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FarmerPug · Post by **FarmerPug** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:02 pm

The coppers have only stopped me once in my car, it was at one of the many checkpoints we have here, he asked me why the car had no mot disk in the window, i tried to explain the car was from england and they are not needed. So i was then told to pull the car into the side and look for the certificate, he looked at it but not really quite satisfied by it, until thankfully the other policeman came over, he was from england and understood it all, told me it was ok.
I was sh**ng myself, it was only about a week after getting the car.

Gary406 · Post by **Gary406** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:05 pm

MOT disc

what the feck. in UK we get a sticker on the MOT cetificate but you dont have to display it in the window if you dont want to,

FarmerPug · Post by **FarmerPug** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:32 pm

they made a big fuss about it at the time, now i need to display the mot disk in the car.

Gary406 · Post by **Gary406** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:34 pm

weird. MOT disc display but no registration plate font rules

FarmerPug · Post by **FarmerPug** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:47 pm

We also have the R plates for new drivers, that is a stupid idea

Gary406 · Post by **Gary406** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:59 pm

how many GAZ irish plates do you see over there ?

i know my private plate is just an irish plate on a UK car

FarmerPug · Post by **FarmerPug** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:08 pm

i never look at plates to be honest, but im sure GAZ is available.
I did see HICL 500 on a CL500 of all cars.

Gary406 · Post by **Gary406** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:10 pm

i beleive my private plate is basically an irish plate GAZ then any 4 numbers.

in UK there about £700 minimum from DVLA.

My plate GAZ 6074 was £885 on a website just as i bought it

sirwiggum · Post by **sirwiggum** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:51 pm

They seem very lax about fonts.

A popular one is "Metro" which is like a bold Serif font.

An example of a car with Metro font - http://www.reallymeansounds.com/forum/a ... 0932-3.jpg

Dealers such as SERE and Lindsay Ford fitted the Metro font as standard

Does look a bit better on the cars though.

Can even see HGV lorries with Metro font plates.

When I used to live in Scotland and nipped back, I used to put the GB VOSA MOT sticker on the windscreen as an alternative to the MOT disc. Even phoned DVLNI to confirm that this would be allowed and they said it was OK as it was MOTd in GB.

GAZ was Co Antrim I think it was early 90s it was issued, but is dateless, so can go on any car, 1911 even.

Gary406 · Post by **Gary406** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:34 pm

so in ireland now are GAZ plates not issued anymore ?

FarmerPug · Post by **FarmerPug** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:49 pm

They change every year, i think we were on BIG for a while which made the plates popular.
If GAZ is an old plate, you could get it off an old car on gumtree.

sirwiggum · Post by **sirwiggum** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:28 pm

FarmerPug wrote:They change every year, i think we were on BIG for a while which made the plates popular.
If GAZ is an old plate, you could get it off an old car on gumtree.

They don't change on a set date, like say 59 changed to 10 on 1st March 2010.

They just rollover. So when GAZ got to 9999, they started on HAZ 1001. They keep the sub-1000s for personal plate auctions I think.

GAZ was issued in Belfast I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_pl ... rn_Ireland

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