Discussion
I bought my S1 last year and shortly thereafter transferred my personal plate on to it. I had taken the number plates off my previous car and intended to throw them away. As a stop gap I put them on the Lotus, but they were 'full size' and look a bit big and clumsy, and a bit low at the front end.
Question is, I was thinking about having new plates made up but with all of these silly number plate regs will they allow me to have the slightly smaller plates? I have been to the DVLA web site but can't make sense of all the numbers (11mm this and X mm slant). Any body had plates made and what can you get away with?
I was thinking about going to 'fancyplates' and getting a smaller set made in Ireland to avoid the regs.but don't want the law all over me. If I do go fancyplates I don't want to look like a boy racer or a chav, so has anybody seen a Liz with cool plates (and I don't mean italics and pictures of the statue of liberty). My S1 is Titanium with black leather, and they do ofer some colour coding of plates if anybody has views on that? I see they offer the Lotus logo too.
www.fancyplates.com
Question is, I was thinking about having new plates made up but with all of these silly number plate regs will they allow me to have the slightly smaller plates? I have been to the DVLA web site but can't make sense of all the numbers (11mm this and X mm slant). Any body had plates made and what can you get away with?
I was thinking about going to 'fancyplates' and getting a smaller set made in Ireland to avoid the regs.but don't want the law all over me. If I do go fancyplates I don't want to look like a boy racer or a chav, so has anybody seen a Liz with cool plates (and I don't mean italics and pictures of the statue of liberty). My S1 is Titanium with black leather, and they do ofer some colour coding of plates if anybody has views on that? I see they offer the Lotus logo too.
www.fancyplates.com
ive just ordered mine off them.front plate 100mm x 500mm so should just cover plinth.
font 1 lotus logo to the side border red into silver(car is also titanium but with red leather inside!).elise 111s small text at bottom.should look good.
rear plate std size but with above design.
ste c
font 1 lotus logo to the side border red into silver(car is also titanium but with red leather inside!).elise 111s small text at bottom.should look good.
rear plate std size but with above design.
ste c
You can potentially be pulled for anything non standard.
However, that hasn't stopped me getting 3/4 size plate on the front (fits really nicely), with Lotus logo from fancyplates.
Standard font (otherwise it will look chav).
Ok, so my spacing might be a little bit, erm, wrong, but so far no complaints from BiB.
The plate is perfectly legible. Too legible infact - just got a congestion charge fine through the post yesterday. The picture they took is nice though!
Tim
However, that hasn't stopped me getting 3/4 size plate on the front (fits really nicely), with Lotus logo from fancyplates.
Standard font (otherwise it will look chav).
Ok, so my spacing might be a little bit, erm, wrong, but so far no complaints from BiB.
The plate is perfectly legible. Too legible infact - just got a congestion charge fine through the post yesterday. The picture they took is nice though!
Tim
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