Number plates, showing your registration number correctly.

Grey_Critic

I recall many years ago a car being failed at MOT for a **personalised** plate - it gragged on for a couple of weeks with all sorts of threats, legal and otherwise. In the end then owner contacted the DVLA and along came an inspector who congratulated the Tester for his actions, the owner was required to fit new plates and several MOT testers who had passed the dodgy plate in the past were called to order.

Grumpy_chap

sevenhills said:

The price of these plates, all in, is around £300/400, I quite like them, but not sure if I would spend £300

At that kind of price, a plate without age identifier, can be quite sensible.  Sometimes, there is benefit in simply not declaring age of a car and sometimes the plate can obscure the fact that the "new" car is not actually so - maybe useful on a premium vehicle for which the design changes slowly.

However, this afternoon, my wife and I went for a coffee and cake in a local coffee shop after we'd both finished the week's work.  I noticed a pair, whom I assume to be mother and daughter, as they were clearly comfortably off financially.  As we entered the dry cleaners, my wife spotted a car with a personalised number plate (happened to be my initials) and I said "I bet that plate costs more than the car".  The car was a Golf R, so it will be the owner's choice of car, not just the best they can get.  As we sat in the coffee shop, the nearest number plate listed on an online registration transfers site was listed at £70k.  

If you have the money and that is your choice, then why not?

However, I do struggle to understand how anyone can justify that level of spend on a choice of vehicle registration.

AdrianC

Grumpy_chap said:

sevenhills said:

The price of these plates, all in, is around £300/400, I quite like them, but not sure if I would spend £300

At that kind of price, a plate without age identifier, can be quite sensible.

At that kind of price, a plate without age identifier will be a Northern Irish plate.

And they just look tacky.

Grumpy_chap

I have often thought the best type of number plate would be an ordinary style plate, but just not the current year, so that there are no accusations of being "obviously" overpaid if you can afford a nice shiny new car and not attracting the undesirables to think you have money so the property is worth targeting.

Fortunately, this type of plate is available for relatively low outlay as a personalised number, but I also found the really money-saving way to get one is to simply acquire a car on which the "not current year" plate is included at no extra charge.  There is a whopping choice available:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/

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Ganga said:

Grumpy_chap said:

greyteam1959 said:

T 1TS.

That would probably be quite an expensive number plate to acquire id, indeed, it exists or is available.

Would be great for an ornithologist

Or Katie Price and all the other inflated girls 

Price has (or had) an illegal plate BO55Y KT - she was on one of those police shows where the police had pulled her over a couple of weeks before and told her to fix it and she didn't and was pulled again for that and no insurance and presumably fined. When I was checking the story I saw on google images she had KPII HOT now on a pink range rover.

While I'd love for everyone with those illegal plates to be stopped/fined daily via ANPR or whatever, at least they have a plate, unlike the boy racers who put the front one in the dash or those who put the plate Alpha Romeo style right to the side of whatever car they have so it's not visible from the side and/or use really small inch high plates to avoid cameras

AdrianC

Deleted_User said:

While I'd love for everyone with those illegal plates to be stopped/fined daily via ANPR or whatever, at least they have a plate, unlike the boy racers who put the front one in the dash or those who put the plate Alpha Alfa Romeo style right to the side of whatever car they have so it's not visible from the side and/or use really small inch high plates to avoid cameras

I was in a line of stuff behind a tractor along an A-road the other day. Not many overtaking opportunities... Two cars behind me, there's a throbber in a new 4-series BMW, one of the risibly buck-teethed ones. Clearly he wanted to better wave that grille at people, because the standard plate mount had gone in the bin and the plate was on the dash...

He was quite adamant that he shouldn't have to queue with the rest, and kept diving right to have a look to see if it was clear. There were a couple of fairly close calls. Once the tractor turned off, and we all got back to normal cruise speed, he didn't even keep up with my dog-slow (90mph flat-out, 20sec to 60) 16yo daily...

molerat

Manxman_in_exile said:

You occasionally see cases on Pepipoo, like this one:   number plate offence - FightBack Forums (pepipoo.com)

OP must have got their username wrong in that post, surely it should be BARRYBOY4435555

Are Pepipoo going soft - telling a poster they are bang to rights ?

Plod don't always know what they are talking about though.  I used to make plates and a customer came back as he had been pulled for the group spacing being too large.  His plate was something like XX7 JXX.  It looked wrong but wasn't as the templates we used ensured the spacing was correct but you are drawn to the gap between the centre of the 7 and centre of the J which is huge. There are a few combinations that look wrong - LJ together for instance and any plate with multiple 1s can make the layout look way off centre.  Had to mark the plate up with a felt tip pen to show the spacing and tell him to take it back and show them.

BOWFER

I've had my illegally spaced numberplate for decades now.
It's 5 letters/digits spaced together to spell a name.
Never been stopped for it, or had an MOT fail.

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AdrianC said:

Deleted_User said:

While I'd love for everyone with those illegal plates to be stopped/fined daily via ANPR or whatever, at least they have a plate, unlike the boy racers who put the front one in the dash or those who put the plate Alpha Alfa Romeo style right to the side of whatever car they have so it's not visible from the side and/or use really small inch high plates to avoid cameras

I was in a line of stuff behind a tractor along an A-road the other day. Not many overtaking opportunities... Two cars behind me, there's a throbber in a new 4-series BMW, one of the risibly buck-teethed ones. Clearly he wanted to better wave that grille at people, because the standard plate mount had gone in the bin and the plate was on the dash...

He was quite adamant that he shouldn't have to queue with the rest, and kept diving right to have a look to see if it was clear. There were a couple of fairly close calls. Once the tractor turned off, and we all got back to normal cruise speed, he didn't even keep up with my dog-slow (90mph flat-out, 20sec to 60) 16yo daily...

Cant believe I spelled that wrongly. Always some loony trying to push out dangerously, played around with the bike radar yesterday, that is a cool little toy, lot more warning than I get just from ears alone 

maxmycardagain

its rife all over, and pretty puerile

for the life of me though, i cannot understand why woman drivers want their name on a plate, surely safety is an issue?


oh, and number plate dark tinted to almost unreadable...grrrrr