Yippeee!!

The old girl sailed through the mot today ,only one thing that could have failed her was my 'kernow' stickers on both number plates .Anyhows the nice man just ripped em off.... result...pass. Apparently tis quite a hefty fine to stick anything on yer plates...as pic shows. Just a tip incase any of you chaps have any.....

While it has always been an offence to sod around in any way with number plates (spacing, punctuation, stickers, etc, etc) it is a recent change that means that MOT centres are looking for this too.

On a number plate, you are only allowed to display:
- Blue rectangle with Euro symbol with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Cross of St George flag with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Union Flag with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Scottish Saltaire flag with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Red Dragon flag with GB letters
- The name and postcode of the number plate supplier/manufacturer
Anything else is not allowed (eg Football clubs, other flags, car badges, etc)

And you are not allowed:
- To use any fonts other than the two standard approved fonts
- Stylised letters and/or figures such as italics
- Number plate fixing bolts that alter the appearance of the letters and/or numbers
- To play about with the spacing

The penalties:
- A fine of up to £1,000
- The registration mark may be WITHDRAWN
- The vehicle may FAIL the MOT test

Cheers

Rog

rriggs said:

While it has always been an offence to sod around in any way with number plates (spacing, punctuation, stickers, etc, etc) it is a recent change that means that MOT centres are looking for this too.

On a number plate, you are only allowed to display:
- Blue rectangle with Euro symbol with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Cross of St George flag with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Union Flag with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Scottish Saltaire flag with GB letters
- Blue rectangle with Red Dragon flag with GB letters
- The name and postcode of the number plate supplier/manufacturer
Anything else is not allowed.

And you are not allowed:
- To use any fonts other than the two standard approved fonts
- Stylised letters and/or figures such as italics
- Number plate fixing bolts that alter the appearance of the letters and/or numbers
- To play about with the spacing

The penalties:
- A fine of up to £1,000
- The registration mark may be WITHDRAWN
- The vehicle may FAIL the MOT test

Cheers

Rog

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Couldn't ave put it better meself Rog . .. . . .. .
It will fail the test . .. . .

nigel8 said:

Couldn't ave put it better meself Rog . .. . . .. .
It will fail the test . .. . .

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It MAY fail the test...

As with a lot of these things it can depend on who you get actually doing the test. Some will be more thorough than others.

Cheers

Rog