Well that’s truely and utterly codswallop as shortened plates cut down from the sides are 100% legal as long as there is 11mm margin around the characters.
I’ve been running a short plate on my 3 digit plate for the last 7 years and no issues whatsoever
What a silly post.
How can you say that someone being pulled over is a load of cods?
If he was pulled over, he was pulled over. End of.
We have already established beyond doubt that 'shortened' number plates are legal providing the other parameters re. character size and spacing are adhered to, by reference to the relevant Government documentation. And that's without any reference to hearsay or urban myth.
Just because someone has not been stopped for 'whatever' for 7 years does not necessarily make the 'whatever' legal. It just means that they have 'got away' with driving around with a possibly illegal 'whatever' for 7 years. And because you have had no issues does not mean that someone else has not.
Perhaps the shortened plate was just an excuse to pull him over so that they could just have a look at his great car.
Well that’s truely and utterly codswallop as shortened plates cut down from the sides are 100% legal as long as there is 11mm margin around the characters.
I’ve been running a short plate on my 3 digit plate for the last 7 years and no issues whatsoever
Technically one problem is that by cutting down a plate you often remove the mandatory BS AU 145d mark which is in a corner. Unlikely to be a problem, it used to be checked on the MOT but not any more, but it would be illegal.
Just on the number plate subject I know you’re talking about shorter plates but what about longer/bigger ones? You see loads on Rover 75s where they are huge end rounded at the bottom. And on 1990s Rolls Royce they’re very big at the back. And Range Rover rear ones are big too.
As long as the plate has the required border of reflective material, And is presented in the correct manner (I.e. Rectangular) you can have extra material.
Fourdot numberplates will make a plate that fills the entire recess on the fk2
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