Hi Guys,

Ive been told by a m8 of mine, that i can track the production of my car?

How is this done?

Cheers Peeps

Sorry but nothing to do with your question here

In your signature of modifications, are pressed plates not illegal?

Interested to know as looking to get new plates myself.

Sorry but nothing to do with your question here

In your signature of modifications, are pressed plates not illegal?

Interested to know as looking to get new plates myself.

You can buy road legal pressed from dubmeister m8. Round about £30.

Cheers

you may think so, but they are far from legal.

Talk to a copper and basically you could get away with it, coz they got better things to do and cant be doing with all the paperwork involved.

After 1960 somthing plates have to white facing front with black writing and yellow facing rear with black writing.

There is now specific details on height and width and spacing of letters, and it comes under MOT, but you ask MOT testers and coppers and normally they just can't be doing with the hassle!

Piggy :)

PS you can track the car, I am, but you have to have moaned like hell and eventually I got someone who is emailing me every other day with progress reports! However mine is through a contract company, big business!

Pressed number plates look sh*t, unless fitted to a German car, in Germany. They're about as chav as neon lights and those stupid stretched tyres. Parked up outside a MsDonald's or KFC.

BTW, i know a few poeple who've recently failed MOTs for not having the maker's name and postcode on their numberplates (a requirement for a certain age of car). I think some garages are doing this so they can make money by selling you a new set of plates. It's like the old windscreen wiper failure trick that some dodgy garages use :(

You can only track the car post production using Ford ETIS. ;)

Pressed number plates look sh*t, unless fitted to a German car, in Germany. They're about as chav as neon lights and those stupid stretched tyres. Parked up outside a MsDonald's or KFC.

BTW, i know a few poeple who've recently failed MOTs for not having the maker's name and postcode on their numberplates (a requirement for a certain age of car). I think some garages are doing this so they can make money by selling you a new set of plates. It's like the old windscreen wiper failure trick that some dodgy garages use :(

You can only track the car post production using Ford ETIS. ;)

that name thing did come in when I was a mechanic, and got chucked back out a again couple months later due to protest, so if anyone has failed coz of that, get them to check their database of MOT updates, from like 2 years ago!

FMC, i am so glad you said that and was the first, now i will happily say amen...they look as crap and a piece of crap shaped into a number plate!

Piggy :)

I am after plates with the Scotland flag to the left hand side.

These are legal yes?

I am after plates with the Scotland flag to the left hand side.

These are legal yes?

They are now, yes.

Check this link:

http://www.dubmeister.co.uk/

They look better than naff plastic plates with dealer adverts on the bottom IMO, also it would appear that they are infact road legal.

I want some!

Check this link:

http://www.dubmeister.co.uk/

They look better than naff plastic plates with dealer adverts on the bottom IMO, also it would appear that they are infact road legal.

I want some!

These are the basic rules they must comply with for a new car.

•You must display a number plate on the front and rear of your vehicle

•Letters should be black on a white plate at the front

•Letters should be black on a yellow plate at the rear

•The background surface should be reflex-reflecting, but not the letters

•Number plates should meet the British Standard

•Rules on character dimensions differ slightly depending on whether your plates were fitted before or after 1st September 2001. Details are below.

•Rules on character dimensions differ for traditional 'black and white' plates, which may be fitted on vehicles manufactured before 1st January 1973.

and these are the dimensions

Any number plate made up after 1st September 2001 must meet the dimensions as below:

Character Height 79 mm

Character Width (except the figure 1 or letter I) 50 mm

Character stroke 14 mm

Space between characters 11 mm

Space between groups 33 mm

Top, bottom, and side margins (minimum) 11 mm

Space between vertical lines 19 mm

As long as the new plates meet this you are ok if not don't bother.

By the looks of it they have specifically designed the plates to meet those rules so I dont see a problem