Can anyone tell me plese the legalities of having 'D' on the plates for my euro look 94 coupe. I've been told that the police don't look kindly on having the D on a uk registered car.

Thanks.

Illegal font isnit. People get away with it but I'd save 'em for shows.

If you mean UK font just with a D instead of GB, well it's still illegal unfortunately:

https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates...and-identifiers

Flags and national identifying letters

You can display one of the following flags with identifying letters on the left-hand side of the number plate:

Union Flag

Cross of St George

Cross of St Andrew (also known as the Saltire)

Red Dragon of Wales

The letters, or national identifiers, you can have are:

GREAT BRITAIN, Great Britain or GB

UNITED KINGDOM, United Kingdom or UK

CYMRU, Cymru, CYM or Cym

ENGLAND, England, ENG, Eng

SCOTLAND, Scotland, SCO or Sco

WALES or Wales

Illegal font isnit. People get away with it but I'd save 'em for shows.

If you mean UK font just with a D instead of GB, well it's still illegal unfortunately:

https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates...and-identifiers

Flags and national identifying letters

You can display one of the following flags with identifying letters on the left-hand side of the number plate:

Union Flag

Cross of St George

Cross of St Andrew (also known as the Saltire)

Red Dragon of Wales

The letters, or national identifiers, you can have are:

GREAT BRITAIN, Great Britain or GB

UNITED KINGDOM, United Kingdom or UK

CYMRU, Cymru, CYM or Cym

ENGLAND, England, ENG, Eng

SCOTLAND, Scotland, SCO or Sco

WALES or Wales

We really do have some irrelevant ass laws here.

We really do have some irrelevant ass laws here.

Yep it sucks, but I've got pressed plates on my coupe, german font with euro badge, been on about 10 months and police been behind me and i aint been pulled over, infact 1 followed me into tesco petrol station to tell me my tyre was a bit flat but thats what i was going there for to pump it up lol:) obviously they wont pass mot so thats why I've kept the old ones

Thanks alot for the advise. The onea I have are pressed look sweet on the car but mot due ill keep them off til after that date

Thanks alot for the advise. The onea I have are pressed look sweet on the car but mot due ill keep them off til after that date

Are they UK Font?

If there UK spec pressed plates then there is no MOT issue.

I got pulled the other night for mine. apparently they have to have bs kite mark, makers details on and be of the correct manufacture (i.e plastic with correct font). Looking round the carpark at work earlier tho and many didnt have the kitemark or makers details on.

needless to say i haven't changed them over.

My plates are standard font nothing special and standard spacing so hopefully be ok :)

Illegal font isnit. People get away with it but I'd save 'em for shows.

If you mean UK font just with a D instead of GB, well it's still illegal unfortunately:

https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates...and-identifiers

Flags and national identifying letters

You can display one of the following flags with identifying letters on the left-hand side of the number plate:

Union Flag

Cross of St George

Cross of St Andrew (also known as the Saltire)

Red Dragon of Wales

The letters, or national identifiers, you can have are:

GREAT BRITAIN, Great Britain or GB

UNITED KINGDOM, United Kingdom or UK

CYMRU, Cymru, CYM or Cym

ENGLAND, England, ENG, Eng

SCOTLAND, Scotland, SCO or Sco

WALES or Wales

We really do have some irrelevant ass laws here.

We do don't we! Why can't my passport just say I'm from germany when I'm not as well!

It's hardly irrelevant, you can't have a marker saying your cars from germany when it's not.

I got pulled the other night for mine. apparently they have to have bs kite mark, makers details on and be of the correct manufacture (i.e plastic with correct font). Looking round the carpark at work earlier tho and many didnt have the kitemark or makers details on.

needless to say i haven't changed them over.

Should be BS number (not mark), makers postcode, be correct UK font and spacing.

Material of manufacture is irrelevant as I'm yet to see a law that states they should be plastic.

Police after my crash commented on the fact my metal plate was bent but still readable (after they retrieved it central reservation) from the rather than being in a hundred shattered pieces.

why fit german plates to a spanish car?

I got pulled the other night for mine. apparently they have to have bs kite mark, makers details on and be of the correct manufacture (i.e plastic with correct font). Looking round the carpark at work earlier tho and many didnt have the kitemark or makers details on.

needless to say i haven't changed them over.

Should be BS number (not mark), makers postcode, be correct UK font and spacing.

Material of manufacture is irrelevant as I'm yet to see a law that states they should be plastic.

Police after my crash commented on the fact my metal plate was bent but still readable rather than being in a hundred shattered pieces.

They must be made of a retroreflective material... somethings thats reflective at time of production, not painted in reflective paint.

Where does it say that?

Dubmeister plates have full BS numbers and are made of metal

We really do have some irrelevant ass laws here.

This is a law that is actually applied due to our membership in the EU. All EU zone countries have this law. Isn't one objective of this law to aid the identification of the origin of a vehicle to foreign police forces. Driving frequently in EU I can see the reason behind such a law.

DVLA License Plate Leaflet

DVLA Guidelines on HOW they should be displayed

I got pulled the other night for mine. apparently they have to have bs kite mark, makers details on and be of the correct manufacture (i.e plastic with correct font). Looking round the carpark at work earlier tho and many didnt have the kitemark or makers details on.

needless to say i haven't changed them over.

To the best of my knowledge, it's only since 2001 that you've got to have the maker's details on a plate and the new font. Before this, there wasn't a set font style or size for number plates, but they're variations on a theme. Some had round numbers, some had an open-topped 4, and the rest (as I've got) had a slightly wider version of the post-2001 font.

In reality Police are unlikely to get pissy about it on an older car unless the characters on the number plate are obviously not to UK spec or sized/spaced correctly. German plates are entirely the wrong font, so they won't pass. But you shouldn't have to conform to the rest of the requirements - number plate manufacturers aren't supposed to make them in the old font, so they have to be supplied as show plates and therefore don't have the details on them. But pre-2001 cars could have number plates made before 2001, when the wider font and lack of manufacturer details wasn't a legal requirement.

My number plates were made last year, sold to me as "show plates", but they're 100% legal for me to use the Polo and it's passed a (very picky) MOT with them fitted. If I had an identical set made for my wife's Z4, then they'd be an MOT fail. Hers has to have the new font, maker's details etc, because it's a 2003 car.

Should be BS number (not mark), makers postcode, be correct UK font and spacing.

Material of manufacture is irrelevant as I'm yet to see a law that states they should be plastic.

Yep, as far as I'm aware there's no problem with reflective metal plates as long as they conform to the latest regs.

We really do have some irrelevant ass laws here.

This is a law that is actually applied due to our membership in the EU. All EU zone countries have this law. Isn't one objective of this law to aid the identification of the origin of a vehicle to foreign police forces. Driving frequently in EU I can see the reason behind such a law.

This ^^

I remember reading that a group of Brits drove out to a show in Germany with fake German plates fitted, including the emissions/safety test and region stickers between the two sets of characters. Basically that's equivalent to driving around in the UK on a forged MOT certificate and tax disc.

I've never seen the appeal, personally. You can't buy right hand drive cars in Germany, and the Polo was made in Spain. It's such an easy thing to stay legal and not attract attention with number plates, German ones have always seemed like more of a pain in the arse than they're worth.