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I noticed a thread on one of the forums about personalised number plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone who is an ADI<\/strong> says he has bought a personalised plate and is asking if the examiner \u201cwould mind\u201d if he made it – for example – A12BC D instead of A12 BCD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who buy these things usually do what he is suggesting as standard (they also use  yellow\/black bolts to make\/fill gaps in the letters to change what they look like). Favourite tricks include turning two adjacent 1s into an H by putting a black bolt between them and moving them closer together, and putting a yellow bolt in an O, 0, or other character to make it look like a G or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He immediately got a reply advising him that it would fail the MOT, so he should keep a spare set and switch them whenever he takes it in for its MOT<\/strong>. I believe that this reply is from an ex-traffic cop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, there’s a brief argument on how easy it is\/isn’t to get plates made which don’t conform to the standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s just clarify something: it is illegal<\/strong>. The person who asked the question knows<\/strong> that, otherwise he wouldn\u2019t have asked. All the people who have answered know<\/strong> it, otherwise they wouldn\u2019t have advised on ways around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there is this comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How many posts have there been on this forum about “jobsworth” examiners?! Maybe not at your usual TC, but you’re bound to get one at another TC or someone covering that will refuse to go out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, any examiner who refuses to take the car out if it has plates which are illegal is a “jobsworth”. Now we know who the professionals<\/strong> are, don’t we? Can you believe that these people call themselves professional<\/strong> driving instructors, yet openly advocate breaking the Law and suggest ways of concealing the fact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original poster says he has a plate which reads A12BC D, so he apparently doesn’t realise the proper format is AB12 CDE or A12 BCD!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there was another post to the thread – subsequently deleted – informing everyone that there was no problem using any<\/strong> font you wished. All fonts were “road legal” according to this “expert”. In actual fact (obtained from UKSpeedTraps.co.uk<\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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