Private Plate PLOD aggro!
Discussion
Ari said:
They didn't though, they really didn't! 
It would be political suicide for a government department to blatantly advertise plates for sale displayed in a way that would be illegal!
Loads of commercial businesses did and still do (really terrible ones too, there used to be loads in the back of Autocar, don't know if there still is).
But no government is going to open themselves to a s
t storm of criticism in that way.
I can remember when the DVLA used to miss space plates in the adverts for their DVLA plate auctions, it was before they started making a song and dance about incorrectly spaced plates, but they certainly used to do it with plates that spelt words out.It would be political suicide for a government department to blatantly advertise plates for sale displayed in a way that would be illegal!
Loads of commercial businesses did and still do (really terrible ones too, there used to be loads in the back of Autocar, don't know if there still is).
But no government is going to open themselves to a s
t storm of criticism in that way.Ari said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Patronising dictionary definition and other diatribe.
Whatever, you win. It is definitely only worth ever spending money on a car if it 'enhances' it dynamically, but for some unexplained and ethereal reason there is NO point in simply buying a dynamically superior car, even if your only criteria for judging a car is dynamics because that is all that matters to you.
And anyone who dares venture an alternative opinion cannot possibly be a proper red blooded manly man's man petrol head like you!
There you go big man, I think that covers it for you, well done on winning an internet argument on a matter that is entirely subjective (there's link just above if you want to look that up).
Pothole said:
assive aggressive for the win!!!
Not really, just bored of trying to explain to someone who ultimately can't accept there is a differing viewpoint to his own and that his argument doesn't actually stand up to scrutiny. It's the Internet, not real life, just not worth wasting any more time over.
Ari said:
Pothole said:
assive aggressive for the win!!!
Not really, just bored of trying to explain to someone who ultimately can't accept there is a differing viewpoint to his own and that his argument doesn't actually stand up to scrutiny. It's the Internet, not real life, just not worth wasting any more time over.
Ari said:
Pothole said:
assive aggressive for the win!!!
Not really, just bored of trying to explain to someone who ultimately can't accept there is a differing viewpoint to his own and that his argument doesn't actually stand up to scrutiny. It's the Internet, not real life, just not worth wasting any more time over.
Pothole said:
Ari said:
Pothole said:
our naiveté is touching. Governments do this all the time.
Of course they do, but not blatantly by sticking a bloody great advert in the Sunday Times quite literally advertising the fact. Have they ever had?
L17WSY1 said:
All the time i had the plate and assumed i could use it for the reason it was originally purchased
Of course you could.You bought the plate to put on a car, so you didn't have to suffer the indignity of having a bog-standard registration.
L17WSY1 said:
i have persevered to do so.
No, you've tried to do something else with it. You've tried to make it read something it didn't read. Something that's never been legal, whatever you thought when you bought it.L17WSY1 said:
The penny only recently dropped, that in this day and age, 21 years down the line.... that just CAN'T happen any longer.
You couldn't legally misrepresent your registration 21 years ago, either.'course, it could be said that requiring multiple tugs and tickets for the penny to drop shows a certain resistance to clue.
V8forweekends said:
Pothole said:
Ari said:
Pothole said:
our naiveté is touching. Governments do this all the time.
Of course they do, but not blatantly by sticking a bloody great advert in the Sunday Times quite literally advertising the fact. Have they ever had?
Ari said:
I'd like AR1 on my car too but I can't have that either so I don't get plates made up with AR1 on them and screw them on anyway, nor do I get ABB 112B and fk about with it till it almost says AR1 for the exact same reason.
I saw AR 7 in Nottingham today. I immediately thought of you.k about with it till it almost says AR1 for the exact same reason.Don't tell me you wouldn't be tempted to buy an extra yellow screw
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