Missing Front Number Plate

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bluepolarbear

Original Poster:

1,665 posts

247 months

Wednesday 13th October 2004
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Whats the damage for being caught without a front number plate?

Had the new company car 5 days and the front plate has gone missing

1) Dealer says need to speak to lease company
2) Lease company says speak to local dealer
3) Local dealer says too much hassle now with paper work don't do replacement
4) Halfords will but want documents as long as your arm including V5 and Photo ID
5) Can't explain why photo ID when the car is a company car and the insurance in the company name - there is nothing on any official form that links the car to me so why prove who i am?
6) Lease company doesn't have V5 as DVLA don't issue for several weeks
7) No problem says Halfords - chassis number will do
8) Lease company doesn't have that either as dealer hasn't supplied the paperwork yet.

In the meantime I am not walking and don't care for Blunkett's vision of Stassi GB so carry on driving.

stesrg

1,559 posts

239 months

Wednesday 13th October 2004
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I had a similar problem on one of our vans log book not here yet, sorry mate need id log book etc etc in the end, microsoft paint yellow back ground and a laminating machine "volla" beter than nowt

Pickled Piper

6,344 posts

236 months

Wednesday 13th October 2004
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bluepolarbear said:
Whats the damage for being caught without a front number plate?

Had the new company car 5 days and the front plate has gone missing

7) No problem says Halfords - chassis number will do
8) Lease company doesn't have that either as dealer hasn't supplied the paperwork yet.

In the meantime I am not walking and don't care for Blunkett's vision of Stassi GB so carry on driving.


ehmm, surely the chassis number is on the chassis?

d-man

1,019 posts

246 months

Wednesday 13th October 2004
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Surely the chassis number is printed on the chassis somewhere? Mine is also on the windscreen, but on the plate under the bonnet, under the carpet by the driver's seat or under the carpet in the boot are normally good places to look.

I think its a £30 fpn for not having a number plate at all, seem to remember this is as its less than having a dodgily spaced / otherwise illegal plate.

silverback mike

11,290 posts

254 months

Wednesday 13th October 2004
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Normally the chassis number is on the inside of the windscreen, on the dash.

£30 non endorsable if you are unlucky.

busa_rush

6,930 posts

252 months

Wednesday 13th October 2004
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I've driven all summer with no front plate and don't intend to get one for next year either, spoils the look of the car and there's no vertical point to attach it to. Not been pulled and driven in front of and behind police cars on several occasions when they've seen the front of the car. I think they've got better things to be doing, especially as I've got a legal plate on the rear.

fish

3,976 posts

283 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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£30 non endorsable for NO plate. 3points and upto £1000 for damaged covered, illegal font etc plate.

I've just snapped mine and am in the same position. I've just got a new one off fancyplates.

www.fancyplates.com

If you use their standard plate configerer it gives a legally spaced plate overnight if you order earlier enough for about £11 inc postage. They will even put the BS# and name on if you ring them up... NO ID NO V5 etc.

easy

mustard

6,992 posts

246 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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bluepolarbear said:
Whats the damage for being caught without a front number plate?

Had the new company car 5 days and the front plate has gone missing

1) Dealer says need to speak to lease company
2) Lease company says speak to local dealer
3) Local dealer says too much hassle now with paper work don't do replacement
4) Halfords will but want documents as long as your arm including V5 and Photo ID
5) Can't explain why photo ID when the car is a company car and the insurance in the company name - there is nothing on any official form that links the car to me so why prove who i am?
6) Lease company doesn't have V5 as DVLA don't issue for several weeks
7) No problem says Halfords - chassis number will do
8) Lease company doesn't have that either as dealer hasn't supplied the paperwork yet.

In the meantime I am not walking and don't care for Blunkett's vision of Stassi GB so carry on driving.



Dealers being a Tw*t, they can soon sort one out if they felt like it.

Streetcop

5,907 posts

239 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Vehicle defect form or fixed penalty ticket.....

Depends on the BiB and the 'punter'...

Street

philthy

4,689 posts

241 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Had a similar situation a while back. Lost my number plate off the back of my artic trailer at Avonmouth. Went in to the local motor factors to get one, and heard all the bollocks you did. What got me more than anything, was the truck was outside, number plates front and rear on the tractor for the bloke to stick his head out of the door and look at I ended up having to take the plate off the back of the tractor to clip on the back of the trailer.
I don't mind of course, if it means criminals can no longer commit car crime with false plates

Phil

bluepolarbear

Original Poster:

1,665 posts

247 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Pickled Piper said:


ehmm, surely the chassis number is on the chassis?


Yep it is but in Stassi UK it isn't good enough for me to tell them what it is has to be verified.

You get the same thing with passports trying to sort out two for the kids - you can't beleive the amount of paperwork involved.

jj.

546 posts

271 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Just go to your local market. I got my last 2 made up, about 3 months ago. He was quicker than the dealer, and £14 the pair (with euro-GB symbol), as opposed to about £20.

No problems, told him what I wanted, job done in about 20 mins. Nice ‘clean’ plate with no stupid dealer names, phone numbers, post codes, etc.
jj

Streetcop

5,907 posts

239 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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jj. said:
no post codes



towman

14,938 posts

240 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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philthy said:
Had a similar situation a while back. Lost my number plate off the back of my artic trailer at Avonmouth.Phil


easiest way to avoid losing them is not to put them on!

steff

1,420 posts

264 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Another vote for www.fancyplates.com no messing around with 15 different types of ID just number plates made up as you want them delivered to your house complete with fixings.


Streetcop

5,907 posts

239 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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steff said:
Another vote for www.fancyplates.com no messing around with 15 different types of ID just number plates made up as you want them delivered to your house complete with fixings.




Do you get a free Burberry scarf and cap????

No wonder plates are being cloned etc...with such outfits on the market..

Street

pdV6

16,442 posts

262 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Streetcop should have said:

Congestion charges, SPECS, GATSOs, TruVelos, expensive insurance.

No wonder plates are being cloned



>> Edited by pdV6 on Thursday 14th October 11:09

Streetcop

5,907 posts

239 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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pdV6 said:


Streetcop should have said:

Congestion charges, SPECS, GATSOs, TruVelos, expensive insurance.


[quote=pdV6]No wonder plates are being cloned.



Drive offs, thefts from cars, burglaries, travelling criminals....

No wonder plates are being cloned.

Street



>> Edited by Streetcop on Thursday 14th October 13:55

pdV6

16,442 posts

262 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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Fair comment.

Seriously, though, the new number plate rules won't stop the serious criminal from doing anything that they wouldn't already be doing.

The massive rise in plate cloning of late is purely down to highway robbery.

mcflurry

9,099 posts

254 months

Thursday 14th October 2004
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just tick the "just for show" box and there are dozens of places that will do them for you. I got a set of euro ones, charles wright correctly spaced fonts etc, no postcode stuff etc etc. Tenner.