Ive seen some vans with German pressed metal plates. It looks really good. How likely am i to get pulled over if i swap the plates and what sort of trouble would i get in? Basically is the look worth the hassle?
Gavin, owner of Toby 1980 2.0l Aircooled
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Re: German Pressed Plates
Very likely...I had American style plates on my old Beetle and got pulled and had to change them. And warned that putting them back on again could result in a fine.
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Re: German Pressed Plates
Hey Gavin,
I got a set of pressed metal plates from http://www.dubmeister.co.uk they look really nice on my van.
pressed plates are uk legal as long as they conform to the size, font, colour, reflective material etc. the info on https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-pl ... ber-plates was pretty helpful.
dubmeister are listed as a registered number plate supplier on the gov website so shouldn't be a problem
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I got a set of pressed metal plates from http://www.dubmeister.co.uk they look really nice on my van.
pressed plates are uk legal as long as they conform to the size, font, colour, reflective material etc. the info on https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-pl ... ber-plates was pretty helpful.
dubmeister are listed as a registered number plate supplier on the gov website so shouldn't be a problem
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Re: German Pressed Plates
You cant legally have German plates on a UK registered vehicle.
Ive seen some vans with German pressed metal plates
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Re: German Pressed Plates
I've had those dubmeister plates on my van for at least the last 3 MOT's, and they don't even have the issuers name on them
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Re: German Pressed Plates
Thanks for your help, very useful. Ordered my new plates from Dubmeister .
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Re: German Pressed Plates
the_fever wrote:pressed plates are uk legal as long as they conform to the size, font, colour, reflective material etc.
Which, of course, kinda negates the whole idea of the German-style plates.
We've got French plates on 'erselfs 2cv. They don't conform to UK regs. They render us liable to a tug. If we do get tugged, then we know damn well that we're appealing to Mr Plod's nicer nature to only give us a bollocking.
They've not been a problem - so far, even at MOT - but they're a lot subtler than German-style ones.
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I had german plates on and got pulled (only myself to blame). £60 on the spot fine. Its £30 per plate. Once banged to rights the porkers insisted on escorting me home to make sure i changed them over. It pee'd me right off. Dubmeisters are supposed to be legal, but from now on im sticking with bog standard plates as its just not worth the hassle.
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Re: German Pressed Plates
Since Friday it's £100 per illegal plate, well up here across the border it is.
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APNR is responsible for the fine hike
it doesn't see the german font
it doesn't see the german font
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Re: German Pressed Plates
Nope not really
all conditional offers have gone up if it was £30 it's now £50 if it was £60 it's now £100
The points stay the same i.e. red light 3 points £100, no insurance 6 points £300
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all conditional offers have gone up if it was £30 it's now £50 if it was £60 it's now £100
The points stay the same i.e. red light 3 points £100, no insurance 6 points £300
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Re: German Pressed Plates
Mine are DVLA uk legal pressed plates! They are on the DVLA website as an approved retailer.
Re: German Pressed Plates
It's when folk have them with the German flag and font that they are likely to get pulled.
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Eh? DVLA don't list "approved retailers", do they? URL? And, unless they're in the correct UK font, they quite simply can't be UK legal.Tobyt25 wrote:Mine are DVLA uk legal pressed plates! They are on the DVLA website as an approved retailer.
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Dubmeister are DVLA approved manufacturers, they are uk font pressed plates not german. Sorry for confusion. 100% legal