No front number plate
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agtlaw said:
£60 fixed penalty each time you're stopped.
Or a VDRS...have to get one fitted ASAP, stamped at a MOT station and taken back to a police station within 14 days.I might be mistaken, but if you do it so many times (more than twice rings a bell) the DVLA can take the plate away, giving you a Q plate.
It might just be for non conforming plates though (crappy fonts etc).
No idea why you wouldn't want one though...just asking for trouble.
Ki3r said:
I might be mistaken, but if you do it so many times (more than twice rings a bell) the DVLA can take the plate away, giving you a Q plate.
q plates are reserved for vehicles where they can't define a date. In most cases, you'll find the original plate that came with the car is still sitting there hidden, linked to the car, with the private plate being the link.So if COR5A gets taken off your Vauxhall for repeated spacing infringements, it'll drop back to P176 HHT or whatever, and not a Q plate.
TheEnd said:
Ki3r said:
I might be mistaken, but if you do it so many times (more than twice rings a bell) the DVLA can take the plate away, giving you a Q plate.
q plates are reserved for vehicles where they can't define a date. In most cases, you'll find the original plate that came with the car is still sitting there hidden, linked to the car, with the private plate being the link.So if COR5A gets taken off your Vauxhall for repeated spacing infringements, it'll drop back to P176 HHT or whatever, and not a Q plate.
Far from being thrown around, Q prefixes are assigned reluctantly now and only where a vehicles original age or identity cant be established - they certainly arent given away on a whim.
GC8 said:
Youre on a hiding to nothing here! People really wont accept that this cant happen and its become pub/forum myth, like not tax means invalid insurance, DOC cover requires the car to be insured and other such nonsense...
Far from being thrown around, Q prefixes are assigned reluctantly now and only where a vehicles original age or identity cant be established - they certainly arent given away on a whim.
I'm not sure you are right, I was told this by an MOT man. He reckons he has seen it happen. And if it does, what does it do to your cars value?Far from being thrown around, Q prefixes are assigned reluctantly now and only where a vehicles original age or identity cant be established - they certainly arent given away on a whim.
Im confident that Im right. I do realise that the 'Q reg' threat was made when the reporting process was introduced, but its an obvious nonsense.
The more you consider it, I think, the more obvious it is that its a nonsense. The intention is to stop serial piss-taking and its obviously intended to frighten people into desisting, making them fear for the value of their vehicle. You only have to look into the Q registration scheme though, to see that whilst it may be threatened, and whilst cherished numbers may well be withdrawn, the DVLA isnt re-registering vehicles whose identity and provenance are not in question with punitive Q plates.
The more you consider it, I think, the more obvious it is that its a nonsense. The intention is to stop serial piss-taking and its obviously intended to frighten people into desisting, making them fear for the value of their vehicle. You only have to look into the Q registration scheme though, to see that whilst it may be threatened, and whilst cherished numbers may well be withdrawn, the DVLA isnt re-registering vehicles whose identity and provenance are not in question with punitive Q plates.
Aretnap said:
agtlaw said:
£60 fixed penalty each time you're stopped.
Or a maximum fine of (IIRC) £1000 if they decide not to give you a fixed penalty and prosecute you instead - which they might if you make a habit of it.Goodness!! And there was me thinking this meaningless regulatory infraction was only going to incur the occasional little earner for HMG!! I should have known it was directly linked to mayhem, murder and probably terrorism too. Obviously having the p&j crushed and myself lengthily imprisoned is only reasonable in the circumstances. So it's back to rigid conformity for me before I inadvertently cause WW3 with this wilful and thoughtless outbreak of criminality. I can only humbly apologise and assure Your Honours I won't so much as think of doing it again. Show me to the naughty step! 
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