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Nice restoration of a Civic Type R

https://youtu.be/HE9BWs5VfYA

ANPR I meant isn’t rolled out everywhere and won’t be for yonks

Looked to be some sort of multi fit replica alright. Given how crazy the prices of Japanese stuff has gone, i’d hate to see the prices of original Type R parts if you could even get them!

Those piecemeal videos are the worst, tiny amount of work done each time. I gave up watching Edd China’s new channel because of that style. After one video I realised I’d watched for 20 minutes and all he’d managed was to undo a few rusty bolts. I stick with Soup Classic Motoring, Harry’s Garage and a few others now.

It's only specific traffic core vehicles. It gives lots of "bongs" per minute in terms of tax out, NCT out, and in some cases the info is incorrect as in some cases the local motor tax office can be one month behind in processing motor tax, so the "live" data available to Gardai is incorrect. They have now a phone app with similar abilities, but it's for checking already stopped cars at a checkpoint.

In reality these systems are not likely to find stolen or really wanted cars as they clone similar cars reg. They can be useful to beep at local known drug dealer reg so they can stop, search and hassle them, although they probably have tax, insurance and NCT.

The best no tax success was forcing people to back pay tax if renewed late, although some "sell" car to partner to clear old motor tax debt.

To upgrade a car with no anpr to with anpr is expensive and needs to be moved vehicle every few years as traffic cars have high mileage. They are very common on unmarked traffic cars. I suspect 99% of the alerts are ignored except if it's clearly a serious issue. In USA they roam housing estates checking regs, but also flagging the location car was parked, in case they want to find home address or address where car is often parked (such as work or girlfriend address) many months later for some reason. There is a boom of tow trucks carrying anpr in USA and they patrol hoping to find cars with unpaid finance and tow them away. Often the owners hide the car not at their official address, hoping it won't be taken on them. It's a bit big brother as most systems tag the exact location seen, and some fixed systems take photos of everyone in the car. It's massive in UK and NI particularly with fixed cameras on all key junctions. In the UK the police regularly use the system to track movements after the fact such as a robbery, getting lists of hundreds of cars as possible suspects or witnesses. They can then also ask for dash cam footage from all cars that were in the area.

It started working later on that evening 👍

That's the car sorted for another 12 months.

I've never seen this classy sounding motor. Any pictures?

Post 2784 onwards, lack of pictures unfortunately.

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