Cerbera Plates
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I want to get a personalised plate for my Cerbera, but I understand the rear plates are back-lit? 
If this is the case, where can you get the plates made up? Or do halfords do them. Are they expensive? 
and what if you want the numbers on the plate a bit closer together than normal? Is this illegal? 
If this is the case, where can you get the plates made up? Or do halfords do them. Are they expensive? and what if you want the numbers on the plate a bit closer together than normal? Is this illegal? er, TVR Dealer...???
A load of new regulations came out in Jan, meaning you cannot get the numbers bunched up or altered, there is now only 1 font and you now need to produce a V5 / Entitlement Certificate in order to get the plate made. Also new is that the place making them needs to put identification on the plate by law and they risk a big fine
Bennno
>> Edited by bennno on Monday 4th February 11:26
Not strictly true......
At the Superbike show at Ally Pally a very nice man there made me a pair of plates for my Cerbie in "flash resistant" material, with the TVR logo instead of the Euro logo and he put the numbers/letters where I wanted them. They were sold purely "for off road use only" of course!
A7 VRB is now A 7VR B. Much better.
By the by has anyone had the balls to try out these camera resistant number plates? The guy demo'ed them to me at the show and the result was a picture of a blinding white flash instead of a number plate
I've got about 10 cameras in a two mile stretch near me and they all seem to work.......dying to set the lot off with one finger raised out of the window!
Mind you not many other Cerbies in the area.....Feds may catch on ay?
At the Superbike show at Ally Pally a very nice man there made me a pair of plates for my Cerbie in "flash resistant" material, with the TVR logo instead of the Euro logo and he put the numbers/letters where I wanted them. They were sold purely "for off road use only" of course!
A7 VRB is now A 7VR B. Much better. By the by has anyone had the balls to try out these camera resistant number plates? The guy demo'ed them to me at the show and the result was a picture of a blinding white flash instead of a number plate
I've got about 10 cameras in a two mile stretch near me and they all seem to work.......dying to set the lot off with one finger raised out of the window!
Mind you not many other Cerbies in the area.....Feds may catch on ay?
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Hazy, now i have your reg number expect a buzzin by a bright red car. You probably wont be abe to tell but i will wave as i pass you
Bennno
Yeah, right. Stick to playing with the Max Power boys Bennno, them souped up Novas make even your PanzerKrautMobile look good.
Playing with the big boys in proper cars is just gonna upset you.
Mind you on another thread just noticed you reckon your old M3 was good for 170mph (!!!!!!)
so that should make the Porker capable of at least ooohhh....235 to 250 mph...wow! Thanks for the advice Mags. The guy DID take the picture of a normal plate and a flash resistant plate though and only the flash plate ...erm...flashed. Has anyone actually been nicked coz these things did'nt work? 
Benno....I'm interested that the speedo on the Tuscan was 28 percent out. If your old Beemer was the same your 170mph equates to about 135mph in real money. Kinda makes you feel humble dont it?
Benno....I'm interested that the speedo on the Tuscan was 28 percent out. If your old Beemer was the same your 170mph equates to about 135mph in real money. Kinda makes you feel humble dont it?
www.capitalnumbers.com is a great place to get them, as he can make 'show plates' however you want them to look - Got my cut down ones from there and they are great... Not at all transparent though at the rear - Surely that is not a bad thing??!
PS - I have a couple of plates for sale that would look great IMHO!!
Click here to see the 190 MPH one www.findit.co.uk/cars/numberplates/206053.htm and here for the 180 MPH one www.findit.co.uk/cars/numberplates/206066.htm
Open to any offer as I need the cash... Looks great on TVR..
Click here to see the 190 MPH one www.findit.co.uk/cars/numberplates/206053.htm and here for the 180 MPH one www.findit.co.uk/cars/numberplates/206066.htm
Open to any offer as I need the cash... Looks great on TVR..
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Not strictly true......
At the Superbike show at Ally Pally a very nice man there made me a pair of plates for my Cerbie in "flash resistant" material, with the TVR logo instead of the Euro logo and he put the numbers/letters where I wanted them. They were sold purely "for off road use only" of course!
Hazy - did you get his number? Was the rear plate for the backlit type? I need new ones for my Cerby!
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Thanks for the advice Mags. The guy DID take the picture of a normal plate and a flash resistant plate though and only the flash plate ...erm...flashed. Has anyone actually been nicked coz these things did'nt work?
Benno....I'm interested that the speedo on the Tuscan was 28 percent out. If your old Beemer was the same your 170mph equates to about 135mph in real money. Kinda makes you feel humble dont it?
Hazy,
The Germans would not know how to make something 28% out, it is the preserve of the specialist car industry
If you use the 35% stat another way, it means your cerby has only 240hp!!
Bennno
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I want to get a personalised plate for my Cerbera, but I understand the rear plates are back-lit?
Trying looking for a company that will make 'show plates' for you e.g. old style font etc.
Have a look at some of these sites Registration Plate Printers
Problem with changing spacing is that it could cause you problems e.g. MOT, see
DVLA Registration Mark Rules MC
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Noone's answered the backlit question yet? If it's TVR dealer only (I'm sure they sub it out!) then we can't do the spacing thing?
Looks like honeycomb backed plates from www.capitalnumbers.com work according to the BACKLIT NUMBER PLATES... thread on the Chimaera board.
They were most hopeful when I bought my plates from them.. for show ofcourse.
MC
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Hazy,
When EVO took a Tuscan S over to Germany then got it up to 210mph on the clock flat out! Funny thing was the GPS system actually told them it was 164!
I aint got a dog in this fight but being pedantic the EVO story actually said that the car was *nowhere* near flat out at (a true) 164 and the way it was accelerating at the time, 200mph certainly looked possible.
(Yeah I know the run was aborted because bodywork broke -doh!- but I couldn't let blatent misquoting go unchecked!
) Cheers
Marco
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