I use these ones, car as been mot’d with them on and had plod behind me on many occasions and not been stopped. Fitted inside the Audi sport number plate surround. Plus no tacky EU symbols
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Because it’s important to Audi to maintain free access to the uk and an exchange rate that helps sell cars. We all like Audis and in case you haven’t noticed, prices have gone up rather a lot.
Not technically legal unless your car was registered before 1972!
I doubt the plod could be bothered to pull you over unless they had good reason to do so and it 'should' have been picked up at MOT time. Luckily for you it didn't, I am sure it just would have saved everyone time and effort for you only to switch them back again anyway!
I bought some cool carbon effect metal pressed plates from Ebay.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/292836013681
I’m not! Tory and UKIP extremism has hijacked the will of the people. Happy to continue via PM . Ray
Got my set from platesforcars, it’s an Ireland based company andand can do road legal/show plates (both can have the legal Bs au standards but it’s written very small so you can’t see it from afar ).
They don’t ask for v5 document but they do have a disclaimer saying they share/willing to share details with the police is required to do so.
Very good quality plates even for the standard plates
Not technically legal unless your car was registered before 1972!
I doubt the plod could be bothered to pull you over unless they had good reason to do so and it 'should' have been picked up at MOT time. Luckily for you it didn't, I am sure it just would have saved everyone time and effort for you only to switch them back again anyway!
@kcpism just out of interest, why do you believe these are only legal on pre 1973 cars?
I believe that is only true for the metal plates that have a black background and white/silver text like this:
Like I’ve said before running pressed plates on this car and my TTS previous to this one and not one single problem come mot time etc. They have a postcode stamp on them and have the correct font size and plate size.
Part of the reason I asked - running pressed plates on my cars for 10+ years with no issues, all road legal with the correct information on them.
Are pressed number plates legal for modern vehicles?
Guidelines for the display of number plates for vehicles registered from March 21st 2001 are detailed under British Standard BS AU 145d. As per these guidelines number plates must be made of reflective material (not retroactively made reflective by treatment). Aluminium, which traditionally makes up pressed number plates, does not meet this standard.
Another standard requires the material to be flexible, and must be able to spring back to its original shape if bent. Metal plates cannot do this.
These two requirements means that pressed metal number plates are effectively illegal for any modern vehicle.
Answer: No
Info from here: https://www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/blog/2015/12/legal-pressed-plates.html