The police are going madd

Now after my row over having German plates on the car which are blatentley illegal ive switched to a legal rear plate... its even yellow honest!

But still the police tell me that i have to have a front plate as well

So ive just mounted yes a legal front plate just above my splitter which on a big bumper mk 2 is impossible to see or read


What is the world coming to these days, you must have two plates, theyve gotta be the right colour and theyve got to be legal... :@

and ITS AN EASY PULL/cash FOR THEM

last time i got stopped they thought i had no licence! (obviously a mixup

i did piont out that IF i had no licence i was unlikely to drive a higly
modded and slammed b-reg golf round hemel!!!!!!!

some sort of vauxhall/drone would be far better

what upsets me know is most of the plod i see are young ,dumb and full a cum

Yep there hot in hemel.... i got pulled a while back and was warned to take them off or risk a £60 fine a poss 3pts........ so mine now sit in the boot!

I seem to get away with my English pressed metal plates!!

Dare say it'll bite me on the arse eventually

Me too - GB flash, UK font but pressed metal.

They'll do us for no postcode of maker and no BS mark...

Both my cars will be running these soon, once I have transferred my private plate back. Boy-racer-mobile and drug-dealer-mobile..

Annie will need Bogo Uk stock Plastics as soon as the V5 comes back...

Running the Rado for 2 years on Full-on D-plates (D-Band-Font-stadt stickers) was fine in E-London where there are so many foreign cars (not to mebntion shootings and stabbings, which are more important), but out here in the Shires.. It's an easy tug... and easy £60 fine too...

If you keep re-offending, they will report you to the DVLA and they have the power to confiscate your registration... Especially if it's a private plate...so you could technically end up on a Q plate...

And before you all wave your arms about in the air...yes they can as we just "rent" out plates from the DVLA.

However Doug you will still not be safe as there are certain criteria a front plates location has to serve one of which is to be viable from a certain distance... you'd be better off putting it in the stock location, or on some brackets underneath.

my front plate is uk font pressed but rear is 'normal'

Easy bucks for the rozzers guys, not just the police, the whole damn world has gone mad.

the law as it stands:

Current number plates must be displayed in accordance with The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001.

All vehicles manufactured after 1 January 1973 must display number plates of reflex-reflecting material, white at the front and yellow at the rear, with black characters. In addition, characters on number plates purchased from 1 September 2001 must use a mandatory typeface and conform to set specifications as to width, height, stroke, spacing, and margins. The physical characteristics of the number plates are set out in British Standard BS AU 145d, which specifies visibility, strength, and reflectivity.[1]

Number plates with smaller characters are only permitted on imported vehicles, and then only if they do not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval and their construction/design cannot accommodate standard size number plates.[1]

The industry standard size front number plate is 520 mm × 111 mm (20½" × 4⅜"). Rear plates are either the same size, or 285 mm × 203 mm or 533 mm × 152 mm. There is no specified legal size for a number plate. For example, the rear number plate of a Rover 75 is 635 mm x 175 mm. However, all number plates must adhere to British Standard BS AU 145d[2], which must be marked on the plate, along with the name and postcode of the manufacturer and the supplier of the plates.

Older British plates had white, grey or silver characters on a black background. This style of plate was phased out in 1972, and is now legal to be carried only on vehicles built prior to 1 January 1973.

Motorcycles formerly had a double-sided number plate on top of the front mudguard, curved to follow the contour of the wheel and visible from the sides. The requirement for the front number plate was dropped in 1975 because of the severe danger these presented to pedestrians in the event of a collision. Motorcycles registered after 1 September 2001 only need to display a rear number plate, while motorcycles registered before that date can display a number plate at the front if desired.

Specialist HM Forces vehicles use black plates with white lettering

It then goes on to say

Current system
[edit] Characters
The current system for Great Britain was introduced on 1 September 2001. Each registration index consists of seven characters with a defined format.[3][4]

From left to right, the characters consist of:

A local memory tag or area code, consisting of two letters which together indicate the local registration office. The letters I, Q and Z are not used in this code;
The first of these two letters is a mnemonic standing for the name of the broad area where the registration office is located. This is intended to make the registration more memorable than an arbitrary code.[5][6] For example, A is used as the first character in all registrations issued by the three offices located in the vicinity of East Anglia;
A two-digit age identifier, which changes twice a year, in March and September. The code is either the last two digits of the year itself if issued between March and August (e.g. "10" for registrations issued between 1 March and 31 August 2010), or else has 50 added to that value if issued between September and February the following year (e.g. "60" for registrations issued between 1 September 2010 and 28 February 2011);
A three-letter sequence which uniquely distinguishes each of the vehicles displaying the same initial four-character area and age sequence. The letters I and Q are excluded from the three-letter sequence, as are combinations that may appear offensive (including those in foreign languages).
This scheme has three particular advantages:

A buyer of a second-hand vehicle can in theory determine the year of first registration of the vehicle without having to look it up,
In the case of a police investigation of an accident or vehicle-related crime, witnesses usually remember the initial area code letters — it is then quite simple to narrow down suspect vehicles to a much smaller number by checking the authority's database without having to know the full number.[citation needed]
The scheme should have sufficient numbers to run until 28 February 2051.

Basicly, unless you have standard DVLA-spec plates at the front and rear of the dub the police can and will continue to pull you over. get used to it doug, sorry mate

what a load of cock

i will continue to run my pressed plates (when i finally have a car to put them on) and f*@! what they say.

bsides they cant catch me

ha ha

lol too right buddy

I want german plates, but cant be arsed with the hassle.

Illegal number plates are for bikes, where you dont actually have to stop for the police

This is true Joe,

Yeahh i know but it is just getting silly, ok my car stands out like a sore thumb but i got pulled over at the stanborough roundabout, out the front of the police station then outside my friends house and again on the way home....

4 times in like an hour -- i know its not menna be legal but couldnt the police find something better to do....

Also its funny what u say Editiion1 G60.... i Got pulled over by a meat wagon a couple of week backs and this little woman hopped out and screamed:

" WOW!! a MK2 Golf GTI i had two of these.... i dont get it though, why when we put the lights on did you not just hack off ? Is it not a real GTI??"

She then preceded to tell me i couldnt hack off now breatholised me and sent me on my way:)