Crazy About Mini's
Posted 29 January 2016 - 12:56 PM
but how would anyone know?
Exactly! How is an mot tester supposed to know when a number plate was made?
As long as you keep to legal font, standard spacing and minimal/standard looking slogans (I just have 84 mini 25 on mine as I get pissed off with people/testers thinking its an 83) no one is ever going to notice the lack of postcode/plate maker.
Now if you do the 90's thing of italic lettering, messing around with the spacing or replicating foreign number plates then your asking for trouble.
Crazy About Mini's
Posted 31 January 2016 - 12:21 AM
I see a lot of blatantly illegal plates on various posemobiles, some of which seem to be old enough to need an MOT. It seems that enforcement is not working. Unfortunately a Mini driver is seemingly more likely to be noticed and caught than some antisocial moron in a BMW X5.
I don't condone law breaking, but sometimes the law is an ass, as they say, and in this case if the new plate seems to be original, the police are not going to waste time, at taxpayers expense, in trying to prove that it is not.
But the law regarding number plates sets a somewhat worrying precedent. If a replacement item has to comply with current laws, what about other bits of the Mini or other classic car? So far there is not a problem, in the UK at least, but the situation needs to be watched. Look what happened in parts of Europe, when Mercedes lobbied governments to ban modifications to classic cars...
Up Into Fourth
Posted 31 January 2016 - 04:05 PM
These plates have bigger letters, its not as simple as you'd think. Technically by law you can use them until they are broken etc but only the original ones, I doubt anyone would know or care plus the big digits look great imo!
MOT stations now have to measure letters, gaps, etc ... it could be a fail ...
It's easy to find out what the proper height is .. and probably get customplates or fancyplates to use the correct size ...
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