Photoblocker Spray

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Hey,
Has anyone here used this photoblocker spray everyone is raving about or is it all a scam?
Please no 'just open the limits' speeches, just a question!

niallam

That stuff was around years ago, not sure it made it over here from the UK though.
I remember a few of the english car mags tested it and didnt get any results from it.

afatbollix

Yes them sprays works..

But these days the cops with the cameras in the traffic cars will notice very quick as they can see a reg plate in there anpr monitors in the car. Which will get you pulled over very quick.

Also the speed vans have a operator in them so could just write down the reg and get a cop car to visit you.

This was covered in one of the UK traffic cops TV shows.. they screwed him rightly over..

robtri

didnt they test this on mythbuster and found it to be rubbish, didnt stop the camera getting a clear picture of the plate..

Atomic Pineapple

robtri wrote: »

didnt they test this on mythbuster and found it to be rubbish, didnt stop the camera getting a clear picture of the plate..

Yes it was found to be useless.

Atlantic Dawn

Works 100%, even bettet than a cd hanging on the rear view mirror. Mate told me that washing the car with a brilo pad is the best way to make your car invisible to their radar.

listermint

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Works 100%, even bettet than a cd hanging on the rear view mirror. Mate told me that washing the car with a brilo pad is the best way to make your car invisible to their radar.

For those of you of the more dim variety - This was a joke...

Guy:Incognito

If you spray the whole car in it will it be invisible to cameras altogether?


I can see it on the news now, a head and shoulders just floating down the road, then the guy rolls up the window and proof ,gone.

Guy:Incognito

listermint wrote: »

For those of you of the more dim variety - This was a joke...

Woops, maybe I should stick a tag on mine too

Zubeneschamali

Stekelly wrote: »

If you spray the whole car in it will it be invisible to cameras altogether?

What car? Where?

ScouseMouse

At the irish motorcycle show a few years ago, we tried it out.

Sprayed some on a plate at the trade stand and then photographed it with our camera phones.

Reg was as clear as day.

Bazzo

listermint wrote: »

For those of you of the more dim variety - This was a joke...

I was rushing out the door with a Chris de Burgh CD in one hand and a brillo pad in the other.

Hotwheels

I used Hammerite on mine, worked a treat, get the black one

CiniO

Instead of spray use natural methods.
If you use a tiny bit of glue as well to make it permanent, noone will realise

-Chris-

listermint wrote: »

For those of you of the more dim variety - This was a joke...

Booooooo!

Sids Not

CiniO wrote: »

Instead of spray use natural methods.
If you use a tiny bit of glue as well to make it permanent, noone will realise

That would Syckenmore them.........:o

I'll get me coat......

Ardennes1944

Sids Not wrote: »

That would Syckenmore them.........:o

I'll get me coat......

ooh i like it i like it!:D

ironclaw

There is two varieties of this stuff.

The first is PhotoBlocker Spray and the second is a clear plate that sits over your reg (It works by bending the light to create a refracted image based on the viewing angle)

The spray is useless. While it MAY work in the normal color spectrum, flip the image to negative and you can read the plate. Its next to useless.

The plates on the other hand do work. However they are painfully obvious! I mean, you'd spot them miles away. So thats a personal call.

Esel

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Works 100%, even bettet than a cd hanging on the rear view mirror. Mate told me that washing the car with a brilo pad is the best way to make your car invisible to their radar.

listermint wrote: »

For those of you of the more dim variety - This was a joke...

afatbollix wrote: »

Yes them sprays works..

But these days the cops with the cameras in the traffic cars will notice very quick as they can see a reg plate in there anpr monitors in the car. Which will get you pulled over very quick.

Also the speed vans have a operator in them so could just write down the reg and get a cop car to visit you.

This was covered in one of the UK traffic cops TV shows.. they screwed him rightly over..

For those of you who thought the above was a joke - no, it was a post of the more dim variety.

thewintermute

I knew a chap years back circa 2001 who bought a brand new Vespa PX200 and cleaned it with the green scratchy side of one of those pot scrub sponges. He had owned it for only two or three weeks.It was covered with these big swirly patterns scratched in the paint.For bikes the easiest way is for the tax disc to slide down a bit and cover a digit on the reg, but as far as I know, these cameras are only facing the front of vehicles so there's still no issue for the average motorcyclist.

inforfun

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Works 100%, even bettet than a cd hanging on the rear view mirror. Mate told me that washing the car with a brilo pad is the best way to make your car invisible to their radar.

Damn you!

JimmyCrackCorn

The plastic layer you put over your plate works.

If a guard sees your plate is missing on in car camera he will pull you and do you for it.

Swampy

I remember seeing a clear hardened glass plate that covered the reg. There was a switch you wired into the car and you could enable an electric current that would turn the glass grey. Just flick it on and off as needed.

Matt Simis

inforfun wrote: »

Damn you!

Given that the cameras work off a reflected signal, that car should be easy to track?
Driving around with muckly (leafy? ) plates seems to be the done thing (inadvertently) anyhow and presumably makes reading the reg kinda hard.

ironclaw

Swampy wrote: »

I remember seeing a clear hardened glass plate that covered the reg. There was a switch you wired into the car and you could enable an electric current that would turn the glass grey. Just flick it on and off as needed.

Hard to get but by far the best. Fierce expensive if I remember (€500 territory)

-Chris-

OK, just a quick reminder that the Charter stipulates that you can't discuss or condone methods to evade the law.

pm.

http://www.lakinplates.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=351_408_409&products_id=402 this it ?

Senna

Loosen the screws on the number plate so it vibrates as you drive....blurry picture:P

ironclaw

Senna wrote: »

Loosen the screws on the number plate so it vibrates as you drive....blurry picture:P

Except a camera shutter speed is extremely fast and won't blur the picture..