Reg plates

But who decides what is worth policing and what isn't? ASG need to enforce the law, its not for them or anyone else to decide what laws are worth enforcing and what laws are not.

Something that popped into my head yesterday when I was sitting in

traffic……… remember when it was an instant NCT fail if your reg didn't

have the cars registered county at the top of the number plate? I saw a

car with a reverse camera fitted and was covering the county name

Baile Atha Cliath. Wonder is that an NCT failure? Probably up to the tester

on the day I suppose.

I know of 2 main dealers who supply plates on their new cars that don’t meet the legal requirements.

Al Hayes Skoda has a shadow beside the numbers/letters on the plate which isn’t allowed

Brian Geary Toyota uses numbers/letters that don’t meet the dimensional requirements.

They’re both selling tonnes of cars, which are obviously passing NCTs. It’s just down to the NCT not enforcing the rules fully.
Both of these cases are relatively minor deviations from the requirements, but an NCT tester could justifiably fail on them.

I’ve been using the same plates from the same motor factors for years and one tester decided to fail me on the numbers apparently being too small. I had passed 5 other cars that week using the exact same plates.

It was a Jap size plate, so admittedly the numbers do look a tiny bit smaller than the numbers on an oblong plate. But I’ve been using them for 5 years with no issue other than this one time.

There's no wow about. Gardai know exactly what they can get away with and that's exactly what they'll do. One rule for one and the other can do whatever they like unless they kill or seriously injure someone

Yeah I remember bringing a car back for a visual in Fonthill and saying to the tester

that I am so happy to be able to sleep at night again after me selling such a death

trap of a car.