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General Category => The Chill Out Room => Topic started by: Coyoteboy on August 24, 2007, 12:25:21 am

Title: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: Coyoteboy on August 24, 2007, 12:25:21 am
Latest VOSA news - plates are to be taken more seriously in the MOT, they now must meet spec (i.e. be the right size, reflective and vertically mounted) or you will fail the MOT. Just a heads up for those with nice stick-ons
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: paul_gt4 on August 24, 2007, 11:51:38 am
yeah chrisw was thinking his was going to give him bother so this confirms it, he got a nasty surprise too at cstoms in holland on the way back saying his plates were illegal nice of them to tell him on the way back
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: Rob_A on August 24, 2007, 12:31:50 pm
Just stick the legal plate back on for the MOT :)

Nowt saying you can't have two plates ;)
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: RobbieMcVee on August 24, 2007, 12:55:36 pm
thats what i'll be doing - i think the 185 bonnet makes the stick on plates nearly flat though
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: Coyoteboy on August 24, 2007, 02:31:25 pm
Hehe Re holland - at least its not like what happened to me driving between italy and slovenia - got past the italian border control in the middle of the mountains, drove 200 yards to the slovenian border control and they told me they couldnt let me through due to the insuranceon the hire car (it was ok, but the paperwork was wrong due to updates) so me and the missus were stuck in no mans land - the italians were non-too keen on letting us back through and the slovenians were stood by with guns :D Eventually managed to get the slovenians to phone the car hire place and confirm it but since they didnt speak much english, only a little italian and we spoke very little of either it was a fun journey, especially when we only had an hour or two to cover most of the alpine range to get to the apartment before they closed for the night!

Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: ChrisW on August 25, 2007, 10:05:59 am
I think the dutch guard was a little miffed that we'd waited so long to board, so was being a little pedantic. Maybe he's not on overtime pay and wanted to disappear for 'a liddle shhhmoke'  ;D (that's supposed to sound dutch when you say it out loud, lol)
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: paul_gt4 on August 26, 2007, 04:28:50 pm
sounds like you had a few to many shhhmoke's there chris or is it tabs as you like to call them
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: ChrisW on August 29, 2007, 07:52:49 pm
Lol @ Paul, any incoherent ramblings in Germany are to be blamed squarely on the local beer ;D I was referring to the liberal attitude the dutch have to certain 'recreational' smoking materials ;D ;D
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: paul_gt4 on August 30, 2007, 02:27:38 am
yeah your just raging you never got to stop off to try those "liberal" attitudes
Title: Re: New MOT plate requirements
Post by: ChrisW on September 11, 2007, 03:08:09 pm
Not at all, we had enough 'stop-offs' without ending up giggling at the slightest thing, lol