Dan Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I'm not normally a huge fan of private plates but I spotted a very clever one the other day. It was on an X5 or something similar and the plate said : D380RAH. It looked just like DEBORAH ( of course !!! ). The other one I liked was a Testarossa I used to see on my way to work which had 4RE on the plate. Which sounds a lot like Ferrari if you say it out loud. Apologies if I've just stated the bleeding obvious, twice. It's one of those days ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 numberplates seem to be a good investment to, they seem to be like property at the moment always going up in value if the demand is right, like my last plate T3XT J, i paid 189 for it and sold it for 1500 5 months later, now he is trying to sell it for 3500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I'm not normally a huge fan of private plates but I spotted a very clever one the other day. It was on an X5 or something similar and the plate said : D380RAH. It looked just like DEBORAH ( of course !!! ). The other one I liked was a Testarossa I used to see on my way to work which had 4RE on the plate. Which sounds a lot like Ferrari if you say it out loud. First plate is cool. Second one is ridiculous imho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I got fined £30 for mine today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I got fined £30 for mine today why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I got fined £30 for mine today why? Because its illegally spaced. Apparantly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I got fined £30 for mine today why? Because its illegally spaced. Apparantly thats b%llocks aint the police got anything better to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I got fined £30 for mine today why? Because its illegally spaced. Apparantly thats b%llocks aint the police got anything better to do Jokers. As I was getting out of the police car,having just handed me a fixed penalty notice, one of the coppers asked: So whats the best mortgage rate at the moment? My reply: You must be ****ing joking pal.... Prick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 You should have given him really bad advice mate. Gutted though, your plate seemed fine when i saw it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 You should have given him really bad advice mate. Gutted though, your plate seemed fine when i saw it. I've got my personal one on now mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I got fined £30 for mine today why? Because its illegally spaced. Apparantly thats b%llocks aint the police got anything better to do Jokers. As I was getting out of the police car,having just handed me a fixed penalty notice, one of the coppers asked: So whats the best mortgage rate at the moment? My reply: You must be ****ing joking pal.... Prick. Jokers I heard somewhere that they do like a bingo game with like number plates and people earn tons of money, or did I dream that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 You should have given him really bad advice mate. Gutted though, your plate seemed fine when i saw it. I've got my personal one on now mate Ah thats why then. How did he know what you do? Did you tell him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixy Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 they ask you as part of the form filling in - they asked me when they got me a few weeks ago for the same thing. I never got a fine though - had to get new plates and get it signed off by an MOT station though which was far more hassle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 You should have given him really bad advice mate. Gutted though, your plate seemed fine when i saw it. I've got my personal one on now mate Ah thats why then. How did he know what you do? Did you tell him? He asked how i could afford the car at 28.................... I said i had a 'good' job hoping he would pick up on me hinting that he was doing a crap job. I have no problem with police officers or the job, just with dicks in police uniforms giving the rest a bad name.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Haha, excellent, im the same there are good cops and bad cops. Most are good - look at Ming, but there are some really dodgy ones too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 He asked how i could afford the car at 28.................... Should of told him you do a bit of this and a bit of that, deals here and there (i.e property), then look at his face as you ask him if you could get some drugs out your car whilst being question, (pull out some asperines) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 (pull out some asperines) what kind a drugs are those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 My Bro in Law has got a good un on his 512 Testarossa G 512 TES. My pal owns A5TON as well as S7EVE - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted October 16, 2007 Author Share Posted October 16, 2007 Because its illegally spaced. Apparantly They are red hot on this just now because of the automatic number plate recognition ( ANPR ) systems they are using. Basically these are cameras, both fixed and mobile, that can read dozens of number plates per second and look them up on a database and tell straight away if the car is nicked, not taxed or not insured. But they don't like plates which are illegally spaced, apparently. We got a letter through from DVLA warning us about producing illegally spaced number plates, or plates with fancy fonts etc ( we have a computer operated number plate machine, very fancy gadget, which can print different fonts and create effects etc for show plates ) for customers and threatening us with a large fine if we produce any that end up on the road...our name appears on the bottom of the plates so we can't say it wasn't us that printed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Hmm im getting my new private numberplates delivered next week. Has no illegal spacings but the letters are carbon fibre, will that be illegal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 possibly, you would have to argue that the characters are black article in last weeks Autoexpress. The DVLA and the police are on a big clamp down. Even logo's on plates are deemed illegal. latest guidelines are here http://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/leaflets/v796.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 possibly, you would have to argue that the characters are black article in last weeks Autoexpress. The DVLA and the police are on a big clamp down. Even logo's on plates are deemed illegal. latest guidelines are here http://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/leaflets/v796.pdf Thats ridicoulours logos on plates never use to be, anything to charge us Ive got normal plates to ill just keep them in my boot if I get caught just swear blind I forgot to exchange them over after a show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polarbear Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 the letters are carbon fibre Think this is legal. Certainly came up in the legal options on the plate I ordered for mine. On a related note I think that the Z would look good with a number plate sticker on the front instead of the horrible black mount. Anybody know if this is legal now??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmmackfc Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 the letters are carbon fibre Think this is legal. Certainly came up in the legal options on the plate I ordered for mine. On a related note I think that the Z would look good with a number plate sticker on the front instead of the horrible black mount. Anybody know if this is legal now??? I think you are right, the numberplate websites seem to say they are legal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Local Porsche garage the other day. My mate was working on a Carrera 4 with a reg U6. The owner came in for a chat ( and a free coffee ). Admired the car and the plate. He commented that he also had U3 and U5 on Morgans, had sold U4 but had U2 on a Frazer Nash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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