Dodgy number plates

Kaisr Sose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123372341#Comment_123372341

Yes, it is the finance act. Easy to fix. There are loads of amendments to it each year after the budget. Clearly the will to do so is not that high.

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123371823#Comment_123371823

is it?? Jesus that’s mad then that there’s lads here wishing cars were seized and crushed into cubes over having a non standard plate.

you’d imagine car enthusiasts would feel strongly opposed to destroying perfectly good cars or other motors but there ya go.

CMOTDibbler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123372416#Comment_123372416

Would you feel the same way about any law breaking? Is everything "live and let live" with you?

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123372464#Comment_123372464

I certainly feel this way about this law other ones are irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Raichų

This has been going on in one way or another for donkeys anyways. Can remember when it was all the rage to italicise your reg plate.

Who gives a shite if someone’s reg plate is not conforming- I’d seriously wonder how it’s hurting anyone.

Kaisr Sose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373217#Comment_123373217

What an inane post.

Just because it's going on for ages or it's becoming common place, does it mean it's ok. What type of plate do you have?

GSBellew

It is not irrelevant, the number plate is the identifier of the vehicle it is attached to, its sole reason is to identify the vehicle, like a barcode identifies a product, it should be clear, concise and non ambiguous.

It is surprising the RSA has not seen an excuse to restrict number plate supply to approved suppliers, with the urine extraction being taken that is getting more and more likely.

Wait till we see a set of plates costing €100 because they are only available from designated suppliers and have a serial number which will be required for the NCT.

BP_RS3813

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373270#Comment_123373270

Your bottom paragraph is a great idea actually.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123372231#Comment_123372231

Saw a grey on white one for first time during the week, its like it faded in the sun. Near impossible to see from a distance, appropriately on a boy racer type knobmobile. Can't be for anything other than avoiding identification, although the usual suspects will say it looks "cool".

Viscount Aggro

NCT location in Dublin…

I saw 2 vehicles failed, due to licence plates. I asked one of the testers.

The 4D type plates…no dash between the digits.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123371752#Comment_123371752

I doubt many people are spending hours considering how they respond to this thread, to be fair.

But along the lines of what GSBellew mentioned above - this is utterly basic stuff. It's the legal identifier of the vehicle with clear guidelines as to how it should be formatted. But people go out and get custom plates made (for whatever reason, mostly for aesthetics with possibly some nefarious ones) and the 'system' doesn't care. Just another example of the lack of policing on the roads.

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373247#Comment_123373247

regular because I don’t want to spend money on a different one. If I bought a car with non standard plates I’d similarly not spend the money to put it back to normal.
i just do not care that much at all tbh

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373217#Comment_123373217

How is it hurting anyone? By being less visible.

You know what reg plates are for?

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373727#Comment_123373727

I can read them just fine; maybe you need a better prescription for your glasses? I’m not being funny but I can think of 10 things in an instant that would concern me with regards behaviour on the road than funky reg plates.

I’d prefer the gardai invest their limited resources into serious issues like mobile phone usage. Heading down the M9 & M7 yesterday and the amount of drivers I spotted myself glaring at their phones while speeding down a motorway was absolutely shocking.

But it’s okay- all of them had normal reg plates so no harm is there.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373747#Comment_123373747

Can you read them perfectly at night? In all conditions?

Why do you think we have specs for readability in the first place?

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373758#Comment_123373758

Andrew I’m just going to save us both from a back and forth here- you’re not going to change my mind and I frankly care less for anyone’s opinion on the matter either way.

I say go ahead and have fancy or funky plates- I’m not the gardai so I’m not doing their job and worrying about it on their behalf. As I said earlier I’m far more disturbed by mobile phone usage, speeding in dangerous conditions or general fuckery while driving— reg plates are very, very low on the list of concerns about road usage and motorist behaviour.

I also don’t quite see the correlation between funky plates and shite driving- I know plenty with non standard plates who drive very well as much as I know people with the standard ones who I wouldn’t let on a push bike if it was up to me.

My neighbour has 4D plates I think they’re called and they’ve never so much as had a scratch on their cars. Very careful and safe driver. But according to some here their car ought to be confiscated and crushed into a cube.

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373879#Comment_123373879

Yeah them bastard reg plates going around knocking mammys down!

Orban6

I haven't read through all of this thread so apologies if anything I say is repeating what others have stated already.

One of the (many) fails I had last year was for wrong size digits.

The bollix dealer I bought the car from had replaced the plates with wrong size ones. Same dealer is driving around with yellow plates!

24 E for new plates in my local motor factors.

Psychedelic Hedgehog

The primary purpose of a registration plate is to identify the vehicle. This is particularly important in cases of dangerous driving, hit and runs, vehicles involves in theft etc.

So any plates not conforming to the standard make all of the above more difficult.

I will confess I had 3D plates on my last car, albeit standard font with raised digits and everything else including county name and IRL band being correct. I did find it was more difficult to read when viewed from any other angle apart from straight on. I wouldn't put them on my current car.

Therefore I'd have no issue with the Gardaí being given back the power to issue fines and points for non compliance.

BP_RS3813

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373816#Comment_123373816

"We struggle to get serious crimes therefore we should let the small stuff slide" thats a great arguement alright.

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373747#Comment_123373747

But I can drive just fine while looking at my phone so surely it's okay?

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374023#Comment_123374023

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374024#Comment_123374024

lads can you actually just piss off replying to me with shite patter?

“Ah an insignificant law isn’t followed so let’s fcuk them all out”- not what I said- wake up. I said I’d rather the Gardai invest their very limited resources into tackling actual problems.

As for claiming you can drive as well looking at a phone as if you weren’t looking is just bullshit and a completely stupid sentence.

Hold on let me get my pitch fork and torches and I’ll meet you all for the march against reg plates. Maybe we should pile them all up and start a bonfire- I’ll bring the petrol.

Honestly though; if you’d ever just go away that would be delightful. You think they shouldn’t be around, I don’t give a damn if they are or not, shock horror!

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374029#Comment_123374029

You're the one deciding which laws are okay based whether they effect you or not.

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374032#Comment_123374032

So tell me how many car accidents leading to injury or death have been caused by non standard plates as opposed to say; mobile phone use or drink driving?

And these ran over mammys by cars with 4D plates- are they in the room with us now?

Raichų

Seeing as our Gardai have limited resources in both time, staff numbers and etc I would like them to use that to focus on seriously troubling behaviour as opposed to poxy things like a bloody reg plate or the tint of someone’s window.

There’s people killed left and right by dangerous and careless driving but it’s the reg plates we need to focus on big time.

I heard one of them 4D plates broke into a pensioners house the other day. They’d want locking up so they would!

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374034#Comment_123374034

Your argument is non-standard plates are okay because you can read them and if others can they should get glasses or some nonsense like that. It's as much of a BS argument as mine was, you can't choose which laws to obey just because they don't effect you. The book isn't called 'The rules of the road that you feel like following'.

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374049#Comment_123374049

look mate, if you want to just follow every law without question that’s put to you then god bless.

Is it such a big deal I don’t agree with you? Can that not just be the way? I think it’s not an issue. You think it is. Fantastic.

Can we move on now yeah? Or do you want to spend another while circling around to arrive at the same conclusion— you give a damn and I don’t.

Raichų

Swear to god it’s like speaking to my 6 year old.

BP_RS3813

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374029#Comment_123374029

Petty theft is grand cause sure there is murderers to be caught isn't there? We'll put assault as okay as sure if the fella isn't dead he will recover and no harm no foul right? This here is your arguement.

You don't get to decide which laws are followed based on how they affect you unfortunatly.

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123374056#Comment_123374056

My first post on the subject was less than 25 minutes ago, you're the one that has been going on about it for ages 😂😂