Why do they do it ?
Simple, they want the police to stop them and have them check their insurance details, MOT, tyres, car defects etc. so they can then pay an additional fine to help reduce the national debt. After all they obviously have money to throw away on buying & fitting illegal number plates so why not throw away more money on fines and waste police time etc. One brick short of a full load etc.
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how many fail MOT?
Mine did. and no it wasn't a numpty plate. I bought brand new so had dealer fitted plates. 3 years later on 1st MOT it failed. 'cos the letters/numbers were not spaced correctly. I did get the supplier to cough up for new plates though.
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Top chav plates- CAZ, DAZ, TAZ, BAZ, GAZ and any other AZ you can think of.
One of the best plates I have seen was F40ONLY on, you guessed it an F40. One strange one is the guy I see daily in an M3 with a plate M5 XXX. Wonder if he knows what he is driving.
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I am amused by the people who bought the new volkswagen beetle when it first came out and splashed on a BUG number plate. One such lady in our area had a light blue beetle which had the number Pxx BUG, the number now adorns a BMW 1 series (quite appropriately IMO).
As a company we have a set of private plates on our lorries all A plates 1 & 2 and 11-20. The main reason though is we own all our vehicles and won't buy brand new, so with the private plates on the vehicles which are all kept immaculately clean and well maintained look as good as brand new vehicles. It also stops the drivers moaning about so and so having a newer lorry than me etc.
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>>Top chav plates- CAZ, DAZ, TAZ, BAZ, GAZ and any other AZ you can think of.
I bought an NI reg Micra for my daughter with one of these. I bought the car for what it was. I had no interest in the plate. I don't believe I paid above the going rate for the car.
Does this mean it can be sold at a premium?
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Respect to the BMW driver with the number P9SER.... The 9 was hacked around to look very like an O.
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I bought an NI reg Micra for my daughter with one of these. >> Does this mean it can be sold at a premium?
Possibly. Check one of the listings magazines or indeed the Daily Telegraph motoring section; it will give you a guide.
Beware of dealers though, you might do better on e-bay if you can be bothered with the paperwork and sorting it yourself. I think DVLA's website has alll the "how-to's".
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I,ve just seen an ad. for a VW Beetle 1.6, with a "BUG" number plate worth, apparently, £700. Pish.
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My Suzi V came with a single no. plate already on it. Similar on DVLA £999.
Anyone out there called KAS want a plate half price ?.....I thought not !
Ted
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Keep remembering others from my past. When Jag brought out it's XJ6, A Manchester dealer in Peter Street, I think it was Rosenfields, actually owned the number XJ 6, which was issued by Manchester Licencing. A clever one I used to see on the M6 occasionally was on a large van belonging to a game butchers...VEN 150N.
Our local butcher has B1 EEF on his van. I've mentioned a local Merc..G1 ANT.
Ted
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I am amused to see that this thread is gradually turning from derision to approval of amusing number plates.
Pay attention though when the number plates you notice seem to contain coded messages aimed at you personally. You may be going mad.
When I see cars with number plates like that, I try to give them a wide berth.
:o}
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I am amused to see that this thread is gradually turning from derision to approval of amusing number plates.
It has morphed. The OP concerned positioning of bolts, tape, and altering numbers/letters.
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I saw one last night with a black bolt altering one of the characters, but it didn't make anything recognizable, an upside down Q or the Greek letter pi, something like that.
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Was the next letter "I"? Perhaps a pub. landlord, or habitual drinker.
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A guy around my neck of the woods has the plate on a big 4X4
*** STD
(Don't think he knows the connection with a Sexually Transmitted Disease?)
Edited by massey on 13/02/2009 at 17:51
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A reminder on a car parked in my road the other day
V 14 FEB
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OK, I admit I was amused this morning to see a truck carrying portapotties with the registration V*LOO. Ones that are amusing in themselves, or mean something to the owner, are fair enough. Ones that are manipulated to look like something else are "pass the sick bucket".
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> A truck carrying portapotties .
There used to be an outfit in that line of business with vehicles P* PEE and P* POO ..
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Seen locally, B1 CEP. I hope he can back this up. No problem with this sort of plate, it is the subject of this thread, moved screws and distorted letters etc that I find sad.
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I agree with Dave. Always nice to see a perfectly legal plate thatr eads something without any 'fiddling' I have a book, 'Car Numbers' by Noel Woodall which lists hundreds of numbers.( how sad am I ?) A car radio firm near me has RAD 104 . Was on a Nissan Escargot van. It's a fairly old book and things change, TAX 1 was on a Golf and 1 RAQ ,don't know how they got away with that, the Iraqi Embassy.
THE 924S on the correct Porsche.
Ted
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RAD 105
Seen near Toddington services on the M1. A Bentley IIRC.
Nice to know where the license payer's money's going.
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Why is it whenever we have a numberplate thread they always go the same way as previous number plate threads. ie, descending to a level inappropriate to the BackRoom standard that we like to maintain - in short no more risqué number plates please; made up ones or genuine.
DD.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 15/02/2009 at 03:00
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Not sad, but humourous. Reported in a major local paper, WEEDOC. Caused a bit of headscratching round the bazaars as to what it meant. The owner wrote in to say that he was a urologist, but the plate was a present from his grown-up children. In his younger days at school, son had to write about his family, and had great difficulty spelling urologist, so wrote, "My father is a wee wee doctor". Within the family, the name stuck, hence the plates.
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