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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: joesgti on 11 March 2008, 13:28
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i know a few people were wanting to see them and the font so here they are
oh and before everybody says "there well illegal" i already know!!
(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd153/joesgti/Picture002-3.jpg)
(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd153/joesgti/Picture003-4.jpg)
(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd153/joesgti/Picture004-3.jpg)
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You know those are illegal right?
Ha ha
Nick
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Now that you have put pictures of illegal plates with your registration number on a public car forum please dont be upset when you get a pretty little fine in the post :evil:
On the other hand I think they look great. :cool:
Mike
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Now that you have put pictures of illegal plates with your registration number on a public car forum please dont be upset when you get a pretty little fine in the post :evil:
On the other hand I think they look great. :cool:
Mike
naa they are just for shows mike :rolleyes: i change them around when driving on pulic roads :lipsrsealed:
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Very :cool:
You might get away with them for a little while, just make sure you always present the fuzz with a 'side-on' view of your GTi!
Black front badge would complete the look imo
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Looking good joe! Where did you get them from? Think they would deliver to gibraltar?? :huh:
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Looking good joe! Where did you get them from? Think they would deliver to gibraltar?? :huh:
yea probably,
www.theplateman.com
just saw the website on another thread the other day, so was just a bit of impulse buying :rolleyes:
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Looking good joe! Where did you get them from? Think they would deliver to gibraltar?? :huh:
yea probably,
www.theplateman.com
just saw the website on another thread the other day, so was just a bit of impulse buying :rolleyes:
hahahaa class! the plateman.com....how original....sorry for my imatureness but found this quite funny for some reason...especially that guy on the welcome page :laugh:
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:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: u geeeeeeel :tongue:
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they look v. nice joe, I see so many dodgy number plates everyday (spacing, stratigically placed screws etc!) so I'm sure the fuzz won't bother with those! fingers crossed! :smiley:
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i have never had any bother in Lancashire with mine, had them on for a good three months.
I did get stopped on the M62 though on the way to Leeds and got a fine for them, still haven't taken them off though. Until i get stopped round my way then I will change them
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i have never had any bother in Lancashire with mine, had them on for a good three months.
I did get stopped on the M62 though on the way to Leeds and got a fine for them, still haven't taken them off though. Until i get stopped round my way then I will change them
....I've heard that since a few weeks ago, the police have got much stricter and harsher on any number plate 'offences'.
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i have never had any bother in Lancashire with mine, had them on for a good three months.
I did get stopped on the M62 though on the way to Leeds and got a fine for them, still haven't taken them off though. Until i get stopped round my way then I will change them
....I've heard that since a few weeks ago, the police have got much stricter and harsher on any number plate 'offences'.
just leave my normal plates in my spare tyre under the carpet........get pulled over.......
officer "do you know these plates are illegal"
me "oh sh!t i forgot to change them, ive just been to a car show officer"
officer "OK dont let me see them again or itl be 9 points and a 500quid fine"
me "oh im so sorry officer, thankyou sooooooo much for pulling me over for some daft plates and not taking me to jail. its good to know that the police, including yourself, are doing such a good job stopping crime :smiley: :smiley: (big cheesy grin)".........................
get round corner and off they come :grin: :grin: :grin:
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i have never had any bother in Lancashire with mine, had them on for a good three months.
I did get stopped on the M62 though on the way to Leeds and got a fine for them, still haven't taken them off though. Until i get stopped round my way then I will change them
....I've heard that since a few weeks ago, the police have got much stricter and harsher on any number plate 'offences'.
so its more than just a £30 fine?
i have never had any bother in Lancashire with mine, had them on for a good three months.
I did get stopped on the M62 though on the way to Leeds and got a fine for them, still haven't taken them off though. Until i get stopped round my way then I will change them
....I've heard that since a few weeks ago, the police have got much stricter and harsher on any number plate 'offences'.
just leave my normal plates in my spare tyre under the carpet........get pulled over.......
officer "do you know these plates are illegal"
me "oh sh!t i forgot to change them, ive just been to a car show officer"
officer "OK dont let me see them again or itl be 9 points and a 500quid fine"
me "oh im so sorry officer, thankyou sooooooo much for pulling me over for some daft plates and not taking me to jail. its good to know that the police, including yourself, are doing such a good job stopping crime :smiley: :smiley: (big cheesy grin)".........................
get round corner and off they come :grin: :grin: :grin:
ha ha yeah, know what you mean. I still had my other ones in the boot but had no way of actually attaching them to the car!
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....I've heard that since a few weeks ago, the police have got much stricter and harsher on any number plate 'offences'.
so its more than just a £30 fine?
....I don't know the detail but it might even be £60+points in some cases such as illegibly altered/spaced.
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well can't afford to have any more points on my license so I will have to do my homework before i put my car back on the road
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I have run german plates for a while now and have had a few problems a couple of fines but refuse to take them off. I know for a fact that ANPR (automatic numberplate recognition) can read 'German Style' number plates. I have heard this from a friend who is a Police Officer and a relative who owns an MOT testing station. It is just another unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us for money again :sad: However be aware guys that if caught a numerous amount of times displaying illegally spaced plates or get an awkward policeman they have the power to have your numberplate withdrawn resulting in your vehicle being put on Q plate by the DVLA or slap you with a fine up to £1000 :angry: however this only happens in the most extreme cases which I seem to see every day. WHAT IS WRONG WITH GERMAN PLATES!!!!!!
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....F*cking bureaucracy gone mad!
I don't have a spaced or 'illegal' style plate but I would have thought that it helps and doesn't hinder a car's individual identity for recognition.
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Yeah, it's such a 'crime' to have set of metal plates with legible numbers and letters.
The simple issue is that our finest boys in blue don't seem to have the intelligence/interest or effort to stop all those t*ssers who speed down side roads at 60+, tailgate, lane swap, or drive around on foreign plates year after year, often with dodgy tyres, brakes , no insurance and tanked up on their cheap Polish spirit, when the fully taxed/insured Brit is an easy nick cos his number plate clearly identifies him.
Feeling sore........you bet I am, its a war out there and we are being persecuted for being totally paid up and legal except for an iffy number plate, next time some piece of scum drives into your pride and fully insured joy, see how interested plod is to sort it out :angry: but have a number or letter a few mill out and its £30, just tax collectors no more no less.
By the way Joe, think they look well sorted mate.
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It's all a bit rubbish really.
Those geman plates easy to read, yet look a bit nicer.
I am all for safety and don't see a problem with them. Just a way to rob our hard earned cash for more doughnuts for the rozzers.
Aren't they fat enough already??
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I am all for safety and don't see a problem with them. Just a way to rob our hard earned cash for more doughnuts for the rozzers.
Aren't they fat enough already??
....The police themselves don't gain from this. It's just more tedious work that they are obliged to do.
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Dead right Robin, the plods don't gain anything from it, they just lose even more public support and respect
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you think yours are illegal
:laugh:
try running these
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b142/chuff69/06032008152.jpg)
:grin:
but yours do look :cool: :wink:
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I am all for safety and don't see a problem with them. Just a way to rob our hard earned cash for more doughnuts for the rozzers.
Aren't they fat enough already??
....The police themselves don't gain from this. It's just more tedious work that they are obliged to do.
Metaphorically speaking.
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what is wrong with German plates???? well you have answered your own question, they are GERMAN and not designed or appropriate for UK roads, so they are quite rightly ILLEGAL. Don't get me wrong I quite like the style and would have them if they were legal, but they aren't, so would not be surprised if you all get points and a fine, regardless of ANPR or plod.
It is not an unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us, as 99% of cars are supplied new or used with the correct legal plates and it is only idiots that change them and incur unnecessary fines.
I have run german plates for a while now and have had a few problems a couple of fines but refuse to take them off. I know for a fact that ANPR (automatic numberplate recognition) can read 'German Style' number plates. I have heard this from a friend who is a Police Officer and a relative who owns an MOT testing station. It is just another unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us for money again :sad: However be aware guys that if caught a numerous amount of times displaying illegally spaced plates or get an awkward policeman they have the power to have your numberplate withdrawn resulting in your vehicle being put on Q plate by the DVLA or slap you with a fine up to £1000 :angry: however this only happens in the most extreme cases which I seem to see every day. WHAT IS WRONG WITH GERMAN PLATES!!!!!!
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what is wrong with German plates???? well you have answered your own question, they are GERMAN and not designed or appropriate for UK roads, so they are quite rightly ILLEGAL. Don't get me wrong I quite like the style and would have them if they were legal, but they aren't, so would not be surprised if you all get points and a fine, regardless of ANPR or plod.
It is not an unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us, as 99% of cars are supplied new or used with the correct legal plates and it is only idiots that change them and incur unnecessary fines.
I have run german plates for a while now and have had a few problems a couple of fines but refuse to take them off. I know for a fact that ANPR (automatic numberplate recognition) can read 'German Style' number plates. I have heard this from a friend who is a Police Officer and a relative who owns an MOT testing station. It is just another unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us for money again :sad: However be aware guys that if caught a numerous amount of times displaying illegally spaced plates or get an awkward policeman they have the power to have your numberplate withdrawn resulting in your vehicle being put on Q plate by the DVLA or slap you with a fine up to £1000 :angry: however this only happens in the most extreme cases which I seem to see every day. WHAT IS WRONG WITH GERMAN PLATES!!!!!!
there is always one isnt there
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what is wrong with German plates???? well you have answered your own question, they are GERMAN and not designed or appropriate for UK roads, so they are quite rightly ILLEGAL. Don't get me wrong I quite like the style and would have them if they were legal, but they aren't, so would not be surprised if you all get points and a fine, regardless of ANPR or plod.
It is not an unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us, as 99% of cars are supplied new or used with the correct legal plates and it is only idiots that change them and incur unnecessary fines.
I have run german plates for a while now and have had a few problems a couple of fines but refuse to take them off. I know for a fact that ANPR (automatic numberplate recognition) can read 'German Style' number plates. I have heard this from a friend who is a Police Officer and a relative who owns an MOT testing station. It is just another unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us for money again :sad: However be aware guys that if caught a numerous amount of times displaying illegally spaced plates or get an awkward policeman they have the power to have your numberplate withdrawn resulting in your vehicle being put on Q plate by the DVLA or slap you with a fine up to £1000 :angry: however this only happens in the most extreme cases which I seem to see every day. WHAT IS WRONG WITH GERMAN PLATES!!!!!!
there is always one isnt there
I love the German style plates, but wouldn't fit them as I wouldn't want unnecessary Plod attention over and above everything else I have on my car. Don't want to give them any excuse to pull me over as I don't usually stay calm in these circumstances as they always seem to be able to wind me up :sad:
Typical responses from me tend to be
Can't you find proper criminals to chase?
Trying to catch up on your screw the motorist quota?
and not forgetting my old favourite.
Shouldn't you be somewhere else, beating innocent people? (Nearly got a section 5 for that one!)
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what is wrong with German plates???? well you have answered your own question, they are GERMAN and not designed or appropriate for UK roads, so they are quite rightly ILLEGAL. Don't get me wrong I quite like the style and would have them if they were legal, but they aren't, so would not be surprised if you all get points and a fine, regardless of ANPR or plod.
It is not an unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us, as 99% of cars are supplied new or used with the correct legal plates and it is only idiots that change them and incur unnecessary fines.
I have run german plates for a while now and have had a few problems a couple of fines but refuse to take them off. I know for a fact that ANPR (automatic numberplate recognition) can read 'German Style' number plates. I have heard this from a friend who is a Police Officer and a relative who owns an MOT testing station. It is just another unfortunate situation of the state trying to rob us for money again :sad: However be aware guys that if caught a numerous amount of times displaying illegally spaced plates or get an awkward policeman they have the power to have your numberplate withdrawn resulting in your vehicle being put on Q plate by the DVLA or slap you with a fine up to £1000 :angry: however this only happens in the most extreme cases which I seem to see every day. WHAT IS WRONG WITH GERMAN PLATES!!!!!!
I ran my German plates on my MKIV for over a year.Got stopped once...The ANPR had read the plate and flagged up an insurance issue.Sheffield traffic pulled me over,told me that they had read my plates and I had no insurance.Turns out the broker had put a ZVJ instead of ZBJ as the last letters on the registration..traffic were ok with the plates,(I asked) but they did wonder if I was in the forces..... I got lucky,they are illegal and I got sick of worrying about been pulled for em... I won't be putting them on My GTI.
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Those plates immeadiatly flag on the the traffic cops on board Reg plate Computer. Their camera cannot understand if the font is not the correct style and sounds an alarm in the Car, which they immediatly see it. Dont you watch Traffic cops on the Tv. Is it really worth risking being pulled over????? they look good, but cant see the point tbh.
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....I can't see the point of German plates either - Except perhaps for shows, but even then, what's the point? - Why not go the whole way and make your car lefthand drive!
Hurdy, for once I don't agree with you on something - Taking it out on traffic police with smart-arse remarks isn't very clever and in fact could quite rightly, in my opinion, get the book thrown at you one day. Besides which, word about a driver's bad attitude will quickly get around the local boys in blue - It works the other way too!
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One thing I am curious about in all this is how do the ANPR cameras recognise Eastern European plates? They are in a different font after all.
There are heaps of Polish etc. cars in Edinburgh so how do they get away with not being pulled?
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One thing I am curious about in all this is how do the ANPR cameras recognise Eastern European plates? They are in a different font after all.
There are heaps of Polish etc. cars in Edinburgh so how do they get away with not being pulled?
My sentiments exactly :angry:
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Simple, its too much grief and they all make out they can't speak English, much easier to nick a law abiding Brit to keep up their quotas
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someone agrees with me, thanks boys! :-)
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Yeah, it's such a 'crime' to have set of metal plates with legible numbers and letters.
The simple issue is that our finest boys in blue don't seem to have the intelligence/interest or effort to stop all those t*ssers who speed down side roads at 60+, tailgate, lane swap, or drive around on foreign plates year after year, often with dodgy tyres, brakes , no insurance and tanked up on their cheap Polish spirit, when the fully taxed/insured Brit is an easy nick cos his number plate clearly identifies him.
Feeling sore........you bet I am, its a war out there and we are being persecuted for being totally paid up and legal except for an iffy number plate, next time some piece of scum drives into your pride and fully insured joy, see how interested plod is to sort it out :angry: but have a number or letter a few mill out and its £30, just tax collectors no more no less.
By the way Joe, think they look well sorted mate.
EXACTLY!!! Nail and head comes to mind!!
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....I can't see the point of German plates either - Except perhaps for shows, but even then, what's the point? - Why not go the whole way and make your car lefthand drive!
Hurdy, for once I don't agree with you on something - Taking it out on traffic police with smart-arse remarks isn't very clever and in fact could quite rightly, in my opinion, get the book thrown at you one day. Besides which, word about a driver's bad attitude will quickly get around the local boys in blue - It works the other way too!
I agree with you RR. It isn't a good thing. I just don't react well with them. What makes it worse is two of my best mates are/were traffic cops and they tell me so many stories about how they can deliberately wind people up if they come across someone acting arrogant or cocky that it just makes it worse if I get pulled. I must admit that it is a while since I've been stopped and the last time was down in Torquay by a lovely WPC. It was totally different when she pulled me over - it was like being caught doing something bad by a dominant woman in uniform :evil: So much so I half felt like belting it off the line again so I could get another reprimand :lipsrsealed:
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Well from Joe getting a set of German metal 'showplates', we have progressed to a general rant and rave about the effectiveness of motoring law enforcement, we seem to have some fairly polarised views.
Seems fairly straight set in 2 camps........those of us who like to have a little bit of indivduality in our lives and possessions,
and those of us who believe we should play it straight down the line and obey every rule the thought police come up with.
Now I see a perfect irony here........what kicked all this off was Joe and his rather neat German plates from the Fatherland,
which as we all know, in the words of Al Murray ........... to quote ' where would we be, if we had too many rules?'
Funny that we try to look like German motors and break the rules in doing so :rolleyes:
Think even our German cousins would find some humour in that one
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god im loving this thread now :grin: :grin: so........whats the meaning of life :laugh:
update: 3 days on the car and lots of police have been spotted in laybys and other places, eatin Mc Donalds alot of the time supprisingly, none have battered an eye lid as of yet :tongue:
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Joe
Probably find most of the rozzers are fast tracked Easterns, so the number plates look quite normal to them :smug:
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Joe...well done :grin:
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I'm not 100% but.
logic tells me that a foreign registered car does not come into british law. ( with regards to number plates).
If the car is legal say in poland/germany the police cant force them to change there plates, think of service personal and lorry drivers.
But a UK Car that is under UK Car laws, MOT ETC, has to abide by the law.
Just a thought,
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Well from Joe getting a set of German metal 'showplates', we have progressed to a general rant and rave about the effectiveness of motoring law enforcement, we seem to have some fairly polarised views.
Seems fairly straight set in 2 camps........those of us who like to have a little bit of indivduality in our lives and possessions,
and those of us who believe we should play it straight down the line and obey every rule the thought police come up with.
....Not quite so black & white - Quite a few of us love some individuality in our lives/possessions but also know how to achieve that AND stay within the law.
Anyway, it's the law makers you should be addressing and not the police men and women who simply have to apply the laws that they are given.
How did we get from German plates to motoring law enforcement? - Simple! German plates on vehicles registered in the UK aren't technically legal for road use. Now if you really want some digression, I'm da man!! Cop this......
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/RedRobin_05/CuteSpecialConstable.jpg)
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oi,
where you get a picture of my mum
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Better change your plate back Joe.
The Met's new Tactical Number Plate Unit :grin:
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0711/tbilisi_police.jpg)
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(http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0711/tbilisi_police.jpg)(http://loca114.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/goofy.jpg.w300h418.jpg)
.... :laugh: Nice one!! Komeda! :laugh:
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Last time I got pulled for my plate I was amazed how many times the ANPR machine went off when sat in the police car on the motorway hard shoulder. I thought pulling me for a plate seemed a little harsh when there was probably cars driving past without any insurance or tax :sad:
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Red Robin
Thank you for bringing to my attention the latest standard of recruit into our wonderful law enforcement agency, to this end I have decided if they all look like that it worth getting nicked for, so I have completely removed the number plates, stuck on some slicks, cancelled the insurance, straight through pipe, non legal tints and spent the last 10 mins doughnutting in the town centre.....unfortunately the old woman with the disabled blue badge not positioned correctly on her windscreen was surrounded by a Tactical support team and they completely ignored me :evil:
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Red Robin
Thank you for bringing to my attention the latest standard of recruit into our wonderful law enforcement agency, to this end I have decided if they all look like that it worth getting nicked for, so I have completely removed the number plates, stuck on some slicks, cancelled the insurance, straight through pipe, non legal tints and spent the last 10 mins doughnutting in the town centre.....unfortunately the old woman with the disabled blue badge not positioned correctly on her windscreen was surrounded by a Tactical support team and they completely ignored me :evil:
.... :grin: :laugh: Nice one!! :laugh:
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i better look out for that tactical support unit!!! dont want to get a granade shot up my @rse for using german plates :shocked: :shocked: :tongue: