Not sure about this

Guess he had his reasons though :lol:

 

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/largepic.asp?i=1818888&noPics=9&make=NISSAN&model=300ZX&imgsrv=1&current=3

I don't much like that........

 

........but then I have never liked the sticker type plates that sometimes adorned the front of E-types and MGBs. A front numberplate often spoils the lines of a car but sticking one on the paintwork just makes it worse!!

 

Richard:sailor:

Do like the front end looks like an escort front bumper or is it a standard 99 spec with additional lip?..............Si where are you:detective:

Escort Racing Front bumper. Very suprised to see one in the UK.

As above. Very odd though. Whilst the guy shows taste in the bumper department, he's fitted those purile VIPER WINGS!! ARGH!! :hurl:

Surely thats a 99 Spec with a blended front lip???!

Surely thats a 99 Spec with a blended front lip???!

 

Escort racing front bumper!

not keen on anything on that car apart from the front bumper which is ruined by all that chicken wire! ive just been informed that if our cars are an import example we can use a smaller plate with 2.5" letters and slightly different spacing, which would be road legal. anyone else ever heard of that? i really dislike the placement of my plate it just looks like an after thought.

ive just been informed that if our cars are an import example we can use a smaller plate with 2.5" letters and slightly different spacing, which would be road legal. anyone else ever heard of that?

 

Partly correct, partly incorrect. Whilst there is a rule allowing you to fit different sized licence plates to cars that are not capable of fitting correct sized number plates, then this is allowed. Since the Z32 can take the standard UK plate without any modification, this rule does not apply.

 

I fitted a 3/4 sized plate. Whilst it's not strictly legal, I've never been pulled over for it in the 6 years I've owned my car. It's perfectly readable (plain font, not nasty colours/borders/graphics) and isn't fitted to some chaved up motor that the police can find any excuse to pull over.

 

Partly correct, partly incorrect. Whilst there is a rule allowing you to fit different sized licence plates to cars that are not capable of fitting correct sized number plates, then this is allowed. Since the Z32 can take the standard UK plate without any modification, this rule does not apply.

 

I fitted a 3/4 sized plate. Whilst it's not strictly legal, I've never been pulled over for it in the 6 years I've owned my car. It's perfectly readable (plain font, not nasty colours/borders/graphics) and isn't fitted to some chaved up motor that the police can find any excuse to pull over.

 

 

you need to bring that zed over ive never seen it lol...

I'm taking it to France this weekend!

I've recieved a fine for that size lettering in February on my Supra, which i'm currently arguing with the police about.

 

Here is some guidance you may find useful

 

Thank you for your email received on 11/12/09. Your email reference number is 186847.

 

The Road Vehicles ( Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) regulations 2002 SI no. 2687 came into force in November 2002.

 

These amendment regulations introduce a new regulation 14A, making special provision in relation to the size and spacing of characters in the registration number of some imported vehicles. These regulations also include the display of motorcycle sizes number plates on imported vehicles. The provision only applies to vehicles imported into the UK which do not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval, and are so constructed, that the area available for the fixing of the registration plate precludes the display on the plate of a registration number in conformity with the requirements of regulation 14.

 

Also contained is an amendment to regulation 3, to prohibit the use of a number plate on which the background is patterned or textured, or gives that appearance.

 

Where a vehicle has been allocated a UK registration number, the number plate must comply with the specification and standards laid out in the Road Vehicles ( Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001, as amended. Certain imported vehicles may be permitted to display numberplates with smaller characters if the vehicle does not have European Community Vehicle Type Approval and the vehicle's construction/design cannot accommodate standard size numberplates.

 

The dimensions for the smaller sized plate are:

 

• each character in the registration number must be 64mm high

the width of each character of the number, other than the letter 'I' and the figure '1' must be 44mm

 

• the width of every part of the stroke forming a character in a number must be 10mm

the spacing between any two characters within a group must be 10mm

 

• the vertical spacing between groups of characters must be 5mm

 

• the width of a margin between the number and the top and lateral sides of the numberplate must be not less than 5mm

 

• the space between the bottom of the number/character and the bottom of the plate must not be less than 13mm, but within that space, the space between the bottom of the number and the top of the name and postcode of the person the plate was supplied must not be less than 5mm.

 

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'Some' imported vehicles. If the police feel that your car does not fit into this category because your vehicle can accept the standard size of plate, then you won't have a leg to stand on I don't think.

 

When they talk about 'some' they mean vehicles such as this.... which have a numberplate recess that you could never get a standard sized UK plate in.

 

hrm its a tough one since there isnt really a specific mounting place on my front bumper. i guess the real issue is that a proper sized plate covers part of the air inlet on the front no matter where you put as to that effect this has i dunno, but i do often think that it isnt to the benifit of the cars health esp since our cars run so warm in any event. i guess you could argue that as a point. but then as i said what effect does it really have? how are they mounted on the uk spec cars is there an actual mounting position?

I would safely say that the Z's number plate is illegal, on 2 counts.

 

1. It is skyward facing, when it must be flat on the front facing

2. Stick-ons are illegal (except in the case of the Jag E-Type - where some have them and later ones didnt/dont)

 

I can confirm on my last vehicle I got pulled for having a stuck on plate and I had to remove it as they are not legal, also the fact it was on the top of the front bumper just exactly the same as the one in the Z above, it is defined as Skyward facing.

 

Also, FunkySi is right, my CRX had a JDM tail-garnish recess where I could fit a plate with UK lettering, but as the bootlid hidden approx 1.5cm of the font/lettering on a UK bike plate, I had a clearer plate made at the place I imported the car from.. I drove around 2 years with this plate until one day a cop pulled me, for having 'skyward front plate/Stuck on' on the car, and seen the rear and decided it was illegal too.. I have attached picture of the illegal plate I had at the time - which is a shame considering it was really clear, and a pic of the legal/clearer one..

 

Fair enough you can read the UK legal one, but when you looked at it directly the top of the lettering was hidden, I dont have any better pics of it either.. and just ignore the tree branch stuck under my mates galant lol..

any thoughts on the uk style number plate effceting the ciooling side of things?