop me and ask what car this is this time. I tend to stay legit because I am too fat to hide behind lamp posts. Huge numbers of drivers use various illegal modifications on virtually every aspect of cars. I personally do not though I doubtless make errors and mistakes but generally have a paeceful drive. I think trouble is best avoided but many others clearly disagree.

[digger the goat]

I agree to be perfectly honest.

Gonna be a short thread !!

[Steffan]

digger the goat said:

I agree to be perfectly honest.

Gonna be a short thread !!

Possibly. Some threads grow some do not. I rather think this may not grow but you never know.

[MX-5 Lazza]

I have a counter view. I've had a stick on plate on my car since around 2005 and have never had a problem. I've had the car at a PH meet at Virginia Water where the police turned up specifically to ticket cars for illegal number plates but only those with the wrong size plate/letters, spacing, font, colours etc. got ticketed. They didn't care about mine. I've asked a traffic cop about it and he confirmed that as long as the size/spacing/font was correct so speed & ANPR cameras could read it they would ignore it.

[snotrag]

Ditto. I've had stick on plates on 4 cars.

Make sure it's the right shape, colour, font, and reflective.

It will be fine. Multiple MOTs, tens of thousands of miles, seen by plod, never had a problem.

[Sad Weevil]

Same here. Had one for years. No problem with mot or police.
Ymmv.

[Munter]

I'm adding to the "Don't take the piss and it'll be ok" crowd.

Mr Plod read my stick on one as he called in the accident over the radio. It was the right size, colour, font and spacing. He didn't care one jot about it being a sticker.

[Alapeno]

As above, also have a stick on plate. I just made sure mine was reflective, right font, spacing etc and was stuck as low as I could get it on the front so as vertical as possible.

[PATTERNPART]

I love stick on number plates and have had them on the front of a couple of cars without even a sideways glance from the authorities. I loathe ordinary number plates that have been dicked around with in terms of spacing and fonts and fixing screws. Yuck.

[skinny]

10 years.
0 issues - even when a policeman stopped me for speeding (but couldn't prove it as he was just driving along).

[Darkdice]

digger the goat said:

Hello folks...
A question for all that have self adhesive front number plates.
Have you been 'pulled', has your car failed an MOT and should I be overly worried about putting one on my MK1.

I know the points of law and understand that they are illegal.

I was just wondering if anyone has any bad tales.. ??

DVLA rules on number plates doesnt cover stick ons https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-...

Ive had mine on the front of my car for 10 months now. Passed MOT no bother. Ive been at the services filling up and 3 police cars doing the same - no problems.

[MoelyCrio]

Mine just failed its MOT on 'front numberplate not vertically aligned as possible'. It was on the bonnet though, rather than the bumper (mk2.5).

The visible bubbling on the front chassis rails was not even an advisory, so go figure..

[Jamespikey]

Afaik, its a potential but very rare MOT failure, BiB more interested in how clearly visible the reg is. My 5 survived stick on plates for 10 yrs in London without question & I still frequently see 5s on the road with them. Can't believe its more than an insignificant chance to take.

[RT Phil]

I drove this without a front plate all the time I had it and never had a problem, even when stopped by the rozzers

[Flatinfourth]

Plenty of times i've had the whole slightly stupid issue of having to create 'dodgy' stick on to replace a legal one for the front of a car that had one when new, drives me a bit nuts.
Can anyone clarify exactly when stick-on plates were outlawed, as it importantly allows the potential to argue that one's stick on plate might have been fitted before that date?

[Jamespikey]

It was during the early 70s when a reflective background requirement that is hard or impossible to achieve in a stick on plate was introduced. Thats the reason I understand them to be a potential risk from a legal perspective. Think its pre 72 or 73 you would looking at for a vehicle to wear them 100% legally.

[MX-5 Lazza]

As a traffic cop once said to me, "if it wasn't reflective I wouldn't be able to see it".