German style licence plates

delthedriver

dgt wrote: »

All too true, I couldn't agree more :pac:

Tallon wrote: »

They're not illegal though

Where may they be purchased please ? I have been told by a number of car accessory shops that they do not supply German style plates.
What are the rules regarding registration plates? Can anyone clarify please?

Enigma IE

delthedriver wrote: »

Where may they be purchased please ? I have been told by a number of car accessory shops that they do not supply German style plates.
What are the rules regarding registration plates? Can anyone clarify please?

I just got a set from these guys, delivered in 2 days, approx 52EUR delivered.

dgt

delthedriver wrote: »

Where may they be purchased please ? I have been told by a number of car accessory shops that they do not supply German style plates.
What are the rules regarding registration plates? Can anyone clarify please?

You can use the font as long as it doesn't use the zero with a slash through it. It must be on a standard plate with county and eu blue part

Enigma IE

dgt wrote: »

You can use the font as long as it doesn't use the zero with a slash through it. It must be on a standard plate with county and eu blue part

My mate put his M3 through NCT a number of times with german font, 0 with slashes, passed every time. Note, he has the dash between the year, county, number etc. I heard it will most certainly fail without the dash.

dgt

I'm working with what I've been told by people I know who don't change them for tests. I guess it depends on the centre and tester too

Paddy001

Are Guards really onto people over these? Because I've seen plenty of personal cars belong to Guards who had them on their cars, so its a bit stupid if they are!

Eireplates

We have delivered a lot of German font plates to guys working in NCT centres and Garda stations!!

Bottom line German font plates don't comply with the Irish Statute book. The font height is 76mm on the Germans but the law states 70mm. Ironically German fonts are actually easier to read than standard plates from a distance.

Stheno

What do these plates look like?

challengemaster

Stheno

Thanks CM, haven't noticed any, but will keep an eye out now

Capt'n Midnight

delthedriver wrote: »

The German style plates are illegal, so too were the pressed steel plates with black background silver letters and numerals ,which were a fashion craze some years ago.
Hardly a hanging offence, though if you meet a Garda who has had a tough day......

The defence forces are allowed use the non reflective number plates though

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1990/en/si/0287.html

10. The identification mark and place name shall be formed of black characters and shall be exhibited on white reflex reflective material so that the identification mark appears at all times from the front of the plate as black characters on a white background.

Many of the fancy scripts fail on the width

15. The identification mark shall appear in black characters and each letter or figure shall have a height of 70 millimetres and a stroke width of 10 millimetres. The total width of the space taken by each letter or figure (other than the letter "I" or the number "1") shall be 36 millimetres. The distances between adjoining letters and adjoining figures shall be uniform and shall be not less than 8 millimetres.

L-M

Enigma IE wrote: »

My mate put his M3 through NCT a number of times with german font, 0 with slashes, passed every time. Note, he has the dash between the year, county, number etc. I heard it will most certainly fail without the dash.

My old Golf didn't have the dashes (I never copped on until I was looking at a picture of it one day) and it went through the test and the re test without them!

Depends who's on and what day of the week.

CrowdedHouse

I have them on my car

I like them and quite frankly I don't give a phuck what anybody else thinks.

No Cop has ever passed any remarks to me about them at checkpoints

Marcinek_55

They are look nice but we are in Ireland and we should use Irish style plates. In UK they use UK style plates, in Germany - german style plates, in France - french style plates and it's illegal there to use any different style plates. Should be the same here. If i could use any fonts i will use arabic one and never pay for M50 for example )

My reg in arabic style will be look like that:



Nice are they hahah

Prick!

I love german plates on a new german car like a new version A4, no older than 04 though.