Personalised plates

jonessa

jonessa

jonessa

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I've just got hold of a personal reg for my car.

Does anyone on here have any slightly "creative" spacing on theifr plate and have they ever had an issue with it?
 
Dont draw attention to yourself and dont take the **** and you probably wont have issues. Though as with everything, take your chances and dont complain if your luck runs out.
 
if i see someone with creative spacing i instantly know they are low class and couldn't afford a decent plate that they don't need to make illegal to look good.

(semi-serious)
 
Most of the time they don't seem to care as long as it's not silly. I've been using a 3/4 size front plate for a while now and not been stopped, but I have legal spacing etc.
 
If you had to use spacing to make it look what you want it to look then you couldn't get the word that you want in the first place?
 
So in summary OP, you're a low class, poverty stricken bell end, who is shortly to have a naff looking car. So declares Motors.
 
The amount of illegal plates you now see on the road everyday is truly staggering. I’m talking completely miss spaced and black screw coveres stuck on to try and make letters to the point some are almost unreadable. They always look crap because they never spell what they should and just makes me think what a ******.
Surely some of these people get away with speeding fines etc because some of them won’t register properly because they are that jumbled?
The dvla and other plate selling sites are as much to blame though for encouraging people to buy crap plates to try and make them look like a name.
It also shows how un policed the roads are nowadays. They should give people a big fine or threaten them with 3 points that would soon stop them
 
Never really got the whole personal plate thing. 99% of the time they are meaningless. I do like them when relevant to the car like the V6 WTF that i think someone here had on an ST220.

I see plenty of cars with a private plate that have not been washed for months, have mismatched ditchfinders, are full of dents and have what looks like the contents of my dusbin strewn over the inside and it just puzzles me. Why bother?
 
There’s a faded red Vauxhall Agila around here with a 3 digit plate on it. I assume the old biddy who drives it has had the plate for years.

That’s classier than a new rented German car with a fudged plate.
 
Kenai said:
So in summary OP, you're a low class, poverty stricken bell end, who is shortly to have a naff looking car. So declares Motors.
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I've never felt so loved.

There's always so much negativity about cherished plates - I wonder why that is?

Iamzod said:
Never really got the whole personal plate thing. 99% of the time they are meaningless. I do like them when relevant to the car like the V6 WTF that i think someone here had on an ST220.

I see plenty of cars with a private plate that have not been washed for months, have mismatched ditchfinders, are full of dents and have what looks like the contents of my dusbin strewn over the inside and it just puzzles me. Why bother?
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The plate starts V125 - I drive an Octavia VRS. I was thinking of only closing the gap between the 1 and 2 very slightly. It'll still read as intended without closing the space, it just won't read as well. Mine is washed every week, because I am sad and lonely.

Dav4 said:
The amount of illegal plates you now see on the road everyday is truly staggering. I’m talking completely miss spaced and black screw coveres stuck on to try and make letters to the point some are almost unreadable. They always look crap because they never spell what they should and just makes me think what a ******.
Surely some of these people get away with speeding fines etc because some of them won’t register properly because they are that jumbled?
The dvla and other plate selling sites are as much to blame though for encouraging people to buy crap plates to try and make them look like a name.
It also shows how un policed the roads are nowadays. They should give people a big fine or threaten them with 3 points that would soon stop them
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If they are so distorted and can't be picked up by police ANPR, you apparently get a single warning and a small fine.

Caught again and it's a fine up to £1000 and DVLA withdraw the plate.

As stated before though - i'm not looking to completely change my entire plate or massively take the mick.

Django x2 said:
Basically, most cars with private plates scream "bell-end" to me. Is there actually a viable justification for one?
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Yeah - some people have too much money and not enough sense. Other people get them as a gift. Does that make it justifiable?
 
Dav4 said:
The amount of illegal plates you now see on the road everyday is truly staggering. I’m talking completely miss spaced and black screw coveres stuck on to try and make letters to the point some are almost unreadable. They always look crap because they never spell what they should and just makes me think what a ******.
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The ones I've noticed a lot recently are the ones with blacked out plates - e.g. what looks like a polarizing filter or heavy tint on top to the point you can barely read them more than 3-4m away

Django x2 said:
Basically, most cars with private plates scream "bell-end" to me. Is there actually a viable justification for one?
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Just like those stupid flags, they serve as a warning to other motorists that you're a ****ing moron and to expect you to drive like a **** :p
 
I often see a Kia picanto.. with "xp1" plate.. must be worth a lot that!


Personally, I don't mind decent or funny plates but when you see character rotation or screws etc to make up words it all turns a bit desperate.

Spacing doesn't bother me.
 
Iamzod said:
Never really got the whole personal plate thing. 99% of the time they are meaningless. I do like them when relevant to the car like the V6 WTF that i think someone here had on an ST220.
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I must have been drunk when I bought this but I kinda like it.

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jonessa said:
I've never felt so loved.

There's always so much negativity about cherished plates - I wonder why that is?



The plate starts V125 - I drive an Octavia VRS. I was thinking of only closing the gap between the 1 and 2 very slightly. It'll still read as intended without closing the space, it just won't read as well. Mine is washed every week, because I am sad and lonely.



If they are so distorted and can't be picked up by police ANPR, you apparently get a single warning and a small fine.

Caught again and it's a fine up to £1000 and DVLA withdraw the plate.

As stated before though - i'm not looking to completely change my entire plate or massively take the mick.



Yeah - some people have too much money and not enough sense. Other people get them as a gift. Does that make it justifiable?
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The negativity isn't towards cherished plates. It's towards illegally modified plates. Also wtf is a cherished plate? I know what a dateless plate is and I know what back dated plate is but cherished?

Regardless of what you think is taking the mick it's illegal. A line has to be drawn somewhere and it's already been drawn we don't need or want you to re-draw the line for us.

Either buy a decent plate in the first place or don't. Illegal modification isn't the answer. It's also supposed to be an MOT fail
 
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