What crappy personalised plates have you seen recently?

[Ari]

yellowjack said:

Found in the 'Real Good plates' thread, but due to the butchering it really needs to be seen in here. As bad a case of deliberate misrepresentation as I've seen.


(full size so that the butchery can be clearly seen )

Someone posted that in the good plates thread!?

[AlexRS2782]

[Panda P]

chilistrucker said:

Org454m
Spotted on a range rover on the m25 yesterday.
A black range rover with a bright orange bonnet, hmm.

That's been knocking around Guildford for years.

[Jaguar steve]

av185 said:

Cliftonite said:

MrReg said:

Such class! And is that a minicab smelly-tree thing dangling from the interior mirror?

Maybe the chauffeurs a Chav and chose the plate as well as the feu orange......

You don't have to wonder if the chauffeur is a Chav or not - he's just proved he is beyond any doubt by choosing to display the vehicle registration in an illegal format.

[professor chaos]

chilistrucker said:

Org454m
Spotted on a range rover on the m25 yesterday.
A black range rover with a bright orange bonnet, hmm.

[Max M4X WW]

Wow, the dodgey looking rear end matches the front now! Its been around for ages this car.

[TTOBES]

"SHN" says the small print.

[moonshadow]

Spotted one last month in Preston B7 POO, who the fk would think that was cool plate

Unless they worked in colonic irrigation.....

or the car was fitted with a Turdbo

Edited by moonshadow on Saturday 4th January 16:52

[Steffan]

moonshadow said:

Spotted one last month in Preston B7 POO, who the fk would think that was cool plate

Unless they worked in colonic irrigation.....

or the car was fitted with a Turdbo

Edited by moonshadow on Saturday 4th January 16:52

I LOL at that! Keep it up!

[gubbabump]

not the worst but making a 4 into a Y lol

[thetapeworm]

[D44nny]

MrReg said:

I see this quite alot they are from Bilston and have limos and another phantom there company is sv limos.

[D44nny]

MrReg said:

I see this quite alot they are from Bilston and have limos and another phantom there company is sv limos.

[madbadger]

vincegail said:

JPJPJP said:

Dr Semen? Well, the owner is a tosser and a wker, so the plate suits him very well!

That plate used to be on a Chrysler 300C in Rotherham.

At least Dr Semen has a better car now.

[Panda P]

I suppose whether a number plate is crappy is subjective. I mean, if it means something to the owner then who cares although trying to spell a word, badly, out of a retarded formation of letters and numbers is quite stupid. Sadly, any plates that spell a name in a coherent manner are out of reach financially of most people.

This leads me to something I've wondered a while, as a person who has a private plate represented in the correct way. How do so many people get away with their plates being incorrectly spaced? Such as that ORG454M plate (ORG 454M), it's been around for years, always displayed like that and I'll be honest, Guildford is not the most friendly Traffic Policed area in the UK so I'm surprised that it has escaped reprimand.

I see tens of cars a day with mispresented plates, sometimes with Police/Traffic Police behind but they do nothing. Is the law against misrepresentation of a number plate becoming loose? Are ANPR camera's able to read the plates in any format, determining who's bad and who's not, and therefore offering little incentive for the Policeman to stop the car? MOT testers turn a blind eye (I doubt most of the owner's swap the plates to legal ones)? I'm not ranting, it doesn't really bother me honestly but I've always wondered.

So as to not totally derail this with my own question, I see one regularly on an old SL500 that perhaps looked good on the car 20yrs back when it was one of the quickest things around...C 2 U E L, spaced like that (for years also with no issue) which I assume is supposed to be CRUEL, as in "I have more money than you" or "you got done".

That brings me onto the local chav actually. Ford Fiesta ST with reg plate U G07 DUN (UG07 DUN), meant to read U GOT DUN. By a Fiesta ST? I hope not.

[Pixelpeep]

Panda P said:

I suppose whether a number plate is crappy is subjective.

Not in this thread it's not.

illegally spaced to form a word= Crappy
black screws, slanty font etc to form a word = Crappy

So anything other than a completely legal plate becomes a crappy plate.

[Butter Face]

I just. I don't understand.

[M3DGE]

Riknos said:

Steffan said:

Riknos said:

Possibly going to get my ass handed to me here, but why the hate for incorrectly spaced plates?

I think it's downright chav, and illegal, to put screws on plates and use fonts etc to make letters and numbers look like something different - You might as well put a fake plate on your car, totally unacceptable and illegal.

But moving some spaces around? The plate spells EXACTLY the same as before, it's not misleading, it's obvious that it's a genuine number plate, the letters and numbers are perfectly legible, nobody can dodge a speeding fine that way, why should it be illegal?

Because the law says so. That is the law. You could equally argue why wear a seat belt? Or use indicators? Because it is a legal requirement. It is not a defence to ignore the law because you disagree with that law. If it were there would be precious few prosecutions.

Personally, I would say a SAFETY item such as a seatbelt is MUCH more important and nothing like a number plate? I'm pretty sure nobody has died from changing a space on their number plate? Likewise indicators - stop accidents, a plate doesn't.

It's just reading some posts on this thread from users getting really upset that someone has removed a space from their numberplate!

Guys, if you'll excuse me coming to this party late, my personal opinion is that there is a huge gulf between the guy 'losing' the space on D 54, which is still precisely legible and would come up on ANPR, SPECS or any other system, and the outrageous butchery shown on most of these photos. Anyone on here can have an opinion as to whether mis-spacing or indeed any plate is chavvery, but there is a clear difference between being a tad the wrong side of a regulation (75 on a motorway, anyone?) and some of this other crap.

[Steffan]

M3DGE said:

Riknos said:

Steffan said:

Riknos said:

Possibly going to get my ass handed to me here, but why the hate for incorrectly spaced plates?

I think it's downright chav, and illegal, to put screws on plates and use fonts etc to make letters and numbers look like something different - You might as well put a fake plate on your car, totally unacceptable and illegal.

But moving some spaces around? The plate spells EXACTLY the same as before, it's not misleading, it's obvious that it's a genuine number plate, the letters and numbers are perfectly legible, nobody can dodge a speeding fine that way, why should it be illegal?

Because the law says so. That is the law. You could equally argue why wear a seat belt? Or use indicators? Because it is a legal requirement. It is not a defence to ignore the law because you disagree with that law. If it were there would be precious few prosecutions.

Personally, I would say a SAFETY item such as a seatbelt is MUCH more important and nothing like a number plate? I'm pretty sure nobody has died from changing a space on their number plate? Likewise indicators - stop accidents, a plate doesn't.

It's just reading some posts on this thread from users getting really upset that someone has removed a space from their numberplate!

Guys, if you'll excuse me coming to this party late, my personal opinion is that there is a huge gulf between the guy 'losing' the space on D 54, which is still precisely legible and would come up on ANPR, SPECS or any other system, and the outrageous butchery shown on most of these photos. Anyone on here can have an opinion as to whether mis-spacing or indeed any plate is chavvery, but there is a clear difference between being a tad the wrong side of a regulation (75 on a motorway, anyone?) and some of this other crap.

Both contributors are entitled to their views. However the law is the law. These "modified" plates are illegal. You may want to illegally alter your cars exhaust to get a ludicrous noise when driving. Or you may chose not to wear a seat belt when driving, Or you may chose to exceed the speed limit. Or you may chose ridiculously bright replacement lamps in your car. All this would be illegal. Wishing something was legal does not make it so. Cars are required to have licence plates complying with strict legal requirements. If you chose not to do so you are acting unlawfully.

[V8forweekends]

Panda P said:

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This leads me to something I've wondered a while, as a person who has a private plate represented in the correct way. How do so many people get away with their plates being incorrectly spaced? Such as that ORG454M plate (ORG 454M), it's been around for years, always displayed like that and I'll be honest, Guildford is not the most friendly Traffic Policed area in the UK so I'm surprised that it has escaped reprimand.

I see tens of cars a day with mispresented plates, sometimes with Police/Traffic Police behind but they do nothing. Is the law against misrepresentation of a number plate becoming loose? Are ANPR camera's able to read the plates in any format, determining who's bad and who's not, and therefore offering little incentive for the Policeman to stop the car? MOT testers turn a blind eye (I doubt most of the owner's swap the plates to legal ones)? I'm not ranting, it doesn't really bother me honestly but I've always wondered.

We have fewer and fewer traffic police about, and given the number of people who obviously think it's their god-given right to plaster their car with any kind of number plate abortion they like and get all sneery about it if anyone else objects, I can't imagine it would be top of my list of fun things to pull people over for if I was a copper. No doubt the people who have them would start giving the copper the "why aren't you catching real criminals" lecture.

There is certainly zero enforcement evident around here - either on incorrect spacing, butchery of the characters, dodgy fonts and black and silver plates fitted illegally - all of which I see every single day