what do you have to dso to stop your car getting a q-plate and to get a age related one .just some simple pointers in the right direction would be nice
As a matter of interest - why bother?
What's so bad about a 'Q' plate? As far as I'm concerned I'll be happy to get my car on the road, no matter what the registration!
As a matter of interest, this month's Which Kit says that you'll be able to get personalised 'Q' plates soon...
cheers (and don't take me too seriously 
)
David
from what i've heard you need three major components from your donor car (engine,gearbox and axle perhaps) to get the donor cars reg no but i don't know if this is guaranteed!!!!
you need to show that many parts are from one car and need the log book. You also need to be able to prove the chassis was 'new' ie keep the receipts
from your steel and alu purchases.
To me, before I was an enlightened builder, a "Q' plate was some kinda lesser form of life. This stigma is also held by others and I suspect your car
will command a better price when you sell it if its not Q.
Also, if you want to pretend its summat different, not a kit car, then Q blows that pretence away.
atb
steve
quote:
you need to show that many parts are from one car and need the log book.
An age related plate may well be a possiblity, with even the SVA man saying the car is "age related" enough, and you've used the pre-requisit amount
of parts, AND you've got the V5 to back it up.
The problem can be when you go to the local friendly VRO, and a cardigan wearing rubber stamper (their job, not rhyming slang) choses to issue a Q coz
its not a ford or vauxhall, whatever it says on your SVA pass form.
This has been asked about loads (including myself) - look in the search.
My opinion has changed from when i first thought about the Q plate, and similar to Steve and David, who cares?
In fact, I think a Q means that more "normal" people will know you built it yourself, and its not a £25k Caterham (but this picks up another
thread!).
I saw the article about Q plates too. Even though its hard to justify (c. £400 buys a lot of shiny trick bits) it would look cool to have the plate
Q1 ###, don't you think?
I'm in the final throws of finishing a locost, and the Q plate issue is the furthest thing from my mind, and as someone said to me when i asked this
q, you can't see it when you're in it!
I was originally hoping not to have a Q plate, but having heard that personallised q plates are coming in, I quite want one because I've thought of
the coolest number plate which looks like my name with one letter missing!!
Kingr
hicost builder - i wonder how you are going to get an age realted plate if you dont have proof (v5) of the age of the major donor.....you have some
other way?
I would prefer not to have a Q. However, if I had a button I could press that would have the car finished today on a Q plate, id press it!!!!!
atb
steve
I really really didn't want a Q plate - ask MK & PTM, An age related one would be great, but I'm just so looking forward to driving it that it
doesn't really matter.
As they say - you can't see it from the drivers seat - and if you can its either fallen off or you've messed up BIG
quote:
Originally posted by kingr
I was originally hoping not to have a Q plate, but having heard that personallised q plates are coming in, I quite want one because I've thought of the coolest number plate which looks like my name with one letter missing!!
Kingr
My poor brother is called Quintin. Nuff said!
Ian
How about Q11cky