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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:02 pm

Has anybody had trouble with the law regarding number plate messages?. I got pulled the other night for it and they did'nt even notice the dodgy font?

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And what cheeky messages have you got on yours? :twisted:
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:06 pm

I have the hilarious "autobedrijf touring" on my plate, always gets a laugh.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:07 pm

Nice legal number plates thank you. No italics here nor any disrespectful comments.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:10 pm

I saw one yesterday that said "more boost than cadbury's" on front and something like "fat blokes are harder to kidnap" on the back :mad:
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:12 pm

I saw a Shelby 500 in Regent Street the other night that had "Caution Rear Wheel Steer" winkeye
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:13 pm

thats Pete1979's Dave , all true apparently.

my C2 has "alpina C2 2.7 " on it, but those will be replaced with some sytner plates asap.

never been a slogan kinda guy TBH, but hell, whatever floats your boat huh :thumb:
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:13 pm

Messages on numberplates are so, so sad. :(
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:15 pm

I just have the BMW Logo which I want to remove to put a plate with GB on it...
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:16 pm

Theo325 wrote:Messages on numberplates are so, so sad. :(
+1. This should be left to the corsa/saxo brigade that everyone's so quick to flame. Not on a BMW that's supposed to be a classy motor.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:19 pm

To be fair, messages are fine as long as you have the go to match the show...

If your car says you go sideways, do it...

If your car says you have more boost than Cadbury's, try not to let your car melt...
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:19 pm

Mtech327 wrote: And what cheeky messages have you got on yours? :twisted:
I saw you parked up at Santa Pod, and also saw a group of people pointing and laughing at your number plates. As in laughing at you, not with you. :D

How many Alpina scripts, badges etc do you have littering your car? They're stuck to the dashboard, parcel shelf and all sorts of other random places if I remember correctly?
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:27 pm

ste wrote:
Mtech327 wrote: And what cheeky messages have you got on yours? :twisted:
I saw you parked up at Santa Pod, and also saw a group of people pointing and laughing at your number plates. As in laughing at you, not with you. :D

How many Alpina scripts, badges etc do you have littering your car? They're stuck to the dashboard, parcel shelf and all sorts of other random places if I remember correctly?
Easy Ste, maybe he has alzheimers ? :)
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:28 pm

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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:29 pm

A friend of mine gave me a job lot of different Alpina decals and I got in a Alpina FRENZY, came to my senses and taken most of them off!!

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Seems the number plate messages are a bit Marmite :D :cry:
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:44 pm

would there be any issues with putting www.e30zone.net there?

mine currently has the supplying dealers plates :D but may need replacing this year
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:47 pm

Just slightly off topic. Dobbie I've had the rear window dealership sticker replaced and it looks spiffing.
Just as it came from the dealer 20 years ago. :D
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:48 pm

Seems the number plate messages are a bit Marmite
Not really, some people actually like Marmite.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:55 pm

Not really, some people actually like Marmite.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:56 pm

I bought an Orion Ghia off some south coast chav, and it had motorsport vinals down the sides and on the plates it had "LAD". Oh the shame. I did tape over it for a time, but that feel off, along with several other key components of the car.
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I bought an Orion Ghia
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:59 pm

Theo, the first day i had it your brother managed to accidentally scratch "shit" on the boot for me. He was right to do so. Did you ever see my custard yellow metro?
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:01 pm

My brother bought an E36 325i from a post-op transexual bloke. It had "Track Day Queen" on the plates. He'll get stick for ever for that to be honest. :D
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:04 pm

I remember that Orion, my brothers personalisation of the paintwork was most apt.

Didn't see the metro though, another chapter in your dubious car history :o
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:09 pm

The metro was class but utterly shite at the same time. It was a 1275 GTA with Turdo alloys and bodykit all painted retard yellow. But it was blinding quick round corners. Sold it for £50 to a fat twunt who used it for hot boxing.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:18 pm

Sounds like a good laugh, there is definietly something very pleasing about worthless cars. My mate had a 993cc nova which we got to the dizzy heights of 115mph (indicated, probably more like 70) on a steep section of downhill dual carriageway, you could apply a large amount of steering lock and it wouldn't change direction at all. One of the scariest car's i've ever been in, but also probably the slowest.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:35 pm

Mtech327 wrote:
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I think if I was going to have anything on my numberplate I'd try to make sure it was spelt and punctuated properly so that I didn't look like even more of a chav than I did already.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:42 pm

Ha, good point!
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:45 pm

Saw a chavved up Saab with a sump worrying ride height once, the message on the plate was "Lower than your gran's nipples" :P
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:47 pm

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Theo325 wrote:Sounds like a good laugh, there is definietly something very pleasing about worthless cars. My mate had a 993cc nova which we got to the dizzy heights of 115mph (indicated, probably more like 70) on a steep section of downhill dual carriageway, you could apply a large amount of steering lock and it wouldn't change direction at all. One of the scariest car's i've ever been in, but also probably the slowest.
I had a 1986 Nissan Micra for a bit before I got the touring. Every now and then the steering lock would come on while I was driving it, and would only come off if i steered sharply to the left. Not fun doing 60mph done skinny country lanes I can tell you!
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:14 pm

Bloody hell! Must have led to a few unplanned changes of underwear. I fecked the steering coulping bush on my car the otherday after a trackday, could only really turn right due to the way it had disintergrated. Was a long route home.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:42 pm

I used to have 'I'm speeding 'cos I'm touching cloth'.

As an aside - haven't these bastard coppers got ANYTHING better to do?? As far as I'm concerned. 'The Bill' is a rough approximation of what the law should be about but seems totally divorced from reality.
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:33 pm

dobbie82 wrote:would there be any issues with putting www.e30zone.net there?

mine currently has the supplying dealers plates :D but may need replacing this year
I have www.e30zone.net on my number plates. :D
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:02 pm

my mate had some made for his dad and had "follow me for some dogging" put on them and his dad still hasent noticed them :D
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:41 pm

bazcoupe wrote:my mate had some made for his dad and had "follow me for some dogging" put on them and his dad still hasent noticed them :D
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