E30 Zone

i have pressed plates on my car ..are they legal..the have no postcode etc on em..just literally the reg thats it

haha mate read "stopped by the police"

i was ..thats what made me ask ha ha..so i take it its a no then?

How many times is the going to be asked?

The search function is your friend.

apparently it is illegal but then Ive heard that as long as it has the reflective surface its legal honestly i dont have a clue mate!

ive got spare original plates but the pressed were fitted when i got the car...i kinda like em but if theyre illegal ill get rid

If they are reflective with the Gb crest on and are the correct style of lettering then yes they are legal but if they are the German variation they are illegal and get bum raped by the plod.

yes they are reflective and do have a gb european stars thing on it on left hand side..so theyre legal then?

e30mtec wrote:yes they are reflective and do have a gb european stars thing on it on left hand side..so theyre legal then?

Are the letters and numbers that show the registration the correct type of so then yes

I was under the impression that they needed the postcode of the plate maker engraved/printed on the lower edge to be 100% legal...

I'm looking at getting some legal pressed plates made for mine but the sending of documents etc. is a pain in the backside!

yeah standard font i beleive..gutted...kinda lookin forward to havin aan illegal mod

Ilkorin wrote:I was under the impression that they needed the postcode of the plate maker engraved/printed on the lower edge to be 100% legal...

I'm looking at getting some legal pressed plates made for mine but the sending of documents etc. is a pain in the backside!

They are supposed have yes but on a car so old it can get over looked

mine are legal

magpie wrote:mine are legal

pretty much the same as mine...

then contest if they are the same as mine.

bought from a v-dub site,sorry i don't have the link but some one might post it.

dubmeister is the site that sells the legal plates...

Ilkorin wrote:dubmeister is the site that sells the legal plates...

that's the one

We had a customer that got stopped with the uk legal pressed plates like the ones on Magpies and the bloke got tugged for them. I can't quite remember the full story but I think it came down to the bs number was printed on the face of the plate and not etched or something like that. He was well pi$$ed of when he came down to our garage for our opinion as we had MOT'd it and saw my non legal pressed plates on my car. When he told me of his £60 fine I was rather tempted to take mine off. I will get round to it one day....

I used to have German style plates. Took them off and replaced them with pressed plates in UK font, colours, reltectivity etc etc and never had a problem. Plateman sorted mine.

Hi buddy,
I've got the german style pressed plates with the"D"symbol on the side!!!!!!in my opinion they look real good-ive got a set of "legal"gb plates in the boot just in case the fuzz pull me over!!!

Want do you thin????

id be careful the fuzz are wising up to these "proper plate in boot"techniques.

burtcocain wrote:Hi buddy,
I've got the german style pressed plates with the"D"symbol on the side!!!!!!in my opinion they look real good-ive got a set of "legal"gb plates in the boot just in case the fuzz pull me over!!!

Want do you thin????

I reckon you must have £60 going spare!

E30's can get away with minor deviations from what are 'legal' plates, because they were all registered and fitted with plates before September 2001, when the new regs came into force.
Although the new regs apply to all replacement plates, the Police aren't going to get involved into proving exactly when your current plates were fitted.

I have pressed plates in german font with the eu badge and EU letters rather than D or GB as its a compromise. I was never stopped but have changed them now anyway as I decided it was getting bit council... My dads an mot tester and he measured the width/height of the german font and spacing etc and it's pretty much same as ours just with the tails on like 1 as opposed to our l. He couldn't see a reason why they,d fail an mot as they are perfectly readable with correct spacing, badge and reflective ess. Then again we all know what the plod are like....

I had my legal plates in the boot and told the copper but he wasn't having none of it

Kemix wrote:I had my legal plates in the boot and told the copper but he wasn't having none of it

There not going to are they as they know its bullshit come on some people think the police are stupid but they arnt that stupid.

Im not going to post on this anymore now 2 threads about the same thing i cant keep track of which one im looking at

yeah, ive been stopped by the police and a vosa check point, the police wanted to shaft me for them but the vosa boys said they was happy with them as they were reflective and clear and readable

i didn't get a fine or a VRN

this was in my old polo coupe btw

I've gotnpressed plates on my cabbie and to make it worse my rears are White too with "D" at the side . Ive been pulled twice in 6 months for it and I just said I just bought the car an the logbook hasn't cone through so I can't change them seem to work for me!