stopped by police

[barmar]

After being stopped by police this morning on the way to work, I need to move my number plate. It has been where it is for over 6 months now and I\'ve never been stopped before, but now it will need to be moved. Anybody with any suggestions especially those with the CWest front bumper feel free to pass them on. When I asked them they told me to put it in front of the mesh, to which I replied no way as I only had it rebuilt 4,5k miles ago and didn\'t want to risk it overheating. They then told me that at the speeds that I can legally go at it shouldn\'t be a problem (probably true but hey who sticks to the speed limits all the time). Then they said I could get a sticky plate which is what I had when it had the standard bumper. I explained that it was illegal too, but they said it would be OK and that if anyone had a problem they could take it up with them - fair enough I suppose, so i\'ll probably do that unless anyone has any better suggestions.

I knew I was going to have a bad day, at work the managers and the staff were swapping positions for the day as we\'ve been open for 10 years. It just went downhill from getting pulled.
O well tomorrow is another day hopefully a better one than today.

Cheers for listening to my moan

Barry

[probedb]

I\'d go for the sticky. At least it was the Police that said you could do it

[Ricco_04]

Yeah, I would try and get a sticker - beats drilling the nose!

[R1Dude]

I got a sticker on mine dude, had couple of cops look at it but they didn`t say anything, also it looks cool  :Giggle

[gadj]

I never liked the sticky license plate - thought on a smart looking car, it looked tacky - just a personal opinion.

I\'ve also got C-West front end - check out the picture on my web site below. I had some brackets made up at a specific angle, then got a squarer number plate made up.

Being at an angle, I still get a decent amount of air flow going in.

[Donato]

i have opted not to have a reg plate at the front.. strange i have never been pulled but passed many a cop car. But when i had a very small front plate i was stopped all tthe time... :xconfused

[GerbilStuntFarm]

I had mine in the windscreen on the inside for over a year and nobody ever bothered stopping me, even when parked next to nosey coppers in a garage they just looked and drove off. Mind you i left the bracket that had snapped off under the nose cone there just in case so i could always say id only just broke the number plate and was off to fix it now. To which they\'d reply \'you\'ve been driving around here for over a year ...\' etc

[gsb876]

2 ways around your problem is firstly as mentioned the sticky plate which if presented nicely will be ok ie you can read the plate easily and its isn\'t too small. :Laugh

Secondly get some brackets made up which will give you a folding plate number so when the speed picks up the plate will swing down allowing air intake as normal  :Laugh

As for sticky plates looking tacky i have to disagree if placed in the right spot they are ok

PIC:

[7ForLife]

I had no plate for at least a year never got pulled once, Untill one day i was driving through town and was pulled by two police cars, They said they had seen me loads of times driving around but could not work out what was missing, Fined me and i had to put one on. so i got a real small one made and had that. Dam stupid thing got me about two more fines. Now i have just fitted cwest front im gona have the same problem on where to put it!!!

[Rixio]

I hope you got their names & badge numbers incase of any comebacks

Do the plate in the windscreen one or do a sticky like Gurj\'s

[shaunwil]

I\'ve had the plate in the window for a couple of months. Its not like i\'ve got nothing to hide, but like others i don\'t want to srew it on the front of the car.

http://www.craigsplates.com seems to do sticky plates at reasonable prices and i think as long as the lettering is standard size and spacing then i can\'t really see what the fuss is about.

The only reason why stickies are illegal are because they used to sell a kit for trailers and caravans where people could make their own.

Surely its safer, nobody can steal your numberplates then. I see quite alot of ordinary cars here going to work that have show plates and i know full well they will never be stopped.

Shaun

[Marky B]

I always quite liked the look of this:



(you\'d have to makes sure it doesn\'t block the oils coolers obviously), AND with the curve of the bumper, If you put it on the other side it would be more difficult for foward facing cameras to read  :p

I keep a copy of the MOT regulations in my car to show any copper that feels like pulling me over for my smaller plate, I\'ve never lost yet lol (even tho what is MOT legal isn\'t the same as what is road legal) work that out lmao.

Mark

[shaunwil]

Wouldn\'t be good for any type r car, there is an oil cooler on both sides and your blocking one completely off !

Shaun

[fro]

I\'m guessing if you go for a sticky plate, you can legally use the smaller import font?

DVLA regulations:

Certain imported vehicles may be permitted to display number plates with smaller characters if:

    * The vehicle does not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval

      AND

    * The vehicle\'s construction/design cannot accomodate standard size number plates

Specifications for smaller sized plates (for certain imported vehicles)

Character Height 64mm

Character Width 44mm

Character Stroke 10mm

Space between characters 10mm

[barmar]

Cheers for the comments guys think it will have to be a sticky plate. Its amazing how long some people have been going without plates and not getting stopped, think the only reason I got stopped was because they couldn\'t see it at all, and the only reason they didn\'t give me a ticket was because it was there and I didn\'t give them attitude

Thanks again
Barry