Real Good Number Plates : Vol 4

[pingu393]

P16 BMW on an Audi.

Not a Beemer fan, I guess .

[TomHamper]

pingu393 said:

P16 BMW on an Audi.

Not a Beemer fan, I guess .

If only it had been on a Police BMW Interceptor lol

[v15ben]

JSH 1 on a Porsche Cayenne in Milton Keynes last night.
1 JDB on a Volvo XC90 in the same place last week.

[tali1]

[Cliftonite]

tali1 said:

OO 1011 on the V5, methinks!

[Splitpin2008]

BlackST said:

Hoping someone knowledgable can help me. My MOT failed today as the tester said the width of the registration plate isn't wide enough.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/359317/INF104_160914.pdf

[CRA1G]

BlackST said:

Hoping someone knowledgable can help me. My MOT failed today as the tester said the width of the registration plate isn't wide enough. The registration plate is L8 FCH and I have the plate shortened down so there isn't much space, apart from the legal reuqirement, either side of the L and H. Does anybody know the actual criteria of what the plate should adhere to? I thought there was no criteria in regards to the width aslong as the letters have 1.1cm(?) inbetween each digit/letter?

Plate in question is this which has been on since Nov 2013. If anybody has a link to the actual requirement I'd appreciate it

Iirc a plate can be make shorter but the legal measurement between the number and letter is the same as the space before and after the first and last digit.... Your plate looks too short and doesn't have that...

[ATTAK Z]

BlackST said:

Hoping someone knowledgable can help me. My MOT failed today as the tester said the width of the registration plate isn't wide enough. The registration plate is L8 FCH and I have the plate shortened down so there isn't much space, apart from the legal reuqirement, either side of the L and H. Does anybody know the actual criteria of what the plate should adhere to? I thought there was no criteria in regards to the width aslong as the letters have 1.1cm(?) inbetween each digit/letter?

Plate in question is this which has been on since Nov 2013. If anybody has a link to the actual requirement I'd appreciate it

Yep that looks legal ... 11 mm border is the legal requirement (plus of course all the other stuff such as BS au145d etc.)

[BlackST]

1.1cm before the first letter. 1.1cm after the last letter. Mine looks ok.
3.3cm between the age identifier and random letters. Looks to be ok.
I can't measure the plate right now because the car has been left at the garage for a bit of work but i'll print off the above pdf tomorrow for reference, thanks

[BlackST]

ATTAK Z said:

Yep that looks legal ... 11 mm border is the legal requirement (plus of course all the other stuff such as BS au145d etc.)

That's originally why I thought it would be legit as it has the plate manufacturers postcode on it and the BS au145d.
Baffled as to why it was down as a failure.

[ATTAK Z]

ATTAK Z said:

BlackST said:

Hoping someone knowledgable can help me. My MOT failed today as the tester said the width of the registration plate isn't wide enough. The registration plate is L8 FCH and I have the plate shortened down so there isn't much space, apart from the legal reuqirement, either side of the L and H. Does anybody know the actual criteria of what the plate should adhere to? I thought there was no criteria in regards to the width aslong as the letters have 1.1cm(?) inbetween each digit/letter?

Plate in question is this which has been on since Nov 2013. If anybody has a link to the actual requirement I'd appreciate it

Yep that looks legal ... 11 mm border is the legal requirement (plus of course all the other stuff such as BS au145d etc.)

Following a longer look at your plate, I think you need to get rid of the black border to make it legal

[rejn]

Splitpin2008 said:

BlackST said:

Hoping someone knowledgable can help me. My MOT failed today as the tester said the width of the registration plate isn't wide enough.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/359317/INF104_160914.pdf

Wow - thanks for posting that - I never knew that - I'd always assumed cut-down plates were illegal.

[jonttt]

On one of my toys......



And from a few years ago when these were new........

[CRA1G]

jonttt said:

On one of my toys......



And from a few years ago when these were new........

I like that.... It would suit my ZMC in Dakar.... Also a coincidence a neighbour of mine has "X2"....

[toon10]

tali1 said:

If that's binary for Jaguary then I'm impressed.

[M3DGE]

BlackST said:

ATTAK Z said:

Yep that looks legal ... 11 mm border is the legal requirement (plus of course all the other stuff such as BS au145d etc.)

That's originally why I thought it would be legit as it has the plate manufacturers postcode on it and the BS au145d.
Baffled as to why it was down as a failure.

I think your garage either have a business making 'legal' plates or charge a retest fee. I am pretty sure that is legal, and compared to much of the crud that is on the other thread it wears a halo!

[M3DGE]

CRA1G said:

jonttt said:

On one of my toys......



And from a few years ago when these were new........

I like that.... It would suit my ZMC in Dakar.... Also a coincidence a neighbour of mine has "X2"....

Blimey Johntt, were those single/singles (and the cars of course) both yours?

[M3DGE]

Dunchurch nr Rugby last night. I love original single letter plates...this one from Derbyshire, 1962.

[User33678888]

H4PPY spotted yesterday on a Mercedes ML is East Finchley. No pic, and some might say the wrong thread due to lack of a space between 4 and P, but I liked it nevertheless.

[CRA1G]

User33678888 said:

H4PPY spotted yesterday on a Mercedes ML is East Finchley. No pic, and some might say the wrong thread due to lack of a space between 4 and P, but I liked it nevertheless.

I bet the owner is happy now paying £4,700 for it in 1998.....