What crappy personalised plates have you seen recently?

[simoid]

I'd be keeping an eye on/pulling someone with an illegal number plate. If they don't have respect for the laws for identifying their car, what other laws are they flouting?

Like (back on topic!) the Audi TT I passed today:

G 18T TT

[vpr]

DannyScene said:

AyBee said:

DannyScene said:

AyBee said:

DannyScene said:

I'd rather the police do something worthwhile rather than running around telling people off for having a space in the wrong place on the number plate

Does it effect anything like confusing ANPR or anything?

Probably confuses ANPR, but the main issue, and the reason the police should be doing something, is that it makes it much easier to trace vehicles involved in crime. Imagine your child was knocked over by a hit-and-run driver and the only witness had the numberplate remembered as "AMITT P" - which was actually AM11 TTP.

But that isn;t simple mis spacing is it?

I agree using screws and what not to alter letters needs stopping but for example NV53 UMA or NV5 3UMA is only mis-spaced and makes no difference, some people on this thread see a plate not altered but mis-spaced and act like he's just tried to Saville one of their kids!

But then where do you draw the line? Either it's a blanket rule (as now), or it's subjective and you end up with a huge grey area about what's ok and what's not. I suspect a large amount of the police tend to turn a blind eye to readable but spaced incorrectly but you can't complain if you take he risk and get a fine for it.

I've just said where I'd draw the line

If it is simply mis-spaced then crack on, if you are changing how the letters look ie changing a D into a B then lynch the fkers

Im with Danny on this...spot on

[AyBee]

DannyScene said:

I've just said where I'd draw the line

If it is simply mis-spaced then crack on, if you are changing how the letters look ie changing a D into a B then lynch the fkers

Is that letters and numbers closer together or do they have to remain at least 11mm apart....?

[DUMBO100]

[Cliftonite]

DUMBO100 said:

The number plate is bad enough, but does it also have papier-mâché wheel arch and valance repairs??

[thetapeworm]

Has Winston Wolf been mentioned yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZb3azkEiI



Would his insurance be valid running around with a plate like that (and presumably no MOT as a result)?

[jamieduff1981]

thetapeworm said:

Has Winston Wolf been mentioned yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZb3azkEiI



Would his insurance be valid running around with a plate like that (and presumably no MOT as a result)?

More to the point; has he declared swapping out that inert little 4pot for a V8 as a modification to his insurer?

[droopsnoot]

From a post in the "Supercars spotted, some rarities" thread:

danjama said:

Blancpain GT Supercar Gathering by Dan Jama, on Flickr

It seems to be D14 HLO with top and bottom extra bolts.

[DickyC]

jamieduff1981 said:

Fast forward 25 years though and here we are. You remember the F40 but I'd bet my house the F40 driver doesn't remember your shagged out Range Rover complete with dog stench.

I'll take the F40 thanks, and I'd still overtake an old 4x4 just so I didn't have to look at it!

Wish I still had both of them. His regular visits to the grooming parlour made him quite a fragrant old hound and restored A suffix chassis Range Rovers are fetching around £30,000 now.

We couldn't have got all of us in the DB4. I wish I still had that too, but what can you do?

[M3DGE]

Gompo said:

I know if I put this in the other thread it would get a few negative responses..



£5.5 K in 1997.

Oooh....I think I would have defended you, I KNOW that is mis-spaced and I would rather it was not, but I just can't call that crappy..

[M3DGE]

thatsprettyshady said:

twing said:

DUMBO100 said:

G69 0RAL? Hahahahaha

Damn beaten to it

O/T thatsprettyshady, you playing Moonchild by The Fields of The Nephilm??

[giblet]

M3DGE said:

O/T thatsprettyshady, you playing Moonchild by The Fields of The Nephilm??

Nope, M83 as it clearly shows

[DickyC]

I love the smell of Nephilim in the morning.

[T.J.B]

This was in our car park at work today. Maybe a candidate for the badly modified read as well.

[Jaguar steve]

M3DGE said:

Gompo said:

I know if I put this in the other thread it would get a few negative responses..



£5.5 K in 1997.

Oooh....I think I would have defended you, I KNOW that is mis-spaced and I would rather it was not, but I just can't call that crappy..

You can call it illegal though. And that's a fact, not a matter of opinion.

[Sad Ken]

While I'm not a fan of personal plates and think they're all a bit naff (just my opinion), I have to be honest, I wouldn't consider a plate to be crap just because they've moved a number closer to the letters.

However all plates where they've had to move multiple letters around, use crap fonts, bolts/caps in weird places, or for me the worst sin of them all - spelling out what it's supposed to say underneath (because it looks nowt like what they want it to) want carefully removing from the car and blow torching!

[Cliftonite]

^^^^ . . . together with their owners!

[jamieduff1981]

Jaguar steve said:

M3DGE said:

Gompo said:

I know if I put this in the other thread it would get a few negative responses..



£5.5 K in 1997.

Oooh....I think I would have defended you, I KNOW that is mis-spaced and I would rather it was not, but I just can't call that crappy..

You can call it illegal though. And that's a fact, not a matter of opinion.

So is setting cruise control at 75mph on a motorway, but thousands do it daily, nothing bad happens and even the scamera vans don't bother with them.

Life becomes a little difficult to reconcile if one chooses only to see things in black or white.

[Jaguar steve]

jamieduff1981 said:

Jaguar steve said:

M3DGE said:

Gompo said:

I know if I put this in the other thread it would get a few negative responses..



£5.5 K in 1997.

Oooh....I think I would have defended you, I KNOW that is mis-spaced and I would rather it was not, but I just can't call that crappy..

You can call it illegal though. And that's a fact, not a matter of opinion.

So is setting cruise control at 75mph on a motorway, but thousands do it daily, nothing bad happens and even the scamera vans don't bother with them.

Life becomes a little difficult to reconcile if one chooses only to see things in black or white.

Both illegal of course. But the difference between occasionally nudging a few mph over the limit, possibily quite justifiably or maybe inadvertently and very blatently sticking two fingers up at the law for no other reason than you're convinced bolstering your fragile ego is far more important than any obligation to display a legal numberplate is huge.

Thats the real issue here, the fkuc the law egotistical attitude illegal plates represent.

[Steffan]

Jaguar steve said:

jamieduff1981 said:

Jaguar steve said:

M3DGE said:

Gompo said:

I know if I put this in the other thread it would get a few negative responses..



£5.5 K in 1997.

Oooh....I think I would have defended you, I KNOW that is mis-spaced and I would rather it was not, but I just can't call that crappy..

You can call it illegal though. And that's a fact, not a matter of opinion.

So is setting cruise control at 75mph on a motorway, but thousands do it daily, nothing bad happens and even the scamera vans don't bother with them.

Life becomes a little difficult to reconcile if one chooses only to see things in black or white.

Both illegal of course. But the difference between occasionally nudging a few mph over the limit, possibily quite justifiably or maybe inadvertently and very blatently sticking two fingers up at the law for no other reason than you're convinced bolstering your fragile ego is far more important than any obligation to display a legal numberplate is huge.

Thats the real issue here, the fkuc the law egotistical attitude illegal plates represent.

Agreed. There are worse crimes but that is absolutely no defence to planned deliberate daily law breaking.