MOT and number plates?
04 April 2007, 06:40 PM
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MOT and number plates?
I've got a small front number plate. All the right fonts and spacing - just smaller. Will it pass an MOT like this or do I need a proper sized plate?
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Mentioned this earlier, almost 100% positive I read that as long as the plate itself is off the correct size and made up off the correct materials then its at the testers discretion ( spell ??!! ) if it is readble for road purposes.
was somewhat surprised to read this thou as my car failed its last mot for the font being slightly smaller / different than standard.
was somewhat surprised to read this thou as my car failed its last mot for the font being slightly smaller / different than standard.
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Got stopped last week by the police for having a 3/4 size front plate and told to get it changed.They said they were doing a purge on illegal plates in my area just now - obviously got f*%k all better to do with their time.Then on Saturday afternoon they were stopping cars on the mainstreet with illegal plates,exhausts etc.Easiest to change the plate for a legal one for the MOT.
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Got stopped last week by the police for having a 3/4 size front plate and told to get it changed.They said they were doing a purge on illegal plates in my area just now - obviously got f*%k all better to do with their time.Then on Saturday afternoon they were stopping cars on the mainstreet with illegal plates,exhausts etc.Easiest to change the plate for a legal one for the MOT.
04 April 2007, 08:23 PM
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Mentioned this earlier, almost 100% positive I read that as long as the plate itself is off the correct size and made up off the correct materials then its at the testers discretion ( spell ??!! ) if it is readble for road purposes.
was somewhat surprised to read this thou as my car failed its last mot for the font being slightly smaller / different than standard.
was somewhat surprised to read this thou as my car failed its last mot for the font being slightly smaller / different than standard.
04 April 2007, 08:54 PM
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Probably shouldnt have said illegal but the boy racers with their big bore exhausts,induction kits etc were getting pulled and the car the once over.Suppose it was a sunny day and it gets them out of the police Lancruiser.
05 April 2007, 08:30 AM
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Have to agree, still trying to find somebody to make up a 3/4 plate or anything that isn't tiny. When you only have 5 digits in your plate it looks stupid with all the space. Don't really want to take a jigsaw to it, just get one made up a bit shorter so I can still have standard letters and spacing.
05 April 2007, 08:41 AM
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number plate size just has to border the lettering by 11mm iirc ...good news if you're the owner of 'A1' 
there's plenty of plate makers on the net (fancyplates.com etc) that will make will make you one up
there's plenty of plate makers on the net (fancyplates.com etc) that will make will make you one up
05 April 2007, 09:10 AM
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Yep fancyplates comes highly recomended this side as well, one thing to watch out for is the height off the digits / numbers are smaller than standard but supose this is just to keep things in propotion ??
not 100% sure if they actually do custom sized plates thou ?? neat online plate constuctor on there as well !!
check ebay out as well, bit cheaper.
05 April 2007, 09:17 AM
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I have no idea why I didn't think of that site. Used it in the past a long time ago.
They do custom sizes as well as the 3/4 plate. Will check the height issue and get one made up. Cheers for that guys.
They do custom sizes as well as the 3/4 plate. Will check the height issue and get one made up. Cheers for that guys.
05 April 2007, 11:19 AM
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06 April 2007, 11:51 PM
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Number plates and registration marks
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/leaflets/v796.pdf
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/leaflets/v796.pdf
Originally Posted by DVLA
In addition, the characters on number plates
purchased from 1.9.2001 will need to conform to the following specifications.
Character height 79 mm
Character width (except the figure 1 or letter I) 50 mm
Character stroke 14 mm
Space between characters 11 mm
Space between groups 33 mm
Top, bottom and side margins (minimum) 11 mm
Space between vertical lines 19 mm
purchased from 1.9.2001 will need to conform to the following specifications.
Character height 79 mm
Character width (except the figure 1 or letter I) 50 mm
Character stroke 14 mm
Space between characters 11 mm
Space between groups 33 mm
Top, bottom and side margins (minimum) 11 mm
Space between vertical lines 19 mm
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