Will this plate pass an MOT?
Discussion
When I first saw the OPS plate, I thought why would anyone want a plate S010 MON.
It wasn't until someone said it stood for Solomon that I figured it out,
Just seems pointless having the incorrect spacing, when if more people are like me, they would be wondering why bother as it does not spell anything.
It wasn't until someone said it stood for Solomon that I figured it out,
Just seems pointless having the incorrect spacing, when if more people are like me, they would be wondering why bother as it does not spell anything.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
You're brave posting that up. You'd be safer admitting that Madie is in your basement than admitting a doctored plate on PH.
I think it's a great plate and that you shouldn't give a toss what the plate pedants say to the contrary. I think it should pass, my lightly doctored plate hasn't failed a test in 7 years.
The clear difference is that the OP's plate is actually quite classy and he seems open to peoples view on whether to space oor not.I think it's a great plate and that you shouldn't give a toss what the plate pedants say to the contrary. I think it should pass, my lightly doctored plate hasn't failed a test in 7 years.
Whereas, your plate is totally Ghopping with your deliberate over-bodging and you have a huuuuge reputation for acting like a total diva whenever someone disagrees with you.
Kuji said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
You're brave posting that up. You'd be safer admitting that Madie is in your basement than admitting a doctored plate on PH.
I think it's a great plate and that you shouldn't give a toss what the plate pedants say to the contrary. I think it should pass, my lightly doctored plate hasn't failed a test in 7 years.
The clear difference is that the OP's plate is actually quite classy and he seems open to peoples view on whether to space oor not.I think it's a great plate and that you shouldn't give a toss what the plate pedants say to the contrary. I think it should pass, my lightly doctored plate hasn't failed a test in 7 years.
Whereas, your plate is totally Ghopping with your deliberate over-bodging and you have a huuuuge reputation for acting like a total diva whenever someone disagrees with you.
My plate is hardly over bodged or gopping, like it or not (and I don't actually care) the 'bodge' is about as minor as could be made.
anonymous said:
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It's R88, followed by an abbreviation of my surname. The first 8 has a plate coloured screw-cap across the middle, so it looks a little more like ROB. If anyone can't see this is R88 then they're blind. Countless police have seen it and never pulled me, ANPR sure recognised it when I received a speeding ticket, and it's passed it's last 7 MOT's without mention.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
It's R88, followed by an abbreviation of my surname. The first 8 has a plate coloured screw-cap across the middle, so it looks a little more like ROB.
If anyone can't see this is R88 then they're blind. Countless police have seen it and never pulled me, ANPR sure recognised it when I received a speeding ticket, and it's passed it's last 7 MOT's without mention.
Not to my tastes (I'm just not a fan of private regs generally), but hardly a big deal, I've seen cars come out of the dealer like that where they haven't had the right colour cover.If anyone can't see this is R88 then they're blind. Countless police have seen it and never pulled me, ANPR sure recognised it when I received a speeding ticket, and it's passed it's last 7 MOT's without mention.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
It's R88, followed by an abbreviation of my surname. The first 8 has a plate coloured screw-cap across the middle, so it looks a little more like ROB.
If anyone can't see this is R88 then they're blind. Countless police have seen it and never pulled me, ANPR sure recognised it when I received a speeding ticket, and it's passed it's last 7 MOT's without mention.
Why the need to use a yellow cap if it still obviously says R88? If anyone can't see this is R88 then they're blind. Countless police have seen it and never pulled me, ANPR sure recognised it when I received a speeding ticket, and it's passed it's last 7 MOT's without mention.
I've always thought the very "best" plates are those that need not be altered or doctored in any way, for example STE 4K, as opposed to STE4K or using strategically placed screws to "suggest" that 11 becomes H or 5 becomes 6 and so on.
If I were OP, for the sake of £20 I'd just have a legal set of plates made up for the MOT day. That way, no questions and the likelihood of being pulled over by plod really is minimal nowadays.
As a slightly separate note, I have a long ish commute (50 miles each way), to help with the monotony of the journey I now try to keep an eye out for the "best" plate I see that day. Criteria only stipulate that it must be legal, no mis-spacing, no strategic screws etc. Usually the winner is a dateless plate with five or less characters. That being said, I usually disqualify the two letters/two numbers format given how common they seem to be.
If I were OP, for the sake of £20 I'd just have a legal set of plates made up for the MOT day. That way, no questions and the likelihood of being pulled over by plod really is minimal nowadays.
As a slightly separate note, I have a long ish commute (50 miles each way), to help with the monotony of the journey I now try to keep an eye out for the "best" plate I see that day. Criteria only stipulate that it must be legal, no mis-spacing, no strategic screws etc. Usually the winner is a dateless plate with five or less characters. That being said, I usually disqualify the two letters/two numbers format given how common they seem to be.
Muddle238 said:
I've always thought the very "best" plates are those that need not be altered or doctored in any way, for example STE 4K, as opposed to STE4K or using strategically placed screws to "suggest" that 11 becomes H or 5 becomes 6 and so on.
If I were OP, for the sake of £20 I'd just have a legal set of plates made up for the MOT day. That way, no questions and the likelihood of being pulled over by plod really is minimal nowadays.
As a slightly separate note, I have a long ish commute (50 miles each way), to help with the monotony of the journey I now try to keep an eye out for the "best" plate I see that day. Criteria only stipulate that it must be legal, no mis-spacing, no strategic screws etc. Usually the winner is a dateless plate with five or less characters. That being said, I usually disqualify the two letters/two numbers format given how common they seem to be.
STE 4K doesn't mean anything though.If I were OP, for the sake of £20 I'd just have a legal set of plates made up for the MOT day. That way, no questions and the likelihood of being pulled over by plod really is minimal nowadays.
As a slightly separate note, I have a long ish commute (50 miles each way), to help with the monotony of the journey I now try to keep an eye out for the "best" plate I see that day. Criteria only stipulate that it must be legal, no mis-spacing, no strategic screws etc. Usually the winner is a dateless plate with five or less characters. That being said, I usually disqualify the two letters/two numbers format given how common they seem to be.
The only good plates are those that make sense to most people exactly as read. A4 on the van of an office supplies company, 999 NBS on a National Blood Service motorbike, that sort of thing.
Muddle238 said:
I've always thought the very "best" plates are those that need not be altered or doctored in any way, for example STE 4K, as opposed to STE4K or using strategically placed screws to "suggest" that 11 becomes H or 5 becomes 6 and so on.
If I were OP, for the sake of £20 I'd just have a legal set of plates made up for the MOT day. That way, no questions and the likelihood of being pulled over by plod really is minimal nowadays.
As a slightly separate note, I have a long ish commute (50 miles each way), to help with the monotony of the journey I now try to keep an eye out for the "best" plate I see that day. Criteria only stipulate that it must be legal, no mis-spacing, no strategic screws etc. Usually the winner is a dateless plate with five or less characters. That being said, I usually disqualify the two letters/two numbers format given how common they seem to be.
Don't remember the last time I saw a plate with 2 letters and 2 numbers. Pretty rare round there parts.If I were OP, for the sake of £20 I'd just have a legal set of plates made up for the MOT day. That way, no questions and the likelihood of being pulled over by plod really is minimal nowadays.
As a slightly separate note, I have a long ish commute (50 miles each way), to help with the monotony of the journey I now try to keep an eye out for the "best" plate I see that day. Criteria only stipulate that it must be legal, no mis-spacing, no strategic screws etc. Usually the winner is a dateless plate with five or less characters. That being said, I usually disqualify the two letters/two numbers format given how common they seem to be.
jamei303 said:
Why the need to use a yellow cap if it still obviously says R88?
I don't think it needs answering TBH, I've stated my logic in my earlier post.It is a strange one, Pistonheads and the wrath which personalised plates bring. It's been said before 'oh, so you're only breaking the law a bit then'. That doesn't really wash with me. Say you murder someone. You couldn't argue that because you'd put a bullet in someones temple that it was any less murder than kicking the s
t out of someone until they died. That much is true.A nearer comparable in my mind is someone ticketed doing 33/30 at 3am is slightly less naughty than someone doing 115/30 and killing a child on his bike. The same is true if your plate is illegible.
I personally think the OP's plate is a great one. As is another posters of CRA1G. Other good one's I've seen before are ELL10T on a Ferrari 328 (30+ years ago, if anyone comes back saying it's on a Kia etc...) and V8 00MPH on a Cerbera. In my mind great plates, yet half of Pistonheads would want them facing the firing squad.
Edited by Fermit and Sexy Sarah on Tuesday 22 January 21:42
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