What crappy personalised plates have you seen recently?
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V8forweekends said:
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.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.
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
Speeding goes on every day with millions of motorists intentionally breaking the law. The law is not very effective or very seriously enforced but it does have the general effect of reducing excessive speed. No doubt the DVLA will have a go with this number plate nonsense in their own time. It is the individuals choice whether they disobey the law.
Pixelpeep said:
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.
t numberplate -Check.Advising customers to illegally represent their plates? Shameless!
https://twitter.com/Regtransfers/status/4208764923...
https://twitter.com/Regtransfers/status/4208764923...
Panda P said:
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.
Just to start, I have three cars, all with correctly spaces personalised plates.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.
I used to have one with two spaces in it instead of one (X1 ABC), never stopped and passed loads of MOT's.
I then had one with a space in the wrong place (X12AB C), failed MOT and my wife got stopped by the plod. The police man said he was specifically out that day to do numberplates (Tamworth) area.
So, they do stop people, just obviously not much.
I have grown up now
seemed a good idea at the time.Max M4X WW said:
Grandfondo said:
Cliftonite said:
Grandfondo said:
I know that the 08 plate has been kept but it looks pretty standard to me?
Spacing fail.
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