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Anti Gatso Licence Plate Spray

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  • 12-01-2008 10:26pm
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    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭


    Just wondering but this stuff actually work ?

    You put a coat on your front and back Licence plate. The flash from the Gatso lights up the the paint and makes the licence plate unreadable in the photo.

    Considering the raft of Gatso that will be coming in on our safest road, it mightn't be a bad investment.


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Great idea. it's illegal however.


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    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,991 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    It makes it harder for them to read the photo but not impossible.


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    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Great idea. it's illegal however.

    You sure ? Not illegal in UK anyways.


    Stark wrote: »
    It makes it harder for them to read the photo but not impossible.

    I've read that on UK boards. One person had half his licence plate blocked out yet they still tried to prosecute him. Had his fine overturned in court though.

    If you get done for speeding on a Gatso in Ireland, do they send out a picture of your car taken by the Gatso as proof of speeding ?


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,402 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    We discuss this about once a year. Here is one of the more recent ones

    It's the same as covering your plate with mud. The fixed camera can't read your plate, but it is of course illegal

    If I were a traffic Garda and I had a pic of a car with a "sprayed out" plate, I'd make it my personal business to find the perpetrator ;)


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    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    unkel wrote: »
    We discuss this about once a year. Here is one of the more recent ones

    It's the same as covering your plate with mud. The fixed camera can't read your plate, but it is of course illegal

    If I were a traffic Garda and I had a pic of a car with a "sprayed out" plate, I'd make it my personal business to find the perpetrator ;)


    A lot harder to tell if the licence plate is blocked out considering it looks the same under normal day light.

    Wouldn't work with SPECS though.


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    Ratchet
    Registered Users Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Ratchet


    waste of money.

    every camera van will get you and spray will not help you


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    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    Ratchet wrote: »
    waste of money.

    every camera van will get you and spray will not help you

    I only ever speed on Motorways and Dual Carriageways.

    Surely they are not planning on parking the vans on either of those.

    How come the spray doesn't affect Gatso vans ?


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,501 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    I only ever speed on Motorways and Dual Carriageways.

    :rolleyes:


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    littlejukka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭littlejukka


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    I only ever speed on Motorways and Dual Carriageways.

    Surely they are not planning on parking the vans on either of those.

    How come the spray doesn't affect Gatso vans ?

    I've seen vans on the N3, M7, N11, M1, N1, N2 and M50.

    spray-on, anti-gatso film is in the realm of idiots.


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    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    littlejukka wrote: »
    I've seen vans on the N3, M7, N11, M1, N1, N2 and M50.

    spray-on, anti-gatso film is in the realm of idiots.

    Where are they parking on the motorways ? You can't stop permanently in the breakdown lane ? Quite dangerous if that's what their up to.


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    littlejukka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭littlejukka


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    Where are they parking on the motorways ? You can't stop permanently in the breakdown lane ? Quite dangerous if that's what their up to.


    quite dangerous?

    speeding and actively trying to evade police detection isn't?

    there are plenty of safe spots on motorways and dual carraigeways for vans or squad cars to pull in without disrupting the flow of traffice or blocking the hard shoulder.


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    Cionád
    Registered Users Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭Cionád


    littlejukka wrote: »
    there are plenty of safe spots on motorways and dual carraigeways for vans or squad cars to pull in without disrupting the flow of traffice or blocking the hard shoulder.

    Seen the one on the N2 frequently blocking the hard shoulder.


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    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,991 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Most motorways have laybys for Gardaí to park in. They do sometimes stop in the hard shoulder (you see this regularly on the N3). I've also seen a Gatso van parked in the grass verge along the N3 before. Slightly off the topic of Gatso vans, you often see the Gardaí setting up mounted cameras on bridges over the motorway and photographing people that way.


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    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    littlejukka wrote: »
    quite dangerous?

    speeding and actively trying to evade police detection isn't?

    there are plenty of safe spots on motorways and dual carraigeways for vans or squad cars to pull in without disrupting the flow of traffice or blocking the hard shoulder.


    You think a person doing 140 kph on a motorway (which by the way is designed to a 160 kph standard) is dangerous ?


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    littlejukka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭littlejukka


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    You think a person doing 20 kph over the speed limit on a motorway is more dangerous that a 2 tonne stationary object in the breakdown lane ?

    Are you kidding ?

    i just said that you can position vehicles with cameras on a motorway or dual-carraigeway without blocking the hard shoulder (what is a breakdown lane?)

    i am not "kidding", i am trying to point out the obvious to the oblivious.


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    littlejukka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭littlejukka


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    You think a person doing 140 kph on a motorway (which by the way is designed to a 160 kph standard) is dangerous ?

    why do you keep editing your original post?


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    Oilrig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Oilrig


    "If I were a traffic Garda and I had a pic of a car with a "sprayed out" plate, I'd make it my personal business to find the perpetrator"

    No you wouldn't, you'd shoot fish in a barrel like the rest of your buddies...


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    Rory123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Rory123


    Niall1234 (and all others who share your sentiments); what makes you think that you are any more important than the rest of us by taking measures to be able to break the speed limit and not have to take the slap on the wrist.

    Now don't get me wrong, I have a few points for moderate motorway speeding myself, although I've learned my lesson and no longer break the limit. I don't have a problem with you doing 20 or 30km/h over the limit on a motorway. The honest thing to do is to stop speeding or keep speeding and take the punishment, like the rest of us if you get caught. You just can't have it both ways. "Big Brother" doesn't always feel fair but neither does the fact that some people think they can pull a fast one on the cops while us "ordinary decent speeders" (don't deny it folks, we all do it!) have to take the points and the fine when caught.


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    John R
    Registered Users Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭John R


    Niall1234 wrote: »

    Considering the raft of Gatso that will be coming in

    Says who? There are plans to bring in privately funded fixed speed cameras but I don't recall ever reading anything confirming what type they will be.

    The Film and Flash Gatsos are old technology now and in comparison to digital based systems cost a fortune to run.

    There are only a hsndful of those cameras at the moment, you are far more likely to get done by a Garda patrol for having illegal plates than you are to avoid a fine from having them.


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    Rory123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Rory123


    Also... I saw on a fly-on-the-wall UK traffic cops show that most or maybe all of those sprays do give a different sheen to reg plates that can be picked out by a trained eye... so if you do get stopped by a cop you may have some explaining to do. They are sometimes marketed as anti-paparazzi devices... but I don't think the cop would swallow that excuse... unless maybe you're Bono! ;)


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    Ratchet
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    Niall1234 wrote: »
    I only ever speed on Motorways and Dual Carriageways.

    Surely they are not planning on parking the vans on either of those.

    How come the spray doesn't affect Gatso vans ?


    yeah and its very hard to remember where camras are with 1000s miles of our motorways and 100s 100s cameras in ireland .:rolleyes:

    Garda speed patrol will get you on motorway don't mind the cameras which in many cases don't work anyway.


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Rory123 wrote: »
    Also... I saw on a fly-on-the-wall UK traffic cops show that most or maybe all of those sprays do give a different sheen to reg plates that can be picked out by a trained eye... so if you do get stopped by a cop you may have some explaining to do. They are sometimes marketed as anti-paparazzi devices... but I don't think the cop would swallow that excuse... unless maybe you're Bono! ;)

    There was a couple of them on road wars. The cars with the cameras that automatically read number plates as the cars go by. if it cant read the plate it beeps. The cops know that theres somethign up. Especially when they can read the plate by eye but when they look at the camera on the dash they cant read the plate.

    Plus its definately illegal because they pulled people in and prosectued.


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,786 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    Where are they parking on the motorways ? You can't stop permanently in the breakdown lane ? Quite dangerous if that's what their up to.

    Have you ever driven the motorway network in this country? There are Garda laybys on all the newer sections specifically for the use of the camera vans :rolleyes:


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    L1011
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    Niall1234 wrote: »
    You sure ? Not illegal in UK anyways.

    Its obstructing a Garda in the course of his/her duties, which is illegal.


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    FuzzyWuzzyWazza
    Registered Users Posts: 906 ✭✭✭FuzzyWuzzyWazza


    Niall1234 wrote: »
    You sure ? Not illegal in UK anyways.
    Stekelly wrote: »
    There was a couple of them on road wars. The cars with the cameras that automatically read number plates as the cars go by. if it cant read the plate it beeps. The cops know that theres somethign up. Especially when they can read the plate by eye but when they look at the camera on the dash they cant read the plate.

    Plus its definately illegal because they pulled people in and prosectued.

    It is illegal in the UK, the sale of te stuff might be legal, but using it to obscure your plate is illegal.


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    Rory123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Rory123


    Niall1234 wrote: »

    You put a coat on your front and back Licence plate.

    Why do you need it on the front?!... Are you the guy I often see reversing at speed on the M50? :D:D:D


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