Personal Plates. Which One Of These Would You Choose ?

[nveeate 78]

Well i eventually got one...For £250 all in I think it looks ok....If you see it in your rear view mirror

 

It's going to be "u no 9.1 a" in a rear view mirror though!

[GLPoomobile 958]

Good luck not getting pulled by the plod with that.

[Crescent205 11 1 Cars]

If I had up to £500 quid to burn, I'd put it towards buying upgraded suspension or a diff.

 

That out of the way I'd go for H 20S XU or preferably the letters PUG in it, innit ​

 

Really??? £650 for a diff, get bored with it sell it 12 months later for £450 a loss of £200 notes, Cleverly buy a plate for £300-£500 few years sell it for £1000 to someone who "needs" it! Profit of £500 - £700 buy a diff - FREE

I am slightly biased tho i have numerous plates 2 of which are on my 205's, One is E200PUG (200 bhp pug) and the other is slightly more boring however ive had it for over 10 years on my rally car FXI1900.

[Wes 86 1 Cars]

be warned that if you get pulled for that plate, (which you probably will) then you can loose any rights to the plate. the dvla can take it off you and you will have lost your money.

[speno 239 2 Cars]

I have F1 Spen on one of my cars , like most things it comes down to personal preference ( and how much money you have to burn ( cost me £500)

Oh I carry a spare set of plates in the car too just in case I get told off, but I have never been 'told off yet'

[ORB 227 1 Cars]

I know where the plate XGT 1X is for sale. Put on a car it reads

 

X GTI X

[AlexRS2782 136 1 Cars]

Isn't that incorrectly spaced?

 

Yep, and is now up on the bad personal plates thread on Pistonheads as a result

 

I don't understand the whole mis-spacing thing to be honest - even spaced normally as A19 ONU, it's still obvious what the plate is meant to say.

[johniban 59 1 Cars]

my name is John B i got a plate that says J777 HNB some people don't understand what it is meant to say but i don't mind i like it.

it only cost me £188 plus the fees it would have been £2000 for J88 HNB witch i would have but is very costly, then again i do like things like that.

[ORB 227 1 Cars]

Wife's is W25 ABY - She's called Abby. On Audi

 

Mine is 81 ORB - I'm called ORB and was born in 81. On retention.

 

I also have J33 MOO - I put this on my wife's car because she is a silly cow. It did not go down well. On retention.

 

I have a couple more on retention, but they are boring

[muddatrucker 125]

 

Even spaced normally as A19 ONU, it's still obvious what the plate is meant to say.

I still don't know what its supposed to say...

[jackherer 543]

I just bought this car:

 

[nveeate 78]

I just bought this car:

 

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Was that reg on it from new? Always quite liked them in silver - has it got a cage in it?

[nveeate 78]

Bondyshambles - all pisstake aside...if you like the plate on your car then that's all that matters really!

[jackherer 543]

 

Was that reg on it from new? Always quite liked them in silver - has it got a cage in it?

 

No, it was put on by a previous owner, it should have a J plate. It's an OMP cage - http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?showtopic=153332

[luggy 13]

If I had up to £500 quid to burn, I'd put it towards buying upgraded suspension or a diff.

 

That out of the way I'd go for H 20S XU or preferably the letters PUG in it, innit ​

 

 

 

Really??? £650 for a diff, get bored with it sell it 12 months later for £450 a loss of £200 notes, Cleverly buy a plate for £300-£500 few years sell it for £1000 to someone who "needs" it! Profit of £500 - £700 buy a diff - FREE

I am slightly biased tho i have numerous plates 2 of which are on my 205's, One is E200PUG (200 bhp pug) and the other is slightly more boring however ive had it for over 10 years on my rally car FXI1900.

The OP stated most of the plates would be less than £500, I'd rather put the funds TOWARDS a hardware upgrade of EITHER suspension or differential if I had the option, dont know where you got the £650 figure from ​

 

Selling a secondhand plate diff for 1k?. You can buy them brand new for just over £700 ​

 

To have a private plate on your rally car, sounds like you've got more money than sense ​

[JeffR 51]

When my 405 was registered I had LEM116.

[petert 586]

I use to own FAT 205. Currently own GTI 20S.

[bondyshambles 23 1 Cars]

be warned that if you get pulled for that plate, (which you probably will) then you can loose any rights to the plate. the dvla can take it off you and you will have lost your money.

Is this really true ? I have used legal fonts and it is clearly obvious what the letters are. Such controversy over a number plate...

[TooMany2cvs 65]

Is this really true ? I have used legal fonts and it is clearly obvious what the letters are.

Yes. The spacing is not legal. The "full stop" is not legal. The registration is not legally displayed.

 

Such controversy over a number plate...

If it's such a minor and trivial thing, why not just space the plate correctly?

Edited October 28, 2013 by TooMany2cvs

[bondyshambles 23 1 Cars]

Yes. The spacing is not legal. The "full stop" is not legal. The registration is not legally displayed.

 

 

If it's such a minor and trivial thing, why not just space the plate correctly?

Looks like i will have too. Sure i have seen many plates on the road with slight changes to plate. Maybe i am a bit naive. Thanks for the info guys.

[TooMany2cvs 65]

Sure i have seen many plates on the road with slight changes to plate.

There are a lot out there, yes. Or, rather, there were. There's a lot fewer now, largely because plod have been cracking down over the last few years.

 

My favourite round where we used to live was a Q7 with "Lucy Lou" on the plate (in italic script). Well, that's what they _wanted_ it to say. Once they'd put legal plates on, it said LU57 LOU. Lust Lou, if anything... Not, I suspect, what they really intended.

 

Will you get nicked for the plate as you've got it now? Probably not.

Will Plod use it as an excuse to give you a tug in a borderline situation? Probably.

Will it raise the pass mark required on a roadside attitude test? Probably.

Will they add it on to anything else they might be about to throw you in the event of a fail of that attitude test? Almost certainly.

[jackherer 543]

I think I'm probably going to put mine back to a generic J plate, hopefully its original one. If anyone is interested in H19 PEU let me know.

[GLPoomobile 958]

Maybe i am a bit naive.

 

Yep The information about how to ensure your license plate is legal is easily available from the DVLA's website. It is, as you say, completely naive to assume that changing the way your license plate appears wouldn't be an issue, when there is so much dependance these days on ANPR systems and of course the good old GATSOs and their modern replacements etc etc etc. You wouldn't assume it OK not to display your tax disc, would you?

 

Legalities aside, changing the appearance of a license plate by mucking about with spacing and fixings just makes the owner look a total wanker. Sorry to be offensive, I'm sure you're a perfectly nice chap in reality, but it's a general preconception that many people have to those who do this. f***ed up license plate = knob head that wants a personal plate that they can't legally have

 

Also, FYI, the laws are even more stringent on plates these days so if putting new plates on the car they not only have to comply with size and spacing regulations but also have to have the name of the plate supplier and their post code in small print at the bottom, and you aren't allowed any additional text (silly messages etc) along the bottom, and can only display certain logos at the side, such as the country emblem. That's a rough summary from memory and may/may not be factually accurate at this point in time, so I emplor anyone reading to double check the exact legalities themselves rather than taking that on face value. I'm just trying to reiterate that the laws are even stricter on this now than they were just a few years ago.

[GLPoomobile 958]

Bondyshambles - all pisstake aside...if you like the plate on your car then that's all that matters really!

 

Sadly we don't live in a perfect world where floating the law can be excused simply because the offender likes it

 

And I know it sounds like I'm being Mr Never-put-a-foot-wrong. In reality I don't give a crap what he does with his car, and he may well never get pulled up for having that plate, but he needs to be aware that the plate is illegally spaced so that he can make his own informed decision based on the risk of keeping it like that.

[dcc 855]

just drive it as it is untill you get pulled, then you'll have 7 days to go get new plates and prove you've had them changed. plenty of people do it, the police don't take the plate off you (I have never seen them do that anyway), but they will issue you an on the spot fine, which iirc was around £30.