Littleted

Anybody recommend any good Number plate companies. Fancy my personal plate to be refreshed its looking a bit tatty.

QQ are Silver on Black still legal ? or do I have to be white on front yellow on rear.

thanks

dunx

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Silver on black is a pre '72 thing - that's 1972 by the way !

HTH

dunx

Littleted

Does that mean u can't use them on new cars then

nik52wrx

No.
Think its pre 1973 by the way.

BLU

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Black and silver is only allowed on cars registered before 1st Jan 1973

LVC

Or on my Hawk

BLU

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In the UK

LVC

Now that would just be asking for trouble

ALi-B

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Yep

My Dad had a driving ban for using black and silver plates on a modern car*


*Ok, it was in the 1980's and he had a few bevvies. But the reason why he was pulled was becuase of the black and silver plates he put on the car.


Which brings me to my point, why draw attention to yourself by having dodgy plates?

Legit is the way to go...I got pulled last month for driving too fast. Copper had no evidence as I saw him in time and slowed down (I was tanking it). I played the fair cop routine, nice as pie and admitted I may have got carried away. I got a warning. End of.

If I had a dodgy (illegal) plate, well, just an excuse to throw the book at me.

LSherratt

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I had 3D gel number plates on my Astra VXR. Very smart looking but a bit pricey for the pair. I actually unticked the box where it states whether you want the 'legal postcode bit' in small print at the bottom so technically they were illegal, but I had the option for the legal small print. I like the clean sleek minimalistic look on a plate.

On my classic Impreza I just have the standard printed ones because they don't do the 3D gel number plate in the small illegal plate size for the front of my Impreza (12' x 3')







http://www.platesforcars.co.uk is where I got the pair of 3D gel plates from.

http://www.a1showplates.com is where I got the standard small sized plate from.

shytorque

platesforcars are ok.
gel carbon fibre look.
bit pricey at about 80 quid a set though ,but good quality.

LSherratt

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My 3D gel plates were £50.97 posted for the pair which I'd highly recommend. They aren't the carbon styles ones... just plain black. Don't like fake carbon

Littleted

Think I've found somewhere that does gel also, I wanted the AMG badge on it also.. Some do it some didn't.

I was gonna have a cheesy slogan also but unsure what to have .....

Carnut

I've always said this, the best way to break the law is to be a legal as possible.

Its like them drug dealers you see on the cop shows that have lots of money and buy a legal car (like a m3/rs4 ) and don't bother to insure it. Or worse still that carry round £30,000 of coke and don't wear their seat belt or drive round with a bulb out. I mean for the price of a bulb they loose their car and the £30,000 of drugs.

Littleted

U know what really annoys me, nobbers in bentleys range rovers or high end Mercs, who persist in still having their phones to their ears, wtf u have hands free use it ya ****.


Love to be a copper and nail everyone of those type of people ....useless *****

User 21721

Is this legal on UK cars?

Regards,

Subaru Collector 555.

salsa-king

have a read
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload.../dg_067666.pdf

LSherratt

iTrader: (1)

No it's not.... Standard plate size is 20'x4.5'. You could have a 16'x4.4' which isn't as wide and it would probably be fine. That front one on my classic 12'x3'.

IMO the whole number plate legality debate has been discussed so many times. No plod will ticket you for not having the postcode small print at the bottom of a plate but I'm probably pushing it with the size of my front plate. I highly doubt I'll be stopped on the road purely because of it though. I also think you'd get away with a not-so-wide 16' plate.

salsa-king

you can have a shorter plate, if you have less letters... ie: not taking up so much length.

LSherratt

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Yep 16'..... I used to have a 16' on the rear but it just didn't look right so went back to a 20' wide plate which actually filled the gap on the rear bumper where the number plate was supposed to sit.

porky_wrx

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Craigsplates.com do decent plates. I work there and can sort out a discount if interested.

Littleted

I'll have a look now

LSherratt

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Maybe you could put a word in to the boss to sack the website designer I find it really un-user friendly and it doesn't look nice to the eye either. All IMO of course.

salsa-king

depends how many letters you have

I got some more made up this weekend at Modifoed Nationals, all standard letters and size, just on a shorter plate (I cut it down)

scotty44

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Tonight I have done a few sets of bike gel letters (they have the blank plates) @ 3 quid a letter....
80 quid a set is having your pants down, if anyone would pay that

RobsyUK

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My reg is similar to L00 ROB whats the smallest I could have this as legally? I do like the gels but don't want to upset Mr officer