lost in london
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How can it be 4D unless it lets you time travel?
It's 3D shirley
I think you'll find it's one better than 3D.
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[Misc] What's the deal with 3d number plates?
- Thread starter Bozza
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I think you'll find it's one better than 3D.
Gazwag
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How can it be 4D unless it lets you time travel?
It's 3D shirley
I think its the GCSE grades of the people who think its cool, people with 4 D's are very slightly more stupid
Dave the hatosaurus
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my cars nearly 60 years old and has '3D' number plates. Number plate fashion has its moments, remember those awful black silver perspex/foil ones in the 80's?
Back in the late 70s i had an amber gold mk2 cortina with black and gold perspex plates , i thought it looked fantastic !
studio150
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As of September 2021, a new standard of number plates will be introduced, replacing BS145d that is currently in circulation.
This is a sturdier, more resilient material able to handle more damage, more bending, abrasion, impact, and thermal change, and will also show up clearer on ANPR cameras on UK roads.
This also means that the digits will change, and as a result, two tone number plates will not allowed when the new standard are introduced. Instead, solid black digits will be the only acceptable digits on physical number plates, again, to make it easier for ANPR cameras to pick them up and identify vehicles. 4D is fine, but again, they need to be comprised of solid black digits.
All plates will also have to show the suppliers business name and postcode in the bottom centre of the car registration plate, and the number plate manufacturer with BS145e in the bottom right corner.
So just a money making scheme
This is a sturdier, more resilient material able to handle more damage, more bending, abrasion, impact, and thermal change, and will also show up clearer on ANPR cameras on UK roads.
This also means that the digits will change, and as a result, two tone number plates will not allowed when the new standard are introduced. Instead, solid black digits will be the only acceptable digits on physical number plates, again, to make it easier for ANPR cameras to pick them up and identify vehicles. 4D is fine, but again, they need to be comprised of solid black digits.
All plates will also have to show the suppliers business name and postcode in the bottom centre of the car registration plate, and the number plate manufacturer with BS145e in the bottom right corner.
So just a money making scheme
AmexRuislip
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I can’t say I’ve noticed any yet but I’m guessing it’s the car owners with personal plates that buy them, usually have a plate that sort of spells their name, then a space followed by an X….odd
Seems that having a backfiring exhaust is also a novelty these days
4D number plates? That means space and time. Do they take the car back to the future, then?
my cars nearly 60 years old and has '3D' number plates. Number plate fashion has its moments, remember those awful black silver perspex/foil ones in the 80's?
Back in the late 70s i had an amber gold mk2 cortina with black and gold perspex plates , i thought it looked fantastic !
They were rocket science at the time ;-) my last 1600E had its original pressed yellow/white ones which I nearly changed for B&W, but restied, they must have been cool as in 1969! it all goes round in circles.
proper raised letter polished aluminium letters were posh in the 50's/early 60's.
Dave the hatosaurus
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It makes a hell of a difference to a car . . . like wheels can make or break virtually anything.
lots of classics have pressed black/silver ally. they were cheapest in period and are now.
hand painted for bikes is best IMO.
when I first built the Cortina I took the number plate to bits and repainted all the letters and back plate B&W from yellow, as the correct type werent available, then more recently bought a new one in period spec.
he'res a good and bad example . . . . . wheels are all wrong on the Crapi as well.
What's the deal with 3d number plates? Surely the question should be, what's the point?
Every car I've ever owned has come (and departed) with number plates attached. I've never even thought about changing them - they weren't broken, so there was no point in spending money to change them.
Every car I've ever owned has come (and departed) with number plates attached. I've never even thought about changing them - they weren't broken, so there was no point in spending money to change them.
- Jan 3, 2012
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RandyWanger
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The 3d/4d ones look shit.
The historic black/white hand painted ones are cool. I think I can legally run them on my 1970 car. That currently has pressed black/silver aluminium ones.
The historic black/white hand painted ones are cool. I think I can legally run them on my 1970 car. That currently has pressed black/silver aluminium ones.
Goring-by-Seagull
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- Jan 5, 2012
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You’re totally right of course, but that being said, I LOVE personalised plates. I’m like some sort of train spotter - but with plates. Some really good ones out there!
Far too many shite personalised plates around these days, not a fan of plates that try to spell a name by using numbers as letters, most are illegal anyway.
I did laugh at a Porche I saw about 20 years ago near Heathfield with the plate Bollox
I don’t mind BHA plates though
This sort of thing doesn’t impress me, nice car ruined by a shite plate.
Super Steve Earle
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I have a mental picture of you with a little notebook, licking the end of a stubby pencil before carefully adding another BHA number plate on the correct page. Maybe sorted in columns for easy reference.
Goring-by-Seagull
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- Jan 5, 2012
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Sadly not! I just keep an eye out on my drive home, ready to tell the wife my exciting finds when I get home. BHA ones are a dime a dozen so they’re no good to me.
Saw a purple Scirocco the other day with a Muse sticker in the back window- looked down and the number plate was MU53 FAN. Come on, gotta admit that’s good
Super Steve Earle
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Very nice. Mrs Earle has a blue car with a BHA number plate, her initial and the last three numbers of her phone, coincidentally the number of the beast! Not sure what that all signifies...