Fixed Penalty for having French Style Numberplates

[MikeCracknell]

The bloke who bought Alex's blue car off him with the French number plates on it receieved a Fixed Penalty Notice for them....proving that they ARE illegal.....

Thought i'd warn you all :)

[Jacko]

AHA! i knew it...glad i decided not to get them...

[frankie]

how gay.did he get points?

but i have seen alot of black plates with silver writing? whats this all about?

[TU-Tuning]

Theyre not illigal on cars registered before 1999 or something. People i know have been pulled with em and not been fined because their cars are older than 1999. If it is newer i think it depends on how much the coppers getting whether he does you for it or not

[Saxy1]

i thought they were

[frankie]

i remember reading it was 2001.

[TU-Tuning]

well its something like that, theyre def not downright illigal

[liamk15]

how gay.did he get points?

but i have seen alot of black plates with silver writing? whats this all about?

Vehicles constructed before 1.1.73 may display traditional style "black and white" plates i.e. white, silver or grey characters on a black plate.

pow

[frankie]

bmw x5 with an 03 reg?

pow

[MikeCracknell]

W-reg Saxo - so March 2000

[frankie]

Disclaimer
French Plates are not road legal on UK cars driving in Britain. They are therefore sold as French show plates for off road use only. More about the Law regarding French show plates

[TU-Tuning]

Well the plods in this area will do youy for literally anything, they are constantly using their resources to pull people over and theyve not had any problem with James Bristols french plates or a few other people i know who arent n here

[frankie]

ben does vinny have french plates?

wonder if the po po said anything when he got pulled.

[TU-Tuning]

Dont think they would have seen them mate, what with him going past them sideways they would have been blurred lol

[Robb]

....whats the max fine for having illegal plates for a first offence?

quite tempted to get some black and silver ones, as a few bmw, audis have them round here.

can deal with a £60 fine but cant be dealing with my car being crushed.

[carsey]

I wouldnt bother mate. Get some pressed alu british ones.

[Hannah]

Aww poor Dan, Bet he's gutted bless him.

He's so innocent, bet he shat his pants lol

[craig180]

Been saying this for AGES! It doesn't matter what year the car is, the onlt LEGAL extras you can have on the side of a plate is a GB or EU flag

[Luke]

Standard plates are the way forward..

[Wayne]

i prefer the standard plain GB plates.:)

[MikeCracknell]

I remember that massive thread that was the arguement over whether they are legal or not! Very heated!

[L33h]

Yea my brother got these for his german plates.... dickheads

[dannyjay]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e15/digitalsuperstar/My_Car/02-09-2007/02-09-20071.jpg

Pressed Standard FTW!

[frankie]

where did you get them FTW?

[dannyjay]

where did you get them FTW?

Evilbay. ;) (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3D-Modern-Pressed-Embossed-Metal-Alloy-Number-Plates_W0QQitemZ300160144776QQihZ020QQcategoryZ526 38QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[willsy]

I agree with Danny FTW. £30 per pair off Dubmeister for me. How much off the bay Danny?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Willsy86/Photo-0059.jpg

[dannyjay]

25.50£ delivered for me, well worth it too! :)

[frankie]

will get me a set of them

[djmartin]

i thought all pressed plates was illegal due to the fact they do not reflect as normal ones do?.

dint yorkie get pulled for his aswell?
I now my mate got pulled thew days ago becuase his corsa had that Vauxhual logo on the side of the plate LMFAO and he got told off about his standard front so called tinted windows when he told me about that i was in stitchs for ages!

[doely_gti]

i thought all pressed plates was illegal due to the fact they do not reflect as normal ones do?.


correct, also another thing, after oct 1st 2007, your car WILL NOT pass an MOT with ANY plates not displaying a manufacturer's POSTCODE, if you are caught and your car has been MOT'd after that date, they invalidate the MOT and a £60 fine *G.Brown is screaming ching ching* so that means the car will need a retest, obviously the new test will be the going rate, so thats 60 + approx 55 + shit loads of stress

[Japman]

I was told by many police officers these are Legal

only once in the saxo i got stopped,

And it was for the copper to ask me if i thought i was french

[Scattle]

Thourght they were Legal tbh, them pressed ones look nice.

[Clouds_mate]

*sits back with smug face *

[yorkie]

Theyre not illigal on cars registered before 1999 or something. People i know have been pulled with em and not been fined because their cars are older than 1999. If it is newer i think it depends on how much the coppers getting whether he does you for it or not

yorkie 98 vtr, french plates, £30 fine 3months ago

all non uk plates are illegal

[yorkie]

ps they also sed any pressed plates is illegal!!! they must be the plastics kind!!! in i was in the vosa test station too!!!

[David]

....whats the max fine for having illegal plates for a first offence?

quite tempted to get some black and silver ones, as a few bmw, audis have them round here.

can deal with a £60 fine but cant be dealing with my car being crushed.

£30 fine for black plates... Mate got done the other day

[furio_beno]

they are illegal i got done for this 30 pound robbing bastards they are illegal on any car you can have them on cars before 2000 or whatever but they have to be FITTED before 2000 not just the car and the ones from dubmeister are NOT reflective and do not have a bs number like they should so are illegal this is all info i got from the cheshire traffic policeman who pulled me over : )

[JoeFurio]

the law was changed the other day, if theyre not plain (with the acception of the england or euro flag) and the bsa?? number then therye breaking the motherfucking law ya'll.

[TU-Tuning]

ah fair enough i was wrong. not a fan of them anyway tbh. the non french ones look great though

[JoeFurio]

that furio looks ace^^

not seen that b4

[chapperlin]

the law was changed the other day, if theyre not plain (with the acception of the england or euro flag) and the bsa?? number then therye breaking the motherfucking law ya'll.

Dont forget the welsh and scottish flags lol

Any of the "home nation" flags are legal:y: