You may find that the number plates have been stolen from your vehicle.
Why would someone steal my number plates?
What should I do?
report to the police, get a crime number - why report? Cloning
How do I get number plates made up?
Can I get my number plates anywhere? No - go to a RNPS
What do I need to take for number plates
You can find shops selling auto and car parts or accessories on many retail parks. Or there are literally dozens of online websites. So it's not difficult to find where to get number plates made up. But not all number plates are the same. So beware.
Like many things you buy, the great thing about walking into a shop is that you can see exactly what you are getting for your money. You can touch and feel the number plates before you get them made up. The quality of number plates does vary a lot. Cheap number plates do just peel apart and can cause you to fail an MoT if the letters and numbers are affected.
I've bought a private registration number. When do I get the number plates for the car? What do I need to do? When can I swap the plates over? Can I change the spacing?
I've bought a personalised registration. What next? How do I get my plates and when can I swap them over?
What's road legal for number plates in the UK? Avoid being stopped by the police. Or worse, being fined. Check this guide before you buy.
We are regularly asked about number plate spacing. It's assumed that this doesn't matter on a personalised registration number. Not true.
Whether you have personalised number plates or a standard ones, the same rules apply for the size of the letters and the spaces between them. Even the fonts for registration numbers are tightly controlled. And the official font for UK number plates is called Charles Wright.
If you need a set of number plates made up for your car, or other vehicle, you need to know what you're buying.
The quality of number plates varies a lot. The end result depends on the equipment used by the supplier of the plates.
Not everyone is familiar with the laws for the display of number plates. These rules are the same regardless of whether you have a private number plate or just a standard one.
And unwitting customers are buying them.
We've seen so-called "road legal number plates" for sale online. Many on a well-known auction site, but also on other websites. And quite frankly, they are not road legal.
Yesterday I tweeted about a number plate thief who was caught because he bragged about it. But why did he steal the number plate...and what was there to brag about? And why would the police be interested in number plate theft anyway?
