novel ideas on front number plates

[shimmy]

anybody got any clever way of taking front plates on and off without leaving either number plate holes or loads of velcrow showing:thumbs:

[TANKSLAPPER]

I take it this comes from a previous thread regards to posting pictures up on the net of broken cars:gayfight:

Blue Tack works well, only problem is you can not drive over 30mph

:thumbs:

Velcrow is the best I've tested mine with speeds over 165mph

[shimmy]

tbh it wasnt, just thinking about running with no front plate again at all

did it most of last year but put it back on for MOT

just wondered if there were some good ways :beer:

[TMAQ]

car looks better when its off. had mine off for about 6 months before getting a slap on the wrist :hahaha:. i have a 3/4 plate on now and have had no problems (not that mine is a import but i think they are allowed on imports).

[TMAQ]

bluetack didn't work for me. first plate is somewhere in holland:whistle:...

[shimmy]

can you get white or grey velcrow?

[NZ_M3]

[karbonkid]

can you get white or grey velcrow?

White Velcro YES. Grey Maybe?

[shimmy]

like the velcrow solution maybe with a bracket to underneath as well.

dont like the californian solution using the towing eye as just as likely to get pulled by the Babylon with a small or off centre plate and rather than £30 fine it would be 3 points

have you noticed that with white cars it is not so obvious that a plate is missing (doesnt look as wrong)

[Mark CSL]

Shimmy move to Florida you dont need a front plate there :thumbs:

[phat///M3]

You can fab up a bracket and attached it to bottom of the center hole (so the holes arent visible).

Ive always fancied trying it with some magnet system to see how well that would work.

[shane@mbtech]

Shimmy just put your plate in the windscreen, at the bottom, its still visible, if you get pulled say it was loose.

As long as its visible from the front and not obscured and its a fully legit plate, all is good. Ran a few cars like this, never tugged once.

[_Nathan_]

Shimmy just put your plate in the windscreen, at the bottom, its still visible, if you get pulled say it was loose.

As long as its visible from the front and not obscured and its a fully legit plate, all is good. Ran a few cars like this, never tugged once.

Not legal though, and I suspect as we move further in to the world of SPECs and ANPR they'll start to get stricter on this stuff :bigcry:

I'd imagine they'd do the marker thing where your excuse is ok the first time but if caught again they get more serious, threats to put your car on a q plate etc. I got a black mark against the car for running a 3/4 size front plate - got pulled over in the eurotunnel car park of all places.

http://www.uk-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2001/20010561.htm

Specifically:

Except as provided in paragraph (5), a registration plate must be fixed on the front of the vehicle in the manner required by paragraph (3).

and

This paragraph requires the plate to be fixed -

(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable

[TANKSLAPPER]

Not legal though, and I suspect as we move further in to the world of SPECs and ANPR they'll start to get stricter on this stuff :bigcry:

I'd imagine they'd do the marker thing where your excuse is ok the first time but if caught again they get more serious, threats to put your car on a q plate etc. I got a black mark against the car for running a 3/4 size front plate - got pulled over in the eurotunnel car park of all places.

http://www.uk-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2001/20010561.htm

Specifically:

Except as provided in paragraph (5), a registration plate must be fixed on the front of the vehicle in the manner required by paragraph (3).

and

This paragraph requires the plate to be fixed -

(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable

Fooking hell Nathan, have you join the local constabulary

If so :birdman: LOL

[shimmy]

my front plate is legal 100%:thumbs:

just some fecker just tore it off in the service station car park -again

ps. speed cameras can still see 3/4 size plates:hahaha: