Been looking on the dvla website and I cant find anything to say the 3/4 plates are illegal, My car is due for MOT and im not sure if my plate will fail.

 

its standard legal lettering spacing etc, just a 3/4 plate and at the min its in my window as i havent sorted mounting brackets out for the bumper.

 

can anyone shed any light please.

 

thanks Craig

we did this a few months ago. they are illegal because the zed can psyically fit a standard size plate. some import cars are allowed these as they dont fit proper plates for examample evos. but unfortunatly they arnt strictly legal and if johnny got notghing better to do wants to you can be issued aticket for it

good luck getting a standard plate on my bumper lol

Have a read through this Craig, might give you more of an idea http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=99309

there is a thread sum where i posted probally about 6 months ago about this aswel taht had alot of info on it

My front plate is less than 3/4 and its passed twice, depends on the tester i suppose, the numbers/letters on the rear are not the correct size either. :)

My Focus failed its mot today on the plates.

Standard size, but not the right spacing!

 

Ive known him years and he would have let it go, but VOSA inspected him today and used my car as the test!!!!

 

What are the chances eh?

My Focus failed its mot today on the plates.

Standard size, but not the right spacing!

 

Ive known him years and he would have let it go, but VOSA inspected him today and used my car as the test!!!!

 

What are the chances eh?

 

Hard luck mate, i bet you felt like:gun_bandana:

It didn't need anything else, so i was happy enough..

its standard legal lettering spacing etc, just a 3/4 plate

 

whats the problem?

Well I'll try it with these plates then and see what happens

ha, i think i'll have to buy another plate for my mot... my 12" by 3" plate on the front is tiny, its not even as wide as the mounting! standard font and spacing though... have to see.

I Posted the DVLA letter that we recieved detailing the exact measurements required for Import cars, regardless if it can fit a UK plate. If it's an import, then it's allowed a smaller plate.

 

Have a scan through the number plate threads and my letter will be in the somewhere.

 

Peter

Here it is again, straight from the mouth of the DVLA.

 

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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