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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:04 PM
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hello all, im just looking at getting some new number plates, what i want to now is what is the law reguarding size, if you leave the numbers the same size can you cut off some of the plate around it

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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:05 PM
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you need 10mm around the edges of the letters

can you remember them gay looking onces that had all the bits cut out and are odd shapes?

i can
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:06 PM
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as poor boy said
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:10 PM
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least i aint ginger
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:17 PM
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cheers guys just mine or square at the moment ..well gay or what

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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:18 PM
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forgot to say what is it need to take is it just the log book?

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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:21 PM
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dunno, i just got chris foster off here to make me some lol
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 01:29 PM
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Chris Foster made mine too! Although mine are standard size! He is a top bloke.... username is cfoster (i think!)
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 02:11 PM
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yea, definitly go to chris for some. u wont have any writing at the bottom either like if u went somewhere like halfords
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:13 PM
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i got one from no1 show plates online,Ł8.25 for a single plate i beleive,next day delivery!
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by fudgeass
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least i aint ginger
Yeah but your car is ginger
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by DanCossie
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least i aint ginger
Yeah but your car is ginger
his cars been tango'd

but what a quandrey to put yourself in

be ginger or poor

i wonder how peole like chris evans manages to cope
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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he aint too bad though dojj he is FCUKIN rich and Ginger
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:22 PM
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Ive got same size letters and proper spacing and im sure the guy in the shop said it has to have 11mm or 12mm around the edge.
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chris evens aint that rich anymore though is he ?
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:54 PM
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name another famous ginger then

as for the plates, didn't they only have to have a few mm round the outside of the letters? i remember seeing a pic of someone with a jigsaw chopping their plates about
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 04:00 PM
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Here you go mate.... http://www.personallyyours.co.uk/num...mberplates.htm

Its either 11mm or 13mm for vehicles before 2001, depending on what group you go for.
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legal sized letters but had about 2-3mm border, had them on the car about 4 years, pulled about 20 times in that period, never mentioned anything about the plates!



will i be as lucky with the german font'ed metal plates???? hmmm
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Fil
legal sized letters but had about 2-3mm border, had them on the car about 4 years, pulled about 20 times in that period, never mentioned anything about the plates!



will i be as lucky with the german font'ed metal plates???? hmmm
Still illegal though those mate. Id have been pulled and fined for those round my way.
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 06:28 PM
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oh and ps, ITS NOT MY CAR

i just drive it
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 07:32 PM
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Chris Evans is a millionaire, that's rich in my book
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 07:51 PM
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but he's ginger and has buckled teeth
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