what a result !!!!!!

Post by **germ** » 07 May 2007 10:11 pm

are you serious about those german style plates?? surly they are illigal?

if they are not where can i have some made up xD
Will

Post by **redline** » 07 May 2007 11:13 pm

as far as I know , the only thing they can find fault with would be the stadt stickers between the numbers and letters ,
the font is clear and not messed about with and the spacing is about the same as the originals ,the plate can be easily read as well

iirc ,stadt stickers are supposed to show the date and place the car was built mine show wolfsburg which is the home of VW

Post by **stealthstylz** » 07 May 2007 11:32 pm

They are definetley illegal unless the car was originally registered in the country the plates are from.

Best bet is to put velcro on the edges so that the english plates can be stuck over the top. If you get pulled say the velcro fell off. If you just have the german plates on you might get away with a warning once, but otherwise its a £60 fine.

Matt

Post by **foggyjames** » 07 May 2007 11:38 pm

Anything other than the 'standard' flat font, 3d font, and 3d carbon font is illegal. Simple as.

I do agree it looks good, but you're taking a risk with getting a fine....and we don't like any illegal activity on the roads now, do we

cheers

James

Post by **germ** » 07 May 2007 11:50 pm

mick i thought you knew all the rules and stuff...best thing to do is get some french plates made up then no -one will bother you

like the new craze in france. the french are ordering fake number plates of ebay english numbers at that so that no-one stops them etc

you dont need mot insurance or anything with english plates

this english guy was telling me how his ford escort that he brought over 8 years ago had never been stoped by the police just waved on

he had no mot or tax or insurance tisk tisk tisk you see more and more

+they drive too fast and dangerously cars with out mot omg or insurance

think about it :S

there seams that there is nothing to be done about it

Will

Post by **IvanS.** » 08 May 2007 01:19 am

Here on numberplate can be put names, combination of numbers and words, and that's all legal but you have to pay more for registration.

I think we can use different color of number-plates also. I've seen some blue-metallic on some cars that aren't the police ones.

Post by **redline** » 08 May 2007 08:15 am

stealthstylz wrote:They are definetley illegal unless the car was originally registered in the country the plates are from.Matt

thats all right then Matt ,

the plates are from Staffordshire and the car was origionally registered in the UK lol

seriously though ,I have kept the originals in the boot and will replace them if I get a pull,

I spoke to a police officer I know before I fitted them and whilst he said that they are deffinately "show plates " he didn't think many officers would be anal enough to nick me for them as the numbers were clearly readable , the spacing was fine and they had not been altered to spell anything else, his only concern was the stickers in the middle

in fact he said the new ones were actually easier to read than the old ones

however ,he did add that they may "add it on" if the pull me for something else so to make sure everything else on the car was legal

admittedly that was just the opinion of one policeman but he is a traffic officer .

time will tell

funnily enough only yesterday I saw an alfa romeo with the number plate
H 17 LFA

the spacing had been changed and the 1 and a european 7 almost combined to read H ALFA . the guy reckons hes had the plate for 6 years and never been stopped for it ( I know that dosen't make it right )

Post by **trabitom99** » 08 May 2007 11:54 am

redline wrote:iirc ,stadt stickers are supposed to show the date and place the car was built mine show wolfsburg which is the home of VW

Stadt stickers show where the car is registered. In my case it's Bonn (BN):

The other sticker shows whether you've got a current MOT (TÜV) or "exhaust emissions" (AU) certificate. AU goes at the front and is hexagonal, TÜV goes at the back and is round.

Post by **stealthstylz** » 08 May 2007 01:49 pm

They had a huge clampdown on german plates around where I live as theres a massive dub scene and everybody had em.

Matt

Post by MJ » 08 May 2007 09:20 pm

I know a guy in Wales with a Mk1 Golf, and he got pulled over in the first couple hours of Christmas morning for having German plates, on the way back from a midnight service

he had 14 days to change them or he'd get a fine

Post by **trabitom99** » 14 May 2007 07:31 pm

Mick, how about THAT for a pimp German plate:

Perfectly legal!

Post by **foggyjames** » 14 May 2007 08:03 pm

That shows the colour better...and it's one I've never seen before

cheers

James

Post by **SteveP** » 14 May 2007 08:16 pm

foggyjames wrote:That shows the colour better...and it's one I've never seen before

n00b, I've seen a few over here, but never on GLT's... usually early mk3 GL's

Post by **trabitom99** » 14 May 2007 09:16 pm

There's one on the bay in that colour now:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0111170324

Could do with the odd door and the hatch, shame its so far off from me ...

Post by **foggyjames** » 15 May 2007 12:49 am

Now that car is 90% "306"-code "Smoke silver", the same as my 360....and it has the front wing (and maybe bonnet) from a green car, I think. I take the point though, it looks like those panels are the same colour as your car.

Are you sure Steve? I've seen plenty of cars which are Snowy coloured...but I can't think of many which are that shade - basically smoke silver with a slight hint of green. Saying you've seen it on early mk3 360 GLs sort of rings a bell...but the more I look at it, the more I can't actually visualise that colour on a car without it turning out to actually look more like Snowy. The fact that I can't visualise it instantly suggests to me that it's really rare, at least.

cheers

James