What C124PPY personalised plates have you seen recently?
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2172cc said:
GiveItSomeWellie said:
Found on social media, not my pic.
FazerBoy said:
What is that symbol on the left-hand side of the plate?
Bodhi in Buddhism is the understanding possessed by a Buddha regarding the nature of things. It is traditionally translated into English with the word enlightenment and literally means awakened. Bodhi is knowledge of the causal mechanism by which beings incarnate into material form and experience suffering.Opel-GT said:
Bodhi in Buddhism is the understanding possessed by a Buddha regarding the nature of things. It is traditionally translated into English with the word enlightenment and literally means awakened. Bodhi is knowledge of the causal mechanism by which beings incarnate into material form and experience suffering.
Yeah it's not that.It's Hindu symbol of "om"
Still pretty tacky on a plate and that family, wtf...
Shiv_P said:
Yeah it's not that.
It's Hindu symbol of "om"
Still pretty tacky on a plate and that family, wtf...
I was going to say its.... OMIt's Hindu symbol of "om"
Still pretty tacky on a plate and that family, wtf...
As a symbol, "OM" has three parts : (a) the "bindu", representing the infinite & transcendent, (b) the "raif" ("to murmur"), or Lunar crescent, symbolizing the ineffable (energy) interphase between the infinite & the finite and (c) the letters "AUM", representing the immanent, finite, phenomenal world of desire, known by three states : waking (A), dreaming (U) and dreamless sleep (M). Bindu (Sun) & Crescent (Moon) are therefore related to the "fourth state" ("turîya"), cultivated by spiritual practice. With this sound, we obtain the fundamenal key of the Vedas.
AlexRS2782 said:
just checked R4MFY online.
Anyway - this is what the MOT checker brought up - no surprise here that after 4 years they still haven't figured out the plate's crap
8th October 2014 - FAIL
•Front registration plate character(s) incorrectly spaced (6.3.4a)
•Rear registration plate character(s) incorrectly spaced (6.3.4a)
29th October 2015 - FAIL
•registration plate character(s) incorrectly spaced (6.3.4a)
1st November 2016 - FAIL
•Front registration plate character(s) incorrectly spaced (6.3.4a)
•Rear registration plate character(s) incorrectly spaced (6.3.4a)
7th November 2017 - FAIL
•registration plate character(s) incorrectly spaced (6.3.4a)
Dapster said:
It has failed every MOT each year for the last 4 years. In each case he's had it retested the next day and it has passed with all the advisories still there. He obviously isn't getting a dodgy mate to turn a blind eye as otherwise it would pass first time. So presumably each year he takes it somewhere and it fails on the number plate, he swaps out the plate, gets it passed, then puts the crap plates back on until the same pantomime takes place 12 months later. What a tool.
Clearly has a set of legal 'plates to hand so after the first couple of failures surely you'd just put them on before the test? I now realise I'm trying to make sense of a person who has this abortion on their vehicle, sorry.
Dapster said:
It has failed every MOT each year for the last 4 years. In each case he's had it retested the next day and it has passed with all the advisories still there.
And yet, when you buy a personalised plate, they say that persistent mis-spacing offences could cause it to be confiscated. If this kind of thing doesn't count, it seems pointless saying it.
droopsnoot said:
Dapster said:
It has failed every MOT each year for the last 4 years. In each case he's had it retested the next day and it has passed with all the advisories still there.
And yet, when you buy a personalised plate, they say that persistent mis-spacing offences could cause it to be confiscated. If this kind of thing doesn't count, it seems pointless saying it.Certainly doesn't happen here in the Essex Badlands. I regularly spot several blatantly illegal plates that have been kicking about for years.
The DVLA have created an very awkward position for themselves though - they're obliged to repeat the mantra about illegal representation but to actually reinforce what they preach would lead to drop in plate sales. C124PPY plates that only work (I'm using that word in the loosest possible sense) when displayed illegally wouldn't get bought in the first place if the mouth-breathers attracted to them knew for sure they'd have the plate confiscated the moment it was seen.
So naturally enough the usual disingenuous British two-faced compromise had been reached. The plate buying citizen is publicly lectured about legality but privately the establishment sucks up all the income plate sales generate and clearly by the lack of action taken over illegal ones it doesn't give a toss about how they end up being displayed so long as the money keeps rolling in.
In fact the establishment tacitly aids and facilitates the sales of particular plates knowing full well they'll get displayed illegally by allowing the unregulated manufacture of "showplates" whereby you can have anything you like made up with a pretty strong chance you'll never get nicked for it. It's a corrupt practice - there's no other explanation.
Illegal plates could be removed entirely within a year or so if action was taken which morally is the right thing to do, but it'll never happen as the governments greed for money always triumphs.
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