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Got a small front number plate on the saph,,, can you get points for it??

The DIVA

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Not a points offence,but the dibble can give you a fine and a vehicle defect form which means you have to get the right plate and then re-mot the car,which is a pain in the arse...

I keep my proper one in the boot in case of a pull..

Miller 3

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Fine and producer but if you keep getting cought thay can take away the identity of the car and q plate it so i got told by a trafic cop.

gurnE

True

They seem to be clamping down on small plates due to the increase in use of ANPR.

I've ran piss taking plates on the back of my bikes for ten years, plus a small one on the front of my old saph.

This year I've had 2 VDR's for small plates though

Billabong

You can also lose your registration (think it's 3 strikes)....

PT

mate had one on his rs turbo £45 fine looks good though

THE RADMAN

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i had one on mine once about the same size as yours,first day i put it on i got stopped within 10 mins of leaving my house, had to put proper one on, take it to mot garage to get a certificate stamped then take all my docs in

kev 3dr

iTrader: (1)

I think it was Jay from JJ performance got a fine last year for having a small number plate on his car and that was in a car park !

Anonymous

My F Car has a cut down plate but is legal..as the letters and numbers are the legal size it just has the white cropped around them

COMEDY DAN

3 times on the same car and it comes back to you n a Q reg.

Not good......

Not worth the gamble matey.

Lee_R21Turbo

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I know of someone that did exactly the same as you Phil.....he still got a tug & got told to change em!!!!

dave cos4x4

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i have been fined and then had to put the standard size plate on and take it too a mot station and let them look at it and then they stamped a ticket which then had to be produced with my docs.

just keep a standard one in the boot.

AJC

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i got a warning for mine, then a £30 fine 2nd ttime,

i do still have it on, but thinking of getting a bigger one

theey do look good tho

radiant red

i actually checked the mot user manual and it soesnt state anything about size.............but then the police make the rules not vosa

Lee_R21Turbo

iTrader: (1)

Forgot to say - I had a small front plate on one of my old cars - had it on for 18 months without any problems - then I got pulled twice in one week because of it!!!!

Alg1k

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MY front plate is hinged and folds up to a stop when im going illegal speeds
Looks standard at 30 mph

PGT

my pal had H6RNY on his jeep and the 6 looked like a 0 so it read HORNY. the 6 was actually within the legal sizes and we were driving through windermere one night and plod pulls us over and asks me to get out and then starts telling me about the 'illegal' number plate. so i start laughing he smells alcohol and asks me if i've had a drink. thinking quickly i tell him yes about 5 pints and he invites me over to the police car to breath test and i start crying laughing cos its a left hand drive and i wasn't driving he is not amused but his colleague is.

anyway my mate gets a producer and plod decided to prosecute him for illegal plates. my mate knew they were legal so fights the case in court. even though his plates were within the spec he loses the case and gets the press involved. the sun decided to fight his case and on appeal the case was dropped

Sticky.

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I just say with all this rain we keep having it must have shrunk

radiant red

B16

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Had mine on four about four years. Went to Devon show last year got pulled twice in the space of half an hour. £30 fine no points.

The DIVA

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Yup...........

Must be all the rain as Sticky says.........



It`s happening to em all....

S1

I've looked into the legality of cut down plates before. From what I can see there is no specified size of plate. The only specs are as Phil says are the size of the letters, the size of the border around them and the spacing. As long as they are correct then I see no reason for a cut down plate to be illegal.

I've had cut down plates for years and not had one producer.

Ginge !

as said the worst is vehicle defect form unless its a car with a personal plate then they report you to dvla ( cunts)

I got a vehicle defect for,,,,,, but that was after a copper took off my velcro'd on small plate as it was the second time he tugged me for it,,,,, so i never replaced it and was when i was driving through a police trap i got the vehicle form,,,,,,


but tbh,,,,,, i aint got the time to have things on may car that i KNOW will get me a tug


main reason is imagine if i got a mate in the car whos on "TAG" and i offer to take him home, get a tug and hes past his curfew to get home,,,, he goes backk to serve his full sentance and all because i wanted to have a tiny plate on the car,,,,,, yeah well worth it mate


not to mention you are giving the old bill a reason to pull you,,,,, as they cant just pull you cause the cars iffy they need a reason and tbh,,,, i dont like being tugged a certain times/places as ,,,,, well its not worth it again


just keep em legal and if ya wanna show off then,,,, well fit neon washer jets in green

stookay

a lot of evo owners are taking their front plates off altogether ! and getting away with it , claiming there is no flat surface on the car to fit one to! , i was speaking to a chap recently who downloaded some stuff off dvla website , stating that non standard letters and plates can be used on imported cars , cant we claim ours have been imported from germany lol
regards stookay

The DIVA

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Mine was imported from Singapore......

Does that count..

Mark V8

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I got a £30 fine for a small plate on my bike the same night as I had been buzzing a speed camera head on at naughty speeds I was not bothered about the fine but the fact that my bike was on camera doing X mph in a 40 limit and that some copper could ID my bike

I heard nothing and left on the small plate, the offense was "No number plate" as because it was too small it was not a real one Better off having no plate and paying the fines, at least when they give you a "Q" you will not give a shit

Mark

stookay

lol looks like your covered mate , i might try the singapore line as well ,

Martyn

Not had a problem either of mine, keeping the original font helps alittle I recon

discodenkelly

I didn't have any problems when I had a small one on the saff but 2 of my mates got £30 fines for them. One who has a private plate got told if he was caught again he would lose the plate.
Only problem I had was at MOT time, on the failure sheet it said front number plate 'lettering' of incorrect size and spacing, nothing about the actual size of the plate.

Paul Eggleton

Been stopped twice on two cars with small plates, been let off with just a producer the first time and gentle warning the second.

Tony Turbo

Small number plates are shit. They know you are taking the piss because you have purposely made a smaller number up to break the law....





"It just fell off, Officer..."

rsnissan

iTrader: (9)

a front what?

Fudgey

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on my old cabby i had a plate that was 1/4 the size of a normal one.

i got a std plate, cut in half, and thenin half again, printed some letters out of the pc in a different font and then cut them out of black fablon.

but it did have a reflective backing

anyway, got a £30 fine for the pleasure...

on the sx i just didnt bother with a front plate, got 2 producers and no fine.

if you have a small plate its illegal and finable

if you got no plate its illegal but as your not taking the piss you only get a producer so i have found

heres the car lol

turbo

i used to have sliver on black plates that used to really fuck them off. tbh the motorway patrol cops didnt really give a shit never got stopped on the motorway, it was always the bike coppers always a £30 fine, with them