Does anybody know what the legal size is for an imported vehicle number plate?

Whatever size the apature is, as long as you use standard font.

http://www.fancyplates.com will make them up to order in standard or custom styles

Did I not send you a pm with the info on mate?

This has been discussed in great lengths in the past. Run a search and you will find the hidden treasure :)

Did I not send you a pm with the info on mate?

 

it was a link on were to buy a number plate from bud

This has been discussed in great lengths in the past. Run a search and you will find the hidden treasure :)

 

woop i found the treasure but i am a little confused what i can tell its less chew to have a uk size number plate on

Standard font is legal size. As long as the plate contains that, you're fine. Nothing more, nothing less. Depends on what you can get away with.

13x6.5" is the size of a jap plate.

Here is the guidance recieved from the DVLA on import car No Plates

 

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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effing upload limits effing Lexmark cheap scanners effing rubbish Abby Fine"sprint" pdf software.

 

Anyhow, here's the doc from the DVLA with the regs that for some reason they dropped from their website. I carry a copy in the glovebox just in case.

 

Also MOT rules http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_630.htm

 

It all comes down to what the MOT station or PC understands by "cannot accommodate standard size numberplates". I had to show my MOT station these regs and argue politely a bit before they gave in.

DVLA Number plates 3.PDF

And here's the actual regulations which say

is so constructed that the area available for the fixing of the registration plate precludes the display on the plate of a registration mark in conformity with the requirements of regulation 14.

 

It's fairly clear that if you need a smaller plate to get your plate into a recess (eg JDM back bumper) you're OK.

 

But using small letters/font on the front? "precludes" or "accommodates"? Up to how nice the PC or MOT people want to be, it seems.

It basically boils down to this

(and in every way I fully agree with what has already been written here)

Even with a JSpec rear bumper recess you CAN fit UK standard size letters and font on a plate.

And with the 99 JSpec front bumper you CAN still attach a UK standard size front plate (even though I did twist the sentiment once in regards to the which bumper it referred to, when questioned by PC Plod ;) ) so, as already said, it's down to PC Plod if you get pulled!

Even with a JSpec rear bumper recess you CAN fit UK standard size letters and font on a plate.

 

erm sorry to be nitpicky but I don't think you can fit UK letters on a J-spec rear bumper plate if you have a full reg mark (I don't) and want to keep fully legal spacing and margin all-round. I would nip out and check but my car's up on a ramp somewhere. When/if I get it back, I'll check and report back.

 

But I think that's why they let you have the smaller font on JDM (at least in a recess).

 

The fitting of small font plate on the front is down to interpretation of this "accommodation" "preclude" definition. Even though a smile and a copy of the regs has helped me get away with it so far, I still keep full size in the boot juuuust in case :)

thanks guys