[Closed] VW T5 plates

Peak T5.

Cheapest legal ones. No one else will notice or care.

Pressed 😎👌

Get them ones that look ‘fun fun fun on de autobahn’

Proper daft.

Get legal ones.

One that says T5 then the first bit of your name, like T5 KEV. Because personalised number plates are really sophisticated.

Also, the ones it comes with will be fine, and legal, and no one cares anyway tbh.

🤣 been away for a couple of years, I see things haven’t really changed. 🤣

Fully intend to go legal, they won’t be cherished plates but the ‘ones it came with’ are cracked, hence replacements needed.

This is the same place that people spunk over matching anodised Hope trinkets isn’t it?

Yeah, but any non standard plates just look gash. It's the equivalent of typing out an important document in comic sans.

Ooooh now! Comic San number plates - now you’re on to something

3D plates just scream utter bawsack.

Surely it's some of them 3d shaded ones
with the film over that "can't" be picked up by the cameras.......

Perfect for when your doing car speed limits in a van.

Cheapest legal ones. No one else will notice or care

That. It's just a bit of plastic.
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Also, as I found out when going to get one made for a trailer, you have to take your V5 with you when getting one made, apparently turning up in the car with two of them already on it isn't good enough for them

Trailer..... I just ordered show plates. They are entirely indifferent from the other rear plates on my car.

But less hassle.

And 10000 X better than most folks bits of cardboard with pen on.

ordered show plates. They are entirely indifferent from the other rear plates on my car.

Aren't they an MOT failure as they don't have the British Standard mark on them?

Also, as I found out when going to get one made for a trailer, you have to take your V5 with you when getting one made, apparently turning up in the car with two of them already on it isn’t good enough for them

eBay for 'display plates'... 😎

I have personalised plates on 2 of my cars and really like them, but the actual plate design is just bog standard plastic (Wilco motosave I think) - they look better that way!

Also if you’re only changing the front plate it presumably won’t match the rear - my OCD could never cope with that.

Pressed aluminium for me. They don't crack, they don't craze, they can be recycled.

EDIT - the new 3D ones, to me, just seems like something else that's a pain to clean properly. Like badging on the back of a car. Dirt gents into the letters and can't be cleaned out save for with effort.

Probably not the best place to ask!

I always get the aluminium pressed ones or standard acrylic personally.

Those ones with the stick on letters are just terrible. My favourite thing about them is watching the monkeys pulling the letters off in the safari park. So many cars with blank number plates in the Longleat car park when we went in summer 😛

Local place to me does plates for about a tenner a plate - take V5 in and they are done in about 5 minutes...I don't have a private plate and the car is just there to get me somewhere that I'm too lazy to get myself to on my own so I'm fine without needing to spend extra for a 'look'...just replace with what you have and save some cash for decent poser things...

Which one will get the most likes on Instagram?

https://www.carreg.co.uk/carreg-news/important-law-change-for-uk-number-plates/

This caught my eye, especially as when I was younger I had many pre-1980 cars & motorbikes and none of them had black & silver plates. Has the '1980' date moved forward?

New Eligibility for Black and Silver Number Plates
From 1st January 2021, only vehicles built before 1st January 1980 will be eligible to display the black and silver number plates (silver, white or grey characters on a black plate). These traditional plates add a touch of class to classic cars, especially when you have a private or non-date specific registration number. You must apply to the DVLA for the plates and your vehicle must be registered in the ‘historic vehicles’ tax class.

Aren’t they an MOT failure as they don’t have the British Standard mark on them?

Will let you know when I present my trailer for an mot.

Fyi the plates I got have no more or less markings than the ones that came stock on my car.

I've got the pressed alu ones in the German style. Even got a personalised plate.

I am however in Germany and running anything else is illegal.

Cheapest legal ones. No one else will notice or care.

This.

any non standard or private plates just look gash desperate.

But, even though I own a T5 camper, I view motor vehicles as domestic appliances, 🙂

3D are gash. Looks like something I made in Design Tech at school 20 years ago.
Gel plates. Gash too.
Pressed plates - I like them as long as they're legal (UK font, reflective back, no "D" marks etc unless you are actually running a German registered car). They do (on the fronts especially) get pitted by stone chips etc over time. I've just taken mine off after 5 or 6 years as the fronts just looked tatty.
Replaced them with clean, standard plates. Looks loads better.

* on a T5 too.

@intheborders

Black and silver plates are a bizarre change. Even back when I was interested in the classic car world in mid to late 90s there were grumbles that people were using black and silver plates that while legal for the cars were historically incorrect. Nobody used black plates once yellow and white were legal!