Valtra
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 posted on 11/7/08 at 06:47 AM |
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stick-on number plates ?
Are they legal and where from ?
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iank
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 07:03 AM |
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No, there are none that meet the right BS number.
See this from a manufacturers on the situation.
http://www.craigsplates.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85
If you are happy with the risk the same guy sells them 
http://www.craigsplates.com/self-adhesive-number-plate
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Howlor
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 07:19 AM |
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I never had an issue. Most Fererale don't know the law on stick ons.
Steve
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 07:31 AM |
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what's the fine...£30?
who cares.
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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brynhamlet
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 08:12 AM |
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I've got a sticky one for the nose, bought at the same time as my standard rear one. Bought from local car accessory shop with seperate sticky
back numbers/letters. Only comment from shop was these are illegal on road going cars.
It's bee seen by a few coppers but in 1500 miles never had a pull
And as said before, having been pulled for an illegal plate on a bike, you get 14days to replace it and have it checked by a MOT station and take the
ticket back to the cop shop
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 08:38 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by brynhamletAnd as said before, having been pulled for an illegal plate on a bike, you get 14days to replace it and
have it checked by a MOT station and take the ticket back to the cop shop
bet you had many sleepless nights over that 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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roadrunner
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 08:43 AM |
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front
[Edited on 11/7/08 by roadrunner]
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neilj37
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 08:45 AM |
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I think the only time they are legal is on a historic/classic car of a certain age. They would be illegal on a modern car.
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brynhamlet
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 09:28 AM |
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Mr Wippy, I must have lost at least ten seconds. And the farce is the MOT inspector is supposed to charge you but because I knew him, he didn't
charge me, so all it cost was the price of a metal number plate
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BenB
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 09:38 AM |
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They're not legal BUT it's very rare for anyone to get pulled for a stick-on number plate. Obviously if the font is all wonky and the
spacing is wrong that's a different matter. Certainly the fuzz that have given my car the once over from the passenger seat of a plod highways
cruiser have never picked up on the sticky...
Historical cars have an excemption. It's not clear if there's a cut-off date. Certainly in the latest issue of Classics Monthly they just
said "yes, they're legal for classic cars"..... but I suspect the answer is more specific that that....
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 09:45 AM |
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I ran the Falcon for years with black & white vintage plate, it’s a Y reg
No one ever said a word about them, even the mot guys, all I had to do to get them was to sign a declaration that the plates were for show use only.
About as dumb as the shops now asking for your address when buying a new TV, let me see I live…
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 10:32 AM |
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they are illegal not because they are sticky but because the MOT book says they should be a straight plate - you can get a higher fine for altering a
number plate knowingly rather than a pleading ignorant - lots of se7en owners i know seem to have problems keeping their front number plate fixed on
the car - so it ends up in the car a lot - strange phenomena that! suppose they must have to fix it back on when they get back home..
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 10:36 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by :{THC}:YosamiteSam
they are illegal not because they are sticky but because the MOT book says they should be a straight plate - you can get a higher fine for altering a
number plate knowingly rather than a pleading ignorant - lots of se7en owners i know seem to have problems keeping their front number plate fixed on
the car - so it ends up in the car a lot - strange phenomena that! suppose they must have to fix it back on when they get back home..
just drive over the plate a few times locking the wheel to put some scratchs on it, then claim it fell off if you get pulled.
[Edited on 11/7/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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BenB
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 11:04 AM |
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"My front number plate is under the passenger seat after falling off- I was just driving home to re-attach it"
The old ones are the best 
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Valtra
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 02:50 PM |
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As an aside , I saw a previous model Jag XK in Marshalls last week with a sticky . Hardly a classic !!!!
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Valtra
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| posted on 11/7/08 at 04:58 PM |
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Also has anybody used one of the tiny ones favoured by the works WRC cars
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:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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| posted on 20/7/08 at 08:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Valtra
Also has anybody used one of the tiny ones favoured by the works WRC cars
they do, but again - illegal - standard size letters should be used for starters
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Valtra
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| posted on 20/7/08 at 08:28 PM |
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Please whisper it ....I've fitted a sticky !!!!
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