Sticky license plate

[CrashBangWallop]

Just a quick question.

As I may put an air-scoop at the bottom of my nose-cone for the intercooler, I would have to remove the license plate.  Are the nose-cone stickers legal?  I'm sure I've read they're not but, with so many seven-alikes on the road with them, would I honestly get into trouble?

Cheers,

Neil

[cidersurfer]

Been lots of discussion on here previously. The general concensus seems to be that they are now illegal but nobody seems to have been caught out with one.

[Robandcolin]

I've been driving round with one for about 3 years never been stopped and it always passes the MOT.  

Rob

[moomin]

Neil,

I got tugged last year for not having a front plate - I asked said rozzer if it was ok to have a stick-on on the nosecone, as I was aware they weren't strictly legal.  The implication was that it was fine and certainly better than my existing alternative  

Dave

[Robert]

I've had a stick on front plate since 1995, no trouble and always passes the MOT even at the fastidious garage I use  

They did fail me last year for having one tyre 0.1 mm below the tread limit at the extremes of the 3/4 tread band tho'

Robert

[mr-rad]

I got done in the 80s for a stick on no plate on my Mini bonnet, the nice policeman said he needed to be in a helicopter to see it and wrote me a ticket. So did they ever become legal?

[james grayley]

they were banned recently due to the new speed cameras which read license plates from the front. Apparently the thinking was that they are non refelctive and therfore didn't meet the required standard. Motorbike doesn't need a front number plate though, so i ask all you bikers to drive through forward facing speed cameras with your two fingers held high.

rant over.

[Stuart]

AFAIK, it's nothing to do with speed cameras.  DVLA are seeking to slowly tighten up on things like change of ownership, cut & shuts, ringers etc.  So, to make a number plate you now have to be a registered number plate maker.  To buy a number plate you have to show proof of ownership/keepership to such a registered number plate maker.  But anyone can make white backgrounds with stick on numbers, therefore they can't be registered makers, therefore stick ons are now illegal.

But, as people have said, unless plod or MOT men are very sharp and connect that your plate might have been made after the new rules came in (last year, I think) then it won't be a problem.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

unless plod or MOT men are very sharp and connect that your plate might have been made after the new rules came in (last year, I think)

Aha, another advantage of the Q plate....  

I'll just go and sit quietly in the corner now.....

[Crash Override]

On the DVLA website it says that the stick on ones are illegal, but it also says that the front number plate should be mounted on the first vertical surface on the front of the car which on a Westfield would be the windscreen.

My front plate has been off since the first heavy rain we had last year as I went through a large puddle the bow wave pulled it off (sticky mounts so no damage) It is now sat in my boot box, I've passed 15 traffic cops on the road and pulled up first in the que at a set of lights with 2 bobbies stood looking at the car and none of them batted an eyelid to the fact there was no front number plate.

Malc.

[pete g]

had stick on since first built 1992 never had a problem

[CrashBangWallop]

My local autoshop said they were illegal but, would happily sell me a white strip of sticky-back vinyl and some stick-on characters I just needed to prove that the license/car was registered to me.

So they know I'd be breaking the law if I bought it off them.  Wouldn't they be aiding and abetting a known criminal?

[jamie]

me bro is a copper,  

i bought a half size No. plate to use in stead of not having one but he said to use an illegal plate was worse than not having one fitted, as you can say i just knocked it off and keep it bhind the chair.

jamie

[CrashBangWallop]

Crikey, Jamie.  What the hell have you got in the back of your Westie? (avatar)

[dac3774]

Just ordered one from clickity click

UK standard plate with Euro GB flag sign / border and www.wscc.co.uk text down the bottom!

Not sure how this cant be legal, given that my fixed plate is either always cracked or chipped or blown back under my nose cone.

bl**** laws, soon it wont even be legal to breathe......