Stick on Number plates

[max6674]

Just spoke to my mate again (the MOT tester) who says that my number plate is fine and there is no reason why you cant have a stick on one. They just have to be spaced correctly, the correct size letters and on a reflective background and readable from 75 yds.

There is no MOT rules to say that you have to have the makers ID etc on it and it doesnt matter where it is made as long as it meets the correct guidelines.

Hope this helps.

[AuldNick]

Just spoke to my mate again (the MOT tester) who says that my number plate is fine and there is no reason why you cant have a stick on one. They just have to be spaced correctly, the correct size letters and on a reflective background and readable from 75 yds.

There is no MOT rules to say that you have to have the makers ID etc on it and it doesnt matter where it is made as long as it meets the correct guidelines.

Hope this helps.

If a camera cant read it you will be done and since most drivers stick these plates on the bonnet the camera cant read it = illegal.

Some facts... Motorcycles didnt even need to have a number plate up to two years ago, MOT testers failed bikes with small plates and they were wrong even though most riders ate sh!t and bought new "legal" plates. Now NRQ means strict restrictions on bike plates that are big as a house.

Every new car plate must show the maker, mibbi not a MOT requirment YET but mark my words as is dry sub plates 'cos the UK DVLA are gonni make a packet from this and like speed camera's local councils will have their own NRQ cameras anaw.

Like I said earlier....The plod driving a camera car MUST respond to an alarm because it is sent to the DVLA at the same time, mibbi the alarm was caused by no MOT, tax, insurance OR dodgy plate the cop has to book you even if he is your bitch!

Most car cameras are set to read oncoming traffic so expect a tug and it aint the plods fault.

[PDR]

I’m not a smoker, but I do think these “fag police” should carry a belt mounted pouch/ashtray into which members of the public can put their used fag ends…… once they have been stubbed out on the officer’s jacket

[fergus]

I havent any cop or MOT tester friends to ask but logic says a reg plate that is facing to the sky and not facing so you can read it face on must be illegal. Otherwise a transit van owner for example could put the back one on the roof with stick on letters and claim it was legal. There must be some rukles that says it must be visible 'face on' ?

[Taliesins]

DVLA guidelines on how they should be displayed.

All registration marks including marks purchased through DVLA's sales scheme must be displayed in accordance with The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 (obtainable from Her Majesty's Stationery Office).

Rules for the display of number plates are set out in law, briefly these are: -

* A number plate must be displayed at the front and rear of motor vehicles (with some exceptions).
* Number Plates must be easy to read and meet the British Standard.
* Lettering should be black on a white plate at the front and a yellow at the rear.
* The background surface should be reflex-reflecting but the characters must not.
* There are separate requirements for traditional number plates displayed on vehicles constructed before 1 January 1973.
* Lettering and spacing must be of a set size. They must conform to one of the groups shown at:- Number plates fitted after 1 September 2001 or Number plates fitted before 1 September 2001.

There is no legislation on where the number plate is to be displayed apart from the above.

[huff_diggler]

well theres loads of sports car i.e mx5's driving about with stick-on reg's so i reckon you won't have any bother.

[fergus]

"front and back" is a bit loose and open to interpretation. if its on the bonnett you could argue its on the 'top' and not the front.

[max6674]

The cameras in question dont look in one place, they look at the whole front of your car and pick up on the plates reflectiveness. It then reads the plate so if the plate is on the bonnet or on the roof but clearly visable from the front then it wil be able to be read the plate.. simple.


Look at how the specs speed cameras work from the front, same idea really and they are some 20' plus in the air..

Oh and I have been through one of the VOSA cams today on the way to diving in the Surf and I wasnt pulled so it must be ok as it is ?

[drunkmonkeyboy]

Hi just saw this thread, I to have a stick on plate and have yet to get told off by the boys in blue. It has also recently passed its MOT. I have a MOT guidelines and it just says that it has to be visible at 20 meters. If anyone does get pulled let us know what happens!