Calling all numberplate perverts: English flags on plates

[gtd2000]

If they can't figure out a RHD car with white front and yellow rear plates is from the UK/GB they need re-trained...

 

I'm pretty sure Cyprus and Gibraltar have the same set-up...wouldn't be surprised to find out it's the same for Malta.

 

That's a good point - I'll get my coat...

[pompei]

That may be so but I wouldn't give Monsieur Plod le sadist any opportunity to pull me over were I driving in France. Or Signore Carabinieri in Italy ...

[gtd2000]

I have to say I do have a bit of an attitude when certain location make things difficult for the motorist.

 

I used to go into Edinburgh very frequently but now that they have made parking a bit of an issue - I never go there at all during the day.

 

When I was working in the NL, I often used to drive down to France for a run but once they brought in this hi-vis vest bollocks I just stopped going there....perhaps if they drove more Japanese cars they wouldn't need them - sour grapes in my opinion

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I really can't understand the people who feel they have to plaster their national identity on an irrelevant bit of government-mandated plastic. If you are THAT proud of your nationality, why not just cover your rear windscreen in a massive ENG/SCO/CYM/whatever sticker?

 

I could perhaps understand it if the Euro symbols were compulsory, but they're not so there's no need to put an unofficial one on your car.

 

I don't like them, but only because they clutter up the numberplate. I feel the same way about dealer plates too. 'BIGCOCK MOTORS NO1 FOR TALBOT IN CHESTER LE STREET 0191 999 9999' and the borders some plates have. Awful.

[Angrydicky]

Horribly tacky. Dealerplates FTW

[gtd2000]

I have to admit I like the idea of having a small fairly discreet logo on a plate that comes with the car - a small GB logo inside a Eurostar sounds fine to me - even although I don't consider myself to be a "European".

 

I'm all for the freedom of movement of course but it ends there for me.

[Angrydicky]

ENGERLAAAND

 

[Rod/b]

When I was working in Holland during 2008~2009 I just put a paper print of a GB sticker in my back window

 

I once had a burgundy Camry that I rollered white with B&Q Value Gloss. Seeing as i'd made such a good* job of the paint, I decided that it couldn't hurt to draw a GB badge on the boot with a permanent marker pen.

 

As for the country identifier thing, I had some plates on my Audi that had the Euro star thing with UK instead of GB. It confused the hell out of a Swiss border guard who couldn't understand why three blokes with British passports were in a UKrainian registered car. That took some explaining....

[boobydoo]

When i was in the queue at Dover for the ferry last week, P&O actually send someone round the cars to check that you have those headlight beam adaptors. I never bother as I had no plans to drive at night. The bloke said the french police would be "all over me" without them, oh and did I know they sell them on board for £7.99.

 

I thought maybe the police had really hotted up on it,so I bought a pair. Waste of money. Not a gendarme in sight. Just a nasty ploy by P&O to make you buy their crap.

[gtd2000]

When i was in the queue at Dover for the ferry last week, P&O actually send someone round the cars to check that you have those headlight beam adaptors. I never bother as I had no plans to drive at night. The bloke said the french police would be "all over me" without them, oh and did I know they sell them on board for £7.99.

 

I thought maybe the police had really hotted up on it,so I bought a pair. Waste of money. Not a gendarme in sight. Just a nasty ploy by P&O to make you buy their crap.

 

I drove round for two years without them in Holland - I'm such a rebel

[gtd2000]

When I was working in Holland during 2008~2009 I just put a paper print of a GB sticker in my back window

 

I once had a burgundy Camry that I rollered white with B&Q Value Gloss. Seeing as i'd made such a good* job of the paint, I decided that it couldn't hurt to draw a GB badge on the boot with a permanent marker pen.

 

As for the country identifier thing, I had some plates on my Audi that had the Euro star thing with UK instead of GB. It confused the hell out of a Swiss border guard who couldn't understand why three blokes with British passports were in a UKrainian registered car. That took some explaining....

 

They reckon you can get a very good finish with a roller as long as you take the time to flatten it all off - as documented in the $50 paint job thread.

 

Kudos for the the GB marker pen idea

[worldofceri]

I've got England flag plates on my Volvo as applied by a previous owner. They do look a bit toss and at one time I'd have changed them straight away but I'm more like 'so what?' now. I look at it like I'm doing my bit to reclaim the St. George's Cross for non-skinhead, non-xenophobic folk who don't really care about football.

 

 

I would like a set of old-font plates, but not enough to shell out for them.

[tonedepear]

When I was working in Holland during 2008~2009 I just put a paper print of a GB sticker in my back window

 

I once had a burgundy Camry that I rollered white with B&Q Value Gloss. Seeing as i'd made such a good* job of the paint, I decided that it couldn't hurt to draw a GB badge on the boot with a permanent marker pen.

 

As for the country identifier thing, I had some plates on my Audi that had the Euro star thing with UK instead of GB. It confused the hell out of a Swiss border guard who couldn't understand why three blokes with British passports were in a UKrainian registered car. That took some explaining....

 

They reckon you can get a very good finish with a roller as long as you take the time to flatten it all off - as documented in the $50 paint job thread.

 

I've looked and searched and looked again but I can't find it. Does anyone have a link to this fabled thread?

[chaseracer]

The gaps at each end were filled with Halfrauds stickers; Welsh dragon at one end, EU flag at the other.

Oh, and you were doing so well up to then.

 

[Captain Flimble]

I've got England flag plates on my Volvo as applied by a previous owner. They do look a bit toss and at one time I'd have changed them straight away but I'm more like 'so what?' now. I look at it like I'm doing my bit to reclaim the St. George's Cross for non-skinhead, non-xenophobic folk who don't really care about football.

 

 

I would like a set of old-font plates, but not enough to shell out for them.

 

You do have a point there - wherever I see the cross of St.George (who was, incidentally, Turkish) I think of footballers. If I bought a car with one I'd remove it without any hesitation. I've got a Welsh Dragon on my Westfield plates so that the Heddlu (Welsh police) don't think I'm a tourist and nick me on sight. It works

[worldofceri]

It's a Swedish/Japanese car with a French engine* built in the Netherlands (probably by Poles) and driven by an Englishman who was born in Wales. So really you could put just about any flag on the feckin' plate.

 

*Might be wrong about this one.