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 omg!!!

as soon as other half gets home where going down to get it done!!

I asked the lady in Halfords on Friday how many crooks she had had in asking for their number plates to be made up - not many by all accounts.  Seems that if you want them for illegal purposes you can get them done in plenty of places so yet again all this legislation for nothing!! 

You gotta laugh - else you'd cry!

Ali

Well my plate arrived yesterday and very nice it is too no docs and didnt have to leave the house to get those chaps at aplates are good even got a free fixing kit got a choice of plastic nuts and bolts or screws with caps.

Cheers aplates

Eddie

It is v. illegal to get one made without documents and the DVLA do check out that retailers are acting appropriately. All sales are recorded - presumably with the intention eventually of establishing a huge database with records of every single plate that has ever been bought, who by, where from etc.

You can read the DVLA side of things here:

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/faq/faq_register_numberplate.htm

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/forms/pdf/inf130.pdf

Original press release:

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/public/press_releases/2001/p_release18_290601.htm

They also had a searchable database of legal suppliers but I can't spot the link on the site.

JT

Motor World sell the orange backing and letters but with the instruction that they are not for use on car number plates

My neighbour works for a motor factor and they have to have all docs for a plate much to the annoyance and inconvenience of regular customers with sizeable accounts.

No effort seems to have been made to collect/confiscate the old plate making gear so if you want a plate that's not legal there are ways and means

It really is overkill to think that a luggage trailer / trailer board needs plates worth more than the trailer in some cases.

Its the retailer that then gets the aggro

It reminds you of the old joke about the ill eagle

It makes you sick as a parrot

Quote: Originally posted by BIG J on 12/5/2006

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If the front plate is taken off the front of your car and put on the caravan it is legal. our so i was told by Police.  BIG J

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They were wrong.

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks_current_requirements.htm

It is the fact that for an old trailer or for a trailer board on a bike rack for example the plate may well  now cost more that the trailer or board.

Compared to the cost of a caravan / car it is insignificant