buying an A1 AAA style reg

[stef1808]

and displaying it as A1A AA to make a great personalised combo

£60 FPN that I will never get or do the fuzz take it seriously?

[t400ble]

Stands a chance the plate will be removed from you

[grumpyscot]

A friend just had his number plate taken off him by DVLA after the third time police had stopped him. He had his plate spaced just like you intend. Police said it was because the average speed cameras at on the Forth Bridge approach kept picking it up as an invalid reg.

[stef1808]

thanks for the input

would love to make M50 DSK --> M50D SK

for my x5 ...

thanks,
SK

[Muzzer79]

stef1808 said:

thanks for the input

would love to make M50 DSK --> M50D SK

for my x5 ...

thanks,
SK

You may not get prosecuted by the actual police, but you'll certainly be hung drawn and quartered by the taste police.

[anonymous-user]

Having any sort of personalised or chavved up number plate on any car always seems to me like wearing a badge that says "Tosser". Still, to each his own.

[AndrewEH1]

grumpyscot said:

A friend just had his number plate taken off him by DVLA after the third time police had stopped him. He had his plate spaced just like you intend. Police said it was because the average speed cameras at on the Forth Bridge approach kept picking it up as an invalid reg.

Good, glad to hear that people actually get their illegal plates taken off them!

[Joeguard1990]

Don't do it... Just don't.

Everyone who see's it will think you're an absolute pillock who couldn't afford a proper legal one.

[PorkInsider]

You will appear to be a first class fking cock if you do what you're suggesting.

[WJNB]

Breadvan72 said:

Having any sort of personalised or chavved up number plate on any car always seems to me like wearing a badge that says "Tosser". Still, to each his own.

Discrete initials with a favoured number is acceptable but agree that anything else is as you say Chav., even Essex, or council or maybe just blue-collar desperation to be noticed & accepted.

[anonymous-user]

Why TF would any sane person want his or her initials on a car number plate, FFS? It's almost as bad as having a monogram on your shirt.

[anonymous-user]

Why not go the whole hog and have your initials tattooed on your forehead? If the problem is that you can't remember who you are, do it in mirror writing.

[PorkInsider]

Breadvan72 said:

Why TF would any sane person want his or her initials on a car number plate, FFS? It's almost as bad as having a monogram on your shirt.

Have to say I completely agree with this.

[Magic919]

WJNB said:

Discrete initials

Why seperate them?

[Cooperman]

So the DVLA sell these plates because they appear to make a name, then when a purchaser has spent several hundred quid buying it and displays the name it is illegal and he risks having it taken from him with no cash back.

[Toonshorty]

Cooperman said:

So the DVLA sell these plates because they appear to make a name, then when a purchaser has spent several hundred quid buying it and displays the name it is illegal and he risks having it taken from him with no cash back.

Purchasing a plate because it makes a name is fine.

Purchasing a plate that doesn't quite make a name, then illegally rearranging the spaces so that it does is not okay.

Seems fair enough to me.

[JumboBeef]

PorkInsider said:

Breadvan72 said:

Why TF would any sane person want his or her initials on a car number plate, FFS? It's almost as bad as having a monogram on your shirt.

Have to say I completely agree with this.

So am I chav or am I acceptable with my two plates?

One is ABC 123 style and the other 123 ABC. The letters and numbers mean nothing to me, but I've had both for many years. Didn't buy them either, both came off pre-63 motors I used to own. Always correctly spaced.

I personally like them because they make my cars "mine". The ABC 123 style one always goes on my main car, and I've had it on many different cars over the last 15 years I've had it. A bit like always keeping your number when you change your mobile. My car isn't my car until it has my plate on it.

So, acceptable to the PH massive or a bit chav?

[SlackBladder]

Toonshorty said:

Cooperman said:

So the DVLA sell these plates because they appear to make a name, then when a purchaser has spent several hundred quid buying it and displays the name it is illegal and he risks having it taken from him with no cash back.

Purchasing a plate because it makes a name is fine.

Purchasing a plate that doesn't quite make a name, then illegally rearranging the spaces so that it does is not okay.

Seems fair enough to me.

Which is why the DVLA hold these plates back and then sell them?

Just go on the DVLA web site and look up how many **51 MON plates are for sale.


Simon

[Landshark]

stef1808 said:

£60 FPN that I will never get or do the fuzz take it seriously?

Ermmm that will be £100 now!

[AlexRS2782]

Hmmmmm, I suppose you could get a fine, but it's far more likely that it will definitely end up being photographed and posted here - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... - at some point in the future