NoCatSTI

At the recent and very well attended mini meet at the Toby, I noticed a few of you guys had very small front number plates, which after carefull consideration i decided i like alot...

Q1. Are they legal?

Q2. Do you ever get stopped for having them...?

Q3. If the answer to above is sort of yes followed by no, where can i get them made?

Thanks Paul

Next question will be about whereabouts of chrome mesh grills i noticed, very lovely as well.

Silver Scooby Sport

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Ickle number plates are on the jap imports as the import sized letters are legally smaller than UK lettering

big daz2

just get one pleed ignorant keep the old one in the boot.they look far better then narmal size plates.

S.P.Developments

IMHO.. You should take a look at the artical on the front page of last weeks motorcycle news, with ref to ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition), this will effect all vehicles...
In this case pionts dont make prizes

John

The Trooper 1815

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Pippyrips and wrx,sti have them. PM away M8.

wrx,sti

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Had my plate from peter loydd rallying for about £15. On the next meet i'll show you what i done to the origanal plate,and as for the grill i had that when we went to the southern big one,on sale there for £110 for the top and bottom

pippyrips

Paul - have pmed you - mine is a jap import so SSS comments apply

lom the bom

u can get them from plates 4 u on ebay any size u like

360ste

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Time off work or early stack m8.

NoCatSTI

360ste .....Internet on my desk @ work, whatever next!!

I am off work at the mo, after working Crimbo time.

WRX,STI Those grills are mint M8, I liked the look of them at the meet, do they do them for the STI v7? I also like your front bumper/splitter better than the v7 variety, i would like to change mine.... Like your work tho

Cheers ALL, Paul

turboDean

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I had a very small plate on mine, drove around newport area for about 6 months with no problems, but got pulled for it in cardiff after passing a tax van, got a £30 fine, but will be putting a slightly bigger (3/4 size) back on when i get round to having one made.

I paid £10 for mine for a place in blackwood.

scoobyp1

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According to some bloke in some sort of uniform in this big horse carriage volvo thing with silly flashing lights and bright stickers, who tried to race me home one night....... Doesnt matter where the car is from, UK law is the numbers/letters have to be 3 and a quarter inches tall with some gap between them and bladdy blah blah......

I lost interest at this point.

This guy then went on about some ticket and so many days to get it changed and get this bit of paper stamped and then of all things, take it to a police station ! The ******* audacity of him..


Think he was still a bit wound up from last time he'd seen me.... Volvo coming towards me, pair of them gazing directly at the plate.... They went past, i dived up a side street, jumped out with the correct plate in hand, double sided tape all over the back of it ready, slammed it over the little plate and carried on with my journey.... As i pulled back on to the main road, they were parked waiting....

I was politely asked to step out of the vehicle by the officer who was progressing to the front of the car to get a proper look at the plate...

Oh how the smugness disappeared from his chops......

Was politely informed to be on my way in just two words.....

Silver Scooby Sport

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Brilliant !!

DannyBoy007

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Heres the DVLA web site, Import cars can have smaller numbers and smaller spacing but it doesn't state the size of plate. But if you walk into Halford and can prove it's an import they supply the legal size import plate. They wouldn't let me have one as mine is a UK!

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regm...ycharacterfont

big daz2

loving that scoobyp1 i would have liked to be a fly in there car afterwords.

wrx,sti

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You may be able to get them for the top grill but don't now about the bottom ones

360ste

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Paul reading dannyboy007's comment about imports looks like we could have a set. As ours are imports even though they are european spec. Just keep a copy of your Cyprus reg doc in the car to upset the old bill.

patkin

Erm it does refer to imports where the size of the plate is restricted by the confines of the vehicle.........I reckon that counts us all out IMHO

scoobyp1

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Just thought i'd add a quick pic of the plate on the front of my P1

big daz2

lovely its the way foward

NoCatSTI

It has to be said the P1 is foookin gorgeooouse... It might be my fave Scoob, do they hold their price??

Cheers Paul

scoobyp1

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depends on if you bought it new or 2nd hand i guess......
There are some mint P1's for sale and there are some dogs....
I bought mine from new and she will be 5yrs old in June.... Paid 32K, worth around 15-16K now.... so 3K a year aint too bad

I've seen WR1's for 20K already


And i have to agreee with you on the P1 front end.... I personally think its Subaru's best so far... Its gonna be a sad day when she goes to make way for the next toy

seab

always see that parked outside your place of work, on my way to work myself (almost typed up its location then, wally lol)

always had a soft spot for that car since the first time i laid eyes on it, absolutley stunning!

scoobyp1

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Wanna buy it ?
Do you a good deal on it.... throw the standard rims and tyres in aswell

seab

sssshhh dont tempt me! i would love it dude, but im only 21, a student and can just about afford to keep my MY93 WRX, im sure i can live with one kidney and one bal though surely? hmmmm got me thinking now