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.
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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 
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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…
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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]
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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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