Front number plates and the police

[warch]

It's all to do with vehicle design. Most vehicles are designed with a recess for a front number plate on the front bumper. Some vehicles don't have a front bumper (bikes, plant, tractors etc) or do have a bumper, but no recess for a plate. I still think this is a manufacturer issue, they must've had their vehicle type approved to sell it for use on British roads, so they must have made some provision for the display of a front plate, if required.

I agree that plates under the windscreen aren't ideal, if not for aesthetics then certainly as a safety issue, but they're surely preferable to attaching the plate obtrusively onto the front bumper.

[Durzel]

Are plates in the windscreen even legal? As I understood it plates had to be attached to the vehicle, not in them. The windscreen would surely impair the legibility of the plate as well.

As said before, you're probably no worse off by not running with a front numberplate at all, rather than complying "in spirit" as opposed to strictly legally. You could wind up with a fine either way if you came across a sufficiently motivated cop.

Some manufacturers have numberplate holders that attach to bodywork, or - in the worst case and in the absence of specific direction - the dealers screw the numberplate into the bumper. Obviously that isn't really desirable.

[lordbluf]

and here she is. I had a number plate on her but it fell off on the m4 nr Slough I think... I've ordered another one...

[Fuoco]

warch said:

There are so few traffic police about that you could probably drive about for ages before anyone said anything.

In all seriousness I'd keep your front plate in the car and say it was on the dash but it fell off when you gave it some stick or something.

On a recent Lambo convoy pretty much none of us had front plates, as we met up at service station an Aventador was followed in by a cop car and he was fined for the 3rd time this year for no front plate £100, then the cop slowly drove past all of us I thought he would just blanket fine us all, but just passed us all by, either he has to chatch you driving or he'd had his fill and was done!!

[NDA]

When I had my Ford GT, my dealer made me a smaller than normal front plate and a bracket for it that glued on the underside - it looked very neat. I can post a pic if interested.

[anonymous-user]

lordbluf said:

and here she is. I had a number plate on her but it fell off on the m4 nr Slough I think... I've ordered another one...

Did I see you earlier on the A3?

[lordbluf]

Not me guv.

[neilf]

lordbluf said:

and here she is. I had a number plate on her but it fell off on the m4 nr Slough I think... I've ordered another one...

So sorry to hear your first drive has been spoilt by losing your number plate. Cheap Italian screws clearly.

[anonymous-user]

Best not head north to my home town then..........

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/what-is-it-ab...

[lordbluf]

blimey - a bit OTT.

To be fair - i think the law is grey on this area. ie if its unsafe to put one on (given it could fly off and hurt someone) then you dont need one right? The front of the Avent S is curved with no obvious place for it

[55palfers]

Any idea how the Yanks have done without front plates for years and the world seems to keep turning?

[Ilovejapcrap]

BlueIn2Red said:

Ferruccio said:

There’s a reason for that.

Please do share.

Bikers would go over front and get cut in half by them I think

[Never you mind]

NorfolkInClue1 said:

Best not head north to my home town then..........

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/what-is-it-ab...

Must be more to that than just a missing front plate? I've been driving round up north with no plate and never got pulled.

[jdwcd]

Ive used 4Dot for my Aventador plates. Small angled plate on the front looks ok

Edited by jdwcd on Tuesday 1st May 11:54

[Ferruccio]

Ilovejapcrap said:

BlueIn2Red said:

Ferruccio said:

There’s a reason for that.

Please do share.

Bikers would go over front and get cut in half by them I think

It was slicing the pedestrians that they were more worried about.

[lordbluf]

jdwcd said:

Ive used 4Dot for my Aventador plates. Small angled plate on the front looks ok

Edited by jdwcd on Tuesday 1st May 11:54

i lke that, but with the new aventadors s's, there is no space for it to go like that.

[Ferruccio]

lordbluf said:

and here she is. I had a number plate on her but it fell off on the m4 nr Slough I think... I've ordered another one...

From Tom Hartley Jnr?

[lordbluf]

Ferruccio said:

lordbluf said:

and here she is. I had a number plate on her but it fell off on the m4 nr Slough I think... I've ordered another one...

From Tom Hartley Jnr?

yes

[Algarve]

Fuoco said:

On a recent Lambo convoy pretty much none of us had front plates, as we met up at service station an Aventador was followed in by a cop car and he was fined for the 3rd time this year for no front plate £100, then the cop slowly drove past all of us I thought he would just blanket fine us all, but just passed us all by, either he has to chatch you driving or he'd had his fill and was done!!

The current system is a joke, quite clearly £100 is nothing to someone driving an Aventador. They should really make the fine tied to your wage, or even the value of the car. Or make it maybe 1-3 points

Just get a stick on one if you need to. Nobody is going to bother you for this even if its technically not legal.

[55palfers]

Algarve said:

The current system is a joke, quite clearly £100 is nothing to someone driving an Aventador. They should really make the fine tied to your wage, or even the value of the car. Or make it maybe 1-3 points

Just get a stick on one if you need to. Nobody is going to bother you for this even if its technically not legal.

I don't imagine Plod would ticket an E Type