CIH
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Could this US-spec trim swallow a UK reg plate without being blatantly illegal ?  Due to a contrived set of circumstances I find myself looking at US spec exterior trim for a non-import Nissan. |
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Last Edit: Jul 8, 2011 19:32:31 GMT by CIH
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ChasR
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An American sized plate would fit I reckon(they are UK motorbike items IIRC).
It's a risk but I doubt you would get a tug from the 'law.
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Jul 10, 2011 17:06:56 GMT
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You can get UK legal lettering on a US sized plate - so long as you have less digits than standard. I have two UK Legal plated yank cars both are AAA88A format rather than AAA888A format reg plates though!
Otherwise its bike sized letters and wing it that its an import if queried.
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Jul 10, 2011 17:30:48 GMT
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It's completely legal to run a 13*6 size plate with the smaller 64mm letters on an imported car that does not have adequate space to display a UK-specification number plate.
The Road Vehicles [Display of Registration Marks][Amendment] Regulations 2002
Size and spacing of characters: special cases
14A.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to any vehicle imported into the United
Kingdom which—
(a) does not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval; and
(b) is so constructed that the area available for the fixing of the registration plate
precludes the display on the plate of a registration mark in conformity with the
requirements of regulation 14.
(2) In relation to a vehicle to which this regulation applies—
(a) each character in the registration mark must be 64 millimetres high;
(b) the width of each character of the mark, other than the letter “I” and the figure “1”,
must be 44 millimetres;
(c) the width of every part of the stroke forming a character in a mark must be 10
millimetres;
(d) the spacing between any two characters within a group must be 10 millimetres;
(e) the vertical spacing between groups of characters must be 5 millimetres;
(f) the width of a margin between the mark and the top and lateral sides of the
registration plate must be not less than 5 millimetres;
(g) the space between the bottom of the mark and the bottom of the registration plate
must be not less than 13 millimetres; but, within that space, the space between the
bottom of the mark and the top of the name and postcode of the person by whom the
plate was supplied must be not less than 5 millimetres.”
Being that yours is a Japanese car, it's highly unlikely that any policeman would suspect it's NOT an import, and wouldn't give it a second look. I've had all 3 cars that I've run import-size plates on pulled up by congestion charge/box junction scameras, plus had traffic cars behind me on numerous occasions, and no mention has ever been made to the plate size.
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CIH
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Jul 10, 2011 20:18:54 GMT
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My car is certinly rare enough to be an enigma to casual observaton....
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CIH
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I can't sleep and have another question lol. Could someone tell me what the Nissan 5x114.3 wheel PCD translates into ? I presume Americans measure it in inches ?
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5 x 4.5", same as mine  Often wondered why many of the dimensions are apparently in inches on some Japanese vehicles. |
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Often wondered why many of the dimensions are apparently in inches on some Japanese vehicles.
