Pressed plates! what the differemce?

By the looks of it they are not legal and most probably not worth the hassle! Just another reason to get pulled, been there done that and got the fines just stick with standard ones its so much easier!

 

Do you think the German scenesters run UK plates?
Old Italian plates look nice, tbh, mainly because they're completely f'ing illegible from more than 15 feet away...
...but the icing on the cake has to be Arabic.

 

From here

"The plate number, car colour and entry time of an estimated 600,000 cars per day are being kept by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) for five years."

All they need to do is run your plate and it'll tell them when and where you've been through a camera..

 

^^ interesting. I wonder if that is uk wide or just that force. Hopefully soon it will a live system, so if your car gets nicked and goes through an ANPR it can be picked up quickly indeed.

Whats the issue with them knowing where you have been?

 

yep will do cheers mate.

theres a guy over on mk2 owners who has then ill try grab a pick



think mine are the sme as these.

cheers

 

If you give the old bill an inch they'll take a mile, if they pulled you with those plates (which they will) no doubt they'd be checking tyres, tax, insurance etc too, just make sure your all ok on everything else!

 

the ebay link you put up says euro plates, and they are the ones I had on my old mk4 (look in the members rides bit for pics) they are french style font, not UK, most folk wont notice but if a copper wants to be picky its not right, plus a ll new plates must have a makers post code and be e marked etc,

 

Freedom?

 

As Karl says he ran those exact eBay plates on his MK4 and they looked shoite in my opinion as it was definitely French font, not German.
The ones Lex runs on his car (the pic shown above) however are British font pressed plates, a similar set of which I have ran on my Mk3 for well over a year and have had no attention for them whatsoever.
They are illegal. I don't contend this.

Dubmeister do legal sets of pressed plates, which are british font, correctly spaced, available with either a GB band or none at all, and have the manufacturers name along the bottom - these are the ONLY pressed plates in the UK to be legal.

Hope that clears it up for you...

 

yep as becca says dubmeister do do legal pressed plates . . . i have a set that are essentially exactly the same as their legal ones- uk font, right spacing right band etc but no makers name, but are supposedly "not legal" as they dont have the makers name . . . i havent run them yet as im waiting to get the paintwork sorted, but id have no worries about running them, as AFAIK cars made before 2001 dont have to comply with the new numberplate rules (the postcode of the makers name dont have to be displayed, but font still has to be right) dont quote me on that though

however, ive been running a set of plastic plates which have a VW crest where the GB badge should be and say "Passat GT" along the bottom where the makers name should be and have had no attention at all from the plod, have had traffic cars right behind me and driven through numerous roadside ANPR cameras, was involved in a big accident on the M20 that the police attended and checked everyones tyres etc, even had a VOSA roadside check done on the car and nobody said anything . . . in my eyes those plate sare less legal than the uk font pressed plates ive got. . .

 

” Do you know how to catch wild pigs?”

You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground.

The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how To forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

This is exactly what happens in Socialist (the UK) and Communist (China) states.

The government keeps pushing us toward communism/socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.

While we continually lose our freedoms- just a little at a time.

 

Ummmmmmmm right!

For me, there's not really that much bother with CCTV, ANPR, etc and in fact I can see its massive value, not so much for motoring offences but serious crime, where the criminals use the roads and can be tracked etc or found so much easier/quicker.

My concern is that the government or public bodies in general, have a bit of a history of not looking after the data properly. I've been both sides (worked for NHS) and yeah there's training, schemes to try secure data but at the end of the day a pretty normal working person within the public service has access to a lot of personal data and its their individual call to look after it. To errrr is human, so its simply not possible to eliminate the data loss, just reduce its likelihood.

So I guess that's the debate here.

 

i couldnt care if they know where ive driven.... if anything it will just make them happy as they realise how much bloody tax I will have paid on the fuel....

 

Ef all wrong with those plates if you ask me

 

In spite of what you may be lead to believe CCTV is of very little benefit with regard to serious crime.
I can only speak for what happens in Bristol but in my experience very few convictions are brought about from CCTV evidence with the exception of shoplifting.
However on a slight tangent the offenders for a double shooting were tracked down by tracing ALL mobile phone calls made along the route that the offenders were known to travel.

Big brother is not only watching you he's listening too

 

I was bloody impressed with the number of wrong'uns Kent old bill managed to nick when I was working with them just from ANPR hits. Even if the original hit proved to be wrong - like they'd pinged up for no tax, but had just bought some - they were generally up to no good in some way shape or form.

If it was no tax/insurance/MOT then they were booted out of their car there and then and it was taken away.

We got some work out of it too, as did virtually every other agency there on the day!

 

thats pretty much the underlying use of it from the tv series police inceptors on Five.
that criminals use cars to get about, they generally don't bother with being legal, then they get caught.

Caught for motoring offences though no for being dirty criminals

 

Those lads were there on one of the jobs I did in Ashford. Kent and Essex Police have been working together quite a lot on things lately.

They had 2 or 3 cars down for it - an Impreza and an Evo. Kent parked two vans up one at each end of a stretch of dual carriageway, then any time someone set off the system, Essex went after them and brought them to a car park where every man and his dog set about the car/occupants to see if they could be done for anything!!!

 

I've been trying (with little success) to tell people for years that the Police catch a lot of REAL CRIMINALS through routine traffic stops but it falls on deaf ears

 

Routine targeted stops I can believe filter out quite a lot of criminal activity.

The best you'll get with a kid with a half-decent Mk2 Golf is a bit of weed and that's about it. A beater of a Mondeo with a bumper hanging off and some skinheads inside is an entirely different matter.