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panic over its raining...phew!
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I can't believe that anyone would get wound up about this - cars get dirty in winter - it's just the way it is.
I've done 800 miles on the motorway this week - up at 5, out at 6, home at 8.30 each day. The last thing thing on my mind when I get home is whether anyone can read my plate. (they can't by the way - it's black - :)
I was going to wash my car early afternoon, as well as all the others in the family. But I decided not to bother. They will only be black again by Monday, so I couldn't really be bothered, and the thought that someone sat behind me may be getting wound up by my black plate prompted me to go to the pub instead, to watch the football on the telly, with a smile on my face :)
Worry about something important folks - there's lots of things to choose from.
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"Worry about something important folks - there's lots of things to choose from."
My life is rosy. Black number plates are the only thing preventing me from sleeping.
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Aw don't be a spoilsport Mile-Muncher !
Car cleaning tales are Rock 'n Roll to some of us ! Stuck as we are in that no longer young but too young to retire, mortgaged to bedlam and back, kids, one of Barratts suburban finest, a mainstream Anonywagon on the drive. Car cleaning is one of few remaining forms of self-expression. There we all are, weekend after weekend , polishing our prides and joys, pretending this is our Shangri La. This was what we all worked so hard for. The opportunity to stand back, arms akimbo and say to the world its mine, its the only thing I have which isn't on tick and its clean ! We have no other vices, either we can't afford them or our wives won't let us. Buckets and sponges to the ready lads ! "Onwards to obscurity" our proud motto !
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in days of yore many moons ago when ever i cleaned my car it would 9 times out of 10 develop a fault or start making strange noises , now i only clean it for the mot
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Of course, when the owner of a car with an unreadable number plate seriously injures a family member of yours and can't be traced, you'll be saying exactly the same thing.
For crying out loud, it's only a matter of 30 seconds with a damp cloth. Why should you be entitled to break the law? Chances are you've also got a brake light or two out as well.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 22/12/2007 at 18:36
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Of course when the owner of a car with an unreadable number plate seriously injures a family member of yours and can't be traced you'll be saying exactly the same thing.
I take your point, to a small extent, but the chances are high that if someone didn't stop at the scene of the accident, that they are either driving a car that they own but have not registered to them in the first place, or it is nicked.
I just think that in this crazy forsaken world we live in, there are bigger things for the Police to worry about, without spending valuable time and effort booking someone for having a dirty number plate.
>>Chances are you've also got a brake light or two out as well.
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Don't know - can't tell for the muck :)
Edited by Webmaster on 23/12/2007 at 00:48
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Sometimes looking at the so-called minor things gets major things dealt with too! Could save the police quite some effort to catch the rogues who carefully allow their plates to be obscured.
Edited by nortones2 on 22/12/2007 at 19:39
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Colleague at work also had a Golf - rear plate completely blackened. He knew this so sped through a 40mph average limit thinking he was safe - he forgot that the cameras there read the FRONT number plate - which his young toddler son had "cleaned" while helping daddy to clean the windows..........
Wasn't too chuffed when "the letter" dropped through his letter-box!
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I clean my lights and mirrors everyday when conditions are like this. Never bother cleaning my number plates though. Not that they have become unreadable mind.
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Sometimes looking at the so-called minor things gets major things dealt with too! Could save the police quite some effort to catch the rogues who carefully allow their plates to be obscured.
Sometimes it's the so-called mior things which enable people to get away with the more serious things.
My cyclist son, with lights and hi-vis vest on, was forced off the road by an erratically driven car whilst on his way home from school a couple of weeks back, fortunately he is young, athletic and alert and avoided any injury or damage. However, the rear plate was obscured and unreadable, by design or not makes little difference to the fact that the vehicle was rendered virtually anonymous. The result is that a driver who was driving in a careless, possibly dangerous manner was unidentifiable and immune from any chance of being reported as such and is also comfortable knowing that he is unlikely to be pulled for the minor offence of a dirty/unreadable plate which just happens to make him safe from being reported for something more serious. VRM's aren't just for the convenience of cameras or ANPR.
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Fully agree, Cockle. Overtaken (by some margin!) in an area of Bradford by a small hatchback, through speed camera infested stretch of 30 mph road. He'd done the same to others behind. Number plate displayed was at a 15 degree angle to the horizontal, with something behind: I suspect his real plate. Where are the police these days! Its called prevention: you can catch theses chancers before they cause damage....
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Next time you are a passenger count how many cars have plates obscured for some reason:
- Dirty;
- Towing a trailer with no/ unreadable/ plates belonging to some other tow car;
- Bike racks - I don't think there is the upsurge in cycling you might think
Your chances of being stopped/incurring a penalty for any of these is less than being caught by a camera
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"Bike racks - I don't think there is the upsurge in cycling you might think"
Same with an apparent increase in the interest in Baseball.
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Bike racks - my pet hate. Joe Bloggs thinks he's wonderful loading up his Mondeo or Lagunga with the 4 bikes on the back - totally obvlivious to the fact that his rear lights are completely obscured (and his interior mirror). I blame the suppliers of these racks for not making buyers sign a note saying that they have read the regulations requiring them (a) to fit trailer boards, and (b) to remove the racks when not in use (covered by dangerous projection sof the Construction & Use regs).
But isn't it fun when they put the bikes on the roof, go into one of the beach (or multi-storey) car parks not noticing that there's a height limitation. What fun it is watching the bikes getting sheared off, broken and bent!!!!
But on anoher tack - what if you saw a car with blackened (dirty) number plates and got out your little plant sprayer that you keep in the car for when your washer nozzles freeze up, and gave his plates a little wash. Would you be breaking the law?
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