Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > new number plates

[deej]

where do you guys get all your show plates from, mine fell off yesterday on the way home from collecting my bike, i now ahve a temporary one made froma old plate ( with the white showing ) and some black door letters

i called in to bridge yesterday and they wouldnt help,they said they make them and i need 2 forms of i.d and bike documents, i gave them the v52, my d-licence and passport and they said thatw as unacceptable. i had to have licence OR passport and a utility bill , they wont be getting any money off me again, they wouldnt budge even though i could have been pulled and had a £60 or more fine, some customer service they provide.

halfords do plates but they get them made up country so they wont be getting my order either, so now i'd just like to know how you would recommend to a decent plate with maybe a small shadowy ducati logo

rant over

cheers

[rockhopper]

Any shop that makes plates with the legal font will ask you for the same details, its the law now so dont blame Bridge.

Show plates can be had from various companies who advertise in the back of MCN, MAL plates are one.

[NBs996]

V5 and photo i.d. should be enough to get a plate made. Sounds like Bridge were prob going a bit ott!

I get show plates made up from www.run2.net

[rockhopper]

Nope, thats not enough. I got one made at Halfrauds, they wanted a utility bill as well and they had to enter all my info into an online data base. A phone bill wasnt good enough! Had to be gas or electric.

[bradders]

what if you lived at home with your parents, no utility bills, no credit cards, just the v5 and driving license??? and we pay taxes to keep this bunch of idiots in power!

[deej]

yeah thats fair enough i accept the law but which is worse not having a bill on me or riding with 150 miles with no number plate at all. a passport and driving licence is surely better than a licence and a crappy gas bill, they wont even accept mobile phone bills anymore

all i wanted to do today was show of my new baby but i was too embarresed as i had to use a old plate with tacky lettering

roll on later in the week when the new plate arrives

p.s. how do i stop the bolts vibrating loose as that happen this afternoon too

[deej]

here here

trouble is that we can vote one lot out and then vote another lot of idiots back in again

[AK]

Deej - try being AK!

He is always losing plates off the special, and now also 'mashing' the one on the viffer too!
Unfortunate thing is, he makes the plates at work - so knows what the consequences are.
Having chatted to a nice policeman the other week - he agreed what a prob it is becoming, for the law-abiding citizen.

Dont do what happened to AK in May:
eg: lose your plate, when well away from home on a bank hol Sunday early eve. No shops open to make one, not all the correct docs with you either - so you cant get one made up on the Monday on the way home, cos local Halfrauds/factor cannot do it!
Imagine if it had happened on the first day of the four that we were away!
You now HAVE to travel illegally home - which could have disastrous consequences for your license

AK says in future if away overnight, he is going to carry a spare in a back pack, and we now also keep a spare in the garage, for each bike.

C

[ath748]

I got mine from http://www.fancyplates.com

No need to supply anything, just tell them the reg and give them £15 - £20 and 3 days later, plate through the letterbox. Simple and sorted.

[Edited on 17-10-2004 by ath748]

[deej]

Originally posted by ath748
I got mine from http://www.fancyplates.com

No need to supply anything, just tell them the reg and give them £15 - £20 and 3 days later, plate through the letterbox. Simple and sorted.

[Edited on 17-10-2004 by ath748]

cheers ath thats what im looking for, even quicker than what halfords can do it in

ck cheers for the advice, that was what was worrying me. i didnt want to pay £60+ for something as silly as that, the loud cans, the dark visor i would have accepted the fine on but a fine for trying to solve a problem would ahve been a bit silly.as ive said above i understand the law and think its a good one but refusing someone who has 2 i.d's is stupid and unnecessary in my eyes