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I suppose its possible a cop might be dim enough to be looking for a BSAU plate logo on a vehicle registered before 2001, but I'd hope not !

syncrosimon wrote: The thing that the cops on the road will be looking for is the BSAU bit, cause that is easy for a cop to look for.

syncroandy wrote:I suppose its possible a cop might be dim enough to be looking for a BSAU plate logo on a vehicle registered before 2001, but I'd hope not !

syncrosimon wrote: The thing that the cops on the road will be looking for is the BSAU bit, cause that is easy for a cop to look for.

That will you getting a tug now then...

I think a copper will have to be really bored and "on a mission" to be bothering with this on anything that looks "normal"... but apparently they are out there....

[quote="syncroandy"]I suppose its possible a cop might be dim enough to be looking for a BSAU plate logo on a vehicle registered before 2001, but I'd hope not !

When you have to be a specialist in everything an easy to look for logo is a good place to start, it's much easier when you have the internet to look it up on first

forgot to put on the front number plate untill today! oppppps. i dont see what all the bother is about so long as there is something that is reasionably read able and you are not taking the p*ss the odds are that the rozzers are not going to give you a tug. if they do be polite and curtiouse and get over it.

neil

Like i said, ive had a stick on one for over two years and ive never even spoken to a copper while ive been in the van.

In fact the only coppers i have spoken to have been at festivals, ..and thats usually just to take the p*ss....

My bay window front plate is sat up in the front window, on the dash. It's staying there too, as it looks crap on the van.

I am going to get a stick on plate for my Syncro, the chances of getting stopped are very slim. As long as it looks exactly like a legal plate on a reflective background I reckon you could challenge any over excited plod anyway.

Bollox, to them anyway. I have done much worse to cars!

I've got pressed metal ones, the front is rivited on so its not going anywhere - stones bounce off it and grounding the nose dents the black pressed border a bit. Does the job well, don't know why the UK tends to prefer plastic, probubly so people can make money when they fall apart yet again.

DVLA spacificly say stick on isn't legal and then give the excuse you can't get reflective sticky stuff, what bollox! Alot of the metal plates (which are also used across the EU so theres no problem there) have a stick on backgrould, and some of them are BS aproved! Think they are more bothered about people selling kits to make your own stick on plates, though they are probubly still avalable from towing places.

Mine are from Craig's plates. You can get them with or without the BS logo, there isn't any other differences. If you don't have the BS version you don't have to send them a copy of your V5C and I guess they'll print exactly as you ask if you get the spacing wrong - which would be a cop magnet, as would getting the wrong GB logo if you have one.

They do use the narrow "New Charles Wright" font so its probable a plate like mine was made and fitted after 2001 but I'm sure the new font came out slightly before it became mandatory, (the 2001 date would have been from when ALL ofical plate makers were using it) so how could the police nail you for a plate that looks identical to a aproved one but lacks makers identification to prove its age, on a vehicle old enough not to need it - they couldn't prove exactly when it was made then. Its not worth them doing the paperwork, especally when the car behind you probibly has a plate the size of a postage stamp, in the wrong colour with italic letters and their football team logo on it - much easyer pickings. I've been pulled loads of times in my landy (aparently a landy being driven through Derbyshire after midnight has probubly just been stolen) and they've never rased an eye at its black numberplates - they'll know its old enough to be aloud them. Acording to my friends (untrained eyes?) a syncro looks quite old, which I guess it is now.

My stick on one is reflective..