Aberdeen Traffic Cops

Baggy · Post by **Baggy** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:52 am

Are having a bit of a clamp down on illegal plates.

Well...that's what they were telling me while I was sat in the back of their rangie for 15 mins last night.

Had the new plates in the garage ready to put on but hadn't bothered cos I'd got away with the ones that came on the car for 2.5 years...hey ho..

Trotted out all the excuses I could think of but to no avail....

£30 fine & new front plate scraped every speed bump on the way into work this morning.....hurumph...

On the up side they were quite nice about the fact that my tax disc had fallen off & lodged it's self just out of reach under the pax seat.

be careful out there people....

Baggy

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:08 pm

Lee (Caleebra) had the same a few weeks ago.....they used a ruler

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:12 pm

Lazydonkey wrote:.....they used a ruler

They must have learnt that trick from their girl friends,... arguing about the length of something.....

r055 · Post by **r055** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:34 pm

do you think its better to just leave the reg off?

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:56 pm

If you want to avoid the wrath of the ruler-toting BiB, keep your normal sized plate on

*edit* dictionary anyone?

r055 · Post by **r055** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:58 pm

think i'll need to raise my ride height before i refix my plate

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:16 pm

my plate is in the boot, due to an unfortunate skip episode

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:20 pm

Andy G wrote:my plate is in the boot, due to an unfortunate skip episode

I have heard of people loosing their number plate driving over speed humps, but who would be daft enough to try & drive over a skip

CSK_423 · Post by **CSK_423** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:49 pm

I'm currently running no front plate and I must have passed around 10-12 rozzers with no grief, a couple were traffs, I haven't seen so much pork aswell, either that or I'm looking out for it more.

I have a list of excuses if it does happen.....which will probably be tonight now that I've brought it up !!!!

Baggy : What was the style of your illegal plate just out of curiosity ???

offshorematt · Post by **offshorematt** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:49 pm

Dammit. I just ordered a 3/4 sized one this morning...

Needed something on the front for driving through France next month. Think after hearing that I'll just leave it off for now

tonyg · Post by **tonyg** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:50 pm

Ah well - that'll save from shelling out for the small number plate i was about to buy !!

(Typical tight fisted Aberdonian post!!)

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:44 pm

How come the Police can read small bike rear-only plates, but not 2/3 size ones on a Lotus?

I guess bonnet stick-on ones would solve the grounding issue.

Once again it is the law abiding citizen who has a licence, insures their car, pays their road tax and supplies their details to the DVLA (Police) that are the easy targets.
Nick a car, use false plates, no insurance, tax, licence and take your chance. They'll probably only be able to fine you about the same as Baggy's fine anyway.

I'm usually a big supporter of the traffic cops and the work they do, but to actually fine you for that seems OTT. There are plenty of real problems on the roads more deserving of their attention.

Rory (been watching too much 'Traffic Cops' on tv faction)

Baggy · Post by **Baggy** » Wed May 23, 2007 3:28 pm

According to DVLA website...fine could be up to £1000 & according to my new rangie driving friends if it's a private plate they can take it off of you and issue the car with a Q plate

I dunno about that though.....

I'm not sure that mine is a private plate...It came with the car, the reg matches the age.. & acciording to the V5 it looks likje it was first registered with the plate it has now...I'm not exactly sure how it works.

In answer to the what plates were on it question.... they were in hindsight pretty dodgey.
front & rear plate spacings were wrong was V111S** instead of V111 S**
front plate was 3/4 size (too small)
what I also didn't realise was that all plates should have postcode and name of number plate supplier and BS number written accross the bottom (mine didn't have anything).
also the plates on the car had little england euro style flags printed on the ends which I had covered over with eccosse stickers from autosave...all highly illegal.....

Sorted now except front one is now hanging off already.. will re-visit fixings tonight.

Are bonnet stick on ones illegal? I remember seeing somewhere that the plate had to be vertical but can't find it on the DVLA website.

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:08 pm

Front stick ons used to be OK for Jag E-Types or similar, but lord knows what the routine is nowadays.

I agree with Rory, the traffic cops have a job to do, but they can be a bunch of twats as regards number plates, and it ends up just looking like an easy source of income.

tut (legal number plate faction, it just aint worth it, and of course, N1 TUT and N3 TUT, fit the bill(sic))

skellyjohn · Post by **skellyjohn** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:20 pm

I got done by Aberdeen's finest doing a whopping 64mph in a 50 zone on clear dry roads at 4am. They couldn't have been any nicer if they tried and I ended up saying "thank you" as I got out their car!