Bending restration plate rules

[Silverage]

keirik said:

My last car came with black plates.

Took me a day to get new legal ones at Halfrauds.

Much more relaxing to drive without pointless "pull me over please" plates

We passed a Rover Sterling on the M1 today near Sheffield with the old style silver on black plates. The (correctly spaced) registration number was K 111 AAA, so 1993 which was probably right for the car, but I couldn’t see how that style of plate was allowed on a car of that age. Is the driver just sitting on a police-attracting time-bomb?

[PorkInsider]

phiscoe said:

OK, so no one on here has ever bent the rules on registration plate display right? Wrong.

At least 99% of people will never have 'bent the rules' on number plates.

Do you genuinely not realise that?

Why the hell would any non-fkwit mess around with it?

[grumpy52]

Heres Johnny said:

speedyguy said:

Took longer to read the OP than get the answer.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vehicle...

https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates

A bit like the highway code - a government document like the one you post and the actual legislation don't always exactly match

For instance the DVLA in that link says:

"The British Standard sets out the characteristics of the number plate. This includes visibility, strength and reflectivity. To meet the British Standard, each number plate must be permanently and legibly marked with the:
• British Standard number (currently BS AU 145d)
• name, trademark or other way of identifying the manufacturer or supplier
• name and postcode of the supplying outlet."

It doesn't actually state the number plate has to conform with the visibility, strength and reflectivity required characteristics or what they are. Semantics maybe...

So with all due respect you've not posted the answer at all

To comply with the relevant BS AU standard it has to achieve 9 points which does include colour , reflecting properties , bendabilty etc .
A new standard is also due shortly which will be
BS AU 145d

[Coilspring]

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/contents/made

[untakenname]

Noticed a lot of cars with heavily tinted film over the plates (and front windows) recently that seem to be driving around with impunity.
I've got import front plate on one of my cars as it allows more airflow to the radiator.

[poo at Paul's]

phiscoe said:

OK, so no one on here has ever bent the rules on registration plate display right? Wrong.

And first of all lets get the Elephant out of the way. If it looks wrong you are a sitting duck pull-over target.

My question is - what is legal?

For a start, there appears to be no limit to how many registration plates you can display. If you doubt that, just look at any large truck next time you are on a motorway. Most have Dave, Bill, Joker etc somewhere as well as the legal plate.

So the first task of a thought police (sorry safety) camera is to identify a plate. And if it identifies the wrong one.....

I wonder if Alpha owners have any experience here. Normally front plates are mounted to one side. Any of you ever thought of mounting one on the other side eg GTS 2.0; Mi TO V6; GUILLIA

So 2 plates = half the fines, 3 plates 1/3 so on. What do you think?

Also i have been reading the rules. Am I missing something? Where does it say which way around the plate should be mounted

I have a plate with lots of O's 0's and a couple of other characters I'm not going to publicise. Am I technically breaking the law if I 'accidentally' display it upside down?

Stands back....

[ PS There's a guy near me has one NO 11 REG. Presumably the message that comes up when the camera can't read a plate Bet he misses a few fines.]

I am hoping the other 5 posts you've made in the last 16.4 years are a little bit less, err well nonsense!! Good job

[anonymous-user]

I had a gold leaf Elan when it was current in the 70's the std numbers blocked air flow to the rad so I had black stick on's on the nose cone. I spent most weekends in N wales, one Friday I drove into the car park of the Padan Lake Hotel in Llanberis around 9.30 Pm, Village bobby was sat waiting, waked over an said "What are you doing driving a F*** Mick car around N wales every weekend" I said 'its Welsh car', he replied " Black Number red background is Mick car, sort it by next Friday or I stop you i the way out and breathalyze you'" got in the panda and drove off.

I had no worries about the breathalyzer, but i do wonder how they would treat that today, doubt he'd use the F word or the MIck probebly just a huge fine and waste time in court, needless to say next weekend I had a white background, he was sat in the car park next Friday never commented that the number was almost horizontal and inadvisable from the front

[Zirconia]

I thought the trend now was for them to use lard as a glue and they keep falling off.

[Heres Johnny]

poo at Paul's said:

phiscoe said:

OK, so no one on here has ever bent the rules on registration plate display right? Wrong.

And first of all lets get the Elephant out of the way. If it looks wrong you are a sitting duck pull-over target.

My question is - what is legal?

For a start, there appears to be no limit to how many registration plates you can display. If you doubt that, just look at any large truck next time you are on a motorway. Most have Dave, Bill, Joker etc somewhere as well as the legal plate.

So the first task of a thought police (sorry safety) camera is to identify a plate. And if it identifies the wrong one.....

I wonder if Alpha owners have any experience here. Normally front plates are mounted to one side. Any of you ever thought of mounting one on the other side eg GTS 2.0; Mi TO V6; GUILLIA

So 2 plates = half the fines, 3 plates 1/3 so on. What do you think?

Also i have been reading the rules. Am I missing something? Where does it say which way around the plate should be mounted

I have a plate with lots of O's 0's and a couple of other characters I'm not going to publicise. Am I technically breaking the law if I 'accidentally' display it upside down?

Stands back....

[ PS There's a guy near me has one NO 11 REG. Presumably the message that comes up when the camera can't read a plate Bet he misses a few fines.]

I am hoping the other 5 posts you've made in the last 16.4 years are a little bit less, err well nonsense!! Good job

I guess your desire to average over 2 posts a day that add nothing is, err, preferable.

[Heres Johnny]

Ive not been able to find a decent definition of the flatness of the number plate. One of my cars has a fairly but not totally flat part of the front bumper and a number of owners have moved to stick on label type number plates, but they’re not perfectly flat. All markings, letter spacing, BS number are present and correct.

But then it’s easy to get a plate with the correct markings. My Aston had a 3/4 sized front plate and that was marked correctly. I was never stopped, maybe because the plate was otherwise a normal reg, normal spacing, normal colours, it was just a little shrunk.

[speedking31]

This really annoys me. Even when there is a clearly defined registration plate area on the front of a car, it is often curved, making it difficult to stick on the number plates. I assume that in the fuel consumption test, number plates are not affixed, and so an extra 0.0001 mpg can be achieved.

[sgtBerbatov]

Silverage said:

keirik said:

My last car came with black plates.

Took me a day to get new legal ones at Halfrauds.

Much more relaxing to drive without pointless "pull me over please" plates

We passed a Rover Sterling on the M1 today near Sheffield with the old style silver on black plates. The (correctly spaced) registration number was K 111 AAA, so 1993 which was probably right for the car, but I couldn’t see how that style of plate was allowed on a car of that age. Is the driver just sitting on a police-attracting time-bomb?

From memory, the law states you can only have the black number plates on cars built before 1975 (I think). I wanted to put them on my imported Lada as it was built in 1976, but I'd be breaking the law in that respect if I did. But then I get told it's only a problem if the copper pulling you over about the number plate has already pulled you over once before. I don't know how true that bit is, but it's not enough to make me want to do it.