Front number plate deleters - are you one?

[irocfan]

DaveH23 said:

sparks_190e said:

No I'm not. Although I wish front plates weren't necessary, as cars do for the most part look better without them.

Can't say I've seen a car yet that looks better without a plate.

They are designed to have a space for a plate so when you take it away it looks fking stupid.

truth be told I spent several years sans front plate when I had a succession of IROC Camaros. No reason other than IMO it looked better without:



never got a tug (even when, on several occasions, following police)

[jeffreywoodham]

anonymous said:

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Are you usually this charming? Or do you have to work on it?

[jeffreywoodham]

anonymous said:

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I did, but now I have an I-Pace. Do you have to work on your sense of humour, or does it come naturally? Because it’s pathetic. I don’t see your garage, perhaps you’d like to enlighten us, but as schoolboys are not allowed to drive, perhaps you can’t.

Edited by jeffreywoodham on Sunday 8th September 22:24

[caelite]

I had a stick on vinyl job on my MX5, legally slightly dubious, mine was the right size with all the right font/spacing/text size etc, but even then technically they are C&U violation due to the lack of a BS kite & I think a stipulation of C&Us that plates are flat.

Drove it like that for 2 years, never had so much as an eyelid batted. I just thought it made the lines at the front of the car look so much sleeker, also, saved ~100grams?

Edited by caelite on Monday 9th September 01:20

[shane.norman]

Makes a lot of aesthetic sense for some classics and other older cars which had no proper location for a front plate on their aerodynamic snouts, e.g., E-Type, several Lotus models, early Mazda MX5, etc. Owners often used stick-on numbers, but they could be illegal because their slope diminished legibility.

[chow pan toon]

I had a 3/4 size stick on front plate on my RX8, no daft font or spacing and I never got pulled over for it. I thought it looked loads better.

[Dog Star]

chow pan toon said:

I had a 3/4 size stick on front plate on my RX8, no daft font or spacing and I never got pulled over for it. I thought it looked loads better.

I've always had perfectly standard, normal plates on my car. However I do wish we could have front plates like I've seen on some Italian cars - about 6" x 1"

[Kewy]

Robberto said:

I really don’t get the obsession with messing around with number plates. Private plates, mis-spaced plates, removed plates, smoked plates, it’s all pathetic. They’re a legal requirement, not a fashion statement. Use the reg the car came with in the legal format and stop being an attention seeking moron.

Seriously, why the need to personalise such a thing? Is your life that empty and your desire for someone to look at you that strong? Get a grip.

And to the inevitable chav tts who will be along with the “the world would be a dull place if everyone did everything the same” argument, my rebuttal remains the same. It’s. A. Number plate. Grow up.

Tell you what, it is beautiful that people can have different opinions on stuff though eh. How wonderful.




I find myself tuning into these plate threads for the hilarity now. Same 5 or 6 posters patting each other on the back and spouting their opinions as if they're fact.

You should all start a Whatsapp group and then you can all moan and wk each other off without being bothered by chavs and criminals that disagree with you

[Kewy]

For the record, I'm not really a fan of no front plate. But it doesn't raise my blood pressure, nor do I have a strong opinion on those who choose not to run one.

[swagmeister]

Using the phrase to "delete" is just as bad as the offence of REMOVING the number plate.

"Would you mind deleting your shoes as you enter the house please ?"

[Zoon]

It's as daft as blacked out lights and blacked number plates.

[USA64]

Sheesh! No wonder you can't get your country back!

[Riley Blue]

In Chesterfield this afternoon a black Skyline (I think) with no front plate but what looked a bit like one reading BECAUSE inside the windscreen.

[designforlife]

Around here the guilty party are the powerfully built rich types driving Ferrari 458s and Porsche GT2s.

The local mode of thinking seems to be that if you are rich enough and drive a flashy enough car, then the laws don't apply re. front number plates.

[bodhi]

Robberto said:

I really don’t get the obsession with messing around with number plates. Private plates, mis-spaced plates, removed plates, smoked plates, it’s all pathetic. They’re a legal requirement, not a fashion statement. Use the reg the car came with in the legal format and stop being an attention seeking moron.

Seriously, why the need to personalise such a thing? Is your life that empty and your desire for someone to look at you that strong? Get a grip.

And to the inevitable chav tts who will be along with the “the world would be a dull place if everyone did everything the same” argument, my rebuttal remains the same. It’s. A. Number plate. Grow up.

Personally I quite like my Private Plate. Well I say mine, it was my father's he bought himself upon his retirement, then when he passed away, it passed to me. I thought putting it on a silver BM like he has would be a nice tribute / memorial. Only gets attention as his initials were different from mine, so I get asked the significance occasionally. Can't say I've had any negative feedback from it.

Apart from shouty people on the internet, who seem to get far too would up about bits of plastic attached to cars anyway, but I'm sure if I had a normal plate they could soon find something else to get shouty about.

[trails]

swagmeister said:

Using the phrase to "delete" is just as bad as the offence of REMOVING the number plate.

"Would you mind deleting your shoes as you enter the house please ?"

Delete is a common term used to describe the removal of options from cars though, so it’s in context.

[SlimJim16v]

swagmeister said:

Using the phrase to "delete" is just as bad as the offence of REMOVING the number plate.

"Would you mind deleting your shoes as you enter the house please ?"

[DoubleD]

trails said:

swagmeister said:

Using the phrase to "delete" is just as bad as the offence of REMOVING the number plate.

"Would you mind deleting your shoes as you enter the house please ?"

Delete is a common term used to describe the removal of options from cars though, so it’s in context.

It makes you sound like a moron.

[Jaguar steve]

Kewy said:

Robberto said:

I really don’t get the obsession with messing around with number plates. Private plates, mis-spaced plates, removed plates, smoked plates, it’s all pathetic. They’re a legal requirement, not a fashion statement. Use the reg the car came with in the legal format and stop being an attention seeking moron.

Seriously, why the need to personalise such a thing? Is your life that empty and your desire for someone to look at you that strong? Get a grip.

And to the inevitable chav tts who will be along with the “the world would be a dull place if everyone did everything the same” argument, my rebuttal remains the same. It’s. A. Number plate. Grow up.

Tell you what, it is beautiful that people can have different opinions on stuff though eh. How wonderful.




I find myself tuning into these plate threads for the hilarity now. Same 5 or 6 posters patting each other on the back and spouting their opinions as if they're fact.

You should all start a Whatsapp group and then you can all moan and wk each other off without being bothered by chavs and criminals that disagree with you

It's not a matter of opinion the law requires a legally formatted front number plate it's a matter of fact.

Anybody choosing to ignore that fact for whatever reason is simply revealing a great deal about themselves.

[anonymous-user]

Robberto said:

I really don’t get the obsession with messing around with number plates. Private plates, mis-spaced plates, removed plates, smoked plates, it’s all pathetic. They’re a legal requirement, not a fashion statement. Use the reg the car came with in the legal format and stop being an attention seeking moron.

Seriously, why the need to personalise such a thing? Is your life that empty and your desire for someone to look at you that strong? Get a grip.

And to the inevitable chav tts who will be along with the “the world would be a dull place if everyone did everything the same” argument, my rebuttal remains the same. It’s. A. Number plate. Grow up.

What’s it got to do with you exactly if someone wants to remove their number plate. It always amazes me the whinging old bloaters on here who never list a garage, obviously have fk all interesting to say about cars, likely wouldn’t know one end of a nut, from a bolt. It’s laughable.

I haven’t got a plate on two of mine, and tbh, you can kiss the fattest part of my backside if you don’t like it My life isn’t empty, it’s filled with cars. What you need to to Robbo is to live and let live. Be less of a judgemental tt.

I’ll also take your legal argument, I trust you never speed, park on yellows, or otherwise? I mean you wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite right?

In the meantime join all the deranged in the number plates thread. They’ll be right up your street, sad, boring old whingers more concerned with others than their own deeply boring lives.

Mug.