Cars not displaying front number plates? Anyone notice this trend in UK?

facade

docmatt wrote: »

How is this bothering you? They'll soon get pulled by the police.

oh the naivete!


It bothers me because when one of them runs into me and drives off, neither I, my dashcam, nor any witnesses will have a clue what the registration is.


And what are these "Police" that you refer to?
There are several Audis round here with black tape over their numberplates ( and all their windows by the look of it,) and no end of cars with their front numberplate horizontal on top of the dashboard, no-one seems overly bothered....

ilikewatch

Last year I was sat outside a cafe in Newcastle and saw 4 cars with no front number plate in just over an hour. All were fairly new BMW's and all were modified with bodykits and/or fancy paint.

loskie

It's nothing to do with BILKING it's just the chavvy, boy racers who think it looks cool. Dunno why.
Police don't care at all.
There was a "Streetkulture Cruze" in our town where these chavs amassed in the town car park. The police were present. There was even a picture of them (police) in local paper next to a slammed civic with no front no plate praising the whole event.
This Civic is lime green so distinctive, I notice it driving regularly with no front plate as are several Golfs.
IMHO should be enforced

tho_2

Most petrol stations now have anpr, if there isn't a number plate the pump won't authorise.

owen_money

And the price of butter has gone up, again!!!!

Car_54

facade wrote: »

It bothers me because when one of them runs into me and drives off, neither I, my dashcam, nor any witnesses will have a clue what the registration is.

Maybe not on dashcam, we're talking about front plates, and surely witnesses normally note the REAR of the vehicle as it escapes ....

Herzlos

Mercdriver wrote: »

Leaving without paying. Most petrol stations will record the number plates of cars filling up on CCTV, often from the front.

And they don't activate the pump if the front plate isn't readable.

GothicStirling

ilikewatch wrote: »

Last year I was sat outside a cafe in Newcastle and saw 4 cars with no front number plate in just over an hour. All were fairly new BMW's and all were modified with bodykits and/or fancy paint.

Whereabouts where you sitting? Apart from Central Station, Newcastle Station is for Buses only. No other cafes I know of have sitting area that opens onto the streets.

BeenThroughItAll

GothicStirling wrote: »

Whereabouts where you sitting? Apart from Central Station, Newcastle Station is for Buses only. No other cafes I know of have sitting area that opens onto the streets.

Where did that post mention stations? There's loads of cafes around Newcastle upon Tyne, it's bigger than the station.

Of course, the post could have referred to one of the other Newcastles...

JamesFuller

So no way of reporting them as a civilian?