[Shafz]

Just had this email from MYSHOWPLATES.COM

Limited time left to purchase your Showplates

You may have seen in the press that from 1st November 2008 it will become an offence to sell or manufacture registration plates that do not conform to the latest British Standards and design criteria laid down by the DVLA.

Consequently the ability to purchase Showplates displaying non-legal fonts/spacing/images/slogans etc will be outlawed.

As a result, My Showplates can only supply Showplates until 30th October 2008.

With this date looming and Christmas fast approaching we wanted to give you as much notice as possible to enable you to place your orders and avoid any disappointment.

seems like the Police/DVLA have had enough now!

 

[Nasty]

38 sets of 'showplates' on order now :rofl:

 

[BerTo]

can understand it though, as seen as you dont need any V5 etc to get any plate made up... Tis a good idea in a way, but also a kick to the balls for the genuine people

 

[davidkp]

stock up on W4NKER plates then

and i want a davidkp one

 

[Drake]

Is it possible to get legal number plates from that website? Or is there a better place?

 

[BerTo]

its best to go through the proper places that ask for your v5 and the likes.. its a bit of an iffy area with the police

 

[Shafz]

Is it possible to get legal number plates from that website? Or is there a better place?

as berto has mentioned

LEGALLY the plate has to have the plate makers postcode at the bottom

 

[Nasty]

The plates I got from Halfrauds have NO markings on them whatsoever :slap:

 

[BerTo]

The plates I got from Halfrauds have NO markings on them whatsoever :slap:

neither do mine, i know its supposed to have the name address and Postcode as shafz says, but some will put anything you want there...

 

[Shafz]

 

[samsexpress]

tbh i agree, where i work we have no end of cars with them on for MOT and some are that bad they cant be read from 10 ft away! I.e they have a logo behind the letters or in that much of an italic they are stupid!

 

[BerTo]

TBH tehy really dont seem to care that much about the logo at teh side... which is stupid really when they do, its not like its harming anyone...

Anyway shouldn't you be working

 

[Light Sabre]

The plates I got from Halfrauds have NO markings on them whatsoever :slap:

Mine do. It is engraved very faintly but when you look closely you can see it.

On this subject though, I recently got pulled for mine and although I got away with a warning and the note that DVLA are cracking down with the police enforcing the law. A few weeks after the incident, I got a letter from DVLA saying that I had 21 days to reply and to divulge where I got the plates from, so this is probably been widespread and is probably why companies like fancy plates and others have been hit now and are being targeted.

 

[BerTo]

cant make you tell them though

 

[Shafz]

blame it on George LMFAO

 

[andylew0]

Ebay will still sell them

 

[Light Sabre]

cant make you tell them though

yes they can and if you refuse then they can withdraw your plates and you then have to fork out for a new set before you can drive the car including the transfer fees.

 

[BerTo]

hmmmmmmm, im betting they wouldn't though, that could cause a world of problems for em...

IMO as long as the OCR cameras can read em then whats the problem.... (well apart from cloning...)

I mean the european ones are more lax... and TBH if the OCR cameras can't read different fonts then im sorry but they are liars... If it can read a plate upto 2miles away then it can tell the diff between italic, blod and other fonts...

Just another thing the government wanna control..

Oh and there so called new super plates with the Chip in them that has all the info stored on it and supposedly can tell when its been removed or tampered with, and is UNCRACKABLE, Bollocks, didn't they say that bout Chip & pin and the oyster card...

We all know how that went...

Anything can be copied or cracked..

 

[Sarah1410]

Just had this email from MYSHOWPLATES.COM




seems like the Police/DVLA have had enough now!

Typical! One of the boys i know makes show plates and other bits n bobs. Pretty sure his don't go throught the DVLA! It was nice and easy going down the road for a new set when i wanted them! Doubt that will be happening anymore then :no:

 

[Drake]

Anything can be copied or cracked..

I agree with you, but it's mainly the level of difficulty at the moment its fairly easy to clone cars (plates VIN's etc..) They are just trying to make it alot more difficult to do it, we all know its not going to stop the problem but it's likely there will be a reduction.