Personalised number plate spacing.

eidolon said:
My mother got caught with her highly illegal plate in January. Instead of the usual 11mm gap between letters, she had 19mm gap :eek:

The police thought that the additional 8mm was far worse than drug dealers and rapists and fined her, put her name in the local paper and she also had to report where she'd bought the plate from so they could go after them too.
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Haha, im adding 8mm into mine if i get my name in the paper for it :D
 
sounds a pants plate tbh

Booners, Will Gills and even Peter Nems plates are awesome; but this is fail like Olly's :(
 
eidolon said:
My mother got caught with her highly illegal plate in January. Instead of the usual 11mm gap between letters, she had 19mm gap :eek:

The police thought that the additional 8mm was far worse than drug dealers and rapists and fined her, put her name in the local paper and she also had to report where she'd bought the plate from so they could go after them too.
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Just but its the law, simple and easuly to follow rule, if it was not clear you would have all sorts of people taking the **** with number plates, its for safety and not how cool do I look.
 
Sone said:
sounds a pants plate tbh

Booners, Will Gills and even Peter Nems plates are awesome; but this is fail like Olly's :(
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Controversial, but thank you :)

Admittedly, I desire to have my plate spaced as R 800NER... but I would look like a ****. When I change my car to something sporty, I will be having less room for numberplate spacing as it will slow me down..(:p) so it will be spaced R800NER. (R being my first name initial, Booner my nickname!)

My mates always say that the private plate is cool, but some don't notice that little detail as it is spaced perfectly legally.

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My cousins has R4CED on their Ferrari 355 in italics with no spacing (and 'Built to be' above the reg), but they had the plates held on with velcro, with normal legal ones in the boot. The got stopped a couple of times and just said "oh, sorry, we've been at a track day, forgot to change them back!" and then changed them over. It worked the couple of times they did it.
 
[TW]Fox;11364680 said:
I don't know if you realised but the Traffic Police don't do narcotics operations.
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Indeed, they are out to catch motorists, especially ones that defy the law and avoid numberplate legislation.
 
[TW]Fox;11364680 said:
I don't know if you realised but the Traffic Police don't do narcotics operations.
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Wow, I learn something new every day. Thanks for that useful information Fox, I'm glad I could rely on you to give me the facts, it saves me asking my girlfriend (who's been a police officers for the last 10 years....)
 
My car has failed it's MOT cause of the spacing, I was told that the gap between the sets was 3mm too less, had to have a new set of plates made up just for this.
 
eidolon said:
Wow, I learn something new every day. Thanks for that useful information Fox, I'm glad I could rely on you to give me the facts, it saves me asking my girlfriend (who's been a police officers for the last 10 years....)
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If she's been in the force for the last 10 years I'm suprised you felt the need to make such an uninformed, irrelevent Sun Reader quip as that :)
 
Booners plate is great, btw - it doesnt need to be illegally spaced to say what he wants and as a result looks cool.

For some reason it even looks good on the Golf whereas private plates on stuff like that normally look daft.
 
eidolon said:
My mother got caught with her highly illegal plate in January. Instead of the usual 11mm gap between letters, she had 19mm gap :eek:

The police thought that the additional 8mm was far worse than drug dealers and rapists and fined her, put her name in the local paper and she also had to report where she'd bought the plate from so they could go after them too.
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Quite, to be honest a child could have been killed if they were goggled eyed at the naughty spacing and stepped out in to the road.:D
 
I have a small plate on my bike and never been pulled for it so far. It's an 8"x6" when it should be 9"x7" and has "SV650S" at the bottom in smaller font. Was on a ride where one guy got stopped, he had a "carbon" effect background, italic font and it was smaller, he just got a £30 fine. You DEFINITELY can't get points for it, but repeated offences can result in the registration being withdrawn.
 
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