New MOT plate requirements

[Coyoteboy]

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

[paul_gt4]

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

[Rob_A]

Just stick the legal plate back on for the MOT

Nowt saying you can't have two plates

[RobbieMcVee]

thats what i'll be doing - i think the 185 bonnet makes the stick on plates nearly flat though

[Coyoteboy]

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 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!

[ChrisW]

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'  (that's supposed to sound dutch when you say it out loud, lol)

[paul_gt4]

sounds like you had a few to many shhhmoke's there chris or is it tabs as you like to call them

[ChrisW]

Lol @ Paul, any incoherent ramblings in Germany are to be blamed squarely on the local beer I was referring to the liberal attitude the dutch have to certain 'recreational' smoking materials

[paul_gt4]

yeah your just raging you never got to stop off to try those "liberal" attitudes

[ChrisW]

Not at all, we had enough 'stop-offs' without ending up giggling at the slightest thing, lol