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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2011, 06:17:02 pm »
i wouldn't have even said that you were gonna change them when you got home. you'd done nothing wrong
I just took their word for it at the time so wanted to sound compliant lol!

as above really, i suggest contesting it as it looks like they are legal

best bet is go to your local station and start the ball rolling, probably find you need to put the fact you want to contest in writing.

if you have the ticket infront of you it will have written on it (possibly the back) the appeals process.


The ticket i have got doesn't have any appeals process on it, only the option to pay or go to court! i will have to get down to the cop shop tomorrow and complain!

They probably stopped me thinking a young guy driving a nice car must me dodgy, it's happened many of times before driving my dads C Class for no reason! They need to find better things to do with their duties on the job. What annoyed me most was that they were infront of me, and just stopped with the lights on and got me out of my my car. I don't know how they saw the plates from where they were :S They didn't even bother to get my car or theirs in a safe place on the side of the road, the cars were just left in the right hand lane of when a dual carriage way is just about to become one lane!

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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2011, 06:25:15 pm »
To be fair to them it must be hard to memorise every little intricate detail of the law considering they don't really even study law. But yes, it is frustrating when this happens. My best mate's a copper and I've caught him out on a few things to do with car legalities myself! Not confidence inspiring though is it haha!
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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2011, 06:28:52 pm »
To be fair to them it must be hard to memorise every little intricate detail of the law considering they don't really even study law. But yes, it is frustrating when this happens. My best mate's a copper and I've caught him out on a few things to do with car legalities myself! Not confidence inspiring though is it haha!

yeah but basics like this? it's not really acceptable is it... another member has had his garage broken into and he's received no assitance whatsoever, and the OP's been pulled over and fined for doing absolutely nothing wrong. the police forces in this country need to get their priorities right.
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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2011, 06:30:47 pm »


The offending plate, nothing wrong with it at all!!  :stupid:

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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2011, 06:35:07 pm »
cant win really can they..


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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2011, 06:37:47 pm »
Get yourself down the cop shop and kick butt fella, absolutely nothing wrong with that plate, below is an example of the Charles Wright 2001 font........



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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2011, 06:48:13 pm »
Cheers for the help guys! i definitely will be be throwing up a stink tomorrow! if only i was 100% sure earlier when i got pulled over i could have argued all day about it! Oh well, ill give them some grief tomorrow!  :signLOL:

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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2011, 08:35:44 pm »
Do plates need to be reflective? Are these reflective?

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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #23 on: December 22, 2011, 08:36:44 pm »
Do plates need to be reflective? Are these reflective?
Hey yes they do need to be reflective and these are!

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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2011, 04:46:40 pm »
Write a letter to the officer in charge of where the PC is based explaining he must be mistaken and enclosing a copy of the documentation to prove your point and a copy of the ticket.  The ticket process should be put on hold whilst your complaint is investigated.

If you are right the officer simply needs a bit of guidance.  The ticket will then get cancelled.  The officer will then get abused by his colleagues. 


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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #25 on: December 31, 2011, 08:27:54 pm »
I've been told one of the problems on the plate is the letter A. Does anyone see a problem with it?

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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #26 on: December 31, 2011, 10:22:43 pm »


The offending plate, nothing wrong with it at all!!  :stupid:

I am no expert on plates, however, the A is not very clear or distinct on that photo - could be my eyes :xmassmiley:


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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2012, 11:52:19 am »
The top half of the A looks too thick and not enough space in the middle... Could be that... Might be a ase their anpr didn't throw back data cis it couldn't read it... In which case they aren't right... Whole point of standardised plates is to work with such systems...

I'd kick up stink with police first, and if no joy, go back to where you bought them, reporting them to trading standards to as the bs stamp has absolutely no relevance if they aren't acceptable to police...

Someones in wrong here... Police or manufacturer...
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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2012, 12:23:18 pm »
I guess the best thing would have been to look for a Police car with an A in the plate and look at it with the officer - if it is comparable to yours, then they can't argue, if it isn't, they have a point.
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Re: £60 FINE for Metal Pressed plates!
« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2012, 03:05:29 pm »
Who manufactured your plates for you btw?
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