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2nd set of licence plates

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  • 15-06-2019 3:18pm
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    judeboy101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭


    Saw strange sight this morn. Fella in a retail park slipped on a set of greenish plates over his normal ones and drive off, didn't look like usual gardai car and he definitely wasn't gardai , plates not EU plates, no country id but the original plates were a dub reg.


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    tabby aspreme
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    Probably garage plates


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    Isambard
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    trade plates with reversed numbers


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    bazz26
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    Nothing unusual, they are motor trade plates.


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    biko
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    Something something Illuminati


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    judeboy101
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    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    Probably garage plates

    Why change them in a retail carpark, no dealer for miles, no shops open either, before 9am.


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    Nobelium
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    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Why change them in a retail carpark, no dealer for miles, no shops open either, before 9am.

    picking up the car for someone


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    Duke O Smiley
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    They could have fallen off on the road and he pulled in to secure them properly onto the car


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    colm_mcm
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    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Why change them in a retail carpark, no dealer for miles, no shops open either, before 9am.

    You wouldn’t leave them on the car unattended or they’d get robbed.


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    Phileas Frog
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    Thought they had to go in the windscreen?


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    colm_mcm
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    Phileas Frog wrote: »
    Thought they had to go in the windscreen?

    They can’t be permanently fixed but they don’t necessarily have to be in the windscreen AFAIK.


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    elperello
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    Can the toll gantries read a trade plate?


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    bazz26
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    They will read the car's regular number plates.


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    elperello
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    If they are over the regular plates will the toll be charged to the trade plate?
    I'm just wondering are the trade plates recognised by the system.


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    Phileas Frog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    bazz26 wrote: »
    They will read the car's regular number plates.

    In the OP, the bloke covered the regular plates with the trade plates


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,952 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    They can’t be permanently fixed but they don’t necessarily have to be in the windscreen AFAIK.
    If the vehicle is equipped with windows, they are legally required to be fixed to the inside of them.
    elperello wrote: »
    Can the toll gantries read a trade plate?
    If the vehicle is already registered, the normal plates must be visible. If unregistered, I don't know if trade plates can be read. Good question.


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