Those "German" style reg plates.

YbFocus · 22-08-2015 07:51PM

I have them, most legal variant.
County, eu symbol etc.

I like them

umop apisdn · 22-08-2015 07:59PM

Pov06 wrote: »

There's only one thing worse than German style plates... UK style plates.

You always see them on felt spec cars with the Irish registration on UK/NI plates. Looks horrible...

Some younger felt spekers might think its a fashion thing.
There can be other reasons too though. In the past, some motorists living on the border, or traveling though NI often, used yellow rear plates so their car didn't stand out too much in NI, - a very desirable thing in certain areas.

Pov06 · 22-08-2015 08:00PM

umop apisdn wrote: »

There can be other reasons too though. In the past, some motorists living on the border, or traveling though NI often, used yellow rear plates so their car didn't stand out too much in NI, - a very desirable thing in certain areas.

You are probably right. It is a common trend along the felt spec folk though.

umop apisdn · 22-08-2015 08:04PM

Pov06 wrote: »

You are probably right. It is a common trend along the felt spec folk though.

Yeah I think it's pretty easy to tell who's doing it for felt spek reasons though.

darragh o meara · 22-08-2015 08:09PM

It's a personal preference imo. I have them on my BMW and they look well. I was worried that the NCT would fail them on the font but they were fine with it, only noting that the plates didn't have the Irish county name sticker on them.

As far as the myth regarding speed cameras not being able to read them, it's a load of ball aches... the German font is read much easier by the camera as there is no real chance of numbers being misread.

colm_mcm · 22-08-2015 09:37PM

Pov06 wrote: »

There's only one thing worse than German style plates... UK style plates.

You always see them on felt spec cars with the Irish registration on UK/NI plates. Looks horrible...

You know you can get yellow German plates now

umop apisdn · 22-08-2015 09:39PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

You know you can get yellow German plates now

Now that's what I call classey

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-08-2015 08:17PM

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18MonthsaSlave · 23-08-2015 08:30PM

Real German plates are pressed metal.

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-08-2015 08:35PM

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23-08-2015 08:38PM

It is not more of a **** than Nurburgring sticker, though that's pretty wanky

Stop clocking · 24-08-2015 08:02AM

What really bugs me is people driving the very non German Lexus is 220/250 and with those silly plates fitted.
Tends to be fitted in conjunction with constantly switched on front fog lights I have noticed .........

Bazzy · 24-08-2015 09:07AM

Deleted User wrote: »

It is not more of a **** than Nurburgring sticker, though that's pretty wanky

Yes but that sticker and the german plates adds 50bhp to the car that's a well known fact!!

dr.fuzzenstein · 24-08-2015 10:05AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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I would prefer the pressed metal plates. Standard ones, of course. You can get them with Irish font and everything, you know?
So the only difference is the material, but both plates are the Irish standard ones, except one is made from horrible, flimsy plastic, looks absolutely yuk and the other one is a pressed metal plate that has a bit of presence and looks like a proper quality item.
If done right they are class. No need for German font and Baden Württemberg and TUV stickers. I agree, that is silly.
Beispiel:

http://www.eireplates.com/samples.asp

Once the horrible, cracked, faded, smeggy, cheap and nasty looking plastic plates have completely rotted away on my car, something like that will be the replacement.
And since it's a Ford, it's even a proper German car. If you argue it's not, then neither is Opel.

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And one thing no one in history has ever said: "yes, that looks much better in plastic than in metal!".

millington · 24-08-2015 10:52AM

Good God the posters in this forum have to be the most horribly narrow minded folk I've ever seen

Judging people purely by the style of plate on their car is a new low :eek:

Different styles of plates suit different kinds of cars and I think German pressed plates do suit the majority of German cars, thought they were far better than the standard plates on my E39

It's a good thing I had no plate at all on the front so I couldn't get judged from rear view mirrors :rolleyes:

dr.fuzzenstein · 24-08-2015 11:23AM

I don't even mind the font so much and I do like pressed metal plates (better quality than those sh*te plastic ones), but does it really need a county and TUV sticker? Where do you even get those?

String · 24-08-2015 11:24AM

What is the purpose of the stickers? Are they not something they use in Germany for a registration reason? I'm sure if they didn't have to have them they would remove them. If your a fan of German font fair enough but those stickers make no sense to me on Irish cars

frozenfrozen · 24-08-2015 11:33AM

What's the story with people having no front plate? mostly all skangered golfs with the reg left in the window probably so they can claim it fell off and they were driving to the garage to have it put back on

kdevitt · 24-08-2015 11:40AM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

What's the story with people having no front plate? mostly all skangered golfs with the reg left in the window probably so they can claim it fell off and they were driving to the garage to have it put back on

Front reg plates aren't required in lots of countries, some people prefer the look of the car without one.

Legal requirement here is to have the plate visible from the front - doesn't necessarily need to be screwed into your bumper.

jca · 24-08-2015 11:42AM

kceire wrote: »

I like them. Look much better that the italic style font that the rest of the country use.

It's personal choice I suppose, just the same way that I wouldn't be caught dead driving an octavia!

Despite its German underpinnings....

millington · 24-08-2015 11:46AM

The point of the German style plate is to look German, without the stickers, it doesn't :pac: I know the reg format is wrong anyway but still may aswell make a stab at it

Also the legal requirement is the plate must be vertically mounted on the outside of the car, not just visible from the front. I know plenty of people who have been done for it in court.

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-08-2015 11:52AM

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darragh o meara · 24-08-2015 12:35PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

What's the story with people having no front plate? mostly all skangered golfs with the reg left in the window probably so they can claim it fell off and they were driving to the garage to have it put back on

I remember reading about people who use the M50 a lot having the front pLate on the dash with a newspaper covering some of it so the cameras couldn't pick them up going through, I dunno if it still happens or if they read the back plate too.

Might be handy for the speed camera vans, if you see the front of one you'd probably be able to slow down enough before the back of the car gets flashed, or if you come on the rear on of one and the plate is obscured, I doubt you'd hear much more..

dr.fuzzenstein · 24-08-2015 01:12PM

String wrote: »

What is the purpose of the stickers? Are they not something they use in Germany for a registration reason? I'm sure if they didn't have to have them they would remove them. If your a fan of German font fair enough but those stickers make no sense to me on Irish cars

The upper sticker shows the validity of the emissions test (hexagon) and how long the TUV is good for (round one), one is front and one is back, don't ask me which one. So they are like the NCT disk. Below that there will be a round sticker with the Bundesland (county) and city or town where the car is registered.
Since none of that is applicable to an Irish car, it's purely decorative here and the fact that you see it, along with yellow plates, italic fonts and other form of illegal plates just goes to show how much the Gardai enforce in this country, i.e. fcuk all.

jca · 24-08-2015 01:19PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

The upper sticker shows the validity of the emissions test (hexagon) and how long the TUV is good for (round one), one is front and one is back, don't ask me which one. So they are like the NCT disk. Below that there will be a round sticker with the Bundesland (county) and city or town where the car is registered.
Since none of that is applicable to an Irish car, it's purely decorative here and the fact that you see it, along with yellow plates, italic fonts and other form of illegal plates just goes to show how much the Gardai enforce in this country, i.e. fcuk all.

They're fairly hopping off them around here for non standard plates. They really look stupid especially when some muppet puts them on a GT Starlet.

twistyj · 24-08-2015 01:36PM

I just wish we would get rid of this 141 142 151 152 nonsense. Wouldn't it have made sense to start it in 2010. 101 102 111 112 121 122. It just looks stupid going from 12-D-22222 to 131-D-22222.

The German plate thing used to bother me before but not so much now although I am going to purchase a BMW in the near future but if the car in question has anything other than standard Irish plates on it I wont even entertain it.

Personally I hate it when people remove the Irish county name off the plate but I suspect each individual has their own reason.

dr.fuzzenstein · 24-08-2015 02:06PM

twistyj wrote: »

I just wish we would get rid of this 141 142 151 152 nonsense. Wouldn't it have made sense to start it in 2010. 101 102 111 112 121 122. It just looks stupid going from 12-D-22222 to 131-D-22222.

The German plate thing used to bother me before but not so much now although I am going to purchase a BMW in the near future but if the car in question has anything other than standard Irish plates on it I wont even entertain it.

Personally I hate it when people remove the Irish county name off the plate but I suspect each individual has their own reason.

if I were to buy a BMW, the "German" plates wouldn't put me off in the least. It would show me that the owner had an interest in the car. Dirty plastic plates held on by self tappers would signal "Irish" servicing, i.e. a max of two stamps in the book and then 30k between services with 15w40.
But never go by the plates alone, it's far more important to check the overall condition, if mileage is genuine, service history genuine and so on. To not buy a car because of "German" plates would be silly.
What you should avoid is reg hide, refusal to meet at seller's address, sh*tty attitude in the text of the ad (the "no time wasters" brigade) and waffle.

twistyj · 24-08-2015 02:10PM

Fair comment but I should have also mentioned I'll more than likely by from a dealer with warranty intact.

dr.fuzzenstein · 24-08-2015 02:26PM

twistyj wrote: »

Fair comment but I should have also mentioned I'll more than likely by from a dealer with warranty intact.

That makes sense, absolutely. Wouldn't occur to me, since I usually buy cars that haven't had a warranty in quite some time.

joujoujou · 24-08-2015 02:30PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I would prefer the pressed metal plates. Standard ones, of course. You can get them with Irish font and everything, you know?
So the only difference is the material, but both plates are the Irish standard ones, except one is made from horrible, flimsy plastic, looks absolutely yuk and the other one is a pressed metal plate that has a bit of presence and looks like a proper quality item.
If done right they are class. No need for German font and Baden Württemberg and TUV stickers. I agree, that is silly.
Beispiel:

http://www.eireplates.com/samples.asp

Once the horrible, cracked, faded, smeggy, cheap and nasty looking plastic plates have completely rotted away on my car, something like that will be the replacement.
And since it's a Ford, it's even a proper German car. If you argue it's not, then neither is Opel.

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And one thing no one in history has ever said: "yes, that looks much better in plastic than in metal!".

99% agree. The only one % is the one bolded. That font is actually more German than Irish. It's DIN 1451 and, in fact, that was the font used on German plates until November 2000.

Those "German" style reg plates.

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