**A WARNING ON GERMAN PLATES**

[illyun]

some people your quad lights are poo  some people like germna plates 

yeh but are quad lights illegal?? german plates are unless the car is actually still registered in germany

not when running dodgy HIDs, 

and not if not declared to insurance companies 

My lights are declared and my HID's aren't dodgy/illegal, as a matter of fact I've spent the last two nights in cop land (Ipswich) and haven't had any trouble whatsoever.

Well I spent a month  with German Style font, pressed plates, with the Euro D logo and Stadt stickers in the middle - since Santa Pod RWYB day on Feb 1st - in Ipswich and got pulled near Blockbusters on Felixstowe Road.  The cop was livid as he thought I was trying to do a runner    He said I was driving dangerously - I was doing 30mph in a 30 zone and pointed this out to him and he told me to shut up otherwise he'd do me for dangerous driving, illegal plates and anything else he could think of...    He calmed down after a couple of minutes of reading the riot act, told me he was a VIP Police driver who drove the Royals around when they were in Suffolk and turned out he was a VW enthusiast (Beetles) too... I very reluctantly removed the plates when I got home... 

[Teutonic_Tamer]

"£75 for being caught with my HIDs on, this is bullcrap, where's the justice??!?!!!"


So instead I'll just get some better bulbs, legal and no fines

mind that hids are potentially dangerous whereas metal plates with different writing are not (unless you count scratching pedestrians, but then that would be the least of their worries)

Exactly.    The light generated by a HID capsule is identical to the blinding light developed from an arc welder - and there are some fairly strict regs on that. 

And at the end of the day - if some stoooopid pedestrian chooses to walk out infront of a car, then they deserve far more than a few scratches from a number plate. 

[Teutonic_Tamer]

who cares?

judging by the rather wound-up sounding reply, you.

no...seriously i dont care, if i did i wouldnt run hids which piss people off like yourself, who obviously have nothing better to moan about..

But incorrectly fitted HIDs (so that covers ALL retro fit kits) can actually burn the surface of the retina.  They really are dangerous when used incorrectly.

[Dec]

Numberplates inside the car can't scratch people

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Numberplates inside the car can't scratch people

But they ain't legal either! 

[Dec]

Numberplates inside the car can't scratch people

But they ain't legal either! 

Duh

Been told twice now but genuinly did fall of both times.. suppose it wasnt meant to be velcro'd onto the splitter

[Diamond Hell]

But incorrectly fitted HIDs (so that covers ALL retro fit kits) can actually burn the surface of the retina.  They really are dangerous when used incorrectly.

NO NO NO NO.

Kells HIDs are just fine.  He says so, so it must be true. DO NOT QUESTION HIM!

Far more dangerous is the blinding light he shines from his ass.  Thankfully it's a light only he can see, so only he is blinded by it. 

Also, as he's obsessed by men's arses and only surrounded by stunningly beautiful women of the type we will never be able to pull he's forced to look at his own ass to satisfy himself, which is how he keeps being blinded by the light that shines from his own ass, which can cause him to randomly spout utter rubbish.

As you were.....

[Wayne]

Numberplates inside the car can't scratch people

Mot regs are changing, they will soon include a check of number plates and mountings.

[Dec]

I'll stick it on the front just before I go? Not likely to fall off being driven up the ramps

[VRDan]

What a great read it was a right laugh  .