Yellow rear number plate (Mod Note Post #169)

pgj2015

Why do people change their rear number plates to yellow ones? Irish cars with say a DL reg but its yellow. The white plates look better so why change them? do they want to be British or what is the story?

Chips Lovell

I've never seen this. Maybe it's just a thing in border counties? I'm suggesting that since you mention DL plates.

Amirani

I'd say it's a border county thing where they used a print shop in Northern Ireland that only had yellow plates.

pgj2015

Chips Lovell wrote: »

I've never seen this. Maybe it's just a thing in border counties? I'm suggesting that since you mention DL plates.

Im in the west of Ireland and see it a lot.

Chips Lovell

Possibly people who work across the border and don't want to get their car vandalised for having Irish plates?

pgj2015

Amirani wrote: »

I'd say it's a border county thing where they used a print shop in Northern Ireland that only had yellow plates.

would a yellow plate not be illegal in the republic?

Less likely to stand out as an Irish car at a glance.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

Yellow reg on a black car looks cool (imho).

Tazzimus

It's gob****es being gob****es.

Mostly found on diesels bellowing out black smoke like they're ****ed.

dzsfah2xoynme9

I've seen loads of them. Usually youngfellas in a ****box jetta with some cringworthy stickers on the back windscreen, lowered as low as it could possibly go, super bright and out of focus HID kit lights, tinted windows darker than night and them driving around with a hood up thinking they're harder than a quarry..

pgj2015

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Less likely to stand out as an Irish car at a glance.

Yes but im talking about lads who have probably never been in northern Ireland in their lives.

fin12

pgj2015 wrote: »

Why do people change their rear number plates to yellow ones? Irish cars with say a DL reg but its yellow. The white plates look better so why change them? do they want to be British or what is the story?

I think it’s like a Donegal thing cause I’ve never seen it anywhere else in the country. I think it’s pretty stupid cause from a distance u think it’s a English reg car.

saabsaab

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Possibly people who work across the border and don't want to get their car vandalised for having Irish plates?

I was thinking along those lines. Saw a van recently with a RoI reg but yellow plates the way the letters/numbers were arranged looked like a NI. I guessed that if they visit the 6 regularly they won't stand out.

pgj2015

fin12 wrote: »

I think it’s like a Donegal thing cause I’ve never seen it anywhere else in the country. I think it’s pretty stupid cause from a distance u think it’s a English reg car.

it has definitely spread outside Donegal. I think its so stupid as well, like are they west brits or what?

_Brian

fin12 wrote: »

I think it’s like a Donegal thing cause I’ve never seen it anywhere else in the country. I think it’s pretty stupid cause from a distance u think it’s a English reg car.

Big thing here in Cavan too as is near illegible number plate font or the German style combined with a Nuremberg sticker.

It’s mostly young yahoos being yahoos, but I see some lads in their 40/50’s doing it amd I just think that they should give in and grow up.

GT89

What's with people in general putting hideous looking modified reg plates on cars. Should be illegal imo to have a reg plate that's not in the standard font.

ablelocks

i've never seen the yellow plates on an irish car

it may be an attempt (misguided, most likely) to fool the speed cameras?

particularly the German style where the numbers/letters may be too close together for the camera to distinguish.

or it's simply gob****tery of the highest order.....

fin12

_Brian wrote: »

Big thing here in Cavan too as is near illegible number plate font or the German style combined with a Nuremberg sticker.

It’s mostly young yahoos being yahoos, but I see some lads in their 40/50’s doing it amd I just think that they should give in and grow up.

That’s true, the only ones I’ve seen it are young fellas in modified BMWs.

xabi

Amirani wrote: »

I'd say it's a border county thing where they used a print shop in Northern Ireland that only had yellow plates.

Donegal boy racers, they have white plates in the north as well.

ablelocks

GT89 wrote: »

What's with people in general putting hideous looking modified reg plates on cars. Should be illegal imo to have a reg plate that's not in the standard font.

it is illegal afaik, but like a lot of things, not enforced.

_Brian

I live near a small rural town, prob 2000 population.

I’m sure as a guard you could stand on Main Street every day all day handing out summons for blue lights to the front, number plate violations, no seatbelts, children not in seats and phone use while driving.

I’d say 40 fines a day minimum without leaving main street.

I don’t think as a guard I’d be very popular.

pgj2015

_Brian wrote: »

I live near a small rural town, prob 2000 population.

I’m sure as a guard you could stand on Main Street every day all day handing out summons for blue lights to the front, number plate violations, no seatbelts, children not in seats and phone use while driving.

I’d say 40 fines a day minimum without leaving main street.

I don’t think as a guard I’d be very popular.

I would be throwing tickets out as well. its the small things you need to stop. The guards may think they are being sound but in the end people loose respect for them if they can get away with all the small things.

_Brian

pgj2015 wrote: »

I would be throwing tickets out as well. its the small things you need to stop. The guards may think they are being sound but in the end people loose respect for them if they can get away with all the small things.

I think the same.
Zero tolerance on motoring offences.

saabsaab

_Brian wrote: »

I live near a small rural town, prob 2000 population.

I’m sure as a guard you could stand on Main Street every day all day handing out summons for blue lights to the front, number plate violations, no seatbelts, children not in seats and phone use while driving.

I’d say 40 fines a day minimum without leaving main street.

I don’t think as a guard I’d be very popular.

You might be with your superintendent!

punisher5112

Its a big thing with the young bucks....

A lot tend to have mats as mud flaps and a CB ariel too....

As mentioned smoke marks and puffs out the rear and many tend to be lowered to the point of beyond dangerous.

Hamsterchops

fin12 wrote: »

I think it’s like a Donegal thing cause I’ve never seen it anywhere else in the country. I think it’s pretty stupid cause from a distance u think it’s a English reg car.

More likely to be a NI reg car.
... different to an English reg.

cml387

I think the German plates are designed to be more easily read by speed cameras. The bit missing from the 0 is designed to distinguish it from an O.

punisher5112

Hamsterchops wrote: »

More likely to be a NI reg car.
... different to an English reg.

No they're Irish, the numpties think it looks cool, it has a place in the rally scene too.

Hamsterchops

Hamsterchops wrote: »

More likely to be a NI reg car.
... different to an English reg.

UK reg.

KevRossi

I put them on a Sprinter van once a few years back as I was advised to do so by the site foreman. Was working in Belfast, out near Holywood. Had to pick up and drop off people at Belfast Central train station in the morning and evenings, then go out to a B&B on the Antrim Rd.

Drove Dublin - Belfast Monday morning and back on a Friday afternoon. Van was usually parked up in Dublin at the weekends.

Did it for 5 months, I was never stopped once by the Gardai. PSNI asked me once about the plates, when I explained it, he said 'fair enough', and let me go. That was in Belfast City Centre.

kravmaga

Hamsterchops wrote: »

More likely to be a NI reg car.
... different to an English reg.

NI and UK are both on rear yellow reg plates.

3 Letters on left rear yellow plate is NI.

2 Letters, 2 numerals on left rear yellow plate is UK.

punisher5112

KevRossi wrote: »

I put them on a Sprinter van once a few years back as I was advised to do so by the site foreman. Was working in Belfast, out near Holywood. Had to pick up and drop off people at Belfast Central train station in the morning and evenings, then go out to a B&B on the Antrim Rd.

Drove Dublin - Belfast Monday morning and back on a Friday afternoon. Van was usually parked up in Dublin at the weekends.

Did it for 5 months, I was never stopped once by the Gardai. PSNI asked me once about the plates, when I explained it, he said 'fair enough', and let me go. That was in Belfast City Centre.

To be honest they make no difference, the people you need to be careful of aren't that thick and will spot a southern a mile away..,

Esel

punisher5112 wrote: »

To be honest they make no difference, the people you need to be careful of aren't that thick and will spot a southern a mile away..,

By the paper on the windscreen.

punisher5112

If you were that worried, rental van would have been best option....

At first glance someone might not notice. That might be enough.

.anon.

Me and my cousin used to punch each other in the arm when we'd see a car with a yellow reg. Did anyone else do that?

"Yellow reg, no return"

"Ouch, I said no return"

muffler

.anon. wrote: »

Me and my cousin used to punch each other in the arm when we'd see a car with a yellow reg. Did anyone else do that?

No. I think you need help :pac:

GT89

punisher5112 wrote: »

Its a big thing with the young bucks....

A lot tend to have mats as mud flaps and a CB ariel too....

As mentioned smoke marks and puffs out the rear and many tend to be lowered to the point of beyond dangerous.

Only really see it outside Dublin. Rarely see boy racer type vehicles in Dublin anymore.

punisher5112

GT89 wrote: »

Only really see it outside Dublin. Rarely boy racer type vehicles in Dublin anymore.

I do see it a lot in the whest....

An odd time in Dublin.

GT89

punisher5112 wrote: »

I do see it a lot in the whest....

An odd time in Dublin.

I've seen a bit in the midlands as well

Edgware

punisher5112 wrote: »

To be honest they make no difference, the people you need to be careful of aren't that thick and will spot a southern a mile away..,

I like seeing the yellow plates. It mean that I wont give Nordies or Nordie wannabees any leeway and they can wait to enter the line of traffic

MarkR

Felt spec. Magherafelt spec. Been around donkeys.

bobbyy gee

they are illegal and can get you 5000 fine

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

Hamsterchops

kravmaga wrote: »

NI and UK are both on rear yellow reg plates.

3 Letters on left rear yellow plate is NI.

4 Letters on left rear yellow plate is UK.

No you're wrong ......

All UK plates are yellow, with NI plates having three letters on the left, while GB plates have two letters on the left followed by two digits, then the remainder of the plate, either way, UK plates are yellow and ROI plates are not (normally) yellow.

TheBlackPill

pgj2015 wrote: »

Why do people change their rear number plates to yellow ones? Irish cars with say a DL reg but its yellow. The white plates look better so why change them? do they want to be British or what is the story?

Either west brits or the clowns assume the speed cameras cannot read them

Strumms

From reading this, it appears that yellow isn’t exactly legal....

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

punisher5112

Strumms wrote: »

From reading this, it appears that yellow isn’t exactly legal....

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

What is legal in Ireland is white front and red on rear but that's very old, then we have the black/silver which you see on the army trucks and jeeps.... Then we have the EU style and that's it.

Your Face

Ive seen a few old VRs with the yellow reg with Irish numbers.
I just thought it was a boy-racer type thing.

fin12

Hamsterchops wrote: »

More likely to be a NI reg car.
... different to an English reg.

No it said DL in the middle. It was a donegal reg. I was stopped in traffic so had a load of time to look at it.

Guy:Incognito

Amirani wrote: »

I'd say it's a border county thing where they used a print shop in Northern Ireland that only had yellow plates.

Front plates on UK cars are white.

punisher5112

Also UK plates must have a garage or point of sale on them.