Licence Plates

[ciaranrb5]

Here is mine 70% size of standard. No bother from the plod yet considering it is pretty much impossible to run if coming from the othet direction

Im loving the square plate

[marko72]

I have a 3/4 size plate on front and no probs.

[mystery machine]

some nice person has fitted the plate by means of 'lining it up straight' and then just blasting 2 self tappers through the plate into the bumper behind and not even bothering to take the 40 secs required to line up the existing holes & drill correctly.

BUTCHERS!

Edited February 8, 2010 by Mystery Machine

[braveheart]

Well Iv'e had mines on the car for a few years now and been stopped once or twice... and im not changing them officer lol

[paul555sti]

A lot of it is just your donald duck , i ran about for months with no front plate after i got the front mount done and never got stopped once. There are loads of guys with elises that run about with no front plates as well, my mate keeps a broken one in the passenger footwell just incase he gets stopped.

I went with a 3/4s square one just for mot time.

[Bladerider]

I've been pulled three times in the last nine years for having a smaller than normal plate.

I've always kept in the car, a printout of the regulation covering the size and spacing of characters on import vehicles. I had my plates made up to conform exactly with these regulations.

The following is an extract of the document;

“Size and spacing of characters: special cases

14A.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to any vehicle imported into the United

Kingdom which—

(a) does not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval; and

( is so constructed that the area available for the fixing of the registration plate

precludes the display on the plate of a registration mark in conformity with the

requirements of regulation 14.

(2) In relation to a vehicle to which this regulation applies—

(a) each character in the registration mark must be 64 millimetres high;

( the width of each character of the mark, other than the letter “I” and the figure

“1”, must be 44 millimetres;

© the width of every part of the stroke forming a character in a mark must be 10

millimetres;

(d) the spacing between any two characters within a group must be 10 millimetres;

(e) the vertical spacing between groups of characters must be 5 millimetres;

(f) the width of a margin between the mark and the top and lateral sides of the

registration plate must be not less than 5 millimetres;

(g) the space between the bottom of the mark and the bottom of the registration

plate must be not less than 13 millimetres; but, within that space, the space

between the bottom of the mark and the top of the name and postcode of the

person by whom the plate was supplied must be not less than 5 millimetres.”(a)

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport.

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

24th October 2002 Department for Transport

(a) As to European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval, see Council Directive 70/156/EEC on the approximation of

the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (O.J. L No. 42, 23.2.70,

p. 1), as last amended by Council Directive 98/14/EC (O.J. L No. 91, 25.3.98, p. 1). See also regulation 11 of the Motor

Vehicle (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2051).

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