Personalised Number Plates

[lacroupade]

I also have show plates on mine - cheaper and more convenient to get made up on the net - but perfectly legal font/ size (but in carbon fibre as opposed to 3D)... i also didnt want any text on mine - just a clean plate.

Have one on various cars for many years without any trouble.... Although last year the police on the A40 were doing a bit of a clampdown on dodgy plates -size/ spacing - few friends of mine got pulled for it - they rip your plate off the car and then say your car is illegal as its plateless and then tow it away! Lucky they had corrrect plates in their car boot when it happened!

I think your mates were pulling your todger. At best its a S59 notice, at worst a £60 non-endorsable FPN....repeat offences can result in the right to use a particular cherished registration being withdrawn. Higher fines are also available for repeat offences.

 

[klarky]

id like to see them rip my plates off - security bolts they'd take the bumper with them and that would be criminal damage lol

lacroupade has said what i thought, notice & fine, repeat offenders have the plate withdrawn and £1000 fine. hence why legal plates will be in the boot. we all know the score but its the risk you take for a nicer looking car

 

[Anonymous]

hence why legal plates will be in the boot. we all know the score but its the risk you take for a nicer looking car

Sorry, but I think the plates that have altered letters/numbers/spaces really are naff :thumbsdown: and often it's only the owner that knows what the plate is meant to read

 

[klarky]

i agree, mine aren't illegally spaced, just no makers details and are pressed metal rather than acrylic. some spacing can look ok but imho attracts too much attention so why bother.

 

[GAZA62]

As above if you went to your local DVLA office you get a certificate and you can get the plates made up and on the car straight away same day.

 

[GAZA62]

So legally you cannot carry a plate that has nowt but your reg on it.....

But WTF do I care..... :driving:

Thats correct as i have the plates you describe just my number nothing else was told about this on my MOT which i questioned as i have had the plates for years transfered them across from my old Calibra to the Z4.

When i asked how come they had passed the Calibra every year and the Z4 last year they said it depends on the age of the car so no probs on an older car plus they were cracking down on it so he had to mention it to me.

 

[dragon]

Halfords. While U wait.

 

[lacroupade]

hence why legal plates will be in the boot. we all know the score but its the risk you take for a nicer looking car

Sorry, but I think the plates that have altered letters/numbers/spaces really are naff :thumbsdown: and often it's only the owner that knows what the plate is meant to read

But lets discuss...what exactly is 'naff' simply because an arrangement of numbers and letters doesn't meet legal requirements? oke: I mean if someone wants to make a plate look like something meaningful to them, big deal, so what?

And as for spacing generally, well lets be honest, its a bloody con. I mean dodgy fonts and mis-shapen letters (5s made to look like Ss etc..) I can sort of understand, BUT if you think that ANPR can't pick up a plate just because the space is in the wrong place then think again....OCR is not that dumb. And since its a known factoid (at least to me through a couple of 'CSI' amigos) that, for example, the ANPR cameras covering the London motorways have no problem recognising and logging various foreign plates with their totally different fonts, even the font argument falls flat on its face, but I can wear that....just don't try telling me Mr Plod that theres a technical reason for having the spacing as it is.....after all, the numbers and letters are whats unique to each plate, NOT the spacing....

IMHO its just another Big Brother establishment wheeze to (i) make us citizens toe the line, and (ii) extract yet more fine revenue......

Rant over.....

 

[Mik]

Mine reads AN 09 ZED
Where technically it should read AN09 ZED never been pulled for it (touch wood)
PS MY 09 ZED was twice the money !!!

 

[chaos86]

Mine reads AN 09 ZED
Where technically it should read AN09 ZED never been pulled for it (touch wood)
PS MY 09 ZED was twice the money !!!

That's an awesome plate!!

Thursday now and I'm still waiting for that blasted V750 certificate from the DVLA. I've also checked my bank account and they have yet to deduct the amount.
Hmmm... Wouldn't surprise me if it'll be next week before I receive anything.

 

[Rudd]

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[bigshurv]

Halfords make them while you wait or any car accessory store or trailer rental place has the kit. ANY main dealer will also have plate making gear. I have a S 11 URV on my Z, I have a 100% legal one on the back and one spaced how I want on the front,with a legal one in the boot just in case. It galls me that they sell plates that can have names/words made out of them, then hammer you when you do it.Tossers.

 

[lacroupade]

It galls me that they sell plates that can have names/words made out of them, then hammer you when you do it.Tossers.

Exactly!!! or to them.... :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

 

[chaos86]

Cheers for all the advice guys. V750 certificate arrived yesterday and was able to get the plates made up earlier today. Queue in my local DVLA office was atrocious... waited for about an hour before I was able to speak to anyone. Anyway, after all that waiting plates are now on my Z4 and it's looking real sweet

 

[nickoneone]

I got mine on ebay. you design your own from a range of options (eg design of surround type of font 'euro' plates or not etc) submit them online and within three days they arrived by courier. - £7.49 for the pair plus 3.50 p&p. I didn't even have to send them the authorisation from dvla since they are made in ireland

 

[spanna2000]

On the DVLA office thing. To get the certificate you will need to take MOT if applicable, current RFL (tax) disk and either the registration doc (V5C) or the new keeper slip V5C/2 (in this case you will also need to fill in the application form for a new registration document V62 - tick the reason that you are new keeper and don't yet have a document in your name and the request has no fee). It will take about an hour if the office is busy.

The DLVA office will make you a new tax disk and a new MOT cert while you wait.

If your tax has less than a month to run think about the date for changing plates as the new reg document won't arrive for a few weeks and you might find it hard to tax the car. If you try and tax in advance (you need a V10 to apply for tax without a reminder) you cannot do this until the 15th of the month. If the vehicle has no tax/SORN then you have to back date to the 1st of the current month unless you are in the last 2 days of the month (!). If the docs don't arrive in time and you aren't taxed you will need to do another V62. The post office doesn't seem to need a V10 but I don't know if that is because they don't or because they don't follow all the red tape.

if you are insured with one of the companies that make you print your own certificate then the DVLA may refuse to accept the cert - the legislation that made PDF certs legal was only due to take effect 01/05/2010 - presumably the DVLA is up to speed with that now but in the past I have had to go to a post office to get a new tax disk as they seem less keen to challenge this.

For the first few weeks keep your insurance cert with you in the car as the ANPR/MID systems won't have your insurance details until your insurance company update them - you may get stopped for an insurance check.

I was told to keep my old plates for when I sell the car - apparently the DVLA will register the car back to the old number and the old plates will come in useful. I don't know if this is true.

Halfords sell double sided number plate tape that allows fixing without screws. I think this looks better than the screwed on variety. You will need the extra thick versions for the front curved plate. This type of fixing may not be legal for registered number plate fitters but you can probably do it yourself. Some will say that the risk of number plates being stolen is higher - they are probably right.


Regards
S

 

[Taz]

I was told to keep my old plates for when I sell the car - apparently the DVLA will register the car back to the old number and the old plates will come in useful. I don't know if this is true.

This is correct

 

[Anonymous]

The DLVA office will make you a new tax disk and a new MOT cert while you wait S

My local office won't, you get it back through the post in 7 days and I'm surprised if others do

 

[spanna2000]

Well as of April 2010 DVLA Birmingham did this for me . Take in V5C/2, old MOT, old Tax disk (both valid just with old reg no) and insurance cert - complete forms, leave with new MOT, old tax disk (to keep on vehicle until plates are changed) and new tax disk (but no V5C or V5C/2 - not sure if their decision to keep my V5C/2 was a mistake or standard practice.

Don't forget to tell insurance company before new plates are fitted - the insurance won't be valid if they don't know about the change. There was no charge for this from my insurer (Swiftcover) and I did it online, it took about 4 hours for them to acknowledge the change.

Regards
S

 

[chaos86]

The DLVA office will make you a new tax disk and a new MOT cert while you wait S

My local office won't, you get it back through the post in 7 days and I'm surprised if others do

Mine did. Quite a quick and simple process... if you have all the relavant documents with you.