what is the max penalty (���/points/prison) for not displaying a number plate? I dont mean not displaying ‘correctly’ - I mean not displaying at all.
searched the dvla site but couldnt find anything
anyone know for 100% sure what the answer is?
From what I’ve seen the BiB gets more ticked off by the incorrect font and size than by not having it.
After about 10 broken front plates now I’ve been running for about 8 month without one and have yet to be stopped.
If I do, my excuse would be as it happened many times, ooops! it just fell/broke off again! (I do have the bracket and the bits of double sided tape still on though)
�30 fine for not having one.
�1000 fine plus points for having an incorrectly spaced or chaved up one.
�0 and no points if you have a normal looking one with at leat 11mm of space between the numbers/letters and the edge of the plate.
Take your pick
SteveJ - is it definitely, definitely, DEFINITELY only �30 fine and NO points for not having one? Do you have official confirmation? Or a source?
thanks for help
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks_current_requirements.htm
insinuates that the fine could be up to �1000, although no points??
DVA states that altering the letters and or spacing could result in a fine up to �1000 but doesn’t cover non-display of the reg plate. This is definitely only a �30 fine as some Lotus owners can testify to having been done recently by the Derbyshire constabulary.
I’ve only ran without a plate once and only a quick dive up a side street to put the plate back on saved me the �30 fine that others got. I now have a plate on all the time as the coppers are very wise to the “just knocked it off on a speed bump officer” excuse.
There’s always Clarkson’s idea! - click here
I bought a skyline 2 years ago and was stopped on the way back from buying the car. i was stopped not for speeding but for my rear plate. The letters were slightly thicker/bolder than a standard plate and it had the GTR owners club logo on the side of the plate and the words GTR Owners club accross the bottom. The plate was not one of heavy italics or even hard to read infact the opposite, yet i still got fined and was given points even after explaining that i had just purchased the car…
So I am very pleased to see that instead of a tiny front number plate on my Exige that no numberplate at all is only �30. How crazy is that !!!
After just getting pulled in the exige for doing nothing wrong I cant see the point in chancing it by putting a smaller plate on - it’s just asking for it IMHO.
If you have a smaller/chavved up plate in any way it’s an excuse for the rozzas to pull you up - end of!
…and they will. I have two mates who are coppers and after being out with the traffic guys they certainly do have points to accrue for handing out producers etc…
If they need the points and you have the incorrect plate fitted guess who will be making up the numbers.
For extra hassle try using your phone and not wearing a seat belt, scrub of the tread from all your tyres etc…
After just getting pulled in the exige for doing nothing wrong
so what reason did they give you?
I got stopped a few months back for “looking fast”. I was being over taken on a roundabout but a Nissan Micra, just how fast can that look!
Ian
I got stopped for turning out of a one way street, copper checked the vehicle over trying to find fault, didn’t notice the rear plate was not exactly the same as the front. All the numbers and letters were there but not really in the correct order. He did the radio check on the front plate that matched the tax disk, all was well and he let me carry on my way.
The last time I got pulled it was for doing 30mph in a 40.
I got stopped a few months back for “looking fast”.
How exactly can an Exige not �look fast�, first time I saw one it looked like it was doing warp speed down a little country road… actually… come to think of it, it probably was .
David
I never break the speed limit with Mrs G on board and she nevers believes me.
I never break the speed limit
'Course not…
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I said with the missus on board
LOL at the pic though!
LOL at the pic though!
Excellent, David
Oooo new engine upgrade option
Does it still suffer from that hessitation around warp 5?
Oooo new engine upgrade option
Does it still suffer from that hessitation around warp 5?
Only with the standard ECU - ho ho ho
Ok guys this is the detail re me getting pulled over…
It’s a long post…
was on way home last night in Exige (late of course, as usual - two friends at home waiting for me Pizza in the oven etc…)
Was in an unrestricted area in the sticks and happened upon a line of 7 cars or so. Slowed down behind the 3.2 V6 vectra in front pausing for a second or so to see if he was going to take the other cars as they were doing 40!
He didn’t so of I went round the vectra. Pulled to the left to look down the inside then out, indicating and passed the lot with scotty reporting he had given me every thing she has captain. Passed the lot no dramas, pulled in and stamped on the brakes when hitting the 40 zone ahead (just do that to see how well it stops )
A few seconds later I have a rock concert light show in my rear view mirror - the light being predominantly blue!!!
Where the donald duck did that come from? - couldn’t tell what it was in the mirror - the lights were fairly bright.
OOPS!
I assumed that I needed to pull in for my license taking off me.
Jumped out of my motor straight into the passenger side saying oops and where the fook did you come from??? (It was the silver Vectra - barstewards - never noticed anything on the car to indicate a copper and I pride mi sen on noticing them!!!)
Twas a Lady traffic officer about my age. “Lets look at that on the video” she says as the fancy motorised screen emerged from the dash board.
After several seconds of it ‘not working’ and me saying to her I hope it’s bust…It of course burst into life.
Oh ace it’s got a rearward facing camera as well which she fired up as soon as she saw me in the distance. Superb shot of me steaming up behind, pausing, indicating then nipping round the vectra. Next we see the overtake of the row of cars and me off out of sight. I come back into picture with brake lights lit b4 hitting the 40 zone. We then see how slow a 3.2 vectra is at catching up…and how not to overtake safely in one !!!
So theres me apologising and calling mi sen a cock etc…
She then talks me through it and basically says she cant fault me on my driving or observations, a perfect overtake etc…apart from not noticing her car
I technically had done nothing wrong. I waited for the broken white line b4 indicating and pulling out. The road was clear, I checked both sides for traffic, cyclists and oncoming, because the traffic was doing 40 I passed them all without her having chance to correctly note my speed (not that I was speeding of course). Then slowed down with the evidence of my brake lights for the 40 zone.
Still expecting to get a proper fooking for something I produced my licence and she did all the checks for insurance and if I was on the run etc… All ok. She didn’t even bother looking at tyres, number plate or owt (it is all bang on anyway).
She then told my she flashed the front strobes as I pulled in front of her just to warn me she was there as I had obviously not seen her
Next a tour of her car where she turned everything on to show me how to recognise it in the future.
She sent me on my way with a lecture and to calm down a bit
Phew - I was Tom Tittin mi sen!
So I suppose the moral of that story is that one can still drive ‘with spirit’ and not get done (but you might get pulled over anyway). Just make sure you dont have an attitude problem with them or it’s curtains!
She was very, very professional and extremely pleasant - not arsey in any way.
I was of course very apologetic even thought I was clean as a whistle.
I reckon I would have been dry bummed for summat if it had a been a bloke.
My copper chums (the guys I was off home to see!!!) said she could have found something if she really wanted to and advised that when dealing with the filth one is always better taking whatever is said and being as nice as possible.
What a nice tale with a hpyy ending.
Surprised you handed over your licence, I thought that was a bit of a no-no at the road side.
Ian
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