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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Sam on 10 September 2009, 17:35
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German Pressed plates, are they legal on a GB car? I have put them on and they look smart as fook and there fully reflective so i see no reason why they wouldnt be...thanks guys!
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search function mate, LOADS AND LOADS of threads on here, including one about elgality and a police cock up :wink:
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I keep forgeting about the search function..doh!
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And the answer to your question is NO, THEY AINT!
Now watch this thread get locked! :grin:
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I will pretend that i never heard that and use them until im told off!
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There are a number of people on here who have been caught out and fined for having those plates. Yes they look nice, but nowadays, people tend to use them on their show cars, then change them for road use.
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There are a number of people on here who have been caught out and fined for having those plates. Yes they look nice, but nowadays, people tend to use them on their show cars, then change them for road use.
others however dont give a fcuk :smiley:
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I have them on my car and they passed the mot. is that not good enuff?
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I have them on my car and they passed the mot. is that not good enuff?
no, mot regulations and road traffic regulations are 2 VERY different things :laugh:
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oh well i dont have the old ones anymore so it looks like they are staying :laugh:
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I have them on my car and they passed the mot. is that not good enuff?
they shouldnt have
they must be EU stamped and plastic reflectave with the postcode of the maker on them
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They are far from legal.
I hate the look of them myself.
got to vw. Get decent UK plates made up for £3 each and get yourself a number plate holder for £8 with your dealer logo at the bottom.
Way better looking inho and cheaper! :smiley:
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If you want German plates, buy a German registered car. You will be legal then! :wink:
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Yea they are illegal!
Although dubmeister offer 'pressed look' plates which are legal, as long as you don't ask them to put the D mark on them :smiley:
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personally i like my dutch style plates !!!
but it is a dutch car so they are legal :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
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I had german style plates on my mk3 and it failed the MOT and most of the fails where for the plates,wrong lettering style,wrong width,wrong spacing etc etc,i have no idea how yours passed with them on as i got slaughtered for em on the mot,so took em off and went good old Uk boring standard,the german plates just arnt worth the hassle in my experience. :smiley:
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had a 60 quid fine a week ago so no there not legal...................
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Yup fine has gone up to £60.
Reasty your MOT man must have been a right git as plates are not part of the test as far as I know.
Mr Blue is bang on, I got brand new dealer plates, dealer holders and a dealer taxdisc holder. Looks nice and OE.
Nick
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Yup fine has gone up to £60.
Reasty your MOT man must have been a right git as plates are not part of the test as far as I know.
Mr Blue is bang on, I got brand new dealer plates, dealer holders and a dealer taxdisc holder. Looks nice and OE.
Nick
urgh yes they are
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Are they? Just I know so many people who's car's go through with wrong spaced plates and german plates and never even get an advisory. I always run standard UK plastic plates so I never have to worry about it. I know they fail them if they are delaminated and hard to read but I thought fonmt and spacing was not tested.
Nick
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it depends how anal they want o be but
For cars registered after Sept 1st 2001 Your plate must have
* The new font (79mm high) there are a few excepions motorbikes and some imported cars.
* The name and postcode of the plate supplier
* It must say "BS AU 145d" on it bottom right corner (not neccessarily bottom right but that's where it usually is) - It must also have next to this a small company name or logo (it is the name of the manufacturer of the plate) There are many different types,
mine say HHSP BS AU 145d. The HHSP bit is the manufacturer.
Other examples
"Gould BS AU 145d"
"UP BS AU 145d" etc etc etc
* For the new longer plates with a space on the left for the EU flag symbol, the space can be blank but it must not have anything else there except 1 of the following:
Union flag (commonly known as the Union Jack)
Scottish flag (saltaire)
English flag (george cross)
Welsh flag (dragon)
Euro union flag and "GB" symbol
Any other symbol in that space will fail the MOT, the letters must be black on a yellow (reflective) background for the rear...some plates have a large ford logo on the background (for show use only) this will fail MOT.
Some Halfords plates have the halfords details and BSAU145d written in white text on the front white plates, as long as it can be seen and read it should pass.
Cars registered from 1973 - 2001 can have either old style plates with no BSAU 145d mark & 89mm high font, or newly issued plates which must be as described above with new font.
Cars before 1973 can have those very old style plates or new style i.e a choice of 3 styles.
Characters
Height
79mm
Width (except the figure 1 or letter l)
50mm
Stroke
14mm
Space between characters
11mm
Space between groups
33mm
Top, bottom and side margins (minimum)
11mm
Space between vertical lines
19mm The character width has been slightly reduced from 57mm to 50mm to accommodate the Euro-symbol on the number plate.
hope thats interesting reading :wink:
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Yeah I knew all that, didn't realise it was now MOT testable, that said all my mates cars with dodgy plates are pre 2001 so I guess the test is just if they're reflective and not busted.
nick
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I was thinkin of gettin pressed plates on mine, As mine is imported from germany i should be legal 2 use them shouldnt i :huh: :huh:
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I was thinkin of gettin pressed plates on mine, As mine is imported from germany i should be legal 2 use them shouldnt i :huh: :huh:
Pressed plates are OK. German style ones on an English registration are not.
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Yeah I knew all that, didn't realise it was now MOT testable, that said all my mates cars with dodgy plates are pre 2001 so I guess the test is just if they're reflective and not busted.
nick
The ones on my 1994 mk3 where with the german font and yeh he was a rite fussy git! :angry:
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I was thinkin of gettin pressed plates on mine, As mine is imported from germany i should be legal 2 use them shouldnt i :huh: :huh:
Pressed plates are OK. German style ones on an English registration are not.
As above, I was fined twice.
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had mot this week and was told the law changed from april this year. apparently it was brought out a few years ago and not enforced so ended up getting ditched n then they brought it back in april...mine failed with them on btw i shall just play ignorant untill i get caught then ill buy some plane pressed plates
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