Pressed Number Plates

[shaunnorris7]

Now I appreciate that there is probably loads of previous topics regarding this but.....

When I had my Vento VR6 I had german style plates on it and never got pulled for them, had coppers driving behind me no end of time but still nothing.
Now I have a Mk3 Golf and I bought some for that, this time I added a '-' in the middle (eg. A123-BCD)
again with the German 'D' on the left hand side. I got pulled after a week of having them on. So I have had to put normal ones back on for now.
I have noticed more and more cars though which are pressed but with out any badge on the left, would I get away with these as the plates change the look of the car especially as I can put them in the plate holders I have which the normal ones won't fit in as there too thick.

Any feedback is much appreciated.... 

[Wayne]

Got stopped and fined twice with German style plates just run standard now to be honest.

[jv]

Pressed metal plates are still legal if they are in the correct UK font and have the British Standard bit on them. Any messing with Euro fonts, incorrect spacing, incorrect country badges etc etc and you are likely to be stopped and fined.

http://dubmeister.co.uk/

[markymark]

Yep any german style plate is illegal and I know the Police are having a major crack down on this sort of thing. Shame as I really would like some but not worth the hassle....might be worth just getting some pressed legal ones though!

[JC]

i have run german plates, D badges,no spacing wotsoever - never been nicked for them

but i now runn other golf with just pressed plates, no badges, correct spacing, wrong font

not been tugged yet

as per JV, you can get legal pressed plates - for now 

[Shady Pioneer]

I've got German plates, correct spacing, no dash, D badge and German font, no troubles as of yet, had a couple police follow me recently but not been pulled as of yet.

[MrBounce]

Think the only thing to do to keep the law from pulling you over is to keep the German plates for Show use only and use the correct English ones for general driving.

Remember the police will take a dim view of anything that's not in their legal handbook and persistant offenders will be forced to pay scene tax by said police and their Judge friends...   

[Neaty]

I thought they were stopping people from buying pressed plates by making it illegal for people to sell them?

[Gridlock]

I went for English font pressed metal plates, plain at the front and with a GB flash at the rear (no tax circles or dashes or anything).

Got pulled over (for other reasons, entirely innocent) and actually asked the traffic cop about them, apparently there's 7 aspects of a plate to make it legal and he was perfectly happy with mine. From memory, colour, font, spacing, reflectivity, postcode of maker (but only if plates made after a certain date), position on car were some of them.

I'd be pissed if I did get pulled, given the number of X-f**king-5s I see with black/silver plates, not to mention some of the most creative spacing I've ever seen (AK54 MXS turns into black/silver AKSAM X5 - I'm looking at you here...)

I run a 3-digit Irish plate and to be honest on pressed metal (on my Audi Coupe GT) it looks way cooler than a plastic one.