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Joshy said:
Really?

So effectively the DVLA can pull the carpet out of a muti million pound industry any time they wished?

Awesome :cool:.
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Yup, really.

You never own your registration mark, you effectively lease it.

The DVLA can and will pull a reg plate that has been tampered with to make it look different and then only issue you with a Q mark plate for your vehicle with zero refund regardless of how much you've paid for the personalised plate (IIRC if they receive several complaints about a plate being spaced/made up in a dodgy manner recalling the registration is one of the options).

If however the mistake is there's such as in the case, and the plate is possibly offensive even whilst being fully legally made up (correct font, spacing, no creatively placed wrong colour screw caps), they'll do what they've done in this case.
Which would appear to be recall the registration offer a refund and a standard replacement for the car.
If he doesn't go with it, as Burnsy says they'll probably go for the threat of a Q plate with no refund on his old plate.

I'm not too surprised that some potentially rude/offensive registration plates get past the DVLA at time of issuing, as I suspect the sort of programming that could recognise them all automatically without false positives would probably be very hard to program (not only simple letter substitution, but phonetic letter sub, and mis spelling), so it's probably down to some poor soul to manually check groups of registrations that could be offensive.
 
Much as I hate the DVLA and under normal circumstances I would take the opportunity to rubbish them, in this case the bloke is being the pillock.
 
To be fair, I don't even think it's *that* offensive - in fact, I think the DVLA are in the wrong here.

Things like BO11OCK or PI55OFF should be taken off the road, but I think this guy should be allowed to keep his.
 
Werewolf said:
Yup, really.

You never own your registration mark, you effectively lease it.

The DVLA can and will pull a reg plate that has been tampered with to make it look different and then only issue you with a Q mark plate for your vehicle with zero refund regardless of how much you've paid for the personalised plate (IIRC if they receive several complaints about a plate being spaced/made up in a dodgy manner recalling the registration is one of the options).

If however the mistake is there's such as in the case, and the plate is possibly offensive even whilst being fully legally made up (correct font, spacing, no creatively placed wrong colour screw caps), they'll do what they've done in this case.
Which would appear to be recall the registration offer a refund and a standard replacement for the car.
If he doesn't go with it, as Burnsy says they'll probably go for the threat of a Q plate with no refund on his old plate.

I'm not too surprised that some potentially rude/offensive registration plates get past the DVLA at time of issuing, as I suspect the sort of programming that could recognise them all automatically without false positives would probably be very hard to program (not only simple letter substitution, but phonetic letter sub, and mis spelling), so it's probably down to some poor soul to manually check groups of registrations that could be offensive.
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I think people misunderstand when Q plates are issued. They are used for self built vehicles or vehicles of indeterminate age. The guy's Overfinch is neither. He'll be issued with a 11 plate (assuming it's new) with some random characters like any other plate you see on the road. Once this VRM is issued, that is it's identity. If you put plates on with a different mark you are committing an offence, the same as if you were putting cloned plates on.
 
Joshy said:
Really?

So effectively the DVLA can pull the carpet out of a muti million pound industry any time they wished?

Awesome :cool:.
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If you have a plate with dodgy font or spacing or anything that doesn't meet bsau 145d then you can be reported to the DVLA. Two reports and they can and often will withdraw the plate and issue another one of the relevant age (not a Q plate). The DVLA have absolute control over which car has which plate.
 
There was a personal trainer who used to live in my town with the plate "BE F1T", which I thought was rather mighty.
 
Muffin` said:
I remember a Lamborghini from my youth that somehow read 'Aim low' :D
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I quite liked this one in peurto banus

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