Small European Looking Number Plates

[Ganan]

Hey Fellas,

Need to get a smaller number plate on my car - I saw one on a clio 182 and it looked ace.

Not the American style on - but a long small plate, think the Evo VI had one.

Does anyone know where to buy them? Ebay perhaps.

Also post pictures of your car with them if you have them - would love to see what they look like on a AMG!

Great

Thanks

[Transiter]

Do you mean the Swiss front plates?


I think the EU all have standard size/same as British plates.

[hobbiniho]

if you have a personalized registration with fewer characters you can buy shorter plates from the likes of ebay, however they still need to be the correct sized font and spacing etc i have a number plate that is in the form of A12 ABC and i got a shorter number plate made up

[Ganan]

Transitier - that's exactly what I was thinking.

I found this picture of Scooby Forum

Something similar to that - I think the Fuzz may pull me over with it.

I have a VW scirocco and the Number Plate is a normal 60 plate - so it may not go with the spacing eh?

Thanks again

[Motorrad]

My neighbours car is Italian registered and it has a tiny front number plate with a font much smaller than would be legal in the UK. It looks pretty good IMO although no plate at all would be better.

[Ganan]

Motorrad - thats what I was thinking of, along with the Swiss plates.

Been doing some researching they're called 3/4 plates or show plates.

They're also highly illegal and the Rozzers dont like them, this puts me in a pickle!

[Transiter]

Ganan said:

Transitier - that's exactly what I was thinking.

I found this picture of Scooby Forum

Something similar to that - I think the Fuzz may pull me over with it.

I have a VW scirocco and the Number Plate is a normal 60 plate - so it may not go with the spacing eh?

Thanks again

Yeah that's Swiss front plate size.

Whilst AFAIK there's no plate size requirement, I think you might struggle to make it legal considering the spacing and letter size requirements.

These are after some googling so might be wrong but:

That plate is 300 x 80mm

To be legal the letters/numbers must be:

79mm tall so you're cutting it very fine vertically.

50mm horizontally, assuming 5 letters and 2 numbers and not taking into account 11mm spacing and 33mm spacing between number and last 3 letters you're at 350mm so over.

So, if you have a private plate with a few letters/numbers you might be able to make it legal but not in 14/64 style standard plate.

Edited by Transiter on Wednesday 11th March 20:12

[Dog Star]

Motorbikes have slightly smaller letters in their plates than cars and last time I looked you could use the motorbike fonts legally. But I may be misremembering

[Whitean3]

Something like tho then? My current and former cars...
The smaller pressed plates suit them much better than a huge slab of perspex

[Ganan]

Whitean3 - mate C4S is a beast. Most people don't love the 996 but that C4S is an absolute monster!

Thats exactly what I'm looking for - the rear plates don't matter too much.

Has anyone in the UK done it - if so, where can I buy them from?

I have had a look for show plates but at the moment I'm not fully confident of buying it off them.

I'll probably have to change the mounting points too?

[Howroyd]

IIRC there is a minimum space between the top of the letters and the edge of the place, and the same goes for the left and right sides to the end of the plate. Worth looking into. Of course the letters have a minimum spacing and thickness of character too

[SS2.]

I think the OP knows that the type of plate he's looking for will fall foul of the regulations.

Using a clearly non-conforming plate on the road is just making an easy target of yourself, IMO..

[Enricogto]

Motorrad said:

My neighbours car is Italian registered and it has a tiny front number plate with a font much smaller than would be legal in the UK. It looks pretty good IMO although no plate at all would be better.

Your neighbour has an illegal plate and could be stopped by the Italian police....