I currently have a small (motorbike plate) on the front of my car.

I've just bought a personalised plate and need to obviously get some plates made up.

I intend to fit a FMIC and want to keep the airflow as good as possible but I get a few coppers point to it evey now and again.

What could be the worse the police can do?

Is it just a case of "change your plate or next time I'll book you"?

What can I expect if I do get booked?

Thanks in advance

 

Generally a £30 fine and if you repeat offend they can take your plate away from you.

 

The number plate is a specific size and typeface for a reason.

 

The £30 fine is the worst they can give you, and as for taking your plate away from you, that is only in the case of people who distort numbers and letters to make them look like something else, not for people who have differently sized plates.

he probably knows that already, thats why hes asking!

 

i have bike plates on front and rear of mine mate, had OB behind me loads and never once pulled for it, play dumb and 99% of em will just tell ya to change em.

 

It's illegal. Number plates are there to help identify a car/driver - eg. at the scene of a hit and run. - which is why they are of a specific size and typeface.

 

yea thats true, as long as yours are the right size etc you have nothing to worry about bike plates are easy to read or they wouldnt be legal on bikes

 

Try here guys
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regm...ritishstandard

 

Surely you not claiming that 'bike' plates are easier to read?

Bikes cannot accommodate larger plates safely, hence they are smaller.

 

Characters Group 1 Group 2
Height 89mm 79mm
Width (except the number 1) 64mm 57mm
Stroke 16mm 14mm
Side margin 25mm 11mm
Top & bottom margin 13mm 11mm
Space between characters 13mm 11mm
Space between groups 38mm 33mm

 

There is no such thing as a front bike plate.....

Take it what you mean is that you have square front and rear number plates with characters and spacings that comply with the legislation?

 

Bike plates are not smaller per-se.... they are a different shape however the characters are the same dimensions as car plates

 

Bike plates are smaller

 

The characters may be smaller e.g.

Character Height

64mm

Character Width

44mm

Character Stroke

10mm

Space between characters

10mm

Space between groups

30mm

Top, side & bottom margin

11mm

Space between vertical lines 13mm

 

Yeah but a car plate can legally be, say 220mm wide as opposed to the regulation 520mm, if it consists of say 2 characters
Much smaller than a bike plate!

 

nope not once did i say they were easier to read..just said they were easy to read! nor did i say i had a front bike plate, said i had bike plate on the front of my car!

 

talizman: lol. yes but that 2 character number plate would be smaller still on a bike plate

 

So you have a square yellow plate on the front of your car, cos thats what a bike plate is!

I can't believe the old bill have let you drive past with a yellow front plate?

 

Then surely it makes more sense to have a correctly sized number plate on a car?

 

ok i correct myself, bike style plate?? that abit better not all bikes have square plates may i remind you, mine front and back are normal car shape just a fair bit smaller

 

and a fair bit more illegal

 

yea i agree im not saying they are legal plates, thats the chance i decide to take because i like the look of them, every letter is easy to read and is in normal text. they cant be to bad tho beacuse ive never been pulled about em

 

what if a member of your family was knocked down in the street in a hit&run by someone using small plates and the police were unable to identify the culprit due to witnesses not being able to read the plate?

 

I got a £30 fine on the way back from Scotland for having the below plate. They said I was taking the ****. I just removed it completely and haven't been bothered since. If I do get stopped, I'll just say it fell off. An accident vs knowingly breaking the law

 

Exactly the same thing applies to a bike as they have no front plate either.

 

 

There is a big difference between a bike and a car! If it was feasable to have car size plates on a bike I'm sure the govt would require it.

 

the lettering size on bike plates is legal, no? it can be read as clear as day mate. the car has never been pulled for it and has passed many mot's with em. pretty sure number plate condiction is part of an mot?? has also been picked up in london on congestion charging cameras where you can clearly see the number plate, if someone couldnt read it they would need an eye test

 

You cannot read a smalller illegal typeface as far away as you can with legal typeface.

Then again you have some people driving around without front plates

 

i agree with most of what you say, you can say it about most things... have you ever broken the speed limit? how would you feel if a speeding scooby driver knocked down someone? we all have at some point bent or broken laws. all im saying is as im sure the plates are not legal, they are clear, can be seen very easily. loads of laws are broken on modded cars, some you wouldnt even know about..lights are best for that. how many people on the road these days use 100w headlight bulbs?? anyway rest assured mate they really aint that small..nothing like the pic above