Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 For some unknown reason, my car's got plates sporting the English flag. I'm not a numberplate freak like some of you lot, and I don't plan a trip to Scotland that could have lethal consequences, but I find myself making a mental connection with the silly plastic bits that people stick on their Astras just before the overpaid mouthbreathers who represent England get humiliated in the Euro/World Cup. Would you keep them, change them to a 'plain' design, or would you go the whole hog and stick metal plates on a 1997ish car? Let's hear your opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Replace em with a set of blanks from dealerplates, or even a set from a shop which are blank. I had a set of Scotland ones on my last Focus but it wasn't worth the hassle going south of the border with them... ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I'm not sure I'd care enough to buy plates, but I might try and find a suitably-sized white/yellow sticker... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 stickers sound like a GR9 idea!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I find English flags on the end of numberplates mega tacky. Even Euro or scottish flags looks 10x classier. It just screams run-down council estate to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 As I prefer number plates without flags of any type on them, the car would get a set of plain replacements if it belonged to me. I like being English/British, but I don't go on about it in the way that some people do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Can you put anything on? I have completely plain plates and this thread has provoked the thought that perhaps a hammer and sickle or a Welsh dragon or something might amuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Officially the rules WERE that you had to have the Euro symbol, and the country code. They then relaxed them to allow the flag of the country of origin.However - manufacturer logos, cartoons of Marge Simpson getting taken from behind, pictures of cannabis plants etc are still technically not allowed. How likely you are to get pulled depends on how far you're pushing it I guess. Why not just lob the end of the plate off with a hacksaw and have a shorter one? As long as there's the appropriate border, they don't have to be a fixed size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 +1 for wopping the end of the plate off. they look better a bit shorter too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko220 Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 SERCKs are the way forward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I use this chap here on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SET-GB-NUMBER-PLATES-7-99-inc-p-p-Delivered-/230631199897?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item35b2b0d499 £7.99 delivered for a pair of Euro plates with next day delivery, Well worth using if your after a normal set of plates plus you haven't got to show you V5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Leave 'em on, nowt wrong with being English! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Leave 'em on, nowt wrong with being English! I dunno. I defected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 Leave 'em on, nowt wrong with being English! I agree there's nothing wrong with being English, but I'm a Greek person driving a car that was made in Germany by an American manufacturer. Plus they remind me of the football-related sea of stick-on tat! I use this chap here on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SET-GB-NUMBER-PLATES-7-99-inc-p-p-Delivered-/230631199897?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item35b2b0d499 £7.99 delivered for a pair of Euro plates with next day delivery, Well worth using if your after a normal set of plates plus you haven't got to show you V5. Can't argue with that price! I note they have a couple of font options available- what's the correct font for S-reg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 The correct font would be the pre 2001 type but on a S reg £350 Accord i personally really wouldn't worry about fonts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 The correct font would be the pre 2001 type but on a S reg £350 Accord i personally really wouldn't worry about fonts. It's for the Scorpio. Wouldn't dream of spending anything on the Accord, unless it's got to do with learning how to fix stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Sorry I misread that, I'd stillstick them on the Scorpio though, They would'nt look out of place on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonedepear Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Leave 'em on, nowt wrong with being English! Disagree. /jock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shite_meister Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I can make plain number plates up if anybody needs any, no V5 shite to worry about and I can put whateva you want at the bottom like autoshite or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtd2000 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Get a blue felt tip pen and change it into a Union Flag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 My 305 has Union flags on its plates. I hate them. I have some Serck - a - like plates that I can't wait to fit to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The Dyane rolls with pressed-tin French font plates, made up by a kindly and slightly amused Breton while I shopped at the E.Leclerc hypermarket to which his concession was attached. The gaps at each end were filled with Halfrauds stickers; Welsh dragon at one end, EU flag at the other. But then, I am a bit odd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Leave 'em on, nowt wrong with being English! Disagree. /jock Someone thought I was Scottish once. I explained that I couldn't be as my mum and dad weren't related until they were married Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Flimble Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Leave 'em on - if you go abroad you won't need a GB sticker. If you're hung up about your car's nationality you can get generic UK plates. *and bloody hell, I would be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Leave 'em on - if you go abroad you won't need a GB sticker.Yes you do. Plates with ENG, Union Jack, SCO or CYM will still need to display a GB sticker when travelling abroad. If your car has standard UK Euro flag plates you do not have to display a GB sticker. Which only makes the national flags all the more ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtd2000 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Leave 'em on, nowt wrong with being English! Disagree. /jock Someone thought I was Scottish once. I explained that I couldn't be as my mum and dad weren't related until they were married "Union" flag it is for you then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 Leave 'em on - if you go abroad you won't need a GB sticker.Yes you do. Plates with ENG, Union Jack, SCO or CYM will still need to display a GB sticker when travelling abroad. If your car has standard UK Euro flag plates you do not have to display a GB sticker. Which only makes the national flags all the more ridiculous. 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtd2000 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Leave 'em on - if you go abroad you won't need a GB sticker.Yes you do. Plates with ENG, Union Jack, SCO or CYM will still need to display a GB sticker when travelling abroad. If your car has standard UK Euro flag plates you do not have to display a GB sticker. Which only makes the national flags all the more ridiculous. When I was working in Holland during 2008~2009 I just put a paper print of a GB sticker in my back window 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...then again the cops over that way seem less inclined to pursue bullshit items. Of course, I've heard that might not be the case in France? The Dutch police have to be some of the most polite police I've encountered.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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