Warning To those with illegal number plates 2

[countrybumpkin]

probably if your diving an osf with illegal plate no one will take any notic unless your actualy brakeing a traffic law

[Copey]

probably if your diving an osf with illegal plate no one will take any notic unless your actualy brakeing a traffic law

 

i got pulled in my capper for me black/silver plates the other day, i don't want to take them off

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

fook mine dont have the BS AU 145d mark on them but every thing else is ok ie the correct colours and size and correcty spaced

[Mrs O/H/C]

i think we are all fooked in one way or another .. lead foot has the correct plates but with no mark on them .. i have black and silver ones with mrs lead foot under the numbers

 

i think points for this offence is bl**dy idiotic and it would be a mindless person to pull you up on this and this alone when so more SERIOUS crimes are being commited on a daily basis

 

although a fine i feel woud be far more acceptable if you are aware that you are breaking the rules

[mk2_escort_chick]

I have a standard rear no.plate and an import front no.plate on jelly-all the correct size letters, spacing etc

 

Orville has (what I believe to be) original plates,

they could do with changing actually as they're quite faded

[FredTransit]

Still no definitive answer on this, I will have to wait till I take on to test, but that will be before Nov though. The next one will prob be the horse box, which has the original white and yellow plates with separate plastic numbers. from the 70s. How legal will those be?

[5hane]

so i wont be able to have my name under my plates thas stupid.. like they will spot them anyway ???

 

 

also does any one know if square plates will have to be changed?

 

(like mk2_escort_chicks festia has in her sig)

[razersedge]

You can not put a pre 72 plate on a 81 car (for instance) and be leagal with black plates, it's down to when the car was constructed not what the plate says

 

that is not what it use to be but i looked at this quite a while ago, but if the private plate had (pre71) had black and silver plates when it was changed over then it was allowed to stay black and silver but there was never any thing marked any where to say weather they were black or not, so people could have black plates on a new car on an older reg

 

but has the clause been revoked or not that is the question because if not then a plate like this is going on my car

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHERISHED-NUMBER-PLATE-HCK-104E-PRIVATE-PERSONALISED_W0QQitemZ270252394791QQ

[emu]

okay, I couldnt find the poster that we had on the wall, but I have photographed the relevant pages from the inspection manual.

 

and then you need to read this spe\cial notice to see which of those failure points cant be used at the moment

http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosacorp/reposit ... 010-07.pdf

 

Basically, if your vehicle was built before 01-01-1973 then you can have black and silvers. And if you still have your original dealer plates from 1976 then thats cool too, provided that they legible and not mispaced, altered etc

 

BSAU markings, honeycomb or ghosted names in the backgrounds, and the requirement to display makers name and postcode only applied to vehicles registered on or after 01-09-2001.

 

Obviously, mis-spacing, silly fonts and badly placed nuts and bolts is a failure regardless of the vehicles age.

[over_head_cam]

Nice one Richard. Clarification in black and white

[emu]

Ive added the special notice which supersedes those pages now too. The contents of the SN dont really have any effect on our old cars or sensible number plates , but its there anyway

[FredTransit]

Thanks for that, that will explain why none of ours have failed on the original plates (1985/6) or are likely to.

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

so are mine ok then

 

they have correct size letters they are the correct colour background (yellow and white)

 

they are pressed alliminium but got no BS AU number

 

i have a little classic ford sticker on each where the garage would usually put their name /postcode etc

 

also ive been looking around at other peoples number plates and theres loads which will be illegal more illegal then legal