Blagging the bacon..

[visionz]

How many of you use german metal plates and get away with it.. managed to blag the bacon into letting you off? basicly just interested in the opinion of coppers on metal plates.. i seem to be getting away fine with "D" branded normal plates but want somthing a little better..

[hoshy]

are metal plates illegal?

[stuartgallafant]

talk to miniblob, he's got a proper german style plate. looks really good too

[dark_sounds]

ive got german plates sat here... not worth putting them on my shitter. and i have no brackets yet . ... as for the plod,,, people get away wit everything here... ive seen loads of e36/346 bmws with the old skool black plates.

[stuartgallafant]

i'd give it a go if i could afford to buy a decent set!

[visionz]

they're pretty pathetic round my area dark.. "you have dirt on your number plate.. 30 quid fine.." etc. etc. spose i could just put them on till i get stoped then play stupid.. "uuuuh what" "metal?" ;)

[stuartgallafant]

lol!! "you know what officer, i thought they felt different!!"

where do you live then visionz? just so i know to be on my behaviour if i drive through there

[visionz]

I'm in the absolute bollox seaside town known as Weymouth the bacon have nothing better to do here. so so sad

[dark_sounds]

good thing about living in a dump like croydon,,, theres some REAL criminals who take the attention

[stuartgallafant]

lol! they still like giving people stick round here though!!!

[jon_pure_british]

sorry officer i didnt realise my brake / headlamp / tyre / my driving / your face, was that bad, ill fix it in the morn!

I usualy get away with alot

[William]

Everything about my German plates is illegal and I have driven a lot at home (Suffolk), uni (Gloucestershire) and London, and not been given a second look. Admitedly its only been a couple of months but I dont think most police even realise you're not driving a German car, let alone think about pulling you for it!

[jon_pure_british]

where can i get german style plates from then?

[William]

http://www.dubmeister.co.uk

[jon_pure_british]

the link doesnt work matey, it comes up with a DJ search engine or something

[William]

sorry mate, wasn't sure on the .co.uk/.com thing. the link works now but i think the site is actually down for abit. try again later

[jon_pure_british]

cheers mate

jon

[ed325i]

Or www.germanplates.com they do plates for uk use.

ED

[visionz]

yeah dubmeister was where i was planning on getting them from.. and ur probably right william.. they are too stupid to realise.. i've askid coppers before "what is illegal about this plate?" showing them a picure of it.. "erm.. its the wrong size?" my reply "it's not to scale" bacons reply "i knew that" lol.. noobs

[William]

"it's not to scale" bacons reply "i knew that" lol.. noobs

hahaha, brilliant

[William]

BTW, i can highly recommend dubmeister, plates are of exceptional quality, they supply whatever you want - surrounds, plaquettes,banded,unbanded, etc, and the service is amazing. I ordered mine at 3ish in the afternoon on a Monday and received them first thing on Wednesday morning, all made up to my specs.

Very nice plates and worth the premium over the other companies

[visionz]

i've been pulled so many times i know all the shite that comes out of their mouths eg. "did you know it was an offence to set off on a journey that you do not have the petrol to complete" LOL! and "it's an offence to drive a motor vehicle with different coloured body panels" and finaly.. I dont know if you have seen the under bonnet storage compartment of a R5 GT Turbo but some copper tried telling me that it was illegal to carry bottles of water/andti freeze under there.. and ilegal for my washer fluid to be under the minimum mark.. oooo yes.. they're well trained round my area.. i was thinking maybe instead of employing humans and paying them rediculous amounts of money (which coppers get) they should just go to Monkey World and rent some chimps n' pay them with bannanas? .. ok i'm done.. glad i got that all out

[stuartgallafant]

the filth are f*cking pathetic really!!! they'll just pull you over for the sake of it, elaise you've done f*ck all wrong, then make up some bullsh*t and give you a warning! TOSSERS!!!

[cliffybabe]

good thing about living in a dump like croydon,,, theres some REAL criminals who take the attention

U say that but i still get pulled on suspicion of being suspicious

[Morat]

The only time I got pulled was for my tax being out of date by 6 weeks. Oops.
I had a pretty good idea it was coming, went past 3 volvos and then a van covered in cameras and arials that had some live link into the DVLA. Then past another volvo (who pulled out to follow me) and finally a pair of motorbikes further ahead incase I tried to make a run for it in my (then) 318 touring.

Busted

Copper was fine, the DVLA opened the bidding with "we'll settle out of court for £30". I snapped their arm off. That was a trial run for them. If they start doing it on a regular basis I'm sure there will be some nasty £1k fines flying around.....

[visionz]

Lucky man.. lol.. aint the max fine sommet like 6k?

[appletree]

talkin of police having nothing better to do, when i was 15 i was pulling a wheelie down the path on my mountain bike, no one about now cars nothing. a copper came past an pulled over next to me. shouted me over an said he was going to give me a warning for riding without due care and attention!!!

[visionz]

hahaha.. similar thing happened to me when i was bout 16.. i got pulled by a police car for looking suspicious on a skateboard.. <-- indeed

[Cotty]

Copper was fine, the DVLA opened the bidding with "we'll settle out of court for £30". I snapped their arm off.

too right you did, thats a stupid fine. Not exactly a deterent is it

[dark_sounds]

good thing about living in a dump like croydon,,, theres some REAL criminals who take the attention

U say that but i still get pulled on suspicion of being suspicious

a) cos your often driving with your possy.... hard men!
b) cos you look 14
c) your in a good part of croydon
d) your names neal
e) its all that chrome
f) you cant drive



j/k mate

[visionz]

lol! heer mee now mon!

[miniblob]

I got my plates from dubmeister and i'm well happy with them!!

I've covered about 3k with them on and seen plenty of bacon and not been pulled!! Mispaced plate too!!

Mostly drive round Croydon and Slough (and m'ways between!)

http://www.dnrvinyl.co.uk/325touring/

[stuartgallafant]

U say that but i still get pulled on suspicion of being suspicious

LOL!!! you have to laugh really dont you!! if he had said that to me, i would of laughed in his bacon looking face!!!!!!

[cliffybabe]

U say that but i still get pulled on suspicion of being suspicious

LOL!!! you have to laugh really dont you!! if he had said that to me, i would of laughed in his bacon looking face!!!!!!

my answer to the reason they pulled me was say it again fast lol

[stuartgallafant]

your a cocky son-of-a-bitch!!!