What crappy personalised plates have you seen recently?

[Cliftonite]

CR05 SMA

[lost in espace]

PRO 8ODY on an Audi R8 in white, went past me in the Hatfield tunnel then slowed everyone down to listen to his engine rev up with the window down. I overtook in my Zoe and laughed.

[Cliftonite]

TO11 YTC

[rfsteel]

ME 0 2EXY on a Smart car on Friday night.

What then topped the plate off, was the For Sale advert in the rear window, offering said plate for £1,000.

[av185]

Cliftonite said:

Good SPO7 in reverse?

Desperate attempt to display the vans power output to other Mr Softees/Whippies...?

[Flying Penguin]

av185 said:

Desperate attempt to display the vans power output

Not desperate at all; why not letting everyone know what's under the bonnet?

[twing]

C1 ACO displayed as C1A CO ... men in black?

[Steffan]

Flying Penguin said:

av185 said:

Desperate attempt to display the vans power output

Not desperate at all; why not letting everyone know what's under the bonnet?

Looks a legal plate to me. If it s correctly registered good luck to the owner.

[RobinBanks]

Steffan said:

Looks a legal plate to me. If it s correctly registered good luck to the owner.

I think the point was that it's probably not a V8, not that that's a problem. It was a joke

[RobinBanks]

LeoZwalf said:

I can confirm that "Leo" is also a first name - perhaps the owner of that car has that name and was born on 6 August?

Why is it possible in the UK to get hold of these butchered plates?! Where do people buy them from and who is making and selling them? Surely it is totally illegal.

They're not illegal to own, they're illegal to use on the road. In the same way that owning a fake ID or similar is completely legal, you're just not allowed to use it as real identification.

[Stickyfinger]

You can call yourself anything you like...I could make any ID I wished too, just I cannot use it for fraudulent gain , ID to the courts/tax and that sort of thing.

RobinBanks said:

They're not illegal to own, they're illegal to use on the road. In the same way that owning a fake ID or similar is completely legal, you're just not allowed to use it as real identification.

[RobinBanks]

Stickyfinger said:

Well, that's what I meant. I could introduce myself as everyone with any name or title I want.

I could call myself Dr Banks, but I couldn't then use it to give medical evidence in court or to write prescriptions.

I could call myself King Robin, but it wouldn't give me the right to live in Buckingham Palace.

That's what I meant by novelty fake ID. For instance if you're 16 you're allowed to own novelty ID which shows that you're 19, but as soon as you try to use it to buy a bottle of vodka, that's illegal.

[CRA1G]

SpeedBall said:

Don't think you understand this thread.....

[RobinBanks]

Those are really good plates

[Steffan]

RobinBanks said:

Those are really good plates

Indeed.

[SpeedBall]

Sorry! Had both threads open!

[AlexRS2782]

Pillock of an eBay seller said:

The car has the plate to match the engine lol "FAST RS"

So that will actually be FASET RS then

Pillock of an eBay seller also said:

on the Logbook states ST3 but the car has and is a RS !! It has every nut and bolt the car was originally a cat C in 2013

So it's not actually a genuine RS then is it, if it started out life as a Focus ST - prick.

Even more amusing is that the seller seems to think a Cat C Focus ST is worth £18k plus

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Sunday 9th August 20:18

[Junior Bianno]

Nice...

[Cliftonite]

Butchered plate and dodgy stickers!

[JonRB]

On the M3 just now...

A gorgeous Mercedes-AMG GT with the plate "W7 WKD". Seriously???

Also a bright yellow Bentley Continental Convertible with the plate "A 7 A". Even considering the cost of a Conti the plate is probably worth as much as the car, and neither the colour nor the plate did anything to enhance the car (for me).

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 11th August 17:22