backlit plates - where can I get one from quickly?

[Zippee]

I know of fancyplates but they take ages to deliver and due to a producer and little pink slip I now have to get some 'normal' plates pretty quickly. Anyone know where I can just pop in and have some made? Halfords didn't have a clue...

[nikman]

Fancyplates delivered to me in less than 2 days to Lonodn, sent from N. Ireland).

Nick.

[V8 Animal]

Zippee said:

I know of fancyplates but they take ages to deliver and due to a producer and little pink slip I now have to get some 'normal' plates pretty quickly. Anyone know where I can just pop in and have some made? Halfords didn't have a clue...

Thats why there called halfwits

[wasted years]

Halfords should be able to create them as a walk in. I got my plates from www.demonplates.com and they delivered free of charge 48 hrs after ordering.

[Hoover.]

Tony....... you will drive with illegal plates

give this a bloke a shout... he advertised on ebay sometime ago.... but he runs a bonefide business as some of the griff boys local to hime have popped in.

telephone number in the description..... a lot cheaper also then the TVR Center (£40 my last one)

Hoover

[Zippee]

Hoover. said:

Tony....... you will drive with illegal plates

give this a bloke a shout... he advertised on ebay sometime ago.... but he runs a bonefide business as some of the griff boys local to hime have popped in.

telephone number in the description..... a lot cheaper also then the TVR Center (£40 my last one)

Hoover

pot kettle springs to mind Steve.

Theres no link by the way....

[kenny Chim 4]

Zippee, give this bloke a call (other than faffing around on his website):
http://www.craigsplates.co.uk/

I got my last rear plate from him and it only took a couple of days.

[thenick]

I would give fancyplates my vote... My housemate works for Halfords and when I needed one he rang the Halfords plate supplier and was informed that they are actually illegal on every car except certain years of TVR and a couple of kit cars and so they don't bother making them. A lot of police and M.O.T testers do not know this and I did have the MOT tester ask me if the plate was legal when it was last tested. So due to no one local being able to get the plate, I went for fancyplates even though I had heard they could take a while... I was proved very wrong though as I ordered them mid-afternoon on the Wednesday and they arrived Thursday morning which is pretty impressive given that they come from Ireland! My set cost £35 IIRC and consisted of a 3/4 plain plate for the front with a small TVR logo bottom center, and a standard size backlit plate for the rear which again I kept plain apart from a small TVR logo bottom center. They look great, were a good price and came bloody quick so top marks to Fancyplates!

[Zippee]

wasted years said:

Halfords should be able to create them as a walk in. I got my plates from www.demonplates.com and they delivered free of charge 48 hrs after ordering.

Thanks guys - just phoned Demon plates and ordered a set.
£33 inc p&p for a backlit with GB logo and a std front plate cut to 3/4 to fit the lettering.
PITA though but I guess 2 1/2 years on my current plates wasn't too bad without a stop.

[Chauch]

I got one from [e-mail] for about £12 delivered.

Seems up to the job albeit I did manage to bodge drilling it well although cannot really blame them for that..

[Griffit]

Chauch said:

I got one from [e-mail] for about £12 delivered.

Seems up to the job albeit I did manage to bodge drilling it well although cannot really blame them for that..

I got one from Parts Express too... but not as I ordered it! I didn't have any joy at all with getting the problem sorted and I don't know whether they're still trading as the phones ring out all the time, their website has been removed and they didn't respond to any of my e-mails? (Hopefully this wasn't against the name-and-shame policy?)

[munky]

When did they stop using backlit plates?

[Chauch]

Mine only arrived about 3 weeks ago and was turned around quite quickly. Hope you get it reseolved OK.

[thenick]

98 I think, mine is a 97 R plate, but I know Soundchaser also has an R plate but his is 98 and has the tilted top lit kind, and the facelift lights - though I seem to have all the other facelift bits

[nikman]

thenick said:

98 I think, mine is a 97 R plate, but I know Soundchaser also has an R plate but his is 98 and has the tilted top lit kind, and the facelift lights - though I seem to have all the other facelift bits

Must've been earlish '98. My 450 has the tilted, top lit plate and the round separate lights. It's May '98.
Nick.