Gel number plates

OpenToSuggestions · 19 Jun 2019 at 17:40

Very council estate. Don't waste your money.

Lopéz · 19 Jun 2019 at 17:59

Demon said:
Reading the headline changes:

Honestly sounds more like an attempt to weed out poor quality plates and any of the stupid attempts at defeating cameras, I can't see why Pressed plates or Gel plates could not be made to be compliant.

On that subject I've seen on some forum people asking the police if pressed plates are legal to which the responding officer said 'no, they are illegal' but reading his apparently 'educated' reasoning it was effectively "BSAU145d states it must be made of a reflective material, aluminium isn't reflective"..

Neither is acrylic

Lopéz · 19 Jun 2019 at 18:02

Nasher said:
And Alu will bend as the temperature changes. So won't pass the "thermal change" test.

What sort of temperature change are you expecting them to subject it to?

Nasher · 19 Jun 2019 at 18:25

Lopéz said:
What sort of temperature change are you expecting them to subject it to?

Even with winter/summer temperatures thin aluminium will warp.

Dis86 · 19 Jun 2019 at 18:28

IAmATeaf said:
I’m going to be stupid but what does that MRS plate meant to say, I can see the MRS and the P. JO but the 4 has me confused.

The mr54 bit is nothing. The guys name is p***** jo******. Its just a perfectly highlighted crap plate.

Lopéz · 19 Jun 2019 at 18:35

Nasher said:
Even with winter/summer temperatures thin aluminium will warp.

Having had aluminium number plates on many cars, for many years, it won't. I've seen plenty of warped plastic plates though...

Entai · 20 Jun 2019 at 11:19

The main reason that the majority of aluminium or any other metal pressed plates are illegal is that they will not pass the bend test.

Whereby any number plate to pass this BSAU test must bend under a certain load applied for a certain time, but then return to its original shape (within tolerance) when the load is removed.

https://www.bnma.org/research-and-t...plates-bs-au-145d/resistance-to-bending-test/

Any plate that does not meet the certification standards is illegal.

Would be very interesting to test a Gel plate to all the standards and see how well they would fare, would imagine delamination of the characters to the backing plate could be an issue under a few of the tests.

Deus Ex · 20 Jun 2019 at 12:09

Haze said:
I think they look gash too

Good use of the term gash!

NVP · 20 Jun 2019 at 12:22

Entai said:
Would be very interesting to test a Gel plate to all the standards and see how well they would fare

Very interesting you say?

shaank · 21 Jun 2019 at 01:14

this thread was only ever going one way