Re-ordered number plate lettering

[Horrgakx]

Your mother must be very proud of you.

Unfortunately she never got to know having died of cancer in 2006.
But an offence is still an offence, littering is also minor but it's still dealt with. Anyway, those tickets were among all the other stuff. I've still directly saved lives and put dangerous people behind bars. So she would have been proud at that.

 

[gIzzE]

Littering I agree with, getting kicks out of booking someone for 'Parking on the offside at night' makes one draw certain conclusions.

I'm sure you're a really nice guy, and had your reasons for doing it, it just came across as a funny thing to say on a car forum.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Worst was 'Parking on the offside at night'

Well done, if I was a copper I would send people to prison for 50 years parking on the offside at anytime.

It's in my top 5 motoring pet hates.

Can you tell me why it's just an offence 'at night'? Is it not an offence through a day then?

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I think that it's only an offence at night where there is no street lighting.

 

[gIzzE]

I'm sure it is, and I can see why it would cause confusion on certain roads and be dangerous on other roads that are not well lit, after all your reflectors are on the rear.

But it is the way it was said that I found strange.

I......I didn't manage to catch anyone with that specific offence but I dished out plenty of other motoring tickets Worst was 'Parking on the offside at night'

 

[tec]

Nothing in mind Ant - just in my time as a copper I never knew if there was an answer to "I never knew mate".

What you do with something after purchase is your own responsibility.

Ignorance of the law is not a defence.

If I buy a washing machine and install it in my kitchen, then that is perfectly legal.

If I buy a washing machine and then dump it in the middle of a motorway, that would be illegal.

As for number plates, I don't know why some people think they can have whatever style of lettering and spacing they like, and is one of my pet hates.

Why would you want your car to attract police attention?

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I'm sure it is, and I can see why it would cause confusion on certain roads and be dangerous on other roads that are not well lit, after all your reflectors are on the rear.

But it is the way it was said that I found strange.

I did as well, if I had been a policemen I'd hope to have handled 'worse' crimes than a bit of dodgy parking. Having said that I have never felt the urge to bugger about with my number plate spacing or font either.

 

[E270 Owner]

Hmm number plate spacing and illegal fonts............

The fun has gone out of motoring these days, the number plate nazis will exterminate your illegal pieces of plastic and fine you a gazillion dooberie wassits for being a tiny bit different.

Or is it the fact the ANPR's and other cameras cant read the plate and keep track of what your doing anywhere in the UK ?

Motorist = easy targets (cash cows) ££££

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I don't feel persecuted for having easily recognised number plates, if I'm honest I feel very little about them on a day to day basis.

I really like it when I don't have to faff about when checking in to use the Channel Tunnel and the ease with which I can use some car parks.

If pushed I'd probably say that mucked about with plates strike me as being a bit childish so, maybe, the fact is that childish motorists = easy targets (stupidity tax) ££££

 

[E55BOF]

My opinion in general of people who fit mucked-about plates to their cars is usually less than complimentary, shall we say, and don't get me started on some of the plates that we've seen mentioned on this forum in the past...

Nevertheless, I've always thought it a bit rich that DVLA will happily sell, at a premium, registration plates which only command that premium because they will inevitably be mucked-about with to 'read' (in your dreams, sunshine ) something chavvy, yet the buyers may then get into trouble with another arm of the government for doing the mucking-about, which has only been made possible in the first place by the DVLA.

 

[Giantvanman]

Hmm number plate spacing and illegal fonts............

The fun has gone out of motoring these days, the number plate nazis will exterminate your illegal pieces of plastic and fine you a gazillion dooberie wassits for being a tiny bit different.

Or is it the fact the ANPR's and other cameras cant read the plate and keep track of what your doing anywhere in the UK ?

Motorist = easy targets (cash cows) ££££

Because some ne'er-do-wells will doctor their plates for all sorts of nefarious reasons…perhaps only 'honest' people should be allowed to manipulate their number plates? But that wouldn't work though because I have met many, many drivers who fled the scene of collisions who most wouldn't consider to be bad people (before the fact) but "panicked" or "didn't know" they had mown someone down.

No offence but there are plenty of legitimate ways to be a bit different; why does not being allowed to alter a number plate invoke such irrationality?

 

[Deleted member 6183]

My opinion in general of people who fit mucked-about plates to their cars is usually less than complimentary, shall we say, and don't get me started on some of the plates that we've seen mentioned on this forum in the past...

Nevertheless, I've always thought it a bit rich that DVLA will happily sell, at a premium, registration plates which only command that premium because they will inevitably be mucked-about with to 'read' (in your dreams, sunshine ) something chavvy, yet the buyers may then get into trouble with another arm of the government for doing the mucking-about, which has only been made possible in the first place by the DVLA.

Double stupid tax then?

Taxed on the purchase of the plate then a second time when fined for messing about with it.

Smart!

 

[Abb]

It's the incredibly annoying and narcissistic re-spacing of letters that annoys the hell out of me. I didn't manage to catch anyone with that specific offence but I dished out plenty of other motoring tickets Worst was 'Parking on the offside at night'

Just wow!

 

[John]

If the letters and numbers on a plate can still be read accurately, mis-spacing should not be an issue these days.

Changing letters and / or numbers should be.

Massive difference.

 

[gIzzE]

Department of Transport announced in 2012 they were going to allow number plates to be spaced however you wanted, as long as it was legal spacing and fonts.

This was then put on hold as we decided if we were going to move to a standard EU plate.

If it goes through then I can see a few on here having a heart attack every time a car goes passed with the pate spaced incorrectly.

 

[Abb]

Department of Transport announced in 2012 they were going to allow number plates to be spaced however you wanted, as long as it was legal spacing and fonts.

That's a bit like saying you can have any colour as long as it's black!
If the spacing has to be legal, then how can you have it spaced how you want?!?!

 

[kid-jensen]

When I buy a car, I'm stuck with having to buy number plates as well. They don't contribute to the car in any way (except negatively) they ruin the styling you paid so much for, and they delaminate every couple of years so you have to buy them again...overall, an expence I can do without.

For these reasons, I buy number plates entirely on cost. If a no-name seller on ebay will supply well-made plates for £15 a pair (and they do), I'll have them. If they turn out to have some non-obvious illegality, I'll live with the unlikely consequenses.

My last car was backed into at work, the rear plate was damaged, so replaced by the "car parts shop on the corner", which every town had in those days. Job done.

Unfortunately, the shop owner was Dyslexic and transposed two letters. I didn't notice (because I'm Dyslexic too) and the car went through 3 MOTs without comment. Only when the MOT place got a new Polish apprentice who turned out to be very thorough, that it got noticed.

That sort of thing could turn a lesser person into a racist...

Anyway, I never noticed any Speed camera flashes in that time and didn't indulge in any international terrorism. All that time, I was blissfully unaware of being effectively invisible to the police, at least from the rear.

I'm sure some keen young copper could have thrown an enormous fine at me, but my only crime was to have not noticed..

 

[Carrsey]

Yes illegal plates can make it harder for cameras to read.

However police don't use these cameras to see if average joe has been to Tesco today, they do however use them to track cars of note.

So, your car gets stolen and the first thing you do is moan about the police doing nothing, well thanks to your illegal plate you have just made it much harder to trace..

 

[flango]

Yes illegal plates can make it harder for cameras to read.

However police don't use these cameras to see if average joe has been to Tesco today, they do however use them to track cars of note.

So, your car gets stolen and the first thing you do is moan about the police doing nothing, well thanks to your illegal plate you have just made it much harder to trace..

Two distinctions I think, illegal font and mis spacing, ANPR cameras can't read illegal fonts but they can read mis spaced plates in the correct font.

If all the letter and numbers are correct and in the correct font is it such a big issue? Only the really pedantic police would pull you for that one

 

[nick mercedes]

Two distinctions I think, illegal font and mis spacing, ANPR cameras can't read illegal fonts but they can read mis spaced plates in the correct font.

If all the letter and numbers are correct and in the correct font is it such a big issue? Only the really pedantic police would pull you for that one

They don't seem able to read American sized UK plates, one in the eye for the camera stazi...