[Closed] 3d number plates

none and they will get you pulled by the cops as they do not meet the required standards

They help you to identify that the owner would really like a personalised plate but can't afford one?

As TJ said, not road legal, attract a £100 fine AIUI.

Too Jazzy?

But yeah, they look shite and are usually the warning sign of a throbber at the wheel.

They make spotting the bad drivers easier for the rest of us.

none and they will get you pulled by the cops as they do not meet the required standards

You can get the gel ones that are legal and BSAU marked, the foam ones are not legal. But bizarrely they will pass an MOT as the book does not say to check for the BSAU mark, a hangover from cars not having them!

3d plates aren't automatically legal, though, a lot of them are and I reckon the person who goes "I want a really eyecatching number plate are drawn to the illegal ones.

(ime from motorbikes, the rules are essentially "don't take the piss", I had small-ish plates for years and never once had any grief for it)

Pressed metal is the nicest imo- totally legal, really nice finish, just looks like normal except a little nicer... It's weird how much of a difference putting a nice new plate on a car can make. Or how just putting the wrong design on one can make it instantly look chavvy.

and they will get you pulled by the cops

I'm hoping that most cops have got better things to do than pull folks with number plates that have a bit of depth to them TBH

I’m hoping that most cops have got better things to do than pull folks with number plates that have a bit of depth to them TBH

It's almost like a beacon though.

A good reason to get pulled over, because if they've gone to the effort of 3d number plates, there's a higher chance they might have bald tyres or some other defect.

I’m hoping that most cops have got better things to do than pull folks with number plates that have a bit of depth to them TBH

From what I've seen on Traffic Interceptor Cops Code Red, pull someone for dodgy plates and you're likely to find other issues with tyres/insurance/license/drugs...

Good reason to pull you and breathalise you as well.

You know the other thread where folks were losing their shit about getting breathalized without good reason.....almost like they regularly drink drive or something....

This would be a good reason....as you have committed an offence.

That said I have a 3d plate on the back of the land rover.........because that is the original 35 year old stock plate from the factory. It's non reflective and non GB /EU marked..... But perfectly legal because it's age appropriate. Another one that grinds my gears is the twonks that put black and white classic plates on cars that are not classics like it makes them look like classics.

I think we can forgive @trailrat for having a traditional pressed metal number plate..assuming his car is a genuine antique 😉

Parts of it is......

Most of it is welding wire and modern electrics.

I’m hoping that most cops have got better things to do than pull folks with number plates that have a bit of depth to them TBH

Many a tweet I see at work where the pull for 3D plates leads to a confiscated car and an arrest for numerous offences including drugs and drink incapacity.

People doing illegal stuff in cars are really thick. Drive an insured and taxed motor within the speed limits and no other attention grabbing features, you'll never get tugged. Crackers.

3D plates are so years ago ! 4d plates are in now 😉

When I worked with the police the biggest drugs bust I saw came about because some idiots in a car threw a pizza box out of the window - car was stopped by cops and the cops found a kilo of cannabis.

I think all 3 d plates will be illegal - there are very specific requirements

see also vertical rear wiper

It’s the dicks who put front plate in the windscreen that grind my gears.
I’d confiscate their cars out of principal

Dual post

I think all 3 d plates will be illegal –

Yeah there not no matter what you think.

How ever a vast majority are because people push boundary's /want to be unique/be edgy..... Mostly you just look like a tit. See also "custom spacing" your plate.

3D plates are so years ago ! 4d plates are in now

Yeah 4D plates coming to a mid priced SUV near you soon. Not only tacky, but a total disregard for spacetime.

I’m hoping that most cops have got better things to do than pull folks with number plates that have a bit of depth to them TBH

Why would you wish that?

There are old fashioned physically 3D plates and the new 'pseudo 3D plates'. As some (many) of the later will not be readable by ANPR etc I would hope that the 'cops' would welcome the opportunity to make sure that a very basic requirement to have a legal vehicle is met in order to help the 'cops' police things like speeding.

All cars are originally supplied with legal plates. If the plates do not meet the required legal requirement then someone has paid to have the car made illegal. Speeding cars can kill more readily than non-speeding cars (baby robins, child's face etc)

To put it another way; I wish that 'cops' didn't have anything better to do, that suggests they have to sort out nasty things like rape/murder/GBH/Domestic Violence etc

That said I have a 3d plate on the back of the land rover………because that is the original 35 year old stock plate from the factory. It’s non reflective and non GB /EU marked….. But perfectly legal because it’s age appropriate.

That reminds me, I need to order some age-approoriate plates for the Mini. The current Euro-font plates really annoy me 🤣

I think all 3 d plates will be illegal – there are very specific requirements

Yea, nope.

The new rules mean they have to be black letters only, but they can still be 3D.

That reminds me, I need to order some age-approoriate plates for the Mini. The current Euro-font plates really annoy me 🤣

I wanted a new front plate to match the rear and legally I could only get show plates.

Son has 4d - but still legal. Must be a pain in the ass to wash ! I'll stick with standard ones.

Worst are the heavily tinted plates, next the super reflective ones. The drivers should just get pulled and the car seized to they fit the correct ones, that or prosecution for attempting to pervert the course of justice

Here you go, this ticks all the boxes!

This is a car at work, ultimately it’ll get a registration change and proper legal plates put on.

That's the ones. ^^^ So the bi-coloured ones I've seen are referred to as 4d?

Those are solid black - called 4D, they are about 4mm thick..

There are age specific plates that can be put on cars of a certain vintage.

But when you see people trying to bend the rules it's pretty obvious. Hence barry in his battered old Audi a3 running 19 inch rims, that probably belongs to his mum.. a police officer might put two and two together.

Hand painted lettering by a signwriter on my vintage Ariel Red Hunter motorbike number plates.

my old motorbike has white lettering on a black mount - no plate at all!  ( perfectly legal )

I’m hoping that most cops have got better things to do than pull folks with number plates that have a bit of depth to them TBH

You’ve got them haven’t you? Just admit it.

I almost asked the very same question as the OP a while ago after noticing a few knocking around, even on ‘normal’ cars, but obviously didn’t bother. 🤭

The current Euro-font plates really annoy me

As in FE-Schrift?

There’s a total throbber round here who has black/silver ‘cherished’ plates on his A3. I’m told that if the DVLA get wind of stuff like this they give you a warning, then on a second offence withdraw the plate.

Isn't this how number plates used to look like?

It’s the dicks who put front plate in the windscreen that grind my gears.
I’d confiscate their cars out of principal

Posted 4 hours ago

I did that a few months ago. Came out one day to find the front plate had fallen off the van and was laying in the road in front of it (guessing glued on? It's screwed on now and hasn't fallen off again)
Anyway, I stuck it in the windscreen and drove off.
I got stopped, and breathalysed, on the A72 neat Clovenfords. No penalty, but got told to fix it ASAP

3D/4D plates are perfectly legal. Assuming correct spacing etc.
My rear numberplate is a bit elderly and some of the backing has stuck to the car. Where some heathen drilled the bolt holes out, if it's taken off/falls off it has to be carefully aligned to read correctly.
I really don't want to put a modern plate on it but might have to one day.

My first car I drove for years with a bit of perspex with the broken bit of number plate drawn on, MOT guy used to shake his head and pass it.

As in FE-Schrift?

No, that would be tragic! The people who use those plates (usually German on VAG cars) are trying too hard to make their mass-produced Euroboxes look 'individual'. I mean the old style of Charles Wright Font, the current ones are Charles Wright New which means they are smaller with narrower letters ie the Euro size. On a 1989 car they look completely out of proportion as there is a lot more white/yellow plate than there used to be. The new font was called 'Euro - new' on the number plate printing machine I used to use when they first arrived just after the millennium.

For the past few years my MOT has had "front registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread" as an advisory. Is there a similar advisory if you turn up with non-standard numberplates?

Anyway mine has got beyond a joke and I promised the car it would get new plates if it passed, which it has done, so it's getting new ones with a border and a wee Scottish flag (I thought that was pushing it a bit with the naffness!)

It’s the dicks who put front plate in the windscreen that grind my gears.
I’d confiscate their cars out of principal

Posted 4 hours ago

I did that a few months ago. Came out one day to find the front plate had fallen off the van and was laying in the road in front of it (guessing glued on? It’s screwed on now and hasn’t fallen off again)
Anyway, I stuck it in the windscreen and drove off.
I got stopped, and breathalysed, on the A72 neat Clovenfords. No penalty, but got told to fix it ASAP

I think the poster meant people who purposely put the number plates in the window so they can avoid ANPR and then claim “it just fell off earlier down the road Officer” are the dicks. Not people where it has genuinely just fallen off..

I think most people here are talking about 4D plates. The smooth plates with 3D text style by using a grey accent are illegal as the numbers are not all black.

The plates with raise letters are legal (like countzero's example) but not if they have non-standard spacing or an additional outline colour.

(Still needs to show the the BS mark and manufacturers detail actually but can't be bothered to go back and check countzero's photo as I've got virtually no connection!)

I think the poster meant people who purposely put the number plates in the window so they can avoid ANPR

And there was me thinking it originated to make your car look JDM.....

Plate in the window won't necessarily avoid ANPR.