stopped by police

[B9 KLF]

Mines a C-West nose and for an MOT I stuck a full size plate on with double sided adhesive pads and it lasted for a year until it was removed for a respray.

Currently I am in denial with no plate and will probably end up doing the same as before but smaller  :spank .

Keith

[M@r]{]

Ive just had a different front end put on mine, don\'t want to stick anything on there until the paint has been on a while.  I love the look without the plate - I think I might try risking it without - just going to have a fully legal plate in the car with some pads on the back showing signs off "falling off"   Then some polite chat with copper explaining it fell off and i\'m just in the process of getting some new sticky pads.  Obviously thats only going to cut it with any local old bill once then I will have to get something perm. - then I will go for a sticky one as well.

[B9 KLF]

Is your RE-A nose up for sale then Mark? (have I missed this)

Keith

[M@r]{]

Sorry mate. not available for sale

Is your RE-A nose up for sale then Mark? (have I missed this)

Keith

[sadgoth]

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

I had similar, after about a year, got pulled and fined, argued the toss, lost! Ho hum

[fullonloon]

After being stopped by police this morning on the way to work, I need to move my number plate...

Barry

Well, being realistic, it\'s lucky you got a way with it for so long.  You can\'t read the plate at all at that angle.  I have the same nose and use a small font adhesive plate which I had made up from craigsplates.  I trimmed it to size and haven\'t had any problems with it.  I got pulled with no front which prompted me to do this.  If you really don\'t want the adhesive plate then I have a bracket which you can use for a \'small\' standard hard backed plate.  It attached to the underside of the centre section above the intercooler IYSWIM...  The plate then sits at the same level as the top of the bumper minimising restriction of air flow to the intercooler...

[shafster]

my number plate fell off the other week on the way to thor. have had it stuck back onto where it was before.

it is on at an angle so air can still get into the engine

[barmar]

Well, being realistic, it\'s lucky you got a way with it for so long.  You can\'t read the plate at all at that angle. QUOTE]


Don\'t I know it, got stopped again today by different guys this time. This time they were a bit more forceful, telling me I had to sort it ASAP otherwise I\'d be fined. Told them that after being stopped last week I had one on order and that it would be getting delivered Monday or Tuesday, cut no ice with them, sort it or get fined was their attitude which I guess is fair enough. Only problem is I really don\'t want to move the current one just for a few days but I don\'t want to risk getting fined.
Thing is they said every time they have seen it its been parked up somewhere even mentioning seeing it outside my work. They know who I am so why didn\'t they just ask me to move it before???

Barry

[Gerry M]

take it off & stick it in your windscreen until you get the new one

[barmar]

good plan Gerry, thats what i\'ll do

Barry

[iaint]

I\'d go with the sticky in a small but not pi$$ take font.  I\'m using a font slightly smaller than UK legal but it\'s readable easily by plod so they aren\'t going to throw a wobbly over it.

[barmar]

Hope the sticky plate gets here soon, got stopped again (twice) today on my way to Crail. Got a £30 fine this time and a defect rectification notice. I\'ve got 21 days to sort it and take it to an MOT station, get the form filled out and sent back to the police and I won\'t have to pay the fine. Starting to laugh about this now. Up until last week I\'d been stopped 3 times in 14 years of driving. In the last 8 days I\'ve been stopped 4 times lol.


Barry

[gsb876]

Hope the sticky plate gets here soon, got stopped again (twice) today on my way to Crail. Got a £30 fine this time and a defect rectification notice. I\'ve got 21 days to sort it and take it to an MOT station, get the form filled out and sent back to the police and I won\'t have to pay the fine. Starting to laugh about this now. Up until last week I\'d been stopped 3 times in 14 years of driving. In the last 8 days I\'ve been stopped 4 times lol.


Barry

Words probably got around the police to look out for your car, they can we bankers when they wanna be.  :mad:

[andyroi]

Just got stopped tonight, for having my plate in the windscreen, not on the front of my car. Got off without a fine tho, told him about the car reversing into me and knocking it off. Just got the standard 7 day wonder and the ticket making me get it sorted. At least the guy was ok though, didnt give me much hassle:)

[D-SignStudio.com]

I can sort out sticky plates for you all if you need? Just give me a PM...... £12 deliverd, text size is 64mm which is the legal limit for an imported vehicle & the backing is alot smaller than the standard UK plate aswell. not to intrusive in the front of an FD!!!!
See my sig!!
Jono